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Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL
GM's usually need to have a decent background in law, but even then, if they don't, either somebody else in the organization would/shoul.
You can bet all 32 teams (but even more specifically, the teams at the top of the draft) would due their legal due diligence before selecting him.
But even then, say he's sentenced to even a year or two (<0.00001% in my personal opinion), he's still gonna be drafted top 3 lol. Say he was sentence to 5 years (lols), he's still easily a 1st round pick off of pure talent and the following 10+ years of his career he'd provide from potential/hype/talk/marketing/etc.. alone (damn, imagine his physical maturation with a couple years of prison time lol).
And on another hand, is it impossible to foresee a future in which - if the McKenna sticking up for his mom story turns out to be true - McKenna is getting bonkers sponsorships from companies that lean on family/loyalty/character/etc.? I don't personally think so.
But then again, I'm just waiting for the full facts to come out before passing judgement
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Only two GMs hold law degrees, so I don’t think a background in law is common and definitely not one that covers criminal law and immigration law. But that is (one of the probably hundreds of reasons) why teams have actual lawyers.
I agree that the likelihood he’ll be sentenced is extremely small, but I think you’re totally underestimating how that would impact his draft position and his development.
Even one year is potentially catastrophic. No hockey, no skating, no opportunity to train sufficiently, plus a nasty criminal record that would make all sorts of things difficult. That alone could drop him out of the first round if not out of the entire draft if the criminal record is going to be an issue.
5 years pts him firmly in DND territory. Nobody is wasting a pick on a player, regardless of how good they might be at the time, who (best case scenario) doesn’t even join your organization or play hockey before your rights to him run out. There’s no way to retain his rights, so there is no point in drafting him when he’ll just be able to sign with whoever after the fact.