Friedman says this is probably it for Ribeiro when asked if he has any trade value left.
And according to TSN, he's also been sent to the minors now, so that further cements that despite the fact he's still a decent player in terms of on-ice skill, the NHL is totally done with him anyway.
Good riddance to Ribeiro too.
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To prove it would assume that the outcome of each case is 100% correct, which is untrue. Otherwise you have false positives and false negatives.
You'd also need to know the truth in cases that were settled.
There's also the fact that a large portion of rape/sexual assault victims don't report their crime.
I think this actually potentially works against the idea that professional athletes are frequently victims of false accusations. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that more often than not celebrity status has more likely worked as a preventative from making accusations.
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It's happened before where a celebrity was accused of something that they maybe didn't commit.. and the end result was a settlement.
Has it, though? If it has, I am not aware of it. Can you provide any examples of such instances? If it has happened, how often? I can admit that I have a tendency to side with the victims in these sorts of reports, but is that terribly surprising? In a contest between a rich, man and an underage girl the man is the one who holds all the power.
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Just saying we shouldn't judge a hockey player on something we don't know much about. We should judge him for his hockey playing abilities.
I disagree. Yes, there is often room to give people the benefit of doubt, but I am not convinced this is one of those instances. And no, I absolutely disagree that we should only judge hockey players on their hockey playing abilities. We make character judgments about people all the time that extend well beyond their occupations—why should hockey players be any different?
Ribiero has a troubling history of allegations that continue to follow him around from one place to another. This looks suspicious to me, and casts enough doubt on his character for me to want no part of him on my favourite team.
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I would think with some of the debate going on here, that potentially both sides could be right about this one part of the discussion:
- Professional athletes, or more specifically the wealthy, and then again more specifically the wealthy who also have public persona's are probably more likely to be "falsely accused" of certain crimes. Why? Because they create an opportunity the average person does not. They have the financial ability to make it worth someones while, and potentially the motivation (public persona and reputation protection) to want remove the accusation quickly.
- It does however also flip the other way. Wealthy people are also far more able to get themselves acquitted of crimes they have committed because they have the financial means to manipulate these scenarios.
I would suggest that it is likely true that the rich and famous are both more likely to be falsely accused, and more likely to be found innocent when guilty.
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I think of it this way. If a couple of my neighbors accused some guy of inappropriately touching their daughters, I certainly wouldn't be so eager to hire him to babysit mine.
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So he is choked about his playing situation and asked for a trade assuming someone would give up something for him......but instead he gets waived, clears and gets sent to the minors? The universe is awesome sometimes.
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I thought there was also a games played requirement for the playoffs too?
To have one's name engraved on the Stanley Cup certain requirements must be met. A player must have at least 41 games played with the club or one game played in the Stanley Cup Finals. However, in 1994 a stipulation was added to allow a team to petition the Commissioner for permission to have players' names put on the Cup if extenuating circumstances prevented them from being available to play.
Prior to 1977 only players who had completed the Stanley Cup playoffs were eligible.
