Re: Breaking: charges coming for 2018 WJC
1. The reasoning for the Feb 5th date is that the police force has given a day to the 5 people have to report by. Which could be Feb 2nd, and the police are given the weekend to hammer out the statements. Typically people are given 1-2 weeks to surrender if there isn't a concern for public safety that they are out in public.
2. Dube could be having a panic attack over this, and that's why it's a "mental health" leave, but I don't consider this a mental health leave. I want reporters to ask the question to Calgary's management staff, but I'm sure they've been given a statement on how to respond to it. Calgary might not even have known this was happening, but Dube did. But I want the media to really pressure this part of it on Calgary.
3. Contracts. I think there's morality clauses in contracts that can be flexed here. E.Kane had his voided, this is a much worse situation.
4. I love the timing. All Star game would be the weekend just before the police presser. Bettman usually does a presser at the ASG. Man, the media can do something great here. Which means the NHL media will fail us.
5. Because of the 5 players being asked to surrender, that likely means the Jane Doe (I think she's going by E.M.) is willing to be questioned and cross examined in court on an incident that happened 6years ago. In a public way. The courage she has on that, huge pat on the back. Good on her.
6. Tom Fitzgerald got a contract extension THIS WEEK, Tuesday! The day before this broke! 2 days after Dube went on "mental health" leave. And he signed 2 of the 5 people 3 years after the public investigation happened. WTF. I have no respect for Tom Fitzgerald and the Devils ownership now. They 100% knew the 2 were involved, or actively looked the other way to not know.
7. From the SDP, they are saying the London Police didn't expect this to get out. The 5 players weren't expecting this to get out. Teams were informed (directly, indirectly, formally, informally) in the summer to get your PR teams ready for this to come out. Sportsnet contacted London Police Tuesday Night, so reporters knew something was coming Wednesday on Tuesday (makes Tom Fitzgerald stuff worse)
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