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    [Rumour] Green to be Fired

    in Canucks Talk

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    2 minutes ago, Filthy McNasty said:

    Also, what good is firing green when 5v5 has been the only thing watchable, look down the bench at the real problems …. Baumer and king 

    Every single person in managment is to blame for this. Aquilini should be firing for letting Benning keep Green. Benning should be fired for keeping Green. Green should be fired for Keeping his assistants. 

     

    I dont think Green is that bad, and his assistants are trash, but if none of the higher ups can identify the issue and squash it, they all need to go.

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    Chiune Sugihara

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    12 hours ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

    Everyone is probably aware just how brutal the Japanese Imperial Army & their other armed forces were during WWII.  Even worse, was the virtual ignoring/revisionism taught in Japanese schools regarding some of the truly descipable crimes their forces committed.  At least in Germany, there was & still is real 'war guilt' (to be fair, there will be always a certain segment of any country's population that will remain to be nationalistic to an extreme degree).  However, there is always the danger of assuming *ALL* people of a particular nation are the same.

     

    Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat that save the lives of thousands of Jews in WWII (he enabled them to get visas to escape).  I never heard of this guy before (and I have taken numerous history courses in College/University).  Only came across his name by accident.

     

    Wiki of course isn't a great source, but the following will give a person an idea of his great deeds:

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara

     

     

    “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”

     

    John Stuart Mill

    Super interesting post! However I must talk about the quote at the bottom. As a child playing Call of Duty 4 campaign, (12), every-time one died a quote would appear on the screen. One of the quotes that has still stuck with me until today has been a rendition of that John Stuart Mill quote. And idk it hits quite different seeing it again in its original context, and honestly shaped my thinking subconsciously as a child.

     

    Anyways thanks for reminding me and showing me the original quote!

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    Blackhawks player from 2010 championship team suing team for sexual assault by coach

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    12 minutes ago, PhillipBlunt said:

    How so? If a player is in the change room and the coach approaches him trying to cop a feel, that player has both a moral and legal right to defend themselves. I can't see how a coach would be able to coerce a player at the NHL level. 

    The player could lose their job. And look at the way you are right now. If it came out that a player had hit or "assaulted" a coach. That player is instantly gone and the video coach can continue doing his job while the public defends him. So in every scenario the player loses everything. Because no one would believe him, and if you say well they would conduct an investigation, maybe they find something different but they didnt in theres. So now the player has one option left. Go public with the info. It would be hard for someone and anyone with a more timid personality to put their name and face out there. And for what? No team wants that excess drama(unless they are a superstar player, which could be argued that the coach only did this to lower level players so they wouldnt be able to stand up for themselves) so they'll bury the kid anyways. Yay! you put away someone bad but now you also have to suffer additional consequences for going public by not getting an NHL job and having your name pasted everywhere, and the added mental stress. 

     

    This is however my opinion and I am open to hearing yours in further detail. 

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