Now, here's what I call unloading on a player

How long did he serve?

 

I think 1 season

 

Dany Heatley's is going pretty good too...

 

Completely different circumstances, MacTavish was drunk Heatley wasn't

 

Driving too fast and killed a guy. Same result.

 

It's that black and white to you? Drunk Driving and speeding aren't even in the same ball park to me.

 

Now this is where JC and I will actually agree, there's a big difference if he had been drinking or not. He was a young millionare athlete with a ferrari, there's a sense of invincability that goes with that. I;m not about to judge the guy. I know people who have been in similar situations and I know how quickly a situation can change when you're behind the wheel -- something that only goes up exponentially when your behind a the wheel of a vehicle that is designed to go extreme speeds. Hell I know very few people who don't speed, especially those in my age bracket. Does it excuse him completely for what happend no, but I'm not about to condem the guy. Its something he's going to have to live with for the rest of his life.

Now had he been drinking that's something tottally different.

 

I believe Heatley had been drinking, just not enough to be classified as "impaired." I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong.

On another note, am I the only one who saw the thread title and assumed poindexter has been coaching a girls sports team at the local high school and had developed, um, a new method of "rewarding" the player of the game?

 

That's gold.

As far as Heatley goes he was attending some kind of formal event and there was slightly above trace amounts of alcohol in his blood stream. If I remember correctly it was from a couple of toasts, but it wasn't even near .08, I believe it was something like .014. I don't consider that drinking.

 

Roy MacGregor has a good story in the globe sports section today talking about Heatley and what a good person he is. Blood alcohol was negligible and speed was more 57-58 mph in a 35 mile/per/hour zone than the 80-90 mph we had heard earlier.
Apparently, he's a good person and it's important to him that people know that.
Still, a good kid died due to a dumb decision. We forgive a guy an awful lot because he can shoot a puck.

 

I think that goes for any sport. I guess it's easier to forgive when the family of the victim has forgiven him. Looking back at the way my friends and I used to drive as kids I think that is where my sympathy comes from.

 

I used to be a little bit reckless too when I was a kid, but I didn't have a Ferrari in which to do it.



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