THURSDAY COMMENTARY: PROGRESS?
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It’s very interesting times in the hockey world. Good, bad or indifferent.
One thing’s for sure: you’d better get comfortable with change because things aren’t the way they used to be. And I don’t want to be the old man shaking his fist at the clouds, complaining about how things just aren’t the same.
I think we’re all watching the Edmonton Oilers right now, who go for their 15thstraight win tonight when they host the Chicago Blackhawks.
On Monday the Oilers added veteran forward Corey Perry who, two months ago, was kicked out of Chicago for “unacceptable conduct”, according to the Blackhawks.
At his introductory news conference in Edmonton, the 38-year old said he’d sought help, has no trouble looking in the mirror now, and is ready to resume his career.
Somewhere somebody on social media said, “Hockey’s come a long way.”
I sure hope so.
Sometimes I wonder. But let’s take a moment to applaud Corey Perry for taking it on the chin, bouncing back up, and not being afraid to discuss it in front of the world.
How would hockey have handled this in the past?
I don’t really know, or remember.
Meanwhile that 2018 Hockey Canada scandal reared its head again on Wednesday, with news coming out that five players have been summoned to the London, ON Police Department for their role in the incident.
Right around the same time on Wednesday, news came out that an ownership group in Salt Lake City, Utah has approached the NHL about expansion, and becoming the league’s 33rd team.
The critics say that news was timed to take the focus away from the Hockey Canada headlines.
Maybe, maybe not.
So you tell me how much things actually have changed?
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary
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