From: cooper@seismo.CSS.GOV (Dale Cooper)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: NHL cover-up??? (was: Re: Pens-0 Red Wings-8/Random thoughts)
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:29:22 GMT
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA

In article <POPOVICH.92Nov16160350@morningside.cs.columbia.edu> popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich) writes:
>Here's a reply to Brian Down's posting...

-> Ahhh...there you are Lori. I was beginning to wonder if some
-> great natural disaster had befallen the city of PittsburgH. :-)
-> (Or CMU's internet connection!)
-> 
-> After all, you can imagine my shock when I logged in on Monday
-> morning and found virtually no postings from Penguin fans.

>How can you expect us to be talkative when we're in mourning? :-)
>Seriously, the wheels have fallen off the Pens' wagon lately.  That
>isn't generally the sort of thing we like to talk about, so we're
>staying quiet...

And I thought that I was the only one who was wondering where all the Pens 
fans went!  For a while there I thought that they all had been abducted by 
space aliens and now share a condo with the Wayner on planet Zork (oh, I
forgot, he's been "seen" at a number of events but that's another story all
together).

Being a veteran (so to speak) of hockey sex scandals (no I was never so lucky
to be involved directly but I had to deal with all of the abuse non-hockey fans
dished out after four Capitals supposedly assaulted a 17 yr old in a limo after
a party in Georgetown a few years ago), I can understand the tendency to find
the nearest rock and crawl under it for a few days.  Lori showed a lot of
courage to post.  Anyhow...

What I don't understand is the lack of coverage regarding this "event" in the
papers (Washington (com)Post) for one (this isn't exactly the TinyTown Gazette).
Days after the previously mentioned Capitals fiasco, the papers here were loaded
with stories about what supposedly happened, who was involved and what it would
mean to the organization and the NHL image as a second rate sport.  So far, the
coverage of the incident in the local media and the (com)Post has been sparse 
to non-existent.  I've been watching the local sportcasts nightly to no avail.
Of course, given that this is not a local incident, maybe the local news weenies
believe it doesn't warrant the air time.  I would like to open this topic for 
discussion: could the NHL and the powers-that-be possibly be doing its/their 
best to hush this incident up?

Good reasons for such a cover-up:

1) Mario.  What is the extent of damage that the NHL can handle given their
   current golden boy is involved, though not charged, with the incident?
   Dino, Neil Sheehy, Scott Stevens and Geoff Courtnall were not exactly
   "role models", at least not to the extent Mario has become.  Given that
   Mario is involved, to what lengths will the NHL go to minimize the scope
   of the incident?

2) Lack of press coverage.  Like I mentioned above, the local bowling results
   have received more ink than this incident.  Is the NHL refusing to release
   information for fear of embarrassment to the league?

Let's try to keep this discussion objective.


Dale Cooper
Center for Seismic Studs		"Dale Hunter is God...
Arlington, VA				    ...but you knew that already"