Friday, October 22, 2004

So here's a mind blower.

I think Mike Danton is getting sentenced soon, maybe today. Weird case, right?

So I find this from last April (thanks Steve Simmons and the Toronto Sun):

THE QUESTION never has been appropriately answered: Exactly what is the connection between Bob Goodenow and David Frost?

We know that Frost, the controversial agent and centre of the Mike Danton murder-for-hire storm, coached the son of Goodenow, head of the NHL Players' Association in what was then the Metro Toronto Hockey League?

We know that Goodenow played a part in establishing the relationship between Frost and player agent Mike Gillis, a relationship that no longer exists.

And we know that Goodenow's Players' Association, despite protests from a number of its certified members, allowed Frost to be certified as a player agent even though he had pleaded guilty to assaulting one player and had been previously suspended indefinitely from both the MTHL and the Ontario Hockey Association.

Would anyone else of such dubious qualifications have been certified?

There are even some suspicions that the released letter of support of Danton from St. Louis players came not from the players themselves, but from their association.

Goodenow is in no way connected to any criminal activity in the case against Danton, but his long-term support of the troublesome Frost in more than curious.

Players should be asking these questions themselves.



Are you kidding me? I thought the NHL players were fed up with union guys who railroaded their organization (seeAlan Eagleson.)

I must be the last guy to pick up on this stuff.

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