KK- Back To Work
It has been a much longer day/night than expected, but I am home and ready to get to work.
Enough doctors, time to think about our game again.
Thanks to the Fischler Report at The Hockey News for this and make sure to read the whole article, a lot of bits and pieces around the hockey world.
Kukla's Korner is a superior daily read so here's hoping Pal Kukla is on the route to recovery from his latest setback.
Today's News
from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,
Jake Virtanen. Evander Kane. Zack Kassian. Andrew Cogliano.
How do those four names end up in the same column lede, on the day the Edmonton Oilers made headlines by signing Virtanen to a professional tryout?
Well, read on.
Virtanen arrives at this training camp tryout after standing trial in B.C. Supreme Court in July on a count of sexual assault, stemming from a 2017 incident in Vancouver. Virtanen claimed in court that the encounter was consensual and a jury of his peers found him not guilty on July 26.
“It was very tough to go through, very hard to go through,” Virtanen told the media in Edmonton on Monday. “You learn a lot about yourself, who you are as a person. There’s a lot of self-reflection on who you are. Your self-worth… It was a long process.”
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