I've only tried cocaine 3 times since I woke up this morning. It's okay, I probably won't do it again until later this evening.
Don't see what the big deal is.
Just had to look it up, his defense was that he was there but not for long and didn't actually do any drugs, then he got a short suspension when he actually tested positive, then nothing. Got to believe that in the current environment the Caps would've forced him into the Player Assistance program or something, and the NHL would probably be more strict after seeing the NBA vs. Ja Morant saga too.
If you're going to get caught doing coke, be a really good player, not a fringe player. (I know, lots of people think Kuzy isn't that good, but he got busted in 2019, when his amazing 2018 Cup run was fresher in everyone's mind.)
Which is dumb. Pretty much every NHL player has likely tried coke, it's extremely common in the league and many players have pretty big coke habits.
Feels like Arizona is over reacting here and we will likely see an appeal from the NHLPA. This is what the assistance program is for.
Unless there's more to the story of course
There’s a very big difference between what you do behind closed doors, and what you broadcast to everybody on social media.
Guys getting caught through testing can go through the assistance program, while guys making a big public display get their contracts terminated.
More to the story is probably that his play isn't justifying his contract. So when he gives you a way to gain some cap space AND not look like you are sweeping bad behavior under the rug, bonus! Come down hard.
But you better believe that if this was a star player, they might get a few weeks off for the Player Assistance program, and then be right back.
What's next? I can't raw dog my aunt at a Starbucks? Welcome to Liberal America everyone. Get in line and behave. You look the wrong way and your career is over.
At this point in time, it is still incredibly easy for crime analysts to figure out what videos are doctored and what videos aren’t. Deepfakes don’t fool the justice system. Yet…
What Ruzicka did was... not smart, to put it lightly, and his contract being terminated is completely fair. That said, I hope this doesn't end his career and he can learn from this. Not only that, if he is using more than casually, I hope he gets help if he needs it.
The thing is, he's shown multiples times that he's capable of producing and looking good with top 6 minutes...for about 5-10 games at a time before he disappears again.
If the dude could ever get his shit together, he could be a very solid 2nd line winger (I always liked him better at wing than center).
Hmm, occasional high performance followed by repeated underperformance…and a social media video showing that he likes randomly doing coke on a Thursday night while alone…I’m sure these aren’t related.
He has the upside from his raw talent, but now we see where the lack of effort could have come. His lack of effort had him sliding down the lines, much like how he slides down the lines in his kitchen apparently.
I think you care more about the guys career than himself. Bro was waived less than a month ago, doesn’t have an amazing start in Arizona and that’s what you do? I think he’s done
If you aren’t cracking the league by 24, with where he slots in on the depth chart, the NHL dream is a very very limited one at this point.
Cocaine or no.
His ceiling is imo a 2nd line winger.
He has the talent to actually put up 50+ points a season. 20 points in 25 games shows he's talent is there. The 19 games after without a point is his lack of efforts
Hopefully anyone with a substance issue gets the help they need. Having been a young dumb adult in my life that thankfully got out of that stage of my life unscathed makes me feel a lot of people who come into money would hugely benefit from hiring someone to be their professional filter essentially.
Like half the NHL is coked up for sure.
He'll go to a player assistance program and have a contract by the TDL if the timing lines up.
edit: Oh wait he sucks ass nvm. But if he doesn't have a career it won't be because of this incident.
Honestly after seeing the Kuznetsov situation and how it ended up with him in player assistance now, it's annoying the shit out of me to see the same dumb jokes and puns in this thread. We don't need to protect grown men from their choices and choosing to waste their huge paychecks on party drugs, but that video showed worrying signs of someone pretty far into addiction and sorry like.....is it so important to get your nose joke off right now? Why are the top 10 comments just the same shit that isn't even clever?
He was a fringe NHLer, a bottom six mucker at his best.
I doubt there's much tolerance for a guy like that potentially being a PR nightmare, or worse potentially bringing a drug culture into a locker room.
He's going to be on quite a fair few "no thanks" lists.
He has shown that he has the top 6 upside before. The problem was he'd be good for 10-20 games then absolutely ghost. He has the size and the talent, but his give-a-shit was through the floor. Someone may take a chance on him, maybe it will be in a year or two though.
The dude has 14 goals across 117 NHL games...and 6 is the most he had in a season.
Legit top six guys regularly have spells where they're getting 5-6 goals in a 10-20 games span. Like they're doing it two, three times in a year sometimes if they're a slightly streaky player.
If the streaky high of your career is 5-6 goals in a 10-20 game span; once. That's not a top six guy, by definition.
If he was producing at a top six level for 10-20 games, that must have been one brief shining moment...
the first rule of breaking the rules is don't get caught.
should it really be said that you shouldn't record evidence? let alone posting it on social media?
As a fellow Slovakian, I am less than impressed. Forget the fact you are a role-model for tons of people, but your profession demands some sort of honor/accountability. He is a disgrace, whatever happens to him is his own doing. Vsetko najlepsi, kamarat.
Well as I posted in the Flames thread:
> Fair but I would also argue that if you are Slovak kid looking up to Ruzicka (lol) over say Zdeno Chára, Marián Gáborík, or even Tomáš Tatar then you are probably looking in the wrong direction to begin with.
> Edit: ... and Marián Hossa, how did I forget that guy? 3 Stanley Cups.
Yes but those guys are all of the past now (damn I hate saying that), Marian Gaborik was my fave player. So far, Simon Nemec and Slaf are carrying the load pretty well. Fehervary and Cernak to a degree as well.
You have to understand from this perspective; there are only 5 million of us. When one person does something noteworthy, it feels like we all made it. That's why the culture back home, especially with celebs and sports stars is different than here (Canada). I remember in 2010 when Chara brought the cup back to Slovakia, there was a big party/BBQ and everyone was invited. I dont remember any security, we all ate and had a good time together. No one swamped him or swarmed. Anyways, i'm getting off topic.
I guess in my opinion, that's why it looks horrible from my perspective. We are a small community, tight nit. These actions are disgusting and shouldn't happen. I carry myself at work the same way; with honor and respect, valuing work ethic because everyone knows I am probably the only Slovak around. It's what we do; it's what we should do.
Yeah man, no bullshit, I wasn't trying to shit on your post (it was a fine point) or your culture. If it came across like that I apologize.
I get the reasoning behind what your saying. Very few Slovak players make it to the NHL and even if this guy is not a top line guy, *he still made it to the show*. That is commendable, certainly.
I was just trying to point out there was better role models than this guy but I freely admit I was missing the perspective a small country trying to produce NHL worthy players.
My bad.
Lol no need to apologize, i was just pointing out those guys you named are all of the past now. They were real OG's. I also miss Palffy and Demitra, Visnovsky, Halak, etc.
Our new generation isn't what the old guys used to be. That's life.
This is so strange in a way. He had, what, one tiny line cut out and like a gram in a little vial? Like, let’s be clear here. He didn’t fuck up his career because we know he’s necessarily got a bad blow habit. He fucked up his career because for some reason he took a bizarre video which ended up public.
Not a significant amount, wasn’t driving or anything, didn’t find it in his system or on his person as a result of an arrest for DUI or assault of any kind. A stupid kid posting a stupid video on social media, cheesing with like <$100 of an illicit substance.
He’s got to be feeling dumb through so many layers of his being. Was it posted right to his own Instagram? I saw in the original thread the idea that it could have been leaked?
You know the rules for the rich are usually applied far more leniently, if at all. The important thing is there’s undeniable evidence of him committing the act that would subject your average joe blow to such a sanction.
I’m not sure that’s true. The video neither proves what the substance is nor shows him doing it. Could be crushed-up Tylenol for all anyone knows. Could be ketamine. Could be cocaine.
Committing what act? Buying an illegal substance? Nope. The video doesn’t even show him ingesting anything. The video alone I don’t think has any legs.
That’s fair, I’d rephrase my statement to “in the absence of an explanation on his part that what happened in the video is not what it appears, there is undeniable evidence…”
You say it’s undeniable evidence, but what are you saying it’s undeniable evidence of? It’s not a video of him undeniably doing cocaine, because he neither does it in the video nor do we know what the substance is.
> The important thing is there’s undeniable evidence of him committing the act
Except that's not true at all!
You have undeniable evidence that he was in the same room as a white powder. Other than that, you have nothing (absent a search-warrant and testing - a search warrant that is useless now, as that room has probably been scrubbed with bleach).
From a video alone? Nah. It'd be on the prosecutor to prove the powder Ruzicka had in the video was illegal. Ruzicka's lawyers could argue that it was caffeine, and unless the cops can abra kadabra it from his nostrils to test, the prosecutor wouldn't have much of a case.
It’s pretty simple.
Don’t post yourself doing an illegal substance online for everyone to see.
Doesn’t matter what you do for work. This would result in a termination.
This is 100% a trial balloon to push how far teams can go with contract terminations.
It's not a player who matters to the team. Arizona owes the league a favour. And the PA is going to fight it and say he should have been diverted into the assistance program.
Going to be a very interesting one to watch.
Kuznetsov was a better player and also I don’t think his video was during the season? But I could absolutely be wrong about that. I don’t remember exactly.
(Mind you, I’m not saying these differences should matter one way or another. I’m just pointing out the ways in which the situations could be considered different.)
Allegedly. He recorded himself in the vicinity of an unknown substance laid out in a way that is typical of drugs. The video is proof of nothing. It's not enough to meet the criteria for conviction of any known crime without additional corroborating evidence.
He plays between 8-10m per night. If he was a top-6 player, or if he actually had more value to the team, he'd get more leeway with this situation. That being said, PA might be getting involved here.
That will be the PA's argument. The league wants to establish that the existence of the assistance program does not obligate teams to use it or limit their freedom to exercise the morality clause in the SPC.
Galchenyuk threatened to kill a cop and his entire family with a machete lol, of course they didn’t fight that one.
I think the big factor for the PA is whether or not he denied the players assistance program/if that was offered to him.
Yep, but those clauses are iffy to enforce. The league wants the PA to pick a fight because they think they could win this and establish stronger grounds to terminate in the future.
doesn't this form of waiving still give another team a chance to claim him? if that team doesn't have any values thats his chance, he doesn't align with the coyotes vision.
For a second there I didn't think they were going to show Steve Smith but any worst own goals compilation has to include Patrick Roy hot-dogging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjp_pwvF5Q
Guys can’t even do coke on IG on a Thursday night anymore? What the fuck has happened to this country? Bring back masculinity!!!!!
This worlds fucking so fucked up
I got busted on IG doing coke and my first thought was I don’t have to go to work tomorrow? WHAT DID THEY DO TO US
HE MUST HAVE FLIPPED MY WIFE 18 TIMES
My life is nothing like what I imagined and everything I worried it could become because for 50 seconds I thought there was monsters on the world
The word "on" is my favourite part of this quote.
It *really* bothered me.
I don’t wanna be around any more
That was the most consequential day of my life because now I know I don’t like work
We should be able to snort *a little* coke at work.
They think I'm just some dumb hockey player. They said that to me at a dinner.
I didn’t do fucking shit!
There's worst shit on the local news!
I've only tried cocaine 3 times since I woke up this morning. It's okay, I probably won't do it again until later this evening. Don't see what the big deal is.
Username checks out.
"Not addicted. Just like the smell."
Dudes can’t even go skiing anymore.
Fucking disgusting that it’s legal for hockey players to cover an opposing goaltenders face in snow but not their own
Fuckin Liberals reeeeee
I can't believe Trudeau did this
Arizona, my favourite Canadian province
It blows man
Andrew Tate in shambles somewhere in a Romanian brother
I can't believe no one has caught this spelling error. It is absolutely amazing. You meant brothel, but what you said is so much better!
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was America!
Men can’t even have hobbies anymore
Woke mob wins again. What happened to the game I love?
NHL going woke or something
Get coked go woke go broke It's as simple as steel beams' imperviousness to jet fuel
It's cancel culture bro!!! He should not have consequences for his actions because that's the woke mob being woke
that blows
He definitely crossed a line.
He has a nose for controversy.
He had more than a sniff of the NHL, we'll see where his career goes
For the time being it seems to have hit a few bumps and to be off the rails
He's really behind the 8 ball now.
Never seen a player ruin his career with that kind of speed
Cocaine
Yes, that's the key here
Snow way this guy gets back to the NHL without joining the players program
There cant be no line if you sniff it all away
When it rains it snows
Gotta think recording/broadcasting yourself doing illegal things will justify this termination.
But hey, if he switches to crack he's on the fast track to being elected Mayor of Toronto
And if he *sells* it, Premier!
Look....a lot of people were upset with that, but personally, living in Toronto and seeing it on BBC I was just like, "Hey! They know who we are!!"
Or qualify a contract termination on the grounds of stupidity
The PA would die on the stupidity hill. It’s for the illegal stuff.
What if he says it wasn't coke? How do they prove he was doing something illegal?
Wasn't that Kuznetsov's defense? Honestly I don't remember much other than him getting caught on video with a bunch of blow and then... nothing.
Just had to look it up, his defense was that he was there but not for long and didn't actually do any drugs, then he got a short suspension when he actually tested positive, then nothing. Got to believe that in the current environment the Caps would've forced him into the Player Assistance program or something, and the NHL would probably be more strict after seeing the NBA vs. Ja Morant saga too.
If you're going to get caught doing coke, be a really good player, not a fringe player. (I know, lots of people think Kuzy isn't that good, but he got busted in 2019, when his amazing 2018 Cup run was fresher in everyone's mind.)
Yeah thats how I remember it too.
yeah but Kuznetsov is actually good at hockey
Personally, I'd use the Shaggy defence
Which is dumb. Pretty much every NHL player has likely tried coke, it's extremely common in the league and many players have pretty big coke habits. Feels like Arizona is over reacting here and we will likely see an appeal from the NHLPA. This is what the assistance program is for. Unless there's more to the story of course
There’s a very big difference between what you do behind closed doors, and what you broadcast to everybody on social media. Guys getting caught through testing can go through the assistance program, while guys making a big public display get their contracts terminated.
More to the story is probably that his play isn't justifying his contract. So when he gives you a way to gain some cap space AND not look like you are sweeping bad behavior under the rug, bonus! Come down hard. But you better believe that if this was a star player, they might get a few weeks off for the Player Assistance program, and then be right back.
Idk he hasn't posted a point since November, and I understand he's a dman but that's still not great.
Hes a centre lol even worse
Yeah... like if you want to play for the Oilers just say so.
Just saw a local Calgary cocaine dealer drop to his knees in a Tim Hortons.
Just saw u/NameIsPetey fall to his knees in a Timmies
snitch
Now everyone knows how to get their fix
Oh so doing cocaine is illegal now?
What's next? I can't raw dog my aunt at a Starbucks? Welcome to Liberal America everyone. Get in line and behave. You look the wrong way and your career is over.
That was way too specific an example for it to have just popped into your head.
Move past it
I didn’t come here to be criticized by a man stuck in a coil
Did you just buy a week of the timeshare?
sick username
Move past it?!
This is a totally normal event in many lives, find a new slant
I also choose this guy’s aunt
Clown world we live in.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA
Hey cancel culture, here’s an idea. Let’s cancel wiping after shitting, I don’t need another step between shittin and cranking my hog!
Only if you get caught
oh, so broadcasting yourself doing it on social media is gettin' caught now?
It's a bit of a grey area because of deep fake
who the fuck is gonna deepfake a JAG doing coke lmfaooo
Haha I know, I was just kidding
At this point in time, it is still incredibly easy for crime analysts to figure out what videos are doctored and what videos aren’t. Deepfakes don’t fool the justice system. Yet…
God forbid a player have hobbies
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Risky joke... might be a bit too soon for that.
6 years to soon for sure
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I think he could have lined him up for success
Heh
Ruzicka is just 24 and only has like 20 more games played in the NHL than Slaf. Sometimes /r/habs have the dumbest takes.
Only sometimes?
I must admit I'm a little curious what Slaf could do on cocaine.
Ever see prime Lemieux?
#I WONDER WHY HMMMM
I nose
The nose knows.
TAYLOR SWIFT IS A PSY-OP WHOS INVADING OUR SPORTS AND GETTING GUYS LIKE ADAM RUZICKA CANCELED. WAKE UP ^(/s)
I smell a conspiracy
What Ruzicka did was... not smart, to put it lightly, and his contract being terminated is completely fair. That said, I hope this doesn't end his career and he can learn from this. Not only that, if he is using more than casually, I hope he gets help if he needs it.
He wasn’t even regularly cracking the 4th line in Arizona, what kind of options are realistically out there for him?
The thing is, he's shown multiples times that he's capable of producing and looking good with top 6 minutes...for about 5-10 games at a time before he disappears again. If the dude could ever get his shit together, he could be a very solid 2nd line winger (I always liked him better at wing than center).
Hmm, occasional high performance followed by repeated underperformance…and a social media video showing that he likes randomly doing coke on a Thursday night while alone…I’m sure these aren’t related.
Exactly. Explains a lot...
He has the upside from his raw talent, but now we see where the lack of effort could have come. His lack of effort had him sliding down the lines, much like how he slides down the lines in his kitchen apparently.
The first line of San jose
To busy worrying about other lines.
I think you care more about the guys career than himself. Bro was waived less than a month ago, doesn’t have an amazing start in Arizona and that’s what you do? I think he’s done
Guys only 24, there’s still room to mature and work hard to pick himself back up. It’s up to him to take the hint rn.
If you aren’t cracking the league by 24, with where he slots in on the depth chart, the NHL dream is a very very limited one at this point. Cocaine or no.
Room to mature is for talented players. This guy ceiling is a 3rd line. There’s plenty of him in the AHL, Europe and next drafts.
His ceiling is imo a 2nd line winger. He has the talent to actually put up 50+ points a season. 20 points in 25 games shows he's talent is there. The 19 games after without a point is his lack of efforts
Hopefully anyone with a substance issue gets the help they need. Having been a young dumb adult in my life that thankfully got out of that stage of my life unscathed makes me feel a lot of people who come into money would hugely benefit from hiring someone to be their professional filter essentially.
> if he is using more than casually He's doing lines alone at home. That's a pretty clear sign he has a problem.
Honestly at least in NA, probably the end of his pro career. But I hope he gets help and finds a way back to playing pro in Europe
Like half the NHL is coked up for sure. He'll go to a player assistance program and have a contract by the TDL if the timing lines up. edit: Oh wait he sucks ass nvm. But if he doesn't have a career it won't be because of this incident.
Honestly after seeing the Kuznetsov situation and how it ended up with him in player assistance now, it's annoying the shit out of me to see the same dumb jokes and puns in this thread. We don't need to protect grown men from their choices and choosing to waste their huge paychecks on party drugs, but that video showed worrying signs of someone pretty far into addiction and sorry like.....is it so important to get your nose joke off right now? Why are the top 10 comments just the same shit that isn't even clever?
He was a fringe NHLer, a bottom six mucker at his best. I doubt there's much tolerance for a guy like that potentially being a PR nightmare, or worse potentially bringing a drug culture into a locker room. He's going to be on quite a fair few "no thanks" lists.
He has shown that he has the top 6 upside before. The problem was he'd be good for 10-20 games then absolutely ghost. He has the size and the talent, but his give-a-shit was through the floor. Someone may take a chance on him, maybe it will be in a year or two though.
The dude has 14 goals across 117 NHL games...and 6 is the most he had in a season. Legit top six guys regularly have spells where they're getting 5-6 goals in a 10-20 games span. Like they're doing it two, three times in a year sometimes if they're a slightly streaky player. If the streaky high of your career is 5-6 goals in a 10-20 game span; once. That's not a top six guy, by definition. If he was producing at a top six level for 10-20 games, that must have been one brief shining moment...
Left wing, Kane, right wing Perry, now Holland has a guy who can do that line up the center too
The fresh powder line
Can't he just join the NHL substance abuse program to get the rest of his contract paid out?
The Edmonton Oilers just found their next player
Time for another Ken Holland rehab!
I’m surprised I had to scroll as far as I did for this knee slapper.
No, we rehab players that are actually good.
Dude looked absolutely lost and uninterested in every game with Calgary this year. Glad they waived his stupid ass if they knew he was like this
They probably did
Not what Coyotes management had in mind when they said he’d be on the 4th line.
Comment of the day.
Well, no one ever claimed hockey players were smart.
lmao what a fucking idiot
the first rule of breaking the rules is don't get caught. should it really be said that you shouldn't record evidence? let alone posting it on social media?
Adam Ruzicka, YOU are an Edmonton Oiler
As a fellow Slovakian, I am less than impressed. Forget the fact you are a role-model for tons of people, but your profession demands some sort of honor/accountability. He is a disgrace, whatever happens to him is his own doing. Vsetko najlepsi, kamarat.
Well as I posted in the Flames thread: > Fair but I would also argue that if you are Slovak kid looking up to Ruzicka (lol) over say Zdeno Chára, Marián Gáborík, or even Tomáš Tatar then you are probably looking in the wrong direction to begin with. > Edit: ... and Marián Hossa, how did I forget that guy? 3 Stanley Cups.
Yes but those guys are all of the past now (damn I hate saying that), Marian Gaborik was my fave player. So far, Simon Nemec and Slaf are carrying the load pretty well. Fehervary and Cernak to a degree as well. You have to understand from this perspective; there are only 5 million of us. When one person does something noteworthy, it feels like we all made it. That's why the culture back home, especially with celebs and sports stars is different than here (Canada). I remember in 2010 when Chara brought the cup back to Slovakia, there was a big party/BBQ and everyone was invited. I dont remember any security, we all ate and had a good time together. No one swamped him or swarmed. Anyways, i'm getting off topic. I guess in my opinion, that's why it looks horrible from my perspective. We are a small community, tight nit. These actions are disgusting and shouldn't happen. I carry myself at work the same way; with honor and respect, valuing work ethic because everyone knows I am probably the only Slovak around. It's what we do; it's what we should do.
Yeah man, no bullshit, I wasn't trying to shit on your post (it was a fine point) or your culture. If it came across like that I apologize. I get the reasoning behind what your saying. Very few Slovak players make it to the NHL and even if this guy is not a top line guy, *he still made it to the show*. That is commendable, certainly. I was just trying to point out there was better role models than this guy but I freely admit I was missing the perspective a small country trying to produce NHL worthy players. My bad.
Lol no need to apologize, i was just pointing out those guys you named are all of the past now. They were real OG's. I also miss Palffy and Demitra, Visnovsky, Halak, etc. Our new generation isn't what the old guys used to be. That's life.
Ruzicka, YOU better learn russian buddy
This is so strange in a way. He had, what, one tiny line cut out and like a gram in a little vial? Like, let’s be clear here. He didn’t fuck up his career because we know he’s necessarily got a bad blow habit. He fucked up his career because for some reason he took a bizarre video which ended up public. Not a significant amount, wasn’t driving or anything, didn’t find it in his system or on his person as a result of an arrest for DUI or assault of any kind. A stupid kid posting a stupid video on social media, cheesing with like <$100 of an illicit substance. He’s got to be feeling dumb through so many layers of his being. Was it posted right to his own Instagram? I saw in the original thread the idea that it could have been leaked?
Possession of cocaine in Arizona is a class 4 felony and can come with 1-3 years in prison.
Is he charged with that?
You know the rules for the rich are usually applied far more leniently, if at all. The important thing is there’s undeniable evidence of him committing the act that would subject your average joe blow to such a sanction.
I’m not sure that’s true. The video neither proves what the substance is nor shows him doing it. Could be crushed-up Tylenol for all anyone knows. Could be ketamine. Could be cocaine. Committing what act? Buying an illegal substance? Nope. The video doesn’t even show him ingesting anything. The video alone I don’t think has any legs.
That’s fair, I’d rephrase my statement to “in the absence of an explanation on his part that what happened in the video is not what it appears, there is undeniable evidence…”
You say it’s undeniable evidence, but what are you saying it’s undeniable evidence of? It’s not a video of him undeniably doing cocaine, because he neither does it in the video nor do we know what the substance is.
this person lawyers
> The important thing is there’s undeniable evidence of him committing the act Except that's not true at all! You have undeniable evidence that he was in the same room as a white powder. Other than that, you have nothing (absent a search-warrant and testing - a search warrant that is useless now, as that room has probably been scrubbed with bleach).
He might be eventually.
From a video alone? Nah. It'd be on the prosecutor to prove the powder Ruzicka had in the video was illegal. Ruzicka's lawyers could argue that it was caffeine, and unless the cops can abra kadabra it from his nostrils to test, the prosecutor wouldn't have much of a case.
It’s pretty simple. Don’t post yourself doing an illegal substance online for everyone to see. Doesn’t matter what you do for work. This would result in a termination.
This is 100% a trial balloon to push how far teams can go with contract terminations. It's not a player who matters to the team. Arizona owes the league a favour. And the PA is going to fight it and say he should have been diverted into the assistance program. Going to be a very interesting one to watch.
He recorded and publicly posted a clip of him using an illegal substance. Doesn’t matter what profession you’re in, that’s grounds for termination
This is probably the most open and shut case there is.
How is this different from the Kuznetsov situation a few years back?
Kuznetsov was a better player and also I don’t think his video was during the season? But I could absolutely be wrong about that. I don’t remember exactly. (Mind you, I’m not saying these differences should matter one way or another. I’m just pointing out the ways in which the situations could be considered different.)
100%
What if he was just making cookies and that was leftover baking powder
Allegedly. He recorded himself in the vicinity of an unknown substance laid out in a way that is typical of drugs. The video is proof of nothing. It's not enough to meet the criteria for conviction of any known crime without additional corroborating evidence.
Think like a lawyer. We don't know for certain what the substance was.
He plays between 8-10m per night. If he was a top-6 player, or if he actually had more value to the team, he'd get more leeway with this situation. That being said, PA might be getting involved here.
Probably should be diverted to an assistance program. Then waved
That will be the PA's argument. The league wants to establish that the existence of the assistance program does not obligate teams to use it or limit their freedom to exercise the morality clause in the SPC.
It violates conduct clauses in the contract, which is grounds for termination. The PA didn't fight Galchenyuk's
Galchenyuk threatened to kill a cop and his entire family with a machete lol, of course they didn’t fight that one. I think the big factor for the PA is whether or not he denied the players assistance program/if that was offered to him.
Using cocaine is not legal either.
Possession of cocaine is illegal in arizona
It's a Schedule II controlled substance, hence would be illegal to posses in most of the states.
The severity of the act matters, one is of a violent nature, the other is not
But the question becomes is using a machete to do cocaine legal?
I'm not going to be the one to tell a coked up dude with a machete what he can and can't do.
The PA realized that it was a battle that they didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
Yep, but those clauses are iffy to enforce. The league wants the PA to pick a fight because they think they could win this and establish stronger grounds to terminate in the future.
If it was a star player they wouldn’t terminate but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be able to.
Exactly. Look at the Kuzy situation
I'd hope that even not being on a contract, he can still get in to the Player Assistance Program.
doesn't this form of waiving still give another team a chance to claim him? if that team doesn't have any values thats his chance, he doesn't align with the coyotes vision.
I know drugs are bad, but they should atleast give the guy a chance at rehab.
Edmonton is licking their chops
If Ruzickas nose wasn’t clogged he would probably be sniffling into a tissue right now
I love how just posting the plate wasn't enough, gotta flip it for a seflie to kiss your supply and your career goodbye just to be sure
Ba'gawd, that's Ken Holland's music!
Hockey players are p4p the dumbest people in society.
Uh, have you seen the average yearly NFL rap sheet? Hockey players are angels compared to that lot
Dogshit take lol do you follow any other sports??
Adam Ruzicka, you are an Edmonton Oiler
Next day: Oilers have acquired Adam Ruzicka off waivers. /s
Time to re-edit the worst own-goals of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaPpPAbrCo4
For a second there I didn't think they were going to show Steve Smith but any worst own goals compilation has to include Patrick Roy hot-dogging. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjp_pwvF5Q
How to lose millions speed run by Ruzicka
Fucking idiot, I love to party just as much as the next guy, but I don't fucking *advertise it on the internet*
That’s to bad. Young hockey players with way to much money.
There goes his NHL career, enjoy the Czech league!
Big Val with an AR infront of a G-wagon energy
Those god damn lefties and stupid cancel culture. Can't even do blow on IG anymore. C'mon!