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One bad act doesn't wash out the other. What Mailloux did was disgusting, and he absolutely deserves all the hate he's received. Frankly he deserved to suffer a lot more consequences than he ultimately did. There should be more of a bar to having a million dollar pro sports career than simply being good at sports, especially in a sport like Hockey where everyone refuses to shut up about the importance of Character.
What those 8 players did was reprehensible, and when and if those names come out those players at the absolute minimum should never play another game in the NHL ever again. Full contract termination and a lifetime ban. But at the moment, we don't know who was involved. We don't even know how many of these guys were even on that team, so at this stage wildly speculating on who may or may not have been involved is really just gross and not really appropriate at all. The only recourse for fans of the sport who feel hurt and angered by this event is to direct that sentiment to organizations like Hockey Canada, the CHL and the NHL, to get answers and to try and address on a systemic level the culture problems that exist in hockey that lead young men to believe they are allowed to treat women like this. Because it's not just a problem with Mailloux, or with these eight players, it's a problem in hockey at all levels in this Country. These stories happen across the country in all levels of organized hockey from Bantam to the NHL.