Inside the High-Stakes Comeback: Carter Hart and Hockey Canada Defendants’ Untold Journey to the NHL
Even with Thursday’s not-guilty verdict, that’s a critical point to highlight in the fallout of the Hockey Canada case. Multiple sources with an understanding of the NHL’s views on the matter told The Athletic that what Carroccia had to say in her ruling would carry considerable weight in determining the potential playing futures of Dubé, Foote, Formenton, Hart and McLeod.
That is, being exonerated would not be enough on its own to clear a path for those players to return to the league — certainly not immediately, and perhaps not ever. But that’s why the justice’s emphatic words Thursday against the complainant were perhaps the best-case scenario for each of these players toward a potential return to the NHL.
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