Here is the link to the AP story.
http://www.necn.com/01/22/11/Unindicted-Texas-student-Pledge-death-my/landing_nation.html?&blockID=3&apID=a8665cc3c3e64898b7939b59364209cb
Players involved in a hazing inident were suspended five games. Moorhead, Minnesota link
Dave Morinville now returned to duties and one hopes a bit more educated on the issue.
Here is the link to a story in the Montreal Gazette
The problem is that even the minor hazing in PRO hockey sends a message to high school and college athletes that hazing is all fun and games. But it is a start, and a start is a start is a start. On the other hand, this writer is editorializing that hazing, a crime, isn’t so bad if people cut down a bit. But then again, no one would say it is ok that someone shoplifts or only once in a while teases pets. I wish the writer would stick to facts instead of leading impressionable young readers to his own biases.
Here is the end of the odd but hardly unusual case where a prosecutor ends up dropping all charges after a community and nation are led to believe a serious incident occurred. The mishandling of the Carmel (IN) basketball case has been a public relations disaster for the community of Carmel.