Are American judicial authorities so desperate to restore Olympic hockey gold medal pride that they would resort to smearing the name of Canada's greatest sports hero Wayne Gretzky
on the eve of the Winter Olympics? Isn't it a cynical and transparent ploy to release wire tap documents, and other innuendo for the media feeding frenzy in a vague effort to link the Great One to an organized crime gambling ring? Could it be an attempt to create enough distraction and emotional turmoil in Gretzky's life such that his upcoming Olympic efforts as Executive director for team Canada are undermined? In that event, player morale could be sabotaged to the point of losing the gold medal or not even reaching the podium. Why couldn't the authorities have waited until soon after the Olympics to release these damaging allegations, especially those that might concern Gretzky or his wife if he likely had no direct involvement or liability as compared to his associate coach Tocchet? Perhaps there is another sinister side to the timing of these news releases that the general public will never know...
News commentary by your paranoid Canuck hack reporter on the spot in Hockeyville Canada,
Beau
Tags:
Hockey News, Gretzky, Olympics, Illegal Gambling
4 comments:
Sir you are brilliant. It never occured to me the tmming as you say. Its also very rare for a DA to relase that kind of info.
I appreciate the compliment wally banners, but it's just my attempt to satirize the story, and kick at a few tires. God forbid there really is some kind of funny business to disgrace Gretzky.
I'm actually pretty hurt as an Englishman with an icehockey mad son that the British media is treating the winter olympics as a bit of a joke.
So consider yourself lucky!
The British media seem to be tough blokes all around when it comes to scathing criticism or benign neglect. It's nice to know that the son of an Englishman enjoys hockey gavin corder, and hopefully the Canadian teams will win gold for him :-).
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