Posted on 01/31/2016 11:45:48 AM PST by w1n1
As a massive hockey fan as I am, I have become fascinated with the penalty box, the Ryker's Island of sports, in reality a jail cell where offending hockey players are sentenced in two- to 10-minute increments for charges ranging from cross checking to hooking, slashing to holding the stick (no jokes intended).
When you are guilty of said crimes, your pays the price and has to trudge on - a man down mind you – while the player must sit and watch in timeout in a tiny, isolated space. It's one reason why I enjoy hockey so much. Think about other sports like football, where players can commit penalty after penalty and never have to leave the field.
Pro basketball allows you five fouls before the sixth finally disqualifies you from the game. Hockey violations at least provide a lot more legitmate form of players paying for their crimes (hence the penalty box's nickname of sin bin right on the spot. Read the rest of the story here.
A team is not a man down on a 10 minute misconduct. Only the player is out for 10 minutes.
The referees can also assess a game misconduct. The player is out for the remainder of the game. The team is not a man down.
Anything more than that comes from the league office.
So he owns a house there, lives there when he’s not playing hockey, the rest of his family lives there, and the issue is that under local provincial law, he has to have lived there the majority of each of the previous two six month periods (which doesn’t match with any other law up in Canada...)
In other words, a witch hunt was conducted and they found some technicality to charge him with. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands it cost to persecute him for this?
Kinda crazy. F&G begs hunters to harvest more bear; here in ALaska we shoot every bear we see 24/7; patriotic duty. I feel quite lucky that the nearest LEOs are 200 miles away and the road is closed for the winter.
...”In other words, a witch hunt “ Suggest an alternative headline:
-Anaheim Ducks Player Dogged for Illegal Bear Hunt-
Ken Stoner
North Island Secondary School - January 28 at 2:22pm
Clayton Stoner and the Grizzly Bear
I have chosen to go public with the real story about this bear hunt to put it in the proper light. It is not meant to promote hunting and it is not in support of the anti-hunting groups, it's just the truth.
I hope it helps show the public the level that supposedly good people are willing to lower themselves to for their cause, not caring whose reputation they destroy along the way.
When we met Robert Johnson the First Nation watchman in Kwatna (an extremely remote part of the province) he told us he could not stop us from hunting there but asked that we respect the land. The entire time we were there we were under the impression Robert had befriended us, he ate with us, he drank with us, and he shared stories with us. He was very helpful with his directions on how to get up the river to where we got the bear. When we got the bear back to the main boat and Robert was taking a few hairs for DNA samples I asked him if he had ever seen this particular bear bear before and he told me he had not but that it was not uncommon for bears to pass through there. The entire time we spent with Robert he never mentioned anything about a bear named Cheeky or any other bear that he or anyone else had a relationship with.
When the story broke it was extremely hard on our entire family to listen to and read all the lies that were being told. To set the record straight the head and paws were not severed, the bear was not 5 year old Cheeky, it was not shot with a shotgun. This was a very large 18 year old male, the exact type of bear the BC Wildlife Service asks you to harvest. And when Robert was supposedly in his tent crying over the loss of Cheeky he was actually on our boat drinking and did so until 3-4am.
The possibility that Clayton wasn't a resident never crossed anyone's mind, he was born in the province, raised in the province and owned a home in the province but under the wildlife act he fell a few days short of the required amount of days to be classified a resident. I don't believe there ever was a bear named Cheeky and I believe once they found out Clayton played in the NHL they saw it as a way to bring awareness to their cause.
The truth is:
Our Vancouver Island born and raised son grew up hunting and fishing. He lives between Canada and the US because of his seasonal job. He shot a legal bear, in legal season, in a legal area with a license that he incorrectly assumed he was qualified for. He is only guilty of a miscalculation of the days he lived outside Canada that year.
Ken Stoner
Will Cheeky the Bear become as famous as What's-His-Name the Beloved Lion?
Will Cheeky the Bear become as famous as What's-His-Name the Beloved Lion?
If he is not a resident, perhaps the province will refund the income taxes he has paid???!!!!
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