Re: Fw: A comment on fighting, if you can J

to: Brendan Shanahan

09/30/2011 12:32 PM

i think we went too far. this is sensitive territory and we need to be very careful.

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"Gary Bettman"
'Bill Daly"
09/30/2011 12:28 PM
Fw: A comment on fighting, if you can

Fyi.

From: Brendan Shanahan

Sent: 09/30/2011 12 :22 PM EDT
To: "Brian Burke"
Subject: Re: A comment on fighting, if you can
I told Gary and Bill that this question is naturally going to come up to me and how should I answer. "WE" is the
NHL and Bill said something last week on a Toronto radio show that was almost verbatim.
I know last night they only showed a portion of what I said.
I'm the new guy and the flavor of the week. The press may consider me an interesting story at THIS moment but I'm
sure and I HOPE that it will eventually die down.

From: "Brian Burke"

Sent: 09/30/201111:55 AM AST
To: Brendan Shanahan
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Shanny, I am not commenting on this.

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May I ask who "we" is? This is news to me.

Are we that worried about being politically correct that we have to say we're looking at it, even if the
managers are not?
Please advise.
From: McGran, Kevin
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 11:21 AM
To: Brian Burke

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Subject: A comment on fighting, if you can

Brian
Brendan Shanahan was on CBC with Peter Mansbridge and said the following:
"We have to also look at fighting. Now what the final decision is, I can't tell you now, that's obviously something that
we're going to have to look at. But there is no way that we would ever deny that it's not something that we're looking
at closely."
Can you give me your reaction? Is the NHL moving closer to removing fighting from the game? Or at least imposing
new penalties that might reduce the number of fights?

Kevin McGran
SPORTS REPORTER
Toronto Star

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