GAMEDAY: The Tesink Hearing

The Ryan Tesink trade hearing is supposed to take place today.

Couple tweets from John Moore about today’s events:

Alot of eyes on the @qmjhl office this week.The Sea Dogs/Armada Ryan Tesink injury hearing is today.Both teams to present their case.
— John Moore (@rinkrant) February 18, 2013

Tesink played 6 gms for Armada but hasn't played since due to damaged knee. May boil down to "full disclosure" vs "player privacy."
— John Moore (@rinkrant) February 18, 2013

The Sea Dogs said Thursday they would not be speaking about the hearing until after today’s events unfold, but head coach and general manager Mike Kelly did discuss it a bit in the Telegraph-Journal (paywall).

“In my experience in hockey, these things are handled in a different type of manner,” Kelly said. “But that said, they have every right to (request a hearing). I’m not going to whine and complain about it. I’m just going to follow the procedure.”

There’s no point in even trying to guess what the outcome of this whole thing will be. Neate Sager of Yahoo! Sports nailed it on Thursday, writing “’normal,’ ‘QMJHL’ and ‘Saint John Sea Dogs’ should never be in the same sentence.”

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