John Scott saved the NHL All Star game all by his lonesome. But what does this messy situation say about the NHL's other failures?
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn. Or so said the US Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
To the NHL, John Scott is a symbol of jest. A 6-foot-8 link to a culture it has tried to forget. It did so quite explicitly, and embarrassingly so, by trying to remove him from the All Star game.