Content warning: This story contains details of crimes that are sexual in nature.
It would have been remarkably easy for the Montreal Canadiens to not draft Logan Mailloux.
Not only would it have been remarkably easy to not draft him, but it should have been an obvious decision for every team in the league. All teams should have steered clear of the player convicted of a crime of a sexual nature, who renounced himself from the draft and requested he not be selected.
But when the Canadiens were on the clock with their first-round pick on Friday night, Marc Bergevin “proudly selected” Mailloux on behalf of the organization, completely disregarding Mailloux’s victim, all the victims who came before her, and all the victims who will come after her, in one fell swoop.