I don’t want to write that much about the Boston Bruins and the way they handled Mitchell Miller. There’s been plenty of much better writers who covered a lot more information than I could even remember to include.
What I do want to know is... what the hell were the Bruins thinking?
Let’s run through a quick TL;DR of everything they did wrong, I mean beyond the foundational error of signing him in the first place.
- Did not talk to the victim’s family, not even to verify that he did actually apologize to the victim
- Did not talk to the NHL to make sure they’d be okay with it
- Did not talk to the victim’s family, not even to verify that he did actually apologize to the victim
- Did not talk/listen to their own players how they felt about it
- Did not talk to the victim’s family, not even to verify that he did actually apologize to the victim
- Did not properly research the full scope of the past allegations and reporting of what Miller did to the victim for many years, including what he kept doing after he was found guilty of it in court
And the above is something they may have known BUT THEY DID NOT TALK TO THE VICTIM’S FAMILY NOT EVEN TO VERIFY THAT HE DID ACTUALLY APOLOGIZE TO THE VICTIM.