McCann's hope -- lesson learned

by Jim Swanson of the Prince George Citizen

One, it keeps McCann from being able to tell his side of the story in front of a judge. And two, the prosecutor can’t raise the question of whether Hill’s actions were his idea alone.

“You can’t tell on the video that (one of the coaches sent Hill), but he came from the bench and he took his time. I’m almost positive he didn’t go on his own. If he’d have reacted on his own, it would’ve been more of a thing where he jumped over the boards right away.”

“Simon, McSorley, they happened in the middle of the play and it was heat of the moment. You can get angry on the ice. But this, they had more than two minutes to think about what they were going to do. That’s the thing that frustrates me the most, that it wasn’t just heat-of-the-moment and they knew what they wanted to do to me.”

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