Thread by @CarBombBoom13

Colin Campbell, the long-time disciplinarian — now the senior executive vice-president of hockey operations with the @NHL — is shown in correspondence to term anti-violence advocates alternately as “greenpeace pukes” & “tree huggers”

#SundayMorning #SundayFunday #SundayThoughts

2/ In a 2009 email to @TSN_Sports & Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) Campbell seeks counsel in an apparent desire to help remove fighting from the game: “I hated fighting . . . had to do it though . . . particularly in the 70’s, but it is stupid.”

3/ And then, four years later, in an email to fellow TSN correspondent Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) Colin Campbell writes he is, in fact, “for fighting.”

4/ In another email, when asked about a player who had been hit from behind, Campbell lays blame with the player who had been injured:

“We have stupid players out there who should know better.”

@MSavvy91 @NHLBruins

5/ These r some pulled quotes from the @SBNation article below

I would like to apologize in advance to Gregory Campbell, Colin Campbell’s son, for what I am going to say about his father today

More to come from other articles

#NHL @NHLPA #TBI

sbnation.com/nhl/2016/3/30/…

6/ I hope that this thread today, which I will add to, will help shine some light onto the archaic mindsets of the men who make the rules that govern over ALL of hockey, not just the league of denial @NHL

#SundayMotivation

7/ "There is nothing that compares to it, nothing. I've had tough decisions to make in this job with Hockey Operations, and I've done a lot of things in coaching and playing, but there is nothing that compares to this...”

Colin Campbell on watching his son win a @StanleyCup...

8/ "It's just 8 weeks of hell to tell you the truth. You're on the edge of your seat. It's not like you're sitting there saying you want him to score a goal, you're saying, 'Please, just get through the shift without making a mistake.' "

#Concussion #TBI

nhl.com/news/colin-cam…

9/ I couldn’t imagine being an #NHL executive & having the power to make rule changes to better benefit human beings, including a son, but doing nothing about the situation

You would think a father would want to protect his child in any way, shape or form that he could...

10/ Unsealed NHL documents in the concussion lawsuit brought by former players reveal a snapshot of an internal debate by league officials over head injuries — and a number of inflammatory remarks by league executive Colin Campbell.

bostonglobe.com/sports/2016/03…