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This is an update on Shane Pinto, Elliott, and I guess now we know why the delay.

We all thought this was Pier Dorian and the Ottawa Senators attempting to sign Shane

Pinto instead we find out it looks like it was Pier Dorian and the Ottawa Senators stepping

aside to allow an investigation to take place and now Shane Pinto has been suspended.

What is the latest as best you can clean?

Jeff, you have a pretty accurate assessment there.

This came up in the last couple of weeks that suddenly it became clear to everyone involved

here that there was something the NHL was investigating and it was serious enough that

I believe everybody was just told to hang on that there was going to be a serious conversation

about what exactly the league had turned up and everybody was in time out phase and I

think it was around the time that Pinto was in Ottawa and then went back that I think

everybody realized that this was something that the league was potentially going to step

in on and put discipline on the player.

What we can definitely say now is there was a gambling investigation around Pinto and

he was not specifically being accused of gambling on the NHL and that's the big one here

because last March the NHL sent out a memo reminding everybody about the consequences

for gambling and it reminded all league and club personnel including players that wagering

on any NHL game even where legal is absolutely prohibited constituting conduct that is dishonorable,

prejudicial to or against the welfare of the league or the game of hockey and it also added

that the commissioner Gary Batman has authorized to discipline individuals in any or all of the

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