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by Alanah McGinley on 07/09/07 at 12:36 PM ET
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Of all the headlines that the NHL prefers to avoid seeing on a Monday morning, this one has to rank pretty high: “Team ‘Operation Slapshot’ at 2007 World Series of Poker.”
In a little more than a month former NHLer Rick Tocchet will find out his sentence for pleading guilty to charges of third-degree conspiracy and third-degree promoting gambling for his part in the operation of a gambling ring in New Jersey. To kill time Tocchet has decided to play in the 2007 World Series of Poker for his shot at the nearly $7.5 Million first place prize.
As TIB points out, this isn’t at all the same thing as gambling in sports - and there’s nothing wrong with NHL people playing poker. But it still strikes me as sort of obvious-stupid for this particular hockey person to be anywhere near this event. (And according to the the article at PokerBiz, Janet Gretzky participated as well, believe it or not.)
Do these people not have public relations reps telling them “bad idea! don’t do it!”?
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