In my opinion, we need to look at the manipulative strategy that Mailloux himself, commentators on social media, and the MTL Canadiens are currently using to defend the decision to draft Mailloux, which can be called the acronym DARVO: deny, attack, and reverse the victim and the offender.
Read that again. Manipulative strategy.
If you don't remember anything else about this, you need only realize that MTL's public relations team had prepared this entire strategy and orchestrated the direction it would take, long before the draft happened.
Logan Mailloux is a sex offender. And, despite the fact that Mailloux would certainly have difficulty getting a minimum wage job that required a criminal record check, the MTL Canadiens drafted him and managed to perpetuate the notion that professional athletes are above the law; that people perceived to have status, because of what they do for a living, are above the rules and consequences that usually apply to the rest of society.
