from Adrian Dater at substack,

It’s time for me to sit back a little and pontificate from the clouds, and let the kids do all the heavy lifting. I still want to know what’s going on, but I’m not killing myself anymore, physically and mentally, to do that.

I will sit back and watch with great interest who among the Avs “beat media” can crack this Nichushkin story first. Are they up to the task? So far, all I’ve read are team PR-supplied updates, all accentuating the positive from an Avalanche team standpoint. Are they real reporters, or just stenographers? There is a massive difference. For me anyway, I could never sleep at night if I didn’t break the news first. That doesn’t make me a hero. It doesn’t mean I am better than anyone else. But it means that I would never rest until I got the full story, and, hopefully, the first to get it.

...When I did post what I knew today, on Twitter, it didn’t take long for the “It’s none of your/our business Dater, stop prying” blowback to begin. I have a strong hunch the silent majority wants the story and will reward the reporter that breaks the full details first. But maybe that’s a quaint notion today, I’m not totally sure.

I think I already know many of the details. Something clearly happened at that hotel yesterday. But I can’t just report on what I have “heard” and what I know as an absolute fact.

What I know is an absolute fact is the Seattle Fire Department and EMTs were at the Avs team hotel yesterday afternoon, and Nichushkin was whisked out of town right afterward. Are they connected? I don’t know that for a fact. Maybe not. I’m not saying there is a connection. Just saying what I know to this point.

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