Here are some facts about professional hockey player Jason Bailey.
He was selected in the 2005 NHL Draft in the 3rd round (63rd overall).
He is Jewish.
He is suing the Anaheim Ducks organization for an undisclosed wheelbarrow full of cash for what his legal people are said to have referred to as multiple “verbal anti-Semitic attacks.”
The details surrounding this suit are still leaking out but o far it appears that 23-year-old Bailey claims that after the Ducks assigned him to play for their ECHL affiliate team, the Bakersfield Condors, the coaches there “attacked” him with a “barrage of anti-Semitic, offensive and degrading verbal attacks.”
The suit was filed in Orange County Superior Court and is said to include language that accuses the head coach of the Condors telling him:
“[Jews] only care about money and who’s who.”
And that he.:
“. . .never wanted his son to be raised Jewish or to wear a Yarmulke.”
Bailey, an Ottawa, Ontario native, says in addition to the Jew-bashing antics by the team, he was also forced him to travel separate from the team. Now that one will be interesting to see because unless a guy is not on the roster, there should be no reason for a player to be asked to find his own way to a rink.
Bailey appeared in 35 games with Bakersfield in the ECHL in his first professional season in 2008-09 and scored four goals and six assists for 10 points with 44 penalty minutes. He was later traded off to the Ottawa Senators in 2009 and our research could not find that he has scored a single point on NHL ice. Doesn’t mean he won’t be scoring huge on this lawsuit.
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Jay Donetelli is a Tampa-based freelance sportswriter and contributor to Sports Climax. With an opinion sharper than an Ovechkin skate blade with the sting of an Ali jab, Donetelli has a loyal cult of readers who have found a way to love him.
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