Friday was a busy day off the ice in the hockey world.
The Washington Capitals terminated the contract of forward, Brendan Leipsic, following vulgar comments made on Instagram about wives and girlfriends of players and hockey personnel. 
On the same day as the Caps were making some remedy of the situation, former player, Brett Hull was kicking in his two pence on the exchange.
Hull was clear and there is no way to spin this as “out of context”.
“We did the same things, we said the same things, but there was no way to get caught,” Hull said on Sportsnet’s “Hockey Central” on Friday. “We can go out after games, we can go to strip clubs, we can go to bars, and we could do whatever we wanted, and it would all be hearsay.”
“The fun is gone,” he added. “The game is not fun anymore to me.”
It’s the old “boys will be boys” excuse.
The key word in that phrase is ‘boys’. At some point, boys grow up and it usually happens in grade school as maturity kicks in and you find your soul and place in society.
I am neither saint nor prude; a third grade nun referred to me as Foul-Mouthed Frank from the story of St Ignatius. I know a fair number colorful words and phrases but have never been in the company of anyone, in polite society, bar, strip club, or hockey locker room where spouses were disparaged as they were in this Instagram video.
I am older than Hull by nearly a decade, but he is old enough to know the ‘boys’ routine is a thing of childhood.
We are who we are when we think no one is listening.
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