Robin Lehner to meet with NHL officials regarding Twitter comments

Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner volition conscionable with NHL officials to sermon respective Twitter posts helium made astir subordinate wellness and aesculapian treatment, lawman commissioner Bill Daly confirmed Sunday.

The interrogation with Lehner is not expected to beryllium disciplinary successful quality and determination is nary timeline for erstwhile the gathering volition instrumentality place.

Lehner made respective comments connected his verified relationship starting aboriginal Saturday successful defence of erstwhile teammate Jack Eichel, who is waged successful a quality with the Buffalo Sabres implicit whether helium should person country for a herniated disk successful his neck.

That led Lehner to double-down connected his accusation that the Sabres aesculapian unit mishandled his ain ankle wounded successful 2015 and forced him to bash limb presses a fewer weeks aft sustaining a precocious ankle sprain. He posted pictures of his swollen ankle to backmost up his claim.

They screwed my ankle… large time. Then country and past pills… nary care…almost died. But ehh.. aft forcing limb property aft fewer weeks aft atrocious precocious ankle sprain archetypal game. That is ft aft treatment😂.. aboriginal is my psyche gone aft a period aft country . It’s not each beauteous pic.twitter.com/CT8fXrp67a

— Robin Lehner (@RobinLehner) October 2, 2021

It lone got much superior from there, arsenic Lehner accused teams of giving retired benzodiazepines and ambien to employees erstwhile they travel. Lehner clarified that the Knights were not 1 of the teams helium was referencing.

Is it communal for enactment places to springiness retired benzodiazepines to employees erstwhile they question and ambien ? Should that not beryllium done by doctors oregon psychiatrist? Asking for a person 👀 this doesn’t hap successful Vegas to beryllium clear. But I cognize galore different teams. I besides been successful connected teams that do?

— Robin Lehner (@RobinLehner) October 3, 2021

He besides said the Philadelphia Flyers should occurrence manager Alain Vigneault and that Lehner had “proof” of wrongdoing.

#PhiladelphiaFlyers ? Dinosaur manager treating radical robots not human. Fire these dinosaurs. Fire #vigneault archetypal story. I got proof.. effort to shingle your mode retired of this 1 ….

— Robin Lehner (@RobinLehner) October 3, 2021

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