SENS SUSPEND ASSISTANT GM LEE
The Ottawa Senators have suspended assistant general manager Randy Lee, who is facing a harassment charge from an incident during the NHL’s pre-draft scouting combine in Buffalo earlier this month.
General manager Pierre Dorion announced Lee’s suspension Friday. Dorion said the suspension is effective immediately and applies to work with the Senators as well as the club’s American Hockey League affiliate in Belleville, Ont.
Lee is charged with second-degree harassment after allegedly making lewd comments and rubbing the shoulders of a 19-year-old male hotel shuttle driver in Buffalo on May 30. He pleaded not guilty.
“Our hockey team — and our organization as a whole — will always hold our leaders, coaching staff, players and employees to the highest standards of behaviour,” Dorion said in the statement.