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Blackhawks player from 2010 championship team suing team for sexual assault by coach

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"Yesterday was a day of many emotions. I cried, I smiled, I laughed, I cried some more."

 

"I felt a great feeling of relief and vindication. I felt like a lot of lies were told in the media. It felt special to have truth come out yesterday."

 

"I felt sick to my stomach. I was made aware it made it all the way up the chain of command and nothing happened."

 

"To see him with the Stanley Cup parading around, it made me feel like it was nothing, like I didn't exist."

 

"There is no way Joel Quenneville can deny knowing it."

 

Beach highlighted report quotes in his own words that Quenneville cared more about winning the Stanley Cup than the sexual assault.

 

"As a human being, I cannot believe that and I cannot accept that."

 

"I was on an NHL roster when this happened. I reported every detail to the NHLPA. For him [Don Fehr] to turn his back on the players, I don't know how he can be the leader or in charge."

 

- Kyle Beach (John Doe)

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Anyone who knew about this and did nothing, including management, coaches, players, execs in the NHL or NHLPA, all need to be fired and banned from the league.

 

Then their cup wins should be rescinded from the record books, although I know that is extremely unlikely to happen.

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36 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

"Yesterday was a day of many emotions. I cried, I smiled, I laughed, I cried some more."

 

"I felt a great feeling of relief and vindication. I felt like a lot of lies were told in the media. It felt special to have truth come out yesterday."

 

"I felt sick to my stomach. I was made aware it made it all the way up the chain of command and nothing happened."

 

"To see him with the Stanley Cup parading around, it made me feel like it was nothing, like I didn't exist."

 

"There is no way Joel Quenneville can deny knowing it."

 

Beach highlighted report quotes in his own words that Quenneville cared more about winning the Stanley Cup than the sexual assault.

 

"As a human being, I cannot believe that and I cannot accept that."

 

"I was on an NHL roster when this happened. I reported every detail to the NHLPA. For him [Don Fehr] to turn his back on the players, I don't know how he can be the leader or in charge."

 

- Kyle Beach (John Doe)

My heart goes out to him. He was just a young kid when this happened and it literally destroyed him emotionally and his career. It infuriates me that the management and organization cared more about a dumb trophy than a young man getting sexually assaulted. And to make it worse, his so called “teammates” or these “stand up guys” like Toews or Kane did nothing to defend him and some even made fun of him. Thank you Kyle for your courage of speaking up and sharing your story.  
Fk the entire Blackhawks organization.

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As sad as is it will be to see some of the gross underbelly of professional hockey, I hope this is a step towards opening this stuff up and getting it out. I know Quennville is a great coach as far as results go, but I can't see how Florida can keep him after this.

 

Fehr is probably gone too. I'm not sure what role Cheveldayoff had, but he might also be gone. 

 

The truth is that almost everyone working in the NHL is extremely passionate and to even be at this level, you need to have an almost unhealthy dedication, so it's not entirely surprising that these people would misprioritize winning over someone's security and mental health.

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1 minute ago, -AJ- said:

As sad as is it will be to see some of the gross underbelly of professional hockey, I hope this is a step towards opening this stuff up and getting it out. I know Quennville is a great coach as far as results go, but I can't see how Florida can keep him after this.

 

Fehr is probably gone too. I'm not sure what role Cheveldayoff had, but he might also be gone. 

 

The truth is that almost everyone working in the NHL is extremely passionate and to even be at this level, you need to have an almost unhealthy dedication, so it's not entirely surprising that these people would misprioritize winning over someone's security and mental health.

Say what you want about our management, I can safely say that we've had guys who I would trust to do the right thing going back to Quinn.

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3 minutes ago, -AJ- said:

As sad as is it will be to see some of the gross underbelly of professional hockey, I hope this is a step towards opening this stuff up and getting it out. I know Quennville is a great coach as far as results go, but I can't see how Florida can keep him after this.

 

Fehr is probably gone too. I'm not sure what role Cheveldayoff had, but he might also be gone. 

 

The truth is that almost everyone working in the NHL is extremely passionate and to even be at this level, you need to have an almost unhealthy dedication, so it's not entirely surprising that these people would misprioritize winning over someone's security and mental health.

maybe I'm too old and cynical now, but I'd be really surprised if anyone else loses a job over this. I hope I'm wrong. 

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1 minute ago, King Heffy said:

Say what you want about our management, I can safely say that we've had guys who I would trust to do the right thing going back to Quinn.

At the very least, the regular push to acquire character guys suggest that. 

 

That said, no one's perfect and I've seen bigger shockers. I really respect Toews, but if he knew about this and didn't defend Beach or push things to management, that definitely lowers him in my esteem. I couldn't imagine the Twins letting something like that go unpunished.

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2 minutes ago, JM_ said:

maybe I'm too old and cynical now, but I'd be really surprised if anyone else loses a job over this. I hope I'm wrong. 

In my mind, this is different than some dumb quote or action by a guy from 10 years ago where someone made a dumb move a long time ago and since regretted it. By keeping this a secret all those years, every one of those men was actively continuing to do Beach wrong.

 

I'll be very disappointed if no more heads roll, so to speak. Maybe not everyone will be fired, but I really see this as a huge indictment on Quennville's character. If Babcock can lose his job, so can Quennville.

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