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Someone Could Have Fixed This

10/31/2021 at 2:54pm EDT

from Jack Todd at the Montreal Gazette,

It sometimes seems that hockey is one long scandal, interrupted by the occasional game.

On-ice assaults. Sexual assaults. Coverups. Financial shenanigans. Greedy players locked out by greedier owners. Player safety working to endanger players.

It’s endless. But the Brad Aldrich abuse of Kyle Beach and Chicago’s collective refusal to deal with it has left the Blackhawks dynasty forever tainted, some of the biggest names in the game permanently disgraced, even their brightest stars now under a cloud for their conspicuous failure to remember.

Put it this way: when John Tortorella is telling you how to behave and Torts is the one who is right, you’ve got a problem.

“This wasn’t a one-man decision,” Tortorella said on ESPN. “It’s multiple people. I just don’t get why one guy couldn’t just stand up and say, ‘You know what? No. This is wrong.’

“This is sexual assault, which casts a shadow over the game of hockey. That’s what’s crazy to me, that one man couldn’t stand up and say, ‘You know what? No way. We have to get this straightened out right now.’ ”

One man. That’s all it would have taken.

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