The thing I still don't really get about this story is why would the Blackhawks risk all this for a not particularly well connected video coach or whatever he was. Like, that to me is almost the most damning statement about the organization and hockey culture here. Either they had their own serious malfeasance to cover up or they were just willing to cover up any allegation against anyone even remotely connected with the team.
I mean why did David Frost last as long as he did.
I think hockey has a problem that a lot of industries have...that sex assault isn't taken seriously. That getting an assault out in the open "looks bad for the game" while ignoring that covering it up and having it come out later would be worse.
Look at how the story is getting handled over the last few months. The story comes out...radio silence from the NHL media. It starts to come out in trickles but even still, extremely little major media discussion on this.
This has some of the biggest executive names in hockey with 3 GMs and one of the best coaches in the game in positions that are either incompetent for not knowing what went on or are outright lying about it now. There is a zero percent chance that the head coach has his video coach fired and doesn't get a reason for why it happened.