In a culture that most prizes winning, the team pushed serious, possibly criminal allegations aside and focused on playing good hockey
The infuriatingly predictable part is that of course they didn’t do anything about it. In a culture that prizes winning above all else, where conformity is encouraged and weakness is a sin, the hockey team on the verge of the Stanley Cup Final pushed these serious, possibly criminal, allegations aside and worried instead about playing good hockey. Nothing could upset the delicate balance of a team playing well, even if the trouble spot was just the guy cutting film.
The heartbreaking part is that Beach’s life and career were never the same. He says he was teased and subjected to homophobic insults by former teammates, while the 107-page report from the law firm Jenner & Block, which the Blackhawks hired as an outside investigator after Beach filed a civil lawsuit against the organization in May, cites multiple team executives dismissing the idea of a sexual assault because Beach was a big, tough player and Aldrich was a small coach.
The sense one gets from reading the report, and from everything that has happened since, is that the mere subject of a sexual encounter between a coach and player made everyone so uncomfortable that they just wanted it to go away — once the playoffs were over, of course — and never speak of it again.
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