Stan Bowman And Joel Quenneville Spoke To The Gathering At The GM Meetings

from Eric Engels of Sportsnet, Almost two years after resigning their positions from NHL teams in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal, former Chicago Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman and former coach Joel Quenneville met with league general managers and coaches here Friday. Both resigned – Bowman as GM of the Blackhawks and Quenneville as coach of the Florida Panthers – in October 2021 after it came to light through a third-party report that a prompt and thorough investigation was not conducted by senior management after it learned of the alleged 2010 sexual assault of former Chicago Blackhawks player Kyle Beach at the hands of former Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich. According to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, neither were mandated to be at the meeting at the Hyatt Regency, near O’Hare International Airport, but were given the opportunity to be there “to tell everybody about their experience and lessons learned.” “They were here voluntarily,” Bettman said. “It wasn’t something that they were told they needed to do. We said, ‘If you’d like the opportunity to address the group, you could have it.’” continued