Nearly two years after leaving NHL teams amid a sexual assault scandal, the former general manager Chicago Blackhawks Stan Bowman and former head coach of the team Joel Quenneville met with the general managers and coaches of all the league’s clubs, Sportsnet reports.
Both resigned – Bowman as CEO of the Blackhawks and Quenneville as coach of the Florida Panthers – in October 2021, it was revealed that senior management failed to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation after the incident alleged sexual encounter has been known. video coach Brad Aldrich.
According to NHL chief Gary Bettman, they had the opportunity to attend the meeting “to talk to everyone about their experiences and lessons learned.”
“They were here voluntarily.” They were not told that this was what they had to do. We said, ‘If you need the opportunity to speak, you can get it,'” the official noted.
Bettman declined to comment on what Bowman and Quenneville said at that meeting.
“I have not yet made a decision on when and whether to reinstate them, so that is not a question I am prepared to answer at the moment,” stressed the league president.
Source : MatchTV
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