After being prohibited for more than 2 years for their functions in the Chicago Blackhawks’ sexual attack scandal with previous gamer Kyle Beach, the NHL made the perplexing choice to restore ex-Chicago basic supervisor Stan Bowman and ex-head coach Joel Quenneville to complete league service on Monday afternoon.
Both are qualified to work onceagain beginning on July 10 after the NHL released a milquetoast press release mentioning how they’ve “demonstrated genuine regret.”
Letting Bowman and Quenneville work in hockey in any capability onceagain is revolting enough. Given their particular functions in badly dealingwith a sexual attack on their own group — to state the least — they are 2 individuals who oughtto mostlikely neverever action foot near any ice rink onceagain.
The kicker is that the NHL dropped the authorities statement of Bowman and Quenneville’s reinstatement on a late Monday afternoon of an amazing start to the 2024 totallyfree firm duration. Why, it’s nearly as if the league desired as little attention as possible on letting 2 declared beasts work in pro hockey assoonas more:
#NHL reveals that previous #Blackhawks executives Stan Bowman, Joel Quenneville and Al MacIsaac haveactually been restored and are now eligible to lookfor work in the league onceagain.
Can be workedwith after July10 pic.twitter.com/AVjkHLbeJP
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) July 1, 2024
Every time you believe the NHL has turned a corner, it goes and voluntarily steps on a rake like this. It is not a stretch to envision that the league understood individuals would truly frown upon Bowman and Quenneville’s reinstatement. Because in no method, shape, or kind is a two-year restriction enough for what these 2 guys were supposedly accountable for. Most would mostlikely concur that their NHL prohibits needto haveactually been long-term.
So, rather than have a zero-tolerance policy relatingto even any partial makingitpossiblefor of sexual attack, the NHL apparently attempted to drop the news of Bowman an