TORONTO –
Brad Aldrich not seems on the Stanley Cup.
The Hockey Corridor of Fame confirmed in an e-mail to The Canadian Press on Wednesday the disgraced former Chicago Blackhawks video coach’s title is now lined by Xs on the trophy.
Aldrich is accused of sexually assaulting participant Kyle Seaside in the course of the workforce’s run to the 2010 title.
Blackhawks proprietor Rocky Wirtz wrote a letter to Corridor of Fame chairman Lanny McDonald final week stating that Aldrich’s conduct disqualified him from being included on the Cup, and the workforce made a mistake by submitting his title.
The Corridor of Fame cannot take away a reputation from the Stanley Cup, however can engrave a sequence of Xs to cowl it up.
McDonald spoke with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Invoice Daly on Friday about Wirtz’s letter, in line with a press release from the Corridor final week.
“The events agree that this request is acceptable and that they are going to have additional dialogue, together with with the Stanley Cup trustees, on how greatest to effectuate this request,” the assertion learn.
Wednesday’s transfer comes within the wake of a damning report launched final week that particulars how the Blackhawks’ senior management badly mishandled the allegations towards Aldrich greater than a decade in the past.
The unbiased evaluate by a legislation agency was commissioned by the workforce in response to 2 lawsuits filed towards the franchise associated to Aldrich — one by Seaside alleging sexual assault in 2010, and one other by a former highschool scholar the previous Chicago assistant was convicted of assaulting in Michigan.
Blackhawks common supervisor Stan Bowman, high govt Al MacIsaac and Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville, who was behind Chicago’s bench on the time of the allegations, all resigned final week following the report’s launch.
Winnipeg Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff — Bowman’s assistant and Chicago’s senior director of hockey operations from 2009 to 2011 — was absolved of any wrongdoing by Bettman following a gathering final week.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Nov. 3, 2021.
