Joel Quenneville is not the top coach of the Florida Panthers, after an investigation discovered he and different leaders didn’t act on sexual assault claims from a participant on the Chicago Blackhawks throughout Quenneville’s tenure there.
Michael Reaves/Getty Pictures
disguise caption
toggle caption
Michael Reaves/Getty Pictures
Joel Quenneville is not the top coach of the Florida Panthers, after an investigation discovered he and different leaders didn’t act on sexual assault claims from a participant on the Chicago Blackhawks throughout Quenneville’s tenure there.
Michael Reaves/Getty Pictures
Joel Quenneville resigned because the Florida Panthers’ head coach late Thursday, within the newest fallout from sexual assault claims by former Chicago Blackhawks player Kyle Beach.
A lately concluded impartial investigation helps Seashore’s allegations, saying that when Quenneville coached the Blackhawks, the workforce ignored Seashore’s claims and mishandled his case.
Panthers President and CEO Matt Caldwell mentioned the conduct described within the report from the Jenner & Block regulation agency is “troubling and inexcusable.”
Quenneville stepped down after assembly with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, the Panthers said in a information launch.
“Nobody ought to ever must endure what Kyle Seashore skilled throughout, and lengthy after, his time in Chicago,” Caldwell mentioned. “Fairly merely, he was failed. We reward his bravery and braveness in coming ahead.”
Quenneville was within the inside circle of the Chicago workforce’s senior leaders who have been advised in Could 2010 that Seashore, who was then 20 years outdated, mentioned the workforce’s video coach had sexually assaulted him after threatening to undermine his profession. Regardless of the seriousness of the difficulty, they delayed any motion. On the time, the Blackhawks have been locked in a playoff run.
Quenneville’s departure comes after an investigative report in regards to the Blackhawks
Together with the Blackhawks’ then-President John McDonough, Quenneville “made feedback in regards to the problem of attending to the Stanley Cup Finals and a want to concentrate on the workforce and the playoffs,” based on the 107-page investigative report that was launched Tuesday. The inquiry was commissioned by the Blackhawks.
Quenneville leaves the highest job in Florida simply two weeks into the brand new NHL season. He was employed by the Panthers in 2019.
Seashore stepped ahead this week to say he’s the participant who had been identified solely as “John Doe,” who filed a lawsuit in opposition to his former hockey workforce over its dealing with of the sexual assault claims. The swimsuit accuses video coach Brad Aldrich, who reported on to Quenneville, of attacking Seashore.
“I do know I am not the one one, male or feminine. And I buried this for 10 years, 11 years. And it is destroyed me from the within out,” Seashore said this week, about his determination to go public. “And I need all people to know within the sports activities world and on the earth that you simply’re not alone. That if this stuff occur to you, it is advisable converse up.”
Aldrich labored for the Blackhawks from July 2008 by June 2010. In a efficiency overview dated June 29, 2010, Quenneville wrote that Aldrich had performed an amazing job for the workforce, including, “Congrats on successful the Stanley Cup!”
In 2013, Aldrich pleaded responsible to fourth-degree prison sexual conduct involving a minor in Houghton, Mich., the place he labored for the native highschool.
