Bill Guerin investigated for alleged abuse

[MMC]

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[HockeyVirus]

Wild are a complete tire fire right now

 

[BrockLobster]

What kind of abuse?

 

[mkatcherin00]

What kind of abuse?

Says verbal.

Probably yelled at a young employee lol

The alleged incident that led to the investigation occurred in late November and was reported to the team’s HR department, which commissioned an outside law firm to investigate. Two attorneys traveled to St. Paul and interviewed more than 15 members of the organization.

Two team sources indicated that the investigation into Guerin’s alleged behavior was complete and the findings were delivered to upper management and ownership early this week. Wild management determined that Guerin had not committed a fireable offense, team sources said Wednesday.

 

[jetsv2]

Says verbal.

Probably yelled at a young employee lol

The article says the employee who filed the complaint is a 10 year employee and somebody Guerin interacts with every day. So not just yelling at some intern.

"The employee who filed the complaint, according to team sources, is Andrew Heydt, the Wild’s director of team operations and player relations. Heydt has been in that position for 10 years and oversees team travel, logistics, and player and alumni relations.

Heydt has been absent from work the past couple of days after traveling with the team on its most recent road trip. In his role, Heydt interacts with Guerin on an almost daily basis."

 

[AKL]

This isn't surprising in the slightest, he's always come off as a bit of a hot head, and seems very "my way or the highway"

 

[Jyrki]

The article says the employee who filed the complaint is a 10 year employee and somebody Guerin interacts with every day. So not just yelling at some intern.

"The employee who filed the complaint, according to team sources, is Andrew Heydt, the Wild’s director of team operations and player relations. Heydt has been in that position for 10 years and oversees team travel, logistics, and player and alumni relations.

Heydt has been absent from work the past couple of days after traveling with the team on its most recent road trip. In his role, Heydt interacts with Guerin on an almost daily basis."

A team ops director is kinda like a tour manager - whenever there's an event for the players he organizes it, or if there's a problem with the team getting around, he's the guy that troubleshoots it. Heydt is probably on call 24/7 and works as many hours as needed to get the job done. Not the kind of employee you want to dump verbal diarrhea on.

 

[Vector]

This doesn’t explain what happened with O’Hearn and only creates more questions.

 

[snag]

Yelled at employee? Rofl.

 

[Deep Blue Metallic]

Are you crazy? This is the NHL!

 

[DANOZ28]

there has too be more to the story. guerin is going off the rails imo

 

[MasterMatt25]

Considering he's in a professional sports league, I'm sure it was a lot worse than some "loud words" that got the employee to complain. Some really poor comments here

 

[belair]

The article says the employee who filed the complaint is a 10 year employee and somebody Guerin interacts with every day. So not just yelling at some intern.

"The employee who filed the complaint, according to team sources, is Andrew Heydt, the Wild’s director of team operations and player relations. Heydt has been in that position for 10 years and oversees team travel, logistics, and player and alumni relations.

Heydt has been absent from work the past couple of days after traveling with the team on its most recent road trip. In his role, Heydt interacts with Guerin on an almost daily basis."

"If you don't have any Heydters, you're not doing something right."

- Kobe

 

[NHL1674]

I've wanted him gone. Maybe this will speed up the process.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

1 employee and verbal abuse doesn't exactly fire me up. Now it's about the details. Was he yelling slurs? Was he doing it every day for 2 months?

 

[TheNumber4]

Called it! Like I said yesterday, Guerin probably blew his lid.

Guerin flipped his lid is my guess.

 

[Mr Kot]

Ezplains the agm going, something like this was bound to come out.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Bill Guerin is a lunatic... everyone and anyone knows that.. on ice behavior doesn't fly the same way in an office space.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Employee abuse can take many forms. If it’s just a one off then I’d say not a big deal. But given the reaction I’m guessing it’s probably a pattern of abuse. We’ll have to see the details.

 

[God]

Says verbal.

Probably yelled at a young employee lol

The alleged incident that led to the investigation occurred in late November and was reported to the team’s HR department, which commissioned an outside law firm to investigate. Two attorneys traveled to St. Paul and interviewed more than 15 members of the organization.

Two team sources indicated that the investigation into Guerin’s alleged behavior was complete and the findings were delivered to upper management and ownership early this week. Wild management determined that Guerin had not committed a fireable offense, team sources said Wednesday.

The investigation was completed already and Wild upper management didn't take action, and this is coming out now... so Heydt being on leave and the AGM leaving means others below Guerin are not happy with the outcome. Surely this is a play to get him removed.

 

[Fatass]

He yelled at a guy and that’s it? It’s a hockey club. It’s not a kindergarten.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Ha! I made a snide comment about Guerin in the AGM thread and then this happens.

After being accused of helping cover up sexual assault, it's no surprise to read that he is just a piece of shit asshole douchebag too.

 

[dirtydanglez]

o'hearn leaving must have something to do with this.

 

[TheNumber4]

IF this was anything like that time Guerin blew his lid on Talbot it was justified. But considering the employees job responsibilities it’s probably nothing like that. Hard to say how serious it was if Wild investigated and did not find grounds for firing though.

 

[ThatGuy22]

I'm kind of shocked Russo wrote this.

He has good access with both BG and Heydt(Heydt is somewhat routinely quoted or mentioned by Russo. Also had a profile or 3 done over the last decade).

This certainly jeopardizes it.

Maybe Heydt is one of his sources on it to have it on the public sphere if there is retaliation.