Joel Quenneville, Stan Bowman and John MacIsaac reinstated

[vippe]

Absolutely awful decision.

 

[Reality Czech]

All of these men supported a serial rapist. I don't ever want to hear about how the league supports sexual assault victims ever again - they have made it abundantly clear that winning means everything.

Sorry, Kyle. They failed you again.

Didn't Kyle give Q his blessing to continue coaching? Don't let me stop you from your raging though.

 

[Reality Czech]

Let me guess, he said he didnt know what happened

So many fans acting like they know exactly what happened as well. What's the difference?

 

[Felidae]

Didn't Kyle give Q his blessing to continue coaching? Don't let me stop you from your raging though.

The only source I can find about this is a tweet from Quenneville's daughter saying Beech gave Joel his blessing after the Cam and Strickland podcast.

 

[Reality Czech]

The only source I can find about this is a tweet from Quenneville's daughter saying Beach gave Joel his blessing after the Cam and Strickland podcast.

Sure, I guess there is a chance his daughter is outright lying although that would be easy enough for Beach to dispute. Friedman also reported that the league planned to discuss the issue with Beach directly though I wouldn't expect the specifics of that discussion to become public.

 

[JackSlater]

It's weird that people expected these guys, especially Quenneville, to be essentially banned for life. From what's been made public only McDonough seems like someone where that could happen.

Anyway, good luck to all of them on the 2025-2026 Las Vegas Golden Knights.

 

[Statto]

All of these men supported a serial rapist. I don't ever want to hear about how the league supports sexual assault victims ever again - they have made it abundantly clear that winning means everything.

Sorry, Kyle. They failed you again.

I wonder if any of them spoke to Beech personally. For me that’s the starting point for any learning and redemption.

 

[Statto]

Pathetic of the NHL. It should be a lifetime ban for all three. They prioritized winning over human decency and morality, and two players were sexually assaulted and had promising careers derailed because of their skewed priorities.

And for the people in this thread who say they did nothing wrong? They absolutely did, and it doesn’t matter how much you or they try to justify it to fit your opinions: they all supported a rapist, and none of them should ever be allowed anywhere near the NHL.

Shame on Bettman. Shame on the three he reinstated. And shame on everyone who doesn’t see something wrong with what they did.

Then add whomever hires them to the shame list.

 

[Melrose Munch]

Didn't Kyle give Q his blessing to continue coaching? Don't let me stop you from your raging though.

There is almost zero proof of this online.

So many fans acting like they know exactly what happened as well. What's the difference?

Sure, I guess there is a chance his daughter is outright lying although that would be easy enough for Beach to dispute. Friedman also reported that the league planned to discuss the issue with Beach directly though I wouldn't expect the specifics of that discussion to become public.

There isn't anything else you can play the devil's advocate on?

 

[Relapsing]

Taking more draft picks from Ottawa when?

In all seriousness, I don't know all the facts. But re-instated and actually hiring any of them is a totally different story. It would take a lot of courage to do so with the on coming backlash. I wouldn't want my team hiring any of them honestly, for many reasons.

Mind you a player like Kane still has a job and he was allegedly to have done terrible things. Sports people are just a different class than most of us, with chances upon chances.

Thats about the worst definition of courage I've seen.

 

[ozzie]

Thats about the worst definition of courage I've seen.

i should probably edit it to stupidity, classless, infuritiating, embarassing, inhuman, so many better words I could have used.

 

[TLEH]

Their inaction resulted in a minor being assaulted. I am all for second chances but you can't come back from that in my opinion.

 

[kanucks25]

This is not a surprise.

If you remember the tone deaf press conference Bettman & Daly held when the news broke, you know they didn't give 2 shits about it and behaved like they were annoyed & offended that they had to address it all lol

 

[Voight]

quenneville is 900 years old and has won the cup like 7 times. Can he not just retire? do his wife and kids hate him that much?

Probably didn't want to end his career on a bad note.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

I’m tired of this cancel culture, where a man has to take a few years off from making millions in a job he doesn’t need just because he allowed some heinous crimes to occur. It’s unfair, for some reason I feel victimized and identify with these guys. Make the world perfectly ideal for men like me again.

 

[Viqsi]

I’m tired of this cancel culture, where a man has to take a few years off from making millions in a job he doesn’t need just because he allowed some heinous crimes to occur. It’s unfair, for some reason I feel victimized and identify with these guys. Make the world perfectly ideal for men like me again.

 

[Eyeseeing]

After what they covered up/enabled…if it were possible, sure.

Do you understand the concept of being punished, learning from a mistake and then being a better person for it?
Life isn't always perfect and neither are you.
The Blackhawks absolutely could have done things better no doubt about it.
The real injustice is posters who feel the need to puff out their chests and out virtue each other, all the while the real dick in this is ,the video coach who goes unnoticed because of a weird superiority kick that some folks go on attempting to prove to everyone they are outraged.
Grow up.

 

[ClydeLee]

Didn't Kyle give Q his blessing to continue coaching? Don't let me stop you from your raging though.

Was Kyle Beach the only player who said Aldrich assaulted him? No, and also some interns on the team said Aldrich was inappropriate with them. Including at the cup parade, something thay could of been prevented if Q/Bowman/McIssac did anything to follow though and see something was happening.

 

[Melrose Munch]

Do you understand the concept of being punished, learning from a mistake and then being a better person for it?
Life isn't always perfect and neither are you.
The Blackhawks absolutely could have done things better no doubt about it.
The real injustice is posters who feel the need to puff out their chests and out virtue each other, all the while the real dick in this is ,the video coach who goes unnoticed because of a weird superiority kick that some folks go on attempting to prove to everyone they are outraged.
Grow up.

Where's the proof he's changed?

 

[Idiot Stick]

bad time to complain about this, but why were the panthers not compensated in anyway for losing their headcoach due to this? Team got basically punished for what occurred with the blackhawks

 

[Melrose Munch]

bad time to complain about this, but why were the panthers not compensated in anyway for losing their headcoach due to this? Team got basically punished for what occurred with the blackhawks

you were compensated: you won the cup

 

[barkovcanfinnish]

you were compensated: you won the cup

we should’ve gotten Ottawa’s first round pick

 

[Curufinwe]

Flyers will sign Q to replace Torts when he loses the team and gets moved upstairs to be the owner's $4 million a year BFF.

 

[tfwnogf]

Can't these old farts just enjoy retirement and go the f*** away? I feel like this keeps getting brought up over and over cause they just won't go away. Let us enjoy hockey without tainting the sport with your presence Joel and Stan. Enjoy your millions of dollars, make like a tree and f*** off.

 

[MacMacandBarbie]

Where's the proof he's changed?

More importantly, where is the proof that he was involved in the cover up? So many people just skimmed through the investigation, saw Q was mad that a meeting during the playoffs was being conducted about a non team member, and concluded that he was a monster that was involved in a large cover up operation.

Like the dude is in the middle of the playoffs, coaching the most stacked team to ever be assembled in the salary cap era, and there is a meeting about a player who has literally no chance of joining the team. Like can he just focus on the task at hand? I don’t think any coach would be prepared to take their mind off in between game adjustments in the Stanley cup playoffs to discuss personal incidents regarding a player who is not on the team.

Also if anybody remembers that time period, they know Q was in the hot seat should that team not go all the way. His job and career reputation was on the line.

I side with Q. Sorry I can’t join the virtue signaling groupthink that devolves in these threads.