Hockey’s ‘broken’ culture reflected in Blackhawks’ treatment of Kyle Beach: experts
Global News
By covering up abuse like what Kyle Beach says he experienced with the Chicago Blackhawks, experts say hockey has a systemic problem that needs to be solved.
When hockey player Kyle Beach came forward to the Chicago Blackhawks with allegations that he had been sexually assaulted, the accusation reportedly went “all the way up the chain of command.”
Then, according to Beach, nothing was done about it.
Beach said he watched on as the man whom he accused of assault, former Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich, subsequently celebrated the team’s Stanley Cup win. Aldrich lifted the cup. He was photographed celebrating alongside the team.
“To see him paraded around, lifting the cup at the parade … it made me feel like nothing,” Beach told TSN’s SportsCentre on Wednesday.
“It made me feel like I didn’t exist. It made me feel that I wasn’t important.”
Beach’s story has become yet another in a series of incidents that highlight hockey’s mishandling of sexual assaults, according to experts. By emphasizing winning over everything — and brushing serious problems under the rug to achieve those victories — academics who have studied the issue say hockey has a systemic issue that needs to be solved.
“Kyle Beach’s story tells everyone that hockey culture (is) mainly toxic and broken. At every level adults — and his teammates — failed him repeatedly,” wrote Evan F. Moore, a co-author of Game Misconduct: Hockey’s Toxic Culture and How to Fix It, in an email to Global News.
“The Blackhawks organization prioritized winning over the welfare of the players.”
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