Investigation clears NHL players' union staff of wrongdoing over handling of Kyle Beach's sexual assault allegations
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An independent investigation commissioned by the NHL Players' Association found that executive director Don Fehr and others were not responsible for wrongdoing when they failed to act on a report that a Chicago Blackhawks minor league affiliate player had been sexually assaulted by a staff member in 2010.
A law firm hired to look into Fehr and the union's actions in 2010 and 2011 concluded miscommunication and misunderstanding were behind the lack of action after Kyle Beach reported being assaulted by video coach Brad Aldrich.
"Ultimately, the failure to act on Beach's reports stems from a failure of communication," the firm Cozen O'Connor wrote in a 20-page report released by the NHLPA on Friday. "We cannot identify any individual wrongdoing or institutional failures of policy or procedure by either Fehr, NHLPA personnel, or the (NHL/NHLPA Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program) concerning the handling of Beach's reports."
