Investigation opened on Wild GM Bill Guerin over Penguins’ sexual assault!

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Investigation opened on Wild GM Bill Guerin over Penguins’ sexual assault!
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This jus in: TSN’s Rick Westhead has reported that U.S. Center for SafeSport has opened an investigation into Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin after the wife of a former Pittsburgh Penguins coach alleged Guerin covered up her sexual assault when he worked for the franchise.

Let me refresh your memory: back in December 2020, Westhead revealed how former Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins assistant coach Jarrod Skalde had filed a lawsuit against then WBS Penguins head coach Clark Donatelli for an alleged sexual assault on Jarrod’s wife Erin Skalde while the three of them were together in a car during aa road trip to Providence, R.I. earlier in 2020. As they were headed back to their hotel, Jarrod alleged that Donatelli sexually assaulted Erin when they were briefly alone, first putting his arm around her, calling her “sexy” and pulling her close to him.

Jarrod said that seven months later, when the incident was brought to the attention of Guerin, who told him to keep quiet about the alleged assault. Guerin was Pittsburgh’s assistant GM at the time and included in his duties was running the Penguins’ minor-league affiliate.

In his lawsuit against the Penguins, Jarrod alleged the club violated Pennsylvania’s whistleblower laws and fired him on May 5, 2020, because he complained to the team about the alleged assault of his wife. TSN reports that both camps are now in settlement talks.

Guerin is back mixed into this. As Westhead points out: “The U.S. Olympic Committee created SafeSport in 2012 and in March 2017, the centre became an independent organization. Based in Denver, the centre is responsible for receiving, investigating and deciding sanctions for reports of misconduct within the U.S. Olympic movement.

Guerin, the general manager of the Wild since August 2019, was appointed assistant general manager of the 2022 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team in March. If investigators find he violated the centre’s code of conduct, Guerin could face a temporary or permanent suspension from working with the U.S. Olympic program.

According to SafeSport’s code, “the privilege of participation in the Olympic and Paralympic movement may be limited, conditioned, suspended, terminated or denied if a participant’s conduct is or was inconsistent with this Code or the best interest of sport and those who participate in it.”

No comments have yet to be made by the Wild or USA Hockey and SafeSport.

Source: TSN