Maxim Lapierre buries Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews.

The scandal surrounding the Chicago Blackhawks has caused a ton of fallout around the National Hockey League, but one group of people that have so far been relatively immune from the backlash have been the Blackhawks' players both past and present.

We have seen Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman ousted from his current position with the team and even former Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville unceremoniously relieved of his duties as head coach of the Florida Panthers, but for one reason or another the players that were present at the time that former first round pick Kyle Beach was assaulted have skated away largely free of criticism.

On Saturday night that changed rather rapidly when former NHL player Maxim Lapierre called out that group of players, and went out of his way to call out Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews by name.

"We can judge Quenneville, we can judge Bowman, but for me as a former player I'm going to judge the 20 guys in the locker room," said Lapierre on TVA Sports.

While Lapierre was critical of every player on the Blackhawks roster at the time, expressing dismay that not one of the men in that locker room had pulled Beach aside to talk to him, it was Toews who received the brunt of his wrath.

"He was a guy that I've respected my whole career but that is gone today," said Lapierre of Toews. "He is the captain, it is his responsibility to take charge. It is a hard thing to do, but it is a thing that must be done and if you're a leader you just do it." 

Lapierre would go even a step further and call out Toews as a man, adding that his success as a hockey player did not make him a quality human being off the ice.

"He might be a champion on the ice, but he is far from it off the ice," said a clearly frustrated Lapierre.

Lapierre went on to add that he believes the men that surrounded him during his NHL career would have spoken up, and more importantly acted, had anyone in their entourage been put through something similar to what Beach himself experienced.