NHLPA director Donald Fehr on hot seat amidst Blackhawks’ investigation!

The NHL and the Chicago Blackhawks are a mess. But it seems like the National Hockey League’s Players Association isn’t any better.

As you know, the the Chicago Blackhawks announced their general manager and president Stan Bowman had stepped down on Tuesday in the wake of an independent investigation into allegations that a then-assistant coach sexually assaulted two players in 2010. The report, called “disturbing and difficult to read” by CEO Danny Wirtz, has been handed over to the NHL. The league has shortly after fined the Hawks $2-million for “inadequate procedures and mishandling” of 2010 sexual assault.

Later on, the NHL fined the Blackhawks $2 million “for the organization’s inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response in the handling of matters related to former video coach Brad Aldrich’s employment with the Club and ultimate departure in 2010.”

That’s a mess on top of the mess that came of the way victims were treated, and how witnesses and people aware of the abuse did not come forward.

And apparently that would include NHLPA director Donald Fehr. According to the report that was made public and Hawks insider Ben Pope, he was informed in 2010 and 2011 about Aldrich’s assault of John Doe 1 and also Aldrich texting a penis picture to another Hawks player, according to the investigation.



But Fehr evidently did little or nothing, and now denies recollection of that.

Shouldn’t he have to answer to this?