Following their second-round victory over the Vancouver Canucks in May 2010, the Blackhawks flew straight to San Jose for the Western Conference finals rather than return home to Chicago. They spent a full week in San Jose, with four off days before the series began.
It was then, at the team hotel and local bars, that word spread among the players that two teammates had accused video coach Brad Aldrich of sexual assault, alleging that he got them drunk and tried to perform oral sex on them.
“Every guy on the team knew about it,” one player on the 2010 team told The Athletic. “Every single guy on the team knew.”
Last month, a former player filed a lawsuit against the Blackhawks alleging that he and a teammate were sexually assaulted by Aldrich, and that the team ignored their claims.
