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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
Yeah, what you say is fair, but "if we all knew", is there no responsibility on the "leadership group" to at least go talk to Quenneville and ensure that "something" happens? I am not saying that these guys are responsible, but it sure seems like the human thing to do. They also could have all talked to their agents/lawyers and asked them to deal with it with the team at a higher level, if they were unwilling to get involved themselves. These are not 15-17 year-old junior kids away from home. They are still young and inexperienced, but they have lawyers that can advise them and take care of the "dirty" work if need be...
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"Something" did happen. Players went to the skills coach, who took it up the chain, and management ignored it. The mental-skills coach then turned it on the victim and blamed him. This occurred during the playoffs, and Alden was fired directly after, within a few weeks.
The issue isn't about nobody reporting it or the team not backing these players, the issue is that it was reported, and what should have happened (Alden being immediately let go and the incident reported to the police) didn't happen. We don't know how it was handled between the incident being reported and the firing, other than the fact that he got to take a picture with the cup.
We're guessing at what the rest of the players did, didn't do, thought, or felt. For what? We know it was reported by players, we know at least one coach took it seriously, and we know management didn't and at least one of them chose to blame the victim instead. We know management didn't report it to police, and didn't cooperate with police when Alden then went and assaulted a kid afterwards.
I don't think there's any need to try to spread blame to the players here, especially when the victim hasn't expressed that at all.