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Originally Posted by Drunk Uncle
Bergevin isn't named in the report.
At a high level the root failure identified in the report boils down to the inaction after a meeting that Bergevin was not present for:
1) MacIsaac hears about Beach and Aldrich from and Employee and asks Gary to find out if there is merit to what he's heard.
2) Gary talks to Beach and reports back there is merit to what McIsaac heard.
3) A meeting is held with McDonough, Gary (He is excused before meeting ends), Bowman, Chevy, Quennville, Blunk.
After this meeting nobody informed HR and/or began an investigation into the allegations. Instead from May 23 to June 14 nobody does anything. McDonough informs HR June 14. HR gives Aldrich a choice to resign or perform an investigation. He resigns.
There is no mention of Bergevin because the report intentionally left out names that weren't apart of that meeting.
It's likely that Bergevin knew about it IMO and to me he is accountable to say something if he hears something akin to the players that hear about it. Thing is when he does, if he doesn't go directly to HR it ends back at McDonough who already wasn't doing anything about it during the playoffs.
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Agreed, Bergevin very likely knew what others knew threw the grapevine, but for whatever reason despite being part of management, wasn't directly part of the cabal that purposely suppressed information. At least that is how it sounds to me.
That doesn't get him off from his moral responsibilities IMO, but it explains why he isn't being mentioned a lot in the news.