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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Between '07 and '19 there was only one season that Brent Seabrook did not wear a letter on his jersey at some point for the Chicago Blackhawks and that was the cup year. One year. Out of 12. If that is going to be your justification as to why he "wasn't a leader" then I don't know what to tell you but those are some might fine straws you're grasping at.
I find all the guys you just listed just as reprehensible, but 24 is more than old enough to know sexual assault is bad.
I'm not "wildly throwing around" accusations. Again people are acting like this is new information and we don't know what happened. Kyle Beach has come forward. His story is all over the internet for anyone to read. Brent Seabrook has been named as a player who knew what was going on and did nothing. We know players on the Blackhawks made fun of Kyle Beach for what happened to him. I am giving Brent the benefit of the doubt that he was not one of the guys who did that. He still sat back and watched a young man's career get destroyed after doing nothing to stop the sexual assaults that lead to it. He did nothing to stop any of that because winning a trophy mattered more.
Brent Seabrook should be ashamed of himself.
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In my mind the people accountable for the brushing it under the rug are the coaching staff, management and front office leadership. Rightly this should be the first thing people talk about in situations like when Anaheim hired Joel Quenneville, Edmonton hired Stan Bowman, etc and in my mind it's a perfectly reasonable position to take that those folks should have life altering consequences for their inactions / actions including not being able to work in the NHL again and it is a shame that some of those folks found their way back into the league. Those are the people who ultimately enabled the abuse of Kyle Beach and who swept it under the rug.
Scarlett lettering the players on that team on the other hand doesn't seem right in my mind and goes too far. Many of the players were in their early 20s in 2010 when this happened - the expectation of them to take on their employer (coaches and management) to hold them to account is somewhat unrealistic given the asymmetric power balance between the fully mature grown a$$ adults in management who are actually accountable for managing both the on-ice and off-ice attributes of the team and the players.
Very tenuous at best to be calling out players as being permanently irredeemable characters and completely ridiculous in my mind to expect lifetime bans from future NHL employment based on that association alone.