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Originally Posted by CF84
This is just a question since I haven't read the reports in a while, but we're the players without a doubt aware of sexual assaults, or were they just aware of a video coach and a player in a possible relationship or one night stand? The coaches and management knew it was an unwanted assault without a doubt, but how do we know that the players also knew it was sexual assault?
I'm not challenging you as I truly remember being very upset about the entire cover-up when I read everything. I do remember being upset at the entire organization and I seem to recall that the players also knew some things...what were those things though? That a player had a consensual hook-up with a staff member? Or that a player was assaulted by a staff member. There is a huge difference and If you know without a doubt that the players had as much information as management then they were obviously in the wrong.
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According to the players who've spoken at all, like Toews, they didn't hear of anything until the following (10-11 season) training camp. Kane denied hearing anything but rumours but not details. Hossa denied hearing anything. Seabrook hasn't said anything, nor has he been mentioned by name. It's all inference and innuendo. At the time Seabrook was 24 and Toews was 22. So while they were leaders they were still younger players compared to Sharp, Campbell and Keith. Toews was the capyain in the cup year, with Sharp and Keith as ACs. Seabrook got an A the next year (oddly he had one in 08-09, but not 09-10).
It's clear he was a core guy at the time. How much he knew - who knows?