[News] Blackhawks begin investigation into Marc Crawford (abuse allegations)

[sureLoss]

the fallout continues

Chicago Blackhawks
@NHLBlackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks will be conducting a thorough review of assistant coach Marc Crawford based on the recent allegations that have been made regarding his conduct with another organization.

Chicago Blackhawks @NHLBlackhawks
Marc Crawford will be away from the team during this time and the organization will have no further comment until completion of the review. #Blackhawks

[burn_this_city]

What about Stan Bowman's handling of Bill Peters?

[btimbit]

Any specific accusations that triggered this? Because I thought it was extremely well known that Crawford was an abusive piece of garbage, possibly the worst ever. Can't believe anyone hired him after he went to Europe for a few years

[OILFAN #81]

Wow, and so it begins.

The good thing from the opening of the Peters incident is that it will open up a lot of other cases where there were similar situations involved.

No place for any of this in hockey. Glad the parties involved are being held accountable (or are about to be).

[codynw]

Can't believe this dude continued to be employed after the Steve Moore thing.

[EVERLAST]

Originally Posted by codynw

Can't believe this dude continued to be employed after the Steve Moore thing.

Immediately what came to mind ...and others from that knew about this.

But....Todd did not have to do what he did regardless. Marcus even said himself he'd hoped nothing would ever happen as it wasnt necessary.

Theres more ugliness to come folks.

[OILFAN #81]

Double post.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Brent Sopel.

That is all.

[OILFAN #81]

Sopel's comments:

“He kicked me, he choked me, he grabbed the back of my jersey and pulled me back. He attacked guys personally.

“He came up one year after the season. He’s like, ‘Sopes, you need to work hard, you need to gain 15-20 pounds.’ So I left there, went home, hit the diet, hit the weights, put on 20 pounds of muscle.

“I came back here and he’s yelling at the bench, ‘What are you ######ing Hercules now? Are you turning green? Are you the Hulk? Just screaming at me. He suspended me for I think it was six weeks. He wouldn’t let me play. Only in practice, he bag skated me and I have to step on a scale every single day to see what my weight loss was before he’d let me play…

“For whatever reason, he kept putting me out there. I probably played close to 500 games of my career for him, so as much as I hated him, for whatever reason, there was something he liked about me.”



Avery's comments:

“He kicked me after a too-many-men-on-the-ice call I took,” Avery said of Crawford. “He didn’t have me serve it, we got scored on, and he let me have it.”

The game was played on Dec. 23, 2006 between the Kings and Predators. Los Angeles was handed the penalty in the second period and Nashville scored a goal on the power play as part of their 7-0 win. After the goal, Avery said he was accosted by Crawford at the end of the bench.

“You know how I stand at the end of the bench? He came down and gave me an a*s kick that left a mark,” he said.

[Oil Stain]

Avery deserved it.

Sopel probably not so much.

[Dube]

Flood gates going to open?

[Matty81]

I just listened to the Chelios bit... sounds like Ken Holland enabled a lot of the Babcock stuff and might be up next

He says that Babcock gave Johan Franzen a nervous breakdown berating him on the bench when he had a concussion and Holland came down to the dressing room and told everyone they would be traded if they didn't like the way Babcock did things.

[Dube]

Originally Posted by Matty81

I just listened to the Chelios bit... sounds like Ken Holland enabled a lot of the Babcock stuff and might be up next

He says that Babcock gave Johan Franzen a nervous breakdown berating him on the bench when he had a concussion and Holland came down to the dressing room and told everyone they would be traded if they didn't like the way Babcock did things.

What did Holland do?

[codynw]

Originally Posted by Dube

What did Holland do?

Supposedly said something along the lines of saying anyone who questions Babcock is getting traded.

[Matty81]

Originally Posted by Dube

What did Holland do?

Chelios said that Babcock was abusive towards players, in one instance literally causing a nervous breakdown for franzen. Spittin Chiclets guys asks him if the vets ever addressed it and he said no one raised it formally, but it did eventually get back to Holland somehow, when he heard he came down to the dressing room, made what Chelios said was a good speech and basically told everyone that they would be traded if they didn't get in line or disagree with Babcock.

[Boreal]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1136271623647047680

He gave a big talk over a year ago with one of his kids at the Coaches Site conference about how to coach millennials.

Apparently they don’t respond to kicking, choking, & belittling. Who knew?

[Roughneck]

Millenials have killed the old school coaching industry! Does their reign of terror know no bounds?!

[SuperMatt18]

For Peters it was a no brainer for him to lose his job for the racist comments even though they were 10 years ago, that was never acceptable.

However stuff like this I’m a bit more on the fence about.

Based on a lot of the hockey books I’ve read I don’t think kicking a player, or attacking him verbally was really that uncommon. The choking crosses a line but I have a feeling the kick in the ass on the bench was pretty common.

And as Btimbit said I’m not even sure these stories about Crawford are even new, pretty sure this stuff has been out in the open for a long time.

For stuff like this it’s stuff we really need to weed out from hockey moving forward but I’m not sure you should be able to go back 10 years on this stuff and have a guy lose his job because of it.

This and Peters racist comments are completely different types of things IMO.

[BigRed]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

This and Peters racist comments are completely different types of things IMO.

It’s still abusive behaviour by a superior towards his employees and shouldn’t be tolerated. Doesn’t matter if it’s ‘the culture.’ It’s still a workplace and that stuff is not only inappropriate, it’s illegal.

If my boss was found to have abused employees in her previous job, she’d be canned immediately. There would likely be some kind of legal repercussions as well. Why does sports get a pass?



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[Stauner]

When will this #### end

Snowflake generation finally taking over