Back in 2010, the Chicago Blackhawks advertising campaign had one goal. To win the Stanley Cup. The Blackhawks had a young nucleus surrounded by some veteran presence. The team went deep into the NHL playoffs the season before. Because they had young superstars that were going to take the league by storm. The Blackhawks as an organization were trying to get out of that label from once upon time ago, that of one of the worst franchises in sports. Back then, Blackhawks and the LA Clippers were neck and neck of very bad run organizations. The United Center was mostly crickets. Not the full house rocking to the National Anthem on Madison Street. The franchise was owned by Uncle Scrooge, Bill Wirtz. Wirtz’s famous words were that Stanley Cups cost too much money. The sons took over the franchise after the passing of Bill Wirtz. Rocky Wirtz became the chairman and revamped the entire organization. The bad years on the ice led to some top picks. Rocky Wirtz brought in the right people and suddenly the Blackhawks, an original six team, rose up from the dead. The old school thinking was still there. The Catholic school way of sweeping things under the rug. Sending the pregnant teenage sister to your uncles and aunts who have a farm, to avoid shame brought down on the family. The old country way of mum’s the word. Nobody ever talked about what bad thing happened. The Blackhawks had a wolf in the hen house. Instead of scalping the wolf and putting it down, they sent it away with a good resume and a recommendation letter, basically hush money to go away. The Blackhawks covered it up and did not listen to the victim. See no evil hear no evil. Eleven years later, the story comes back to haunt the team with one goal. From under the rug or back of the closet or from the farm, the Blackhawks let a sexual predator loose. John Doe, who turns out to be Kyle Beach, comes out of the woodwork to tell his story.

In 2010, the Blackhawks won their first Stanley cup since the 1960-61 season. Kyle Beach was drafted in 2008 at 11th overall that year in the NHL draft. Kyle Beach in the 2009-10 season was a prospect learning the NHL game and improving his craft. Beach would play in some pre-season games. The Blackhawks would call up some of their prospects from the minor league affiliates for scrimmages versus the big clubs. That is when Kyle Beach met the sexual predator, Brad Aldrich, who worked as video coach for the Blackhawks. The mind set of Aldrich was probably to lure Beach to his lair and show him video on how to improve his game. Beach would love to improve his game, so he trusted the video coach and went over to his apartment. While showing random hockey highlights in Aldrich’s place, suddenly the video turned into porn. This led into Aldrich pulling it out and masturbating in front of the 20-year-old Kyle beach. Add drinks and who knows what Aldrich could have done to the kid’s drink. Bill Cosby’s way of getting his game on. Aldrich used a girl he knew to start a threesome.She would leave in the middle of the three-way, and then Aldrich probably finished the sexual act off. If Kyle Beach did no cooperate, Aldrich threatened to ruin his hockey career. Even once, Aldrich used a Cubs souvenir bat to slam down on the table to demand his attention. All to put fear into the kid’s dream. Which is Kyle Beaches hockey career playing in the NHL.

Why couldn’t a 200 pound hockey player fight off a guy who was smaller than him? Especially since Brad Aldrich is only a video coach. Don’t hockey players fight for a living? Could this have been Kyle Beach’s way of experimenting with gay sex as a young kid? Then traumatized after because he actually went through it? Beach would report Brad Aldrich’s actions to the Blackhawks. The report made it all the way up the ladder to the President of Hockey Operations for the Blackhawks, John McDonough. Even Head Coach Q, Joel Quenneville, knew about what was going on. Nothing ever happened. Beach was told, “The front office is looking into your allegations.” Meanwhile business as usual for Brad Aldrich who would end up with his name on the Stanley cup. Kyle Beach looking from afar noticed nothing changed for Aldrich as he had his day with the Lord Stanley in his home state of Michigan. Beach would be called homophobic names behind his back. Names and coughs of unflattering words as the news was all over the Blackhawks locker room. By the Summertime Brad Aldrich was out of the Blackhawks organization with Hawks brass providing him with letters of recommendation. Aldrich would have pictures of himself celebrating with the cup. Aldrich’s name went on the cup. Aldrich would easily land another gig. Aldrich would then head to Notre Dame and accept a job at a prestigious university. From the Fighting Irish, Aldrich would move on to the University of Miami Ohio and there he assaulted two more victims. Then Aldrich went back to his home state of Michigan to take a job at a local high school. Houghton High School where finally Aldrich was caught and put behind bars. However, a 16-year-old high school student who played hockey, was the last victim of this sexual predator to be assaulted. That kid spoke up and the school did something about it. Houghton High School took the information and handed this sick human being over to the proper authorities, like the Blackhawks should have done in 2010.

Kyle Beach is 31 years old and for 11 years had to live with the agony of what Brad Aldrich did to him. Beach is playing hockey in Germany. As a number one pick, if he would have fought back and taken a different road at the time, perhaps he would have made it to the NHL. The feeling that everyone did not care for him and did not believe him. How they chose to cater to a video coach instead of a number one prospect. Does Kyle Beach feel guilty about other victims that Aldrich took advantage of after he left Chicago? In an interview with TSN, he said he wished he could have done more so a 16 year old from Michigan did not have to go through the horrific events like he had to. Kyle Beach told the players association his story. The players association in the NHL job is to protect the players at all costs. Nothing happened. The feeling of being shunned by the team he was drafted by and the entire NHL league. Turning to alcohol and drugs. Lashing out. Felling your hockey career slip away. The Blackhawks could have turned the matters over to the Police and let them sort out the mess. No, the Blackhawks instead decided to cover it up. Because a scandal would interrupt the one thing important to them at the time. The one and only thing that mattered to all these old school mentality guys was the Stanley Cup. Yes, like a sacrificial lamb. Sacrificing a human being for Lord Stanley.

The Catholic way of doing things for the Blackhawks comes back to bite them in the ass. This sexual scandal compares to what happen at Penn State years ago. What Joe Sandusky did was just sick. Then the aftershocks of the disaster that just destroy people’s lives. They probably deserved it for covering it up. Eventually that scandal led to the death of legendary Head Coach Papa Joe Paterno. Heads are rolling already as Blackhawks General Manager Stan Bowman stepped down. Joel Quenneville stepped down from his head coaching job with the Florida Panthers. John McDonough was let go awhile back and fired by the Blackhawks. This scandal was probably some of the reasoning. Blackhawks were fined two millions dollars by the league which is chump change. By letting Brad Aldrich walk out the door unscathed, Blackhawks will have to deal with multiple lawsuits. More names will probably come out of the woodwork as this thing is far from being over. Blackhawks’ Rocky Wirtz wants the Hockey Hall of Fame to scratch out Brad Aldrich’s name on the Stanley Cup. Remove the name like it never existed. In the coming weeks, it will be a witch hunt for more people to be responsible. It will be like hunting Nazi leaders who did the unthinkable. How will some of the players look after everything comes out? Does Jonathan Toews, the Captain of the Blackhawks, and Patrick Kane be looked at funny as the entire locker room knew what was going on. Will this scandal tarnish their Hall of Fame careers? I would like to say If I found myself in a pickle like that, I would have got the hell out of dodge. As a 20-year-old, I wasn’t the brightest bulb in the box. It’s a shame you have people like Brad Aldrich in the world. So evil & so smart in the same way, to get away with the shit he pulled for so long. Parasites that latch on to innocent people and take advantage; leaving nothing but a shell of their former selves. Anyone that goes through this kind of pain hopes Kyle Beach has some closure. Hope the Blackhawks have opened up their father’s vault and pay dearly. Money will not solve everything. Aldrich took this kid’s NHL dreams away from him and the Blackhawks let it happen.