Let’s address the elephant in the room first: the Blackhawks entire organization remains under the cloud of the sexual assault allegations from 2010 that are the subject of multiple lawsuits and an ongoing internal investigation. That story isn’t going away, mainly because of almost daily updates from TSN reporter Rick Westhead. Nor should it go away. Once that internal investigation is completed, all details need to be made public. Anything less will be another mishandling of a situation that’s been woefully mismanaged by this organization from the beginning.
Now, shifting to matters on the ice .