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Joel Quenneville resigns as Florida Panthers coach

The dominoes are starting to fall.

Joel Quenneville is reportedly no longer the head coach of the Florida Panthers after meeting with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman about his role in the sexual-abuse cover-up scandal of the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010.

The team announced his departure on Thursday night.

The Florida Panthers announced today that Head Coach Joel Quenneville has resigned from his role with the club.

An interim head coach announcement will be forthcoming.https://t.co/h6Bv3OVdFk

On Tuesday, a report that outlined the Blackhawks’ inaction following sexual-assault allegations surrounding then-video coach Brad Aldrich from 2010 was publicly released.