We’ve just rolled out our second Watergate headline in a week, why is that classic case of a crime, and the cover-up that brought down the president so on our minds? There are two crimes here. The first is the criminal acts Brad Alrich committed, and the second is the not technically illegal way the Chicago team dealt with all of that at the time. The cover-up that has been exposed began in earnest in 2020 when Kyle Beach launched his lawsuit.
Gary Bettman and Bill Daly met with the press yesterday and said the following things about who knew what, when they knew it, and why the league has made the choices they have made:
Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly says Blackhawks first contacted NHL last December concerning possible civil litigation.