


“I don’t know how he can be in charge.”įehr joined the NHLPA on Dec. “For him to turn his back on the players when his one job is to protect the players at all costs, I don’t know how that can be your leader,” Beach said to TSN. He said he thinks two people talked to NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr. Incredible bravery what he’s done.”īeach, who was not a dues-paying NHLPA member at the time of the alleged assault, said during his TSN interview that he reported “every single detail” of his story to an individual at the union. “I talked to him for quite some time,” Lehner said. Thank you for reaching out and taking the time to have such a deep emotional conversation with me! Yourself and many others, gave me the strength to speak my truth! Lehner thanked Beach for his courage on Twitter on Thursday and said the two had “a really emotional talk.” Beach responded to Lehner “Yourself and many others, gave me the strength to speak my truth!” Lehner reached out to Beach after he revealed his identity in a TSN interview Wednesday, a day after the investigation’s results were released. A lawsuit by Beach led to an independent investigation that found the Blackhawks mishandled the allegations, resulting in the resignations of general manager Stan Bowman, senior vice president of hockey operations Al MacIsaac and coach Joel Quenneville, who was with the Florida Panthers. The coach, Brad Aldrich, has been accused of sexually assaulting taxi squad player Kyle Beach in May 2010.

“I’m not going to say anything about the NHL. “There’s a lot of things I can say, but people should have a hard time sleeping at night,” Lehner said. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Knights goaltender Robin Lehner expressed his displeasure Friday with how the NHL Players Association handled sexual assault allegations against a former Chicago Blackhawks video coach in 2010.

Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner during practice at City National Arena in Las Vegas Monday, Oct.
