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Just a heads up that this episode contains discussions of sexual violence.

One of the happiest moments in the history of the Black Hawks when they won the Stanley Cup in 2010 was also a time when one of the players suffered a devastating sexual assault, who says.

Last week, an investigation into the Chicago Black Hawks and former video coach Brad Aldridge turned the narrative around the team Stanley Cup victory a decade ago upside down.

In 2010, Aldridge sexually assaulted a then 20 year old player, that player informed management, but the investigation found that no action was taken until after the team won the Stanley Cup.

Today, the Athletics Mark Lazarus on the player who has now spoken out all the ways in which the Black Hawks organization failed him and whether or not the case will be a watershed moment for the NHL.

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Mark Lazarus, thanks so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Mark, you've been covering the Black Hawks for almost a decade now, and you've been a sports writer for longer than that.

How in your mind does this story stack up in terms of just how big it is and how big of an impact it could have.

I'm not sure there's been a comparable story. There's been sexual abuse scandals in hockey. It's an epidemic. Katie Strang has written extensively about it. I encourage anyone to go look at her archives to find stuff, but these things tend to happen at the junior level.

This is as far as I can remember, the first incident like this at the NHL level, usually your typical NHL scandal is it's bad stuff, racism and it's, you know, coaching physically abusing players or mentally abusing players and like, it's not good stuff in the NHL.

But this is kind of another tier where we're in the realm of blatantly criminal territory and then a cover up to match.

All right. Well, there is a lot to unpack here. So let's start with the guy at the center of it all. Mark, what can you tell us about Kyle Beach and his potential as a hockey player when he was first trying to break into the NHL back in 2010?

Well, I mean, he was a first round draft pick. I mean, this was a guy that was expected to be up there alongside Patrick Kane and Jonathan Taves as kind of pillars of the franchise.

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