NHL first-month winners, losers: Connor McDavid can’t be stopped, Alex Ovechkin isn’t slowing down
The NHL season is a month old, and a winners and losers column could be written mostly on off-ice issues that have dominated the news.
Kyle Beach should be commended for his lawsuit exposing an alleged sexual assault against him in 2010 by then-Chicago Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich, then coming forward as the John Doe in the case. Blackhawks executives Stan Bowman and Al McIsaac and Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville, with Chicago at the time, rightly stepped aside after an independent investigation showed how the team mishandled the incident.