One day after an investigation commissioned by the Chicago Blackhawks publicly disclosed that the team’s top officials had ignored a player’s accusation of sexual assault by a coach during the 2010 playoffs, that player was revealed to be Kyle Beach.
In an interview on national television in Canada on Wednesday, Beach was asked if he had a message for the 16-year-old boy that the video coach, Brad Aldrich, was later convicted of sexually assaulting in Michigan in 2013.
“I’m sorry,” Beach said. “I’m sorry I didn’t do more, when I could, to make sure it didn’t happen to him.