CHICAGO — An independent investigation into the NHL Players Association’s response to former Chicago Blackhawks prospect Kyle Beach’s sexual assault allegation couldn’t find “any wrongdoing” in how executive director Don Fehr and others handled the complaint.
Cozen O’Connor, the Philadelphia-based law firm commissioned to investigate the NHLPA’s handling of Beach’s case in late 2010 and early 2011, released its findings Friday afternoon.
The firm in its report said that after examining NHLPA policies at the time and interviewing people who had contact with the union’s Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program (SABH) it “cannot identify any individual wrongdoing or institutional failures of policy or procedure by either Fehr, NHLPA personnel, or the SABH program concerning the handling of Beach’s reports.”
