Blackhawks chairman Rocky Wirtz may consider it “old business,” but the Hawks’ sexual-assault cover-up will very much dictate his present and future business. And Wirtz refusing to talk about the subject won’t make it go away.
Wirtz’s already infamous town-hall meltdown Wednesday has, ironically, made the scandal quite present again. Videos of his irate reactions to easily anticipated questions about how the Hawks have improved their culture since 2010 and last summer have gone viral, reviving the hockey world’s anger at the Hawks over the scandal. For no discernible reason, Wirtz manufactured yet another public-relations disaster.
