“We are the Chicago Blackhawks and we set the tone of hockey culture,” says Wirtz, without realizing the extent that statement is true in a way which he certainly didn’t mean.

I’m gonna just say this: being a survivor, and a male survivor at that, in the hockey world is never the easiest. But the casual way in which agencies of authority and power repeatedly look to “move on” has brought out an extra level of frustration and sadness for me tonight.

Appointing Hossa and Sharp to the search committee after @rwesthead ’s reporting underlined the issue, but there’s something about hearing it from the horse’s mouth that makes it excruciating. The gap between what I would consider basic conduct and what is being done is so large.

Like, this is just absurd