The player, identified in the lawsuit only as “John Doe,” was a member of the Blackhawks’ “Black Aces” squad alongside teammate Kyle Beach in 2010.
A second player from the Blackhawks’ 201 Stanley Cup championship team has filed a lawsuit accusing management of covering up sexual harassment and sexual assaults by coach Brad Aldrich
Describing Brad Aldrich as a “sexual bloodsucker,” the action filed in Cook County Circuit Court on Thursday claims the former trainer prepped, wearied, hovered, and assaulted Doe during the 2009-10 season.
Beach also sued the Blackhawks over similar claims against Brad Aldrich and reached a confidential settlement with the team in 2021. Doe’s lawsuit echoes many of the sexual assault and harassment claims Beach lodged against Brad Aldrich.
Brad Aldrich arranged for Doe to get massages at the team hotel while the team was traveling for road games. Throughout the season, Brad Aldrich’s behavior became overtly and aggressively sexual.
The lawsuit claims Brad Aldrich
He hosted Doe and others at his home, where he tried to get them to watch pornographic movies with him, offered Doe and a woman the use of his bedroom to have coitus, also sneaked into the room while they were having coitus, “and tried to insert himself into the hassle, making his presence first known by playing with JOHN DOE’s bases in the dark.” offered to pay for Doe “to receive sexual favors from a masseuse if Coach Brad Aldrich could watch,” on multiple occasions, grabbed Doe from behind “in a hugging gesture, and ground his penis against JOHN DOE’s back and buttocks through his clothes,” sent Doe harassing text messages, and used threats to Doe’s career to coerce him into not reporting Brad Aldrich’s actions.
Doe’s action against the Blackhawks accuses the platoon of “acting with a maximum incuriosity and conscious casualness for the safety of its workers” after Doe reported his allegations to members of the training and coaching staff.
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