Chicago owner angrily brushes off Kyle Beach talk

Speaking Wednesday night at a town hall organized by the team, Chicago owner Rocky Wirtz angrily rejected any conversation connected to the franchise's response when a player said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach.

The town hall on a snowy night in Chicago was supposed to be the latest step in the franchise's work to repair its tattered reputation. But it was derailed by Wirtz's response when a reporter tried to ask Danny Wirtz, Rocky's son and the team's CEO, about what the organization was doing to address the power dynamic between players and coaches in light of Beach's accusations.

"I'm going to answer the question, not Danny," Rocky Wirtz said. "I think the report speaks for itself. The people that were involved are no longer here. We're not looking back at 2010, we're looking forward. And we're not going to talk about 2010."

When Danny Wirtz tried to answer the question, Rocky Wirtz cut off his son and said it was none of the reporter's business. Asked how it wasn't the reporter's business, Rocky Wirtz responded: "You don't work for the company."

"If somebody in the company asks that question, we'll answer it," Wirtz continued. "And I think you should get on to the next subject. We're not going to talk about Kyle Beach. We're not going to talk about anything that happened. Now we're moving on. What more do I have to say?"

Longtime general manager Stan Bowman resigned after the review by Jenner & Block was finished in October, and Al MacIsaac, another top hockey executive with Chicago, also departed the organization. The NHL fined the team $2 million US for "the organization's inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response."

A second suit filed by a former high school student