Kyle Beach: John Doe

After playing major junior hockey with the Everett Silvertips and Lethbridge Hurricanes in the Western Hockey League, Kyle Beach was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the first round, 11th overall, in the 2008 NHL entry draft.

Kyle was recalled during the 2010 playoffs as a Black Ace with the NHL team, practicing alongside the Blackhawks regulars. Over subsequent seasons, Beach played mostly in the American Hockey League and in European hockey leagues.

Beach is now 31 and playing pro hockey in Germany. On Wednesday, Beach joined TSN’s SportsCentre to discuss the sexual abuse allegations he has made against former Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich.

Rick Westhead: Kyle, thank you very much for joining us to talk about this. Just to start off, Kyle – yesterday was a momentous day, a day of reckoning. Can you walk us through how you were feeling when you were watching, Reid Schar – the lawyer for Jenner & Block – read out some of the findings in his investigation into the Blackhawks?

Kyle Beach: Thanks for having me, Rick, and thank you for all you’ve done throughout this process since this first became public knowledge. Without you and your reporting, I’m not sure that we would be here today, so I wanted to thank you first. Yesterday was a day of many emotions. I cried, I smiled, I laughed, I cried some more and my girlfriend and I – we didn’t know how to feel. We didn’t know how to think, we just held each other and supported each other. She’s been my rock from the very beginning of this process and I’m very fortunate to have her here and to be able to lean on her, rely on her to help on those tough days – I don’t think that I or we could have imagined what would have come out of yesterday’s press conference. And