Phil Thompson: If this is Joel Quenneville’s first attempt at contrition for the 2010 Blackhawks scandal — try again
CHICAGO — Former Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville has sat down for at least two interviews this year, and the first subject he tackled in each wasn’t Kyle Beach, but instead pickleball.
“Playing a lot of pickleball down in Florida, pickleball heaven right around Naples,” he told The Leafs Nation in February.
Earlier this week, Andy Strickland of “The Cam & Strick Podcast” asked Quenneville what he has been doing the last couple of years.
“I’ve been living down in Florida, been playing a lot of pickleball,” he said. “It seems like it’s a craze that’s gone over the top and I’m in the middle of it all, enjoying it every day.”
Based on the rest of the interview, he has gotten really good at dodgeball too.
That’s what he did for the rest of the nearly 45-minute “Cam and Strick” interview: duck and dodge questions and contradict himself about what he knew — and when — about Beach’s sexual harassment allegations against former Hawks video coach Bradley Aldrich.
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