USA Hockey contacts families whose children attended Aldrich camp

U.S. Hockey plans to contact the families of players who attended development camps and rehearsals with former Chicago Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich, a spokesman said when TSN asked the U.S. amateur hockey board about Aldrich’s role in the week-long hockey game. at the camp in 2008.

Aldrich was one of the U-14 coaches at the USA Hockey Camp in Rochester, NY, held July 12-18, 2008. The camp had about 100 participants who stayed with the coaches in a dormitory, said a person familiar with the matter.

“We are currently collecting contact information for all the family members of the players who attended the camps Brad Aldrich coached,” U.S. Hockey spokesman Dave Fischer said in a brief telephone interview.

Fischer said the union plans to advise families on how they can report abuse and what counseling services are available to them. He did not answer a follow-up question in an email as to why US Hockey did not contact families after Aldrich was convicted of sexually abusing a teenager in 2014.

Aldrich was allowed to resign from the Blackhawks in the summer of 2010 after two seasons as a video coach for the NHL team when Kyle Beach informed Blackhawks management that he had been sexually assaulted by Aldrich.

Aldrich moved to work at the University of Miami’s hockey department in 2012, where he was allegedly beaten by two men, according to an independent study recently commissioned by the school.

In 2013, he pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual behavior with a minor and was later sentenced to nine months in prison and 60 months in probation for beating a then 16-year-old high school hockey player in Houghton, Mich.

Aldrich worked as a video coordinator for the University of Notre Dame’s hockey program from 2006-2008.

He began working at U.S. Hockey National Development Camps in 2005 as a coach for the U-14, U-15, and U-17 programs, according to a 2012 resume submitted by Aldrich at the University of Miami.