The Edmonton Oilers didn’t have much time off between losing Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Final and preparing for important NHL offseason dates. The 2024 NHL Draft

Bowman, coach Joel Quenneville and executive Al MacIsaac were reinstated by the NHL on Monday after a nearly three-year exile. They’d been banished for what the league deemed their “inadequate response” to Kyle Beach’s allegations of sexual assault by video coach Brad Aldrich in Chicago in 2010.

The NHL announced on Monday former general manager Stan Bowman, executive Al MacIsaac and head coach Joel Quenneville have been reinstated by the league and can immediately seek employment, less than three years after the bombshell sexual assault report within the Chicago Blackhawks organization.

The Oilers played their last game on June 24, when they lost the final seventh game of the Stanley Cup Finals – I’m told many players are still suffering from that – and four days later, team management was on the floor of the Sphere in Vegas to select seven prospects.

The NHL has reinstated executives Stan Bowman and Al MacIsaac and coach Joel Quenneville. They are able to seek employment around the league effective immediately.

Former Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman, head coach Joel Quenneville and assistant general manager Al MacIssac have been reinstated by the NHL more than two years after they stepped down from their roles following an investigation into their handling of sexual assault allegations made by former forward Kyle Beach.

After nearly three years of ineligibility for employment within the league due to involvement in the Brad Aldrich sexual assault scandal, the Hawks' former GM and coach will now be eligible to be hired by any team starting July 10.

Strickland tweeted the following yesterday, "There is no change in the status of both Joel Quenneville and Stan Bowman although a senior, high ranking league executive tells me that could change in the 'very near future'. Bowman has been linked to Oilers GM vacancy."

After a nearly three-year exile for what the NHL deemed their “inadequate response” to Kyle Beach’s allegations of sexual assault by Chicago Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich, former head coach Joel Quenneville,

All three had been banned from NHL employment over their mishandling of former Blackhawks player Kyle Beach's sexual assault allegations against a former coach.

Edmonton Oilers fans are not happy that Stan Bowman is rumored to be in the running for the vacant GM position.