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.

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.

Former Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville and two executives were cleared to return to work in the NHL on Monday after a near three-year absence from the sport for their mishandling of sexual assault allegations.

The NHL has released a statement on the status of former Blackhawks staff members Joel Quenneville, Stan Bowman, and Al MacIssac.

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.

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.

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

In a significant development that the league seemingly tried to sneak through the public chaos that was the start of NHL free agency, the NHL has reinstated former Chicago Blackhawks executives Stan Bowman,