Player comes forward in pro hockey’s sexual assault scandal

Blackhawks forward Kyle Beach, right, sits on the bench on Sept. 12, 2013, at Notre Dame's Compton Family Ice Arena in South Bend, Ind. (Photo: Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

As an independent report on the Chicago Blackhawks’ handling of a 2010 sexual assault allegation against a former video coach continued to send shockwaves through the hockey world Wednesday, the former player whose complaint was at the heart of the scandal…