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It was September 2018 and the start of the season for the Robert Morris University men’s hockey team was less than two weeks away. Thomas “Chico” Adrahtas, the team’s coach for the past nine seasons, abruptly grabbed his bags and left the locker room. He did not tell the players anything before exiting. No one in the Illinois school’s athletic administration informed them why he had departed. One of the assistant coaches told players Adrahtas had an emergency.



It wouldn’t be until months later that people would learn that Adrahtas, who came to Robert Morris after a prolific career as an amateur coach, resigned his position because a former player of his from the 1980s had notified both the school and the American College Hockey Association of what he described as 20 months...