REGARDLESS, what happened to Kyle Beach was monstrous and he was failed to be protected every step of the way. Q's coaching career and Bowman's involvement in hockey should be a casualty of that. That's reasonable. McDonough was fired and should never be involved in a sport's franchise again (which he probably won't be). Rocky should have stepped down and handed ownership off to his son as well like we saw. What happened to Kyle was a disgrace and there has to be consequences.
"Guilty" is a loose thing in this circumstance anyway. Guilty of knowingly covering up Beach's assault to protect the organization is a lot more disgusting than being guilty of not doing more to protect someone being abused. There's still guilt all around.
To me, there are degrees of guilt and responsibility in this. Of those you mentioned, it seems pretty clear to me based on what is out there that McDonough is at the top of that list. I am 100% behind him never being able to work again in sports. Bowman would be next, and I am back and forth about to what degree he should be punished. As the GM, he obviously should have more of a birds eye view of the entire organization and should have been more involved in looking into the allegations. Having said that it seems, and this was mentioned in the Q interview as well, that there was pretty clear camps within the organization that seemed to work almost independently of one another. You had the coaching staff, the hockey operations and the business side. Bowman, while the head of the hockey ops department, may have felt that the HR part of this was not really under his umbrella and that McDonough would handle it. Q, to me, is at the bottom of this list. If what he says is true, then I really don't think his reaction is as bad as people are making it out to be. If he was told that the video coach was hitting the town with the Rockford players and may have sent an inappropriate text or two, then I really don't think the reaction of "I have a team to coach in the NHL playoffs, I don't want to deal with this right now" is as monstrous as some people are making it out to be. And it is not like he escaped without punishment, even if he is let back in the league he will have been barred from coaching for several years. Assuming what he is saying is the truth, that is a pretty significant punishment for what he did (or more specifically, didn't do).