NHL playoff games postponed for Thursday, Friday to protest racism

NHL website ^ | 8/27/2020 | NHL staff

[airborne]

The NHL announced its four Stanley Cup Playoff games scheduled for Thursday and Friday have been postponed after the players on all eight remaining teams decided not to play as a form of protest against systemic racism and police brutality.

"After much discussion, NHL players believe that the best course of action would be to take a step back and not play tonight's and tomorrow's games as scheduled," the NHL and NHL Players' Association said in a statement. "The NHL supports the players' decision and will reschedule those four games beginning Saturday and adjust the remainder of the Second Round schedule accordingly."

[Svartalfiar]

So this leaves what professional sports left?

Golf maybe?

Water polo?

Women’s sand volleyball?

Is there even professional-level lacrosse or US rugby?

[dfwgator]

Cricket? Gaelic Football?

[EEGator]

[dfwgator]

Polska!

[EEGator]

I knew you’d enjoy that.

[foreverfree]

“ MLB next?”

They cancelled today.

Not all teams nixed their games.

POSTPONEMENTS (some games already rescheduled):

Rockies/D'backs

A's/Rangers

BoSox/Jays (in Buffalo)

Phils/Nats

O's/Rays

Twins/Tigers

Marlins/Mets

GAMES THAT WENT AHEAD:

Reds/Brewers doubleheader just up the road from Kenosha (currently in 5th inning of game 2)

Mariners/Padres completed their doubleheader

Bucs/Cards completed their doubleheader

Dodgers/Jints completed their doubleheader

[remember, due to Covid, doubleheader games are scheduled for 7 innings)

[all game info is from mlb.com/scores]

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[Yaelle]

Clearly I am hopelessOy racist Because I’d rather see hockey. Or maybe I just don’t understand how stopping sports does anything to prevent white on black racism. In fact, I don’t even see evidence that the guy who got shot 7 times in the back for it because of racism. I don’t get any of this sh** and in fact I see it all as disgusting bigotry of low behavioral expectations. But what do I know.

If my son held a dangerous knife and refused to drop it for the cops, it is ok with me that he gets shot. With the exception of my special needs child, who might not be able. But why would I let him have a dangerous knife?

[Yaelle]

Much of the game came from former slaves or free Africans in nova Scotia.

Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925

Great book.

[okie 54]

Don’t squander the chance to cease to exist cancel all of the games for life before you go broke

[major_gaff]

Agreed...I'm out. eff 'em.

[zeugma]

Too funny. Are there any black hockey players?

[zeugma]

A Canadian who doesn’t watch hockey? Is that legal?

[airborne]

Thanks.

I will check it out.

[airborne]

I think there are 8 currently playing on 31 teams.

[headsonpikes]

I share your grief. Thanks for posting all these years.

[shove_it]

Hang in there airborne, this too shall pass.

Cheers, Otter

[dfwgator]

When the Raptors won the NBA title, the Canadian media harped on how more “diverse” NBA fans were than “redneck” Hockey fans.

[DoodleBob]

When I was in college, "divestment" was the hot cause célèbre - dump the stock of firms doing business in South Africa, said the leftists. My accounting professor said that was a counterproductive idea, because common stock ownership gives you a say in the company's business. Divestment is tantamount to running away.

Everyone has a breaking point, but we may not always be consistent at first blush...I dumped my NR subscription when they defended Bush the elder using arguments they made against Dukakis...but I kept my subscription to Liberty (a libertarian magazine) even though the editor was pro-choice. I refuse to listen to Rage Against the Machine but I listen to the Dead Kennedys. I dumped the NFL for most of the 2017 season and then played catch-up in the playoffs just in time to see my Eagles win the Super Bowl. I won't go see a movie with Sean Penn in it but I saw Terminator III.

I am sure that makes me a disgrace to Deplorables on some level, and my VRWC secret decoder ring is being shut off remotely as I write this. But if I wanted to be totally pure, I'd have to be totally divorced from people.

As for being of the world and, more pointedly, watch playoff hockey, I will paraphrase Jefferson

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Hockey long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that fans are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the games to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of stupidity, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Social Justice Warriorism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Management, and to provide new players and management for their future entertainment.

Hockey isn't perfect now yet they are far from Sean Penn, NR, RATM. I'm watching Vancover/Las Vegas (and I am a Flyers fan but it is Game 7, man!) and they are not kneeling etc...thus, I am still disposed to suffer, and frankly I was here before these dopes got here...I will not divest but invest in upright player mercy and eschew purchases that support the stupid, and make it known that I want them to shut up n play yer game.

Maybe I'll go to Galt's Gulch some day, but for now I choose to live in the world.

[DoodleBob]

Merch(andise), not mercy.. curse you autocorrect

[airborne]

FWIW, I’m watching too. Some good hockey and one of the BLM dopes, Ryan Reaves, got tossed, so that was fun.