[T.B. Yoits]

I highly doubt hockey fans are asking for “Pride” night. Why is the NHL even doing this in the first place?

The fans are the product being sold to the advertisers. The advertisers and the networks want it, fans be damned.

What the market research professionals are telling you is the cold hard truth that television is geared toward the intellectually empty and the mentally ill.

[T.B. Yoits]

They’re canceling the events because they don’t want to have video of empty stands.