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Posted on 08/27/2020 4:28:53 PM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nhl.com ...
The two games Friday were Game 4 of the East Second Round between the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning in Toronto, and Game 4 of the West Second Round between the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche.
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Done with nhl too
Thank you lord
No more nfl, nba, mlb, nascar, soccer, and nhl
Thank christ, they no longer exist to me
Well, there goes my interest in the NHL playoffs for the season.
MLB next?
I’m a Canadian, who doesn’t watch hockey. So I don’t care.
WHAT RACISM?!
Only one counter-measure. Let us ALL call up our cable provider (or DirecTv) and ask to drop all sports packages.
If we ALL do this, maybe they will think twice about this nonsense.
a lot of pressure being applied by the NHL’s sponsors (addidas) and TV partners (ChiCom NBC)
I believe the league and players want to play - but $$$$
“to protest racism”
I’m all for that. Anti white racism is pervasive base evil. If it doesn’t end soon then it’s revolution (ha!) or genocide.
Yep. MLB is also cancelling games.
The first Black American hockey player was Val James in 1981... That’s right: when the U.S. won the “Miracle On Ice,” there had never been a Black American hockey player. Today, there are eight.
Congressional Black Caucus
La Raza
Those are two notorious racist insitutions.
For me, the sport is greater than the people who own it, or the people who play it. This TOO, shall pass. Do not give up on the game because of the jackasses who happen to be wearing the uniforms at this very moment.
Just wait until next April when The Masters at Augusta is renamed the BLM Invitational
I will do useful things instead of watching the idiot-tube, to protest sports’ stupidity. BTW, the NHL is (was?) on NBC
(nothing but communists).
Great! Keep it up Aholes!
All these sports teams are shooting themselves in the foot. The longer they boycott the more people will realize they can do without sports. Owners should dock pay for every game not played and see how long the walkout lasts.
I feel exactly the same way. The absolute IGNORANCE of the modern millionnaire professional athlete is mindboggling.
The level of cluelessness is simply astounding. They are driven by leftist propaganda and mindless feelings. As President Trump would say, sad.
What racism are they talking about? Please give me one single solitary example of racism by police in the past few years. Cops kill more whites than blacks, but that’s not racist is it. But just because someone is black some asshats have classified it as “systemic racism” and other asshats accept this as fact without a shred of evidence.
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