Posted on 08/27/2020 4:59:54 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The NHL is following the MLB, NBA, WNBA and MLS' lead ... with the league officially postponing games following the Jacob Blake shooting.
"After much discussion, NHL Players believe that the best course of action would be to take a step back and not play tonights and tomorrows games as scheduled," the league announced Thursday.
The decision comes after several players -- including Matt Dumba and Evander Kane -- criticized the league's response to the boycotts sweeping the sports world.
The NHL says they support the players' wishes ... and will make up the games starting Saturday.
NHL continued ... "Black and Brown communities continue to face real, painful experiences. The NHL and NHLPA recognize that much work remains to be done before we can play an appropriate role in a discussion centered on diversity, inclusion and social justice.
As we previously reported ... the NBA kickstarted a massive movement on Wednesday after the Milwaukee Bucks elected to stay in the locker rooms in protest ... and have since agreed to continue the season.
"We understand that the tragedies involving Jacob Blake, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others require us to recognize this moment," the NHL added.
"We pledge to work to use our sport to influence positive change in society."
A one day break from an otherwise exciting Stanley Cup series in order to show solidarity with other professional sports and avoid getting themselves and their fans smeared as racist is really no big deal.
Its not like that giant fag Lebron is gonna lace’em up and hit the ice.
They lost me.
In a sane world, the NHL would say “Shut up, and play”.
If these @ssholes stop playing for a day or two every time theres an alleged injustice in the world, youd never see another sports event again until the end of time.
Precisely. Maybe not from members of this forum, but most everyone else.
..and I cancelled my NHL.com subscription today...
Amazing how the left killed sports so quickly. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised the way they’re turning cities into war zones, but I am surprised at how quickly these owners have bent the knee to the mob. This is the fastest deliberate destruction of wealth that I’ve ever seen.
“That just leaves rodeo.”
Remember when they fired the long time clown for wearing an Obama mask? Reagan mask was fine.
Rodeo ..
Wait til the bulls protest and refuse to throw the rider !!
Meanwhile black on white violent crime remains rampant and none of these athletes give a crap.
A black man is dead! Stop everything!!!
Nauseating.
How many colored play hockey?
f***ing ridiculous. Lets honor the convicted felon, rapist and 29 year-old father of six by several different women.
This is obviously pathetic and disgusting. Among the many things that pro leagues get wrong is mistaking their product for the sport itself. Hockey is a sport and a culture and it is not ruled or defined by the NHL. The NHL could end tomorrow and it would be a notable event but it would not end hockey. Perhaps the KHL will move into North America. Nothing lasts forever.
Well at least they werent the first to fall.
The left is destroying everything in its path.
Which I suppose is the point
Trying to finish the 2019-2020 season.
Just another league that I used to know...
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