NHL Commits to Increasing ‘Diversity,’ Reduce Share of White Players, Employees

Breitbart ^ | 10/19/2022 | ROBERT KRAYCHIK

[ChicagoConservative27]

The NHL released a “diversity & inclusion” report on Monday declaring its commitment to implement hiring practices related to “racial demographics,” “gender identity,” and “sexual orientation.”

“We are working to better understand and accelerate our engagement across all layers of diversity – including nationality, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and religion – and their nuances and intersections,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman wrote in the report’s introduction.

[Duke of Milan]

See #51
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4101807/posts?page=51#51

[BrexitBen]

Professional sports is hell-bent on destruction. Go WOKE, go broke.

MLB, NBA, Noosecar, the NFL, and now the NHL.

Can the NCAA be far behind ?

[38special]

Get the puck outta here 🏒

[tomkat]

"Thank God there's still a sport for medium sized white boys"

.. or not

[Jane Austen]

They included disability? And good luck in getting the quota of little people and transgendered.

A decade or so numerous players came out in favor of gay marriage (I've no idea why they cared one way or another), but this is the first I have heard about these other groups. Silly me thought that skill was the criteria that mattered (along with not being a pervert or danger to others).

[rfp1234]

There’s still chess...

[Rummyfan]

The NHL released a “diversity & inclusion” report on Monday declaring its commitment to implement hiring practices related to “racial demographics,” “gender identity,” and “sexual orientation.”

Rinks and equipment in the hood? How are they going to get trannies and gays and lesbians to take up the game?! Start searching the Caribbean and Latin America for players as MLB does?

[zeugma]

The puck is black and it is constantly hit by white peoples .

OBVIOUS evidence of structural racism .

Excellent! I needed a laugh!

[tomkat]

:-))

[I want the USA back]

Guess they don’t want me to watch any of their games. What happens next? some player “sees” a “noose” in a storage area and the whole league bends down in abject submission to beg forgiveness for being descendants of Europeans?

[Tell It Right]

There’s still chess...

And swimming

[MPJackal]

The NHL is actually very diverse if you consider all the different countries players come from. USA, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Chech Republic, Russia,...... But I guess they all look the same. Plus, the NHL has been pushing introducing hockey to black communities for a long time. If the kid is good enough, he should be able to make it. But please no affirmative action players.

[VanShuyten]

Actually, there are some fine hockey players in Asia. Sub-Saharan Africa, not so much.

[Alberta's Child]

Just to give y'all an idea of how thin the talent level in ice hockey outside predominantly white countries, I've posted the 2021 International Ice Hockey Federal national rankings below. South Korea, at #19, is the highest-ranked Asian country.

And just to illustrate how lackluster this #19 ranking is, I posted the most recent year when each country won an Olympic medal in ice hockey.

2021 IIHF Rankings
1. Canada (2018)
2. Finland (2022)
3. Russia (2022)
4. USA (2010)
5. Germany (2018)
6. Czech Republic (2006)
7. Sweden (2014)
8. Switzerland (1948)
9. Slovakia (2022)
10. Latvia
11. Norway
12. Denmark
13. Kazakhstan
14. Belarus
15. France
16. Great Britain (1936)
17. Italy
18. Austria
19. South Korea
20. Slovenia
21. Hungary
22. Poland
23. Lithuania
24. Romania
25. Japan

[ridesthemiles]

Diversity outranks merit—

Util every bridge falls down & no airplanes are fit to fly.

[ridesthemiles]

He is looking for $$$$$$$$$$$

He never wants to really WORK.

[dznutz]

It’s actually a much better game right now, but there is no character to the league anymore and there are no longer any iconic, colorful players who really enhance its appeal for serious fans.

The players are bigger, faster, are in better shape now, and have better equipment too. Equipment improvements are a two edge sword in some respects, it gives players a false sense of security and they are apt to be a little more reckless when making body contact, resulting in more injuries, rather than protecting against.

The character issue may be a result of players wearing helmets and shields, it depersonalizes them while on the ice. It doesn't help that the league has expanded to 32 teams also. Its hard to build rivalries when you play a team a few times a year, and they keep rearranging the divisions. They probably should have stopped after the 1974 expansion.

[basalt]

much better??....all the teams looks the same...play the same....only sport in which scoring has gone down....back wards...this is even after a bunch of bizarre rule changes to ironically try and increase scoring. Somethings wrong when a FIRST YEAR EXPANSION TEAM makes it to the Stanley Cup Final. Sorry, but with the way players are taught and coached now....they ruined their own sport.

[Alberta's Child]

The NHL rule changes that were implemented around 2005 have resulted in a much faster, more open game. The average NHL player weighted about 206 lb. in 2005, and is at least five pounds lighter today. Speed and finesse is simply more important today than it was 20 years ago -- and certainly more than it was in the slow, plodding days of the 1970s.

Here's something else that's interesting: NHL teams don't focus on defensive play anymore.

That sounds odd because scoring is still generally lower today than it was before the 1990s, but what I mean by this is that the whole approach to defensive hockey has moved away from actually "playing defense." I noticed a major change that started at the 2010 Winter Olympics, when Canada won a gold medal partly because they shut down opposing teams using forwards who weren't necessarily adept at playing defense. Instead, these players effectively made defensive play unnecessary by doing an extraordinary job of maintaining possession of the puck in the opposing team's zone.

Top defensive teams in prior generations typically had two types of players who were matched against top opposing scorers: (1) big, physical defensemen who would pound opposing players and keep the front of the net clear, and (2) fast, aggressive forwards who would clog the passing lanes and harass opposing players relentlessly.

Today, a top defensive team has very different characteristics: (1) smart, mobile defensemen who gain possession of the puck in the defensive zone and move the puck quickly out of the zone; and (2) strong, skilled forwards who can win loose pucks and maintain possession in the offensive zone for long stretches of time.

[discostu]

Scoring is up. As is 3rd period scoring. And most helpful from an entertainment level lead changing 3rd period scoring. Teams go into the 3rd with a two goal lead and LOSE now.

Vegas did a great job of constructing a team. They had a vision and put it together. I know people like to complain about the expansion draft rules, which were friendlier than previous expansions, but they didn’t change drastically for the Kraken and they stank. Vegas simply did everything right.

And no teams don’t all look the same and play the same. Vegas is an example. They knew they couldn’t put together a speed team, speed guys are never available in an expansion draft, they put together a grind team. 4 third lines of solid role players.