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NHL rescinds ban on rainbow-colored Pride tape, allowing players to use it on the ice this season

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was as shocked as everyone else when the ban originally happened, but this felt inevitable.

This rule was never going to be enforceable, and would only create more bad media for the league. Very glad they went ahead and walked it back quickly, hockey is for everyone and players should be able to represent that however they want!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thin blue line tape incoming

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Too busy beating their wives to beat other plays on the ice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Hockey HAS to be for everyone. Any sport where you can (safely) beat the shit out of each other for a few hours and then end it with a 'good game' handshake is what it's all about.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

This whole situation should have just been settled with making the warmup jerseys optional for the players. That way none of the bigots would feel uncomfortable supporting non-bigotry and the league wouldn't provide the bigots cover for the bigots to not draw attention to their bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

This was the right decision.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This was such a weird call to begin with. I'm not sure how they expected it to work out. Glad it was walked back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Good for the NHL.