hockey
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NHL Hits the Pause Button on Season Due to COVID-19
With the Omicron variant on the rise, the NHL becomes the first North American league to suspend operations.
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You’ve Gotta Be Stupid AF to Get Suspended by the NHL for a Fake Vaccination Card, and Evander Kane Is Stupid AF
The San Jose Sharks forward just got suspended 21 games for being a first-ballot Hall of Fame idiot.
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Willie O’Ree, NHL’s 1st Black Hockey Player, Set to Receive Congressional Gold Medal
Senate passes a bill to honor the trailblazing athlete, who broke the NHL’s color barrier in 1958. The bill heads to the House, where swift passage is expected.
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Tampa Bay Lightning Makes NHL History by Starting an All-Black Forward Line
Toward the end of his legendary standup special Never Scared, Chris Rock goes into a bit about the history of slavery and how slave masters used breeding to try to create “super slaves” and how that continues to affect America today. “This is why Black people dominate every physical activity in the United States of…
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Police Union Criticizes NHL Team for Opposing Racism
Racist white people hate being called racist white people. I know this because I receive emails, tweets and DMs from white people who are insulted by the notion that all white people don’t hate Black people. Most recently, after an article about patriotism and the NBA strike (or this one about Ben Shapiro…or this one…
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Chicago Blackhawks Ban 4 Fans From Home Games After They Chanted ‘Basketball’ at Black NHL Player
The Chicago Blackhawks have barred four fans from their home games after the Washington Capitals’ Devante Smith-Pelly was subjected to racist chants while playing in Chicago over the weekend. Smith-Pelly is, unfortunately, no stranger to racism on the ice and immediately knew what was going on when a few fans started chanting, “Basketball, basketball, basketball”…
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1st-Ever Black Hockey Player for Team USA Hits the Ice for Winter Olympics
So apropos that it’s Black History Month because Jordan Greenway will be making some black history when he steps onto the ice for the 2018 Winter Olympics as the first African American to be named to the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team. At 6 feet, 5 inches tall and 238 pounds, the 20-year-old will also…
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Black NHL Player Receives Death Threats After Raising Fist During National Anthem
With his fist raised high Saturday night, Tampa Bay Lightning player J.T. Brown became the first NHL player to protest police brutality during the national anthem. After taking action, Brown took to social media to explain and defend his position. The forward also admitted that his gesture had provoked death threats from racist Twitter users.…



