NHL Team Refuses to Wear Pride Themed Jerseys Minutes Before Puck Drop, Fans Are Not Happy
Philadelphia Flyers defensemen Ivan Provorov's decision to not participate in his teams' pride night event of wearing warm-up jerseys sparked a lot more teams to opt out of the 'event'.
Since, multiple players and organizations have spoken out and addressed the situation in an unhappy way, where they would support the pride movement, and there is also multiple teams who have opted out of wearing the pride jerseys as a whole, despite having a scheduled night advertised to fans.
Minnesota Wild's writer for The Athletic Michael Russo revealed that the Wild would opt out of wearing their pride-themed jerseys tonight, a last-second decision it seems, despite the organization advertising that the event was still taking place just days ago.
#mnwild players, who were supposed to wear Pride jerseys tonight and did so last season, are not wearing them in warmups.
Told it was an organizational decision
The Wild have several other Pride initiatives they are doing
Some fans have taken to social media, twitter more so, to voice their displeasure or their opinions on the matter:
No matter what your opinion is, good or bad, the NHL needs to address the situation as a whole...
Source: Bladeofsteel.com
POLL |
MARS 7 | 166 ANSWERS NHL Team Refuses to Wear Pride Themed Jerseys Minutes Before Puck Drop, Fans Are Not Happy Should the NHL cancel the pride themed nights as a whole? |
Yes | 109 | 65.7 % |
No | 57 | 34.3 % |
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