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NHL teams permitting homophobes to have heckler’s veto over Pride jerseys

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That’s three teams to take the coward’s way out now:

Minnesota Wild players took warmup Tuesday in their normal uniforms, despite the club reportedly announcing they would wear special Pride-themed jerseys as part of the team’s Pride Night festivities.

According to Michael Russo of The Athletic, the Wild had previously announced that they would wear the Pride jerseys and had also planned to auction off the jerseys after the game, according to a post on the club’s website viewed by Russo that has since been deleted.

“Part of the themed game programming includes custom-designed Wild Pride jerseys worn by the team during pre-game warmups,” the deleted post said, according to Russo. “The custom warmup jerseys will be signed and auctioned off starting March 7.”

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The Rangers and Islanders also chose not to wear Pride uniforms during warmups earlier this season, and Flyers defenceman Ivan Provorov chose to sit out of warm-ups for a Pride Night game against the Ducks instead of wearing the themed jersey. Provorov cited his religious beliefs in his decision and the NHL later said in a statement that “players are free to decide which initiatives to support.”

I wonder what would happen if a few players insisted that nobody on the team go along with some kind of tribute to the military or local police. Actually, I don’t.

Anyway, as we will be discussing on a forthcoming podcast I’m not, er, wild about replay review in general and I hate replay review of marginal offside calls in particular, but in this specific case the Wild can eat shit.

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