Posted on 10/08/2017 8:31:34 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
SUNRISE, Fla -- Tampa Bay Lightning forward J.T. Brown raised his right fist during the playing of the national anthem before the team's first road game of the season.
It is the first known demonstration of any kind during the anthem in an NHL regular-season game. The NHL has no rules governing what players must do during the national anthem.
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You expect Gary Bettman to do something about this? We’ll see. He’s more feckless than Goodell.
Clinched fist salute: communism, communist influenced black power ideology, or the confused and clueless trying to virtue signal or be hip...
I had really hoped hockey wouldn’t succumb to this bs.
"Sigh."
Looks like I will be switching to Nascar and Sprint Boat Racing
Best thing to do about this is ignore it. There are less than two dozen black hockey players in the NHL. Don’t publicize it or make it an issue. Most hockey players are Canadian or from Europe and this is only going to drag more teams into the fray.
Sometime during the first 20 games or so, release him.
Monkey See, Monkey Do
more people watch truck pulls than hockey...better stop this quick, even though hockey has become unwatchable to me...way too defensive now
Would that be J.T.S. Brown?
Yeah! What are we supposed to do when we can’t even trust snopes?
I hope, when this happens in the “other sports than NBA and NFL”, these guys look like jerks. They do to me. I can’t imagine them having many players doing this. NHL and the other league are not majority AA, so, I don’t see the same significance or at least impact of the act; maybe I’m wrong.
The negro looks silly. If there was black power they wouldn’t be so pathetic.
Stupid Marxist crap. Where are the Asian’s wailing about the disparity of racism?
Looking, looking.....
Good for Coach Cooper, he's going with 11 forwards and 7 D (he'll probably say it's nothing against Brown, just a typical tactical approach).
Vinik has always wanted to stay out of this crap.
The Bucs and Rays wanted the removal of the statue... the Bolts said let the elected leaders do what they want to do they were staying out of it.
I think they matched a donation to move the statue at the end of the day hoping the issue would go away... and alas it has not.
They sure as hell scratched J.T. Brown for the next home game. He would get booed every time he touched the puck if he touched the ice (all 6 minutes of the game he would play)
That said, team played lights out in the 3rd period for a comeback win with a lineup featuring 11 Forwards and 7 Defensemen... not a lot of room in that lineup for Brown who is the 13th best Forward on the team.
Beating the Cup Champion Penguins so far tonight, with a similar lineup. Koekkoek (D) in place of Brown, even scored a goal.
I had no illusions about hockey. The only thing is this won’t spread. The number of blacks in the game is miniscule and they are skating on thin ice doing this.
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