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Most Capitals players say they'd attend White House, but Devante Smith-Pelly won't be going
See BS Sports ^ | 6/14/18 | Pete Blackburn

Posted on 06/29/2018 1:36:07 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The Capitals have already expressed some interest in visiting the White House as the NHL's newest Stanley Cup champions, but at least one of their players won't be making the trip.

During the Stanley Cup Final, Caps forward Devante Smith-Pelly, who is one of the NHL's few black players, said that he would likely skip a trip to the White House thanks to his distaste for Donald Trump and the things the president has said in the past. Nearly a week after winning the Cup, Smith-Pelly stood his ground on the matter.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: deviante; ignorant; nhl; tds; ungrateful
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To: Mears

A sufficiently ingrate black athlete will complain that the ice is white.


41 posted on 06/29/2018 2:25:34 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Who cares? Some one wants to go, then go , some one does not then don’t. Of the littlest importance! There are important things happening in our country and what sports people visit the White House is not on the list!


42 posted on 06/29/2018 2:28:20 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Don Corleone

Trump got a lifetime award from Jessie Jackson years ago. But I guess that makes no dif at this point once you swallow too much lib media slop


43 posted on 06/29/2018 2:29:07 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Mears

Listen, athletes for the most part just aren’t that bright. They never had to be since they were carried along in school because of their ability on the field of play. However they believe they are experts on everything because they have had their butts kissed by all the hangers on throughout their sports lives.


44 posted on 06/29/2018 2:29:20 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: SoFloFreeper

No couth. No class. No decent and truthful education.


45 posted on 06/29/2018 2:30:31 PM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: cnsmom

46 posted on 06/29/2018 2:30:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mears

“The things that he [Trump] spews are straight-up racist and sexist”...Devante Smith-Pelly


47 posted on 06/29/2018 2:31:13 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: SoFloFreeper
One of my favourite Caps (and people in the game), so I'm not really concerned about that other fellow.
48 posted on 06/29/2018 2:38:15 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: jimmygrace

Maybe he is mad at Trump for claiming credit for the low black unemployment rate, when everyone knows it’s because all the black people got jobs acting in TV commercials.


49 posted on 06/29/2018 2:42:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SoFloFreeper

Forget invitations, let’s do applications.

Make players AND even fans of a championship team APPLY for a visit, on a form that begins:

I stand for the flag

I stand for the vets

Enclosed is my $10 (fans) $1000 (player) donation to the veteran charity indicated below (choose one).

Player and fan applications get put into separate baskets, then five players and five fans get selected to for the honor to meet their president and visit the White House.


50 posted on 06/29/2018 2:57:25 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: SoFloFreeper
Caps supposedly re-signed Smelly-Pelly for another year.

Was hoping he'd end up in Buffalo or Arizona.

51 posted on 06/29/2018 3:06:47 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Devante who? Put him in a lineup, see if anyone recognizes him.


52 posted on 06/29/2018 3:20:23 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: pierrem15

With the exception of the playoffs, he is barely a fourth-liner


53 posted on 06/29/2018 3:38:42 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: hal ogen
What if all white players refused to go to the Obama White House?
54 posted on 06/29/2018 3:43:40 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: SoFloFreeper

This hockey player is upset over words? What exactly did our President say that would be so upsetting. What a girlie man.


55 posted on 06/29/2018 4:03:30 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sit down and shut the hell up Jr.


56 posted on 06/29/2018 4:24:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh golly gee. What a surprise. Hey piss ant Pelly - stay home. We won’t miss you.


57 posted on 06/29/2018 4:32:31 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Defeat David Trone")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Stay home a$$ wipe.


58 posted on 06/29/2018 5:45:00 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Mears

“Could someone please tell me what Trump EVER said that would make a black hockey player unhappy?”

He is an Canadian Black Hockey player. He does have a gripe. Trump has made a chump out of Justin Trudeau. LOL!


59 posted on 06/30/2018 6:49:26 AM PDT by DAC21
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