It's fucking hockey. How can someone be into hockey and be so precious and fragile with their feely feels that rainbow tape upsets them?

"This is Bob. He's our fourth line filler. He's a bit emotional about some things but his mother comes to every game to make sure he's okay and the ref isn't being too hard on him. You'll need to take your pride tape off too. Also, we need him effective and not sulking on the bench, so he asks everyone call him Alpha from now on. If he trips and calls slashing on you, yes, even though you're on his team and no where near him, just apologise so we can keep the game flowing."

Huge hockey fan and this has really disappointed me. Really hoping to see a player break it here soon now that season is underway.

Oh, the whitest sport in the world is bigoted?

It got deleted from politics@lemmy.world for not being relevant to US politics.

One doesn't even have to know what hockey is to automatically identify this as stupid as fuck.

As someone who likes hockey, holy fuck. Tape? Yeah, if that's the mentality of whomever is running the NHL, fuck y'all. This isn't like players are changing the dynamic or anything important at all to the game, and quite frankly in support of a very important message.

I'd like to demand that the staff who passed this all step the fuck down in disgrace. All of them.

they could just rename it autism acceptance tape. let's see the NHL ban that.

I just watched a hockey game where rainbow tape was banned, they started off with a "We stand with Israel!" bit, followed by an indigenous land acknowledgement.

Hockey has been dead to me since the NHL made this announcement.

This is what "nonpolitical" politics really are: status quo adherence.