The NHL will let players use Pride Tape after all
The National Hockey League is ending its ban on players supporting social causes on their equipment, including a popular stick tape in support of the LGBTQ community, the league announced on Tuesday.
It’s great to see this get rolled back, obviously, but Bettman, Daly, and the rest of them should be absolutely ashamed of themselves that this happened at all.
First jerseys, now the NHL is banning Pride tape too
In just 10 months, years of important, positive advancements in the NHL and men’s hockey at large have been eclipsed by disastrous choices marginalizing or outright erasing the LGBTQ community.
I was already on the fence about watching the NHL this year for a few reasons but, with the league banning Pride jerseys and now tape too, I can’t support this regressive, homophobic nonsense. Hockey obviously isn’t for everyone.