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PRIDE PUT ON ICE? NHL Considers Ditching Pride Nights After More Player Pushback

posted by Hannity Staff - 3.29.23

Another NHL star has refused to wear a pride night jersey.

According to a report from The Blaze, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league is evaluating whether or not to continue with the controversial “Pride Night” program after a significant number of NHL players have resisted the woke intitiative.

From The Blaze:

Moscow-born defenseman Ilya Lyubushkin became the latest player to decline wearing a rainbow-themed jersey when the Buffalo Sabres skated during warm-ups, as reported by CTV News.

Lyubushkin cited a Russian law against promoting “nontraditional sexual relations,” the same reason the Chicago Blackhawks gave for not sporting the jerseys, as they have several Russian players.

The Russian joins two Canadian brothers, Eric and Marc Staal of the Florida Panthers, who refused to wear the unique jerseys just a week before.

Commissioner Bettman stresses that the players’ rights have to be respected as well.

“I think that’s become more of a distraction now, because the substance of what our teams and we have been doing and stand for is really being pushed to the side for what is a handful of players basically [having] made personal decisions, and you have to respect that as well,” the commissioner remarked.

More over at The Blaze:

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