[Article] NHL reportedly bans Pride Tape for 2023-24 season

[Maninthebox]

Perhaps the league ought ban the parasitic media that can't stop themselves from focusing on the negatives instead of celebrating the positives.

[Bob Long]

11 hours ago, Hammertime said:

Apparently Kuzzmenko has no issue wearing a pink unicorn blowup but won't wear a colorful shirt. 

 

its just so stupid. My sky fairy doesn't like coloured tape. 

[Bob Long]

Just now, Maninthebox said:

Perhaps the league ought ban the parasitic media that can't stop themselves from focusing on the negatives instead of celebrating the positives.

 

[Coconuts]

Hoping to see more of this.

 

 

 

[Coconuts]

 

 

[DSVII]

51 minutes ago, Maninthebox said:

Perhaps the league ought ban the parasitic media that can't stop themselves from focusing on the negatives instead of celebrating the positives.

 

The domino of whoever decided to make it about Reimer and not the players who wore the jersey -> Hockey no longer supports fighting Cancer

[Coconuts]

 

 

[Coconuts]

1 hour ago, The Arrogant Worms said:

Brian Burke 'deeply disappointed' by NHL's ban of on-ice support for community causes

 

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/brian-burke-deeply-disappointed-nhls-152918438.html

 

Probably the most influential voice to speak up thus far

 

 

 

[Coconuts]

https://sanjosehockeynow.com/san-jose-sharks-anthony-duclair-black-history-pride-tape-jersey/

 

Anthony Duclair was puzzled by the NHL’s decision to ban specialty warm-up jerseys, like Pride jerseys.

“I know a lot of guys are supportive of that. I have no problem in the past to do it. It sucks that’s not going to be part of the league moving forward,” Duclair, who has worn both Pride jerseys and used Pride tape on his sticks in previous years, told San Jose Hockey Now. “It’s a little weird to me, a little puzzling to me.”

 

And now, the league has prohibited Pride tape.

 

Although players, per ESPN, “can voluntarily participate in themed celebrations off the ice, the updated guidance reaffirmed that on-ice player uniforms and gear worn in warmups, official team practices and games cannot be altered to reflect ‘specialty’ theme nights.

 

“An NHL spokesperson told ESPN that Pride tape had been allowed for years as an exception to its stick tape restrictions, which otherwise would allow players to use only black or white tape. The league said the current ban on Pride tape was to prevent teams and players from using it as an ‘end around’ to violate the new uniform policy.”

 

So players now won’t even have the choice to support the causes, on the ice, that they want.

 

“For me, you’re also banning Black History Month,” the San Jose Sharks winger, of Haitian descent and also an outspoken member of the Hockey Diversity Alliance, opined. “I think we’re taking a step backwards, to be honest.”

While teams will still have Black History and Pride Nights – the San Jose Sharks will celebrate Pride on Jan. 27 and Black History on Feb. 29 – the players, apparently, won’t be allowed to represent either on the ice, be it on their jerseys or sticks or skates or any part of their gear.

 

“Stickers and ribbons are also banned from player uniforms,” according to ESPN, “although coaches are allowed to wear ribbons.”

 

All these guidelines might affect Duclair, who famously, before Martin Luther King Day during the 2020-21 season, wore skates that featured, per The Athletic, “the letters ‘BLM’ to support the Black Lives Matter movement, a raised fist logo and the phrase ‘Change Hockey Culture.’ The left skate also [featured] the logo of the Hockey Diversity Alliance.”

 

Duclair isn’t sure if such on-ice statements are now banned during Black History Night.

 

“That’s something I’ll have to ask,” he said. It sure looks like it though.

 

But one thing that Duclair knows, the NHL, is once again, falling behind other leagues, by not opening the door for new fans to feel welcome.

 

“That’s why the NBA, NFL, leagues like that, they’re always growing year after year, always getting new fans, new viewership,” he said.

 

For his part, the San Jose Sharks star isn’t going to stop supporting the causes that he cares about, as we can see in the work with his Duclair Foundation.

 

“As a league-wide thing, they’re gonna do what they feel is necessary. But I think as individuals, you got to step up and keep pushing the message forward to the fans, to include new fans,” he said. “That’s on the players. The league can force whatever rules they made, but each player here has a voice of their own.”

[RWJC]

This is where NHLPA leadership needs to stand up to officially protest.
Only problem is it will likely just be symbolic and the optics it will create going forward for the longterm relationship between players, owners and league will be strained. 
Would make he NHLPA look like heroes though. 

[Coconuts]

Sometimes common ground isn't possible, but there could have been more room for on-ice expression.

 

 

Edited October 11, 2023 by Coconuts

[DSVII]

30 minutes ago, Coconuts said:

Sometimes common ground isn't possible, but there could have been more room for on-ice expression.

 

 

[The Arrogant Worms]

Report: Flyers' Laughton plans to continue using Pride tape despite ban

 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/report-flyers-laughton-plans-to-continue-using-pride-tape-despite-ban/

[Coconuts]

 

 

[Sapper]

Where does it end?

 

So a group of atheist hockey players can stop all Christmas and Easter events,  or at the very lest be given air time to preach their belief?

 

A few hockey players who  belong to hard right evengelic churches should be respected and given air time to promote their beliefs ( around women rights for example )

 

The only option should be for all such events there should be 2 different versions of gear and give players a choice but they must pick one

 

For pride have Pride gear and anti bullying / we all belong type gear.... pick one

 

Fir veterans night the camo jersey and one that says peace in earth .... pick one

 

Cancer .... well screw giving choices on this one .... 

 

You get the point.  What I don't agree with is the Donald Trump mantra that there's good people on both sides argument that has normalized targeting people by race , sexuap orientation etc.

 

Give Choices that provide for support of the goal without support of the issue.... but a firm no to giving air time to those who feel others shouldn't have equal rights 

 

Atleast thats my view 

[DSVII]

9 minutes ago, Sapper said:

Where does it end?

 

 

 

 

 

That's the neat part, it doesn't. You can be 110% certain that the 'don't put politics in my life' crowd will target Black History Month next.

 

 

 

[Coconuts]

 

 

[Kevin Biestra]

40 minutes ago, Sapper said:

Where does it end?

 

So a group of atheist hockey players can stop all Christmas and Easter events,  or at the very lest be given air time to preach their belief?

 

I think the proper analogy would probably be an atheist hockey player being allowed to decline to wear a warmup jersey that they believe promotes a religion to which they don't subscribe.  Or a Muslim hockey player declining to wear a Star of David warmup jersey for Jewish night.  Or a Jewish hockey player declining to wear a jersey covered in Islamic or Buddhist iconography, etc.

 

I don't see atheist hockey players trying to stop Christmas any more than I see Christian or whatever hockey players trying to stop Pride nights or keep gay people from playing hockey.  They just want to opt out of wearing the jersey themselves.

If people had let them opt out and not made a big deal of it, we would probably still have the jerseys.

 

Everybody started screeching and now no jerseys for anyone.

[Sapper]

31 minutes ago, Kevin Biestra said:

 

I think the proper analogy would probably be an atheist hockey player being allowed to decline to wear a warmup jersey that they believe promotes a religion to which they don't subscribe.  Or a Muslim hockey player declining to wear a Star of David warmup jersey for Jewish night.  Or a Jewish hockey player declining to wear a jersey covered in Islamic or Buddhist iconography, etc.

 

I don't see atheist hockey players trying to stop Christmas any more than I see Christian or whatever hockey players trying to stop Pride nights or keep gay people from playing hockey.  They just want to opt out of wearing the jersey themselves.

If people had let them opt out and not made a big deal of it, we would probably still have the jerseys.

 

Everybody started screeching and now no jerseys for anyone.

Don't agree that we should be silent and nor do I agree that someone who takes offense is screeching 

 

We clearly are on opposite sides of this issue so will.have to agree to disagree .... don't see eithet of is changing views 

[Kevin Biestra]

1 hour ago, Sapper said:

Don't agree that we should be silent and nor do I agree that someone who takes offense is screeching 

 

We clearly are on opposite sides of this issue so will.have to agree to disagree .... don't see eithet of is changing views 

 

I don't think you know what my view is other than what I have stated...that the path of least resistance was to enjoy the 95% victory of 95% of the players being glad to wear the jersey and to not make a big deal out of it if one in twenty players said no thanks to the jersey.

[Gurn]

Same post in the other thread:

Hopefully a team will lease some advertising space on their uniform.

Perhaps something about 4 inches by about 6

and looks like this

 

 

no problem with adds, so no complaints about this.

Team/owner makes money, and a message gets sent.

[King Heffy]

3 hours ago, The Arrogant Worms said:

Report: Flyers' Laughton plans to continue using Pride tape despite ban

 

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/report-flyers-laughton-plans-to-continue-using-pride-tape-despite-ban/

A matter of time before a player gets customized sticks with pride colours.

[GrammaInTheTub]

If I were an NHL player that really wanted to challenge this nonsense and shove it in the leagues’s face, I would be wearing Pride themed personal attire to the rink each game. Ties, custom suit jackets, etc. 
 

It’s not on-ice, it’s personal attire. It will still be captured by media on the walk ups to the rink (particularly if someone with a lot of influence like McDavid were to do so). 

[King Heffy]

8 minutes ago, GrammaInTheTub said:

 

If I were an NHL player that really wanted to challenge this nonsense and shove it in the leagues’s face, I would be wearing Pride themed personal attire to the rink each game. Ties, custom suit jackets, etc. 
 

It’s not on-ice, it’s personal attire. It will still be captured by media on the walk ups to the rink (particularly if someone with a lot of influence like McDavid were to do so). 

I could see Burke doing it on air as well if he's back on the panel this year.

[aGENT]

32 minutes ago, GrammaInTheTub said:

 

If I were an NHL player that really wanted to challenge this nonsense and shove it in the leagues’s face, I would be wearing Pride themed personal attire to the rink each game. Ties, custom suit jackets, etc. 
 

It’s not on-ice, it’s personal attire. It will still be captured by media on the walk ups to the rink (particularly if someone with a lot of influence like McDavid were to do so). 

 

Was thinking the same thing. Probably a good thing I'm not an NHL player, I'd be using pride tape all year long. F-them.

 

Then try and find some extra glittery tape just for Pride night