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OSkAR!!!!!!!!!!

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what we skate for: all black lives matter

Today tomorrow forever

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on racism in hockey

Readings:

Hockey is not for Everyone - Akim Aliu

Silence is Violence - Mark Fraser  

Joel Ward on What the Hockey Diversity Alliance Can Accomplish - Mike Johnston 

Sarah Nurse Urges Fellow Canadians Not to Suppress Our Black History - Thomas Ketko 

NHL Exec. Kim Davis on Racism in Hockey and Growing the Game - Jerry Bembry 

NHL Needs Action, Not Words, on Racial Injustice - Greg Wyshynski

Kevin Weekes: NHL Needs to Get Real About Inequality - Emily Kaplan

For NHL, the Battle to Eradicate Racism in the Sport Continues -Helene Elliot 

Anthony Duclair’s Protest, Racism in Minor Hockey, and More - Brandon Maki

Jospeh Opens Up About Racism, Protests 

‘What the Hell are You Doing Here?’ A Conversation With Black Hockey Fans - Mark Lazerus 

Evander Kane on White NHLers Addressing Racism: We Need ‘Strength in Numbers’ - Ryan S Clark 

Why White NHLers are Calling out Racism Now: ‘Hit Me So Deep That I Was Angry’ - Ryan S Clark 

We Need to be Loud, We need to be Unflinching - Erik Gudbranson

‘It Can’t Just be Their Fight’: Why Blake Wheeler is Speaking out Against Racism - Murat Ates 

Rethinking Canada Through Indigenous Hockey - McKegney and Auksi

Videos: 

How Racism in Hockey Affects Indigenous Communities 

How Racism Affects Hockey Culture 

Iginla on Racism in Hockey

A Roundtable on Racism with NHL Players  

Black Ice: African-Canadians and Hockey  

Soul on Ice: Past, Present, and Future  

Akim Aliu Sits Down For A One-On-One With Ron MacLean 

Ryan Reaves Talks About Hockey in the Black Community 

Is Hockey Having a Moment of Reckoning? 

The Conversation: Improving Representation And Shedding Bias In Hockey & The NHL 

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Articles:

Hockey Is For Everyone, Or Is It? - Nicole Giordano with R. Renee Hess

As hockey confronts its racism problem, why have so many NHL players remained silent? - Hemal Jhaveri

Everything wrong with the New York Islanders statement on George Floyd - Hemal Jhaveri

Nihilism and White Bliss in America’s Most Livable City; On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell - Casey Taylor

Here’s what happens when you proclaim “Black Lives Matter” in the whitest sport in America - Rebecca Renee Hess

Only the puck was black: a story of race and the NHL - Gilman W. Whiting

The significance of a Stanley Cup champion named Devante - Clinton Yates

Current and former NHLers are calling for greater transparency as the GTHL keeps secret its data on penalties called for discriminatory slurs - Rick Westhead

NHL20 has a racism problem, and EA needs to address it -  Jeff Veillette

Kevin Weekes: NHL needs to get real about racial inequality - Emily Kaplan

BLACK HOCKEY ROUNDTABLE: TALKING RACISM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE SPORT with David Amber, Blake Bolden, Grant Fuhr, Kwame Mason, and Sarah Nurse - Matt Larkin

Policy Paper for Anti-Racism in Canadian Hockey

‘We are gathered. We are here.’ Welcome to Black Girl Hockey Club - Kim Brunhuber

Books: 

Black Ice: The Val James Story - Valmore James & John Gallagher

Videos:

A critical look at social justice in women’s hockey, past, present, & future - Erica L. Ayala 

PART ONE: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

PART TWO: Exploring systemic racism with Blake Bolden & Allie Thunstrom. - Erica L. Ayala

New episode of Social Justice in Women’s Hockey by Erica L. Ayala premieres Wednesday, June 9, 2020 at 8:30 pm ET with Saroya Tinker discusses “white gaze” and racism in Canada

A BGHC Community Event: Renee Hess and Saroya Tinker talk race, hockey and BLM

Podcasts:

Redvolution Rampage: The Color of Hockey with Hockey Coach Derrick Henderson, Ayo Adeniye, Malcolm Hayes, and Darius Kirksey

Bardown Beauties: #Sticktosports - Guest Erica L. Ayala

The End of Sport: Episode 16: Racism, Rebellion, and the Sport Media Complex with Hemal Jhaveri

TXHT: A Conversation with Saroya Tinker

Japers’ Rink Radio: Hockey Must Do Better with Marie Smith & Chris Watkins

Further Education & Involvement: 

Anti-Racism in Sports Resources Google Doc

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he’s just vibing

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the Love and Respect for this man

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Martini's for all

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jakub channeling his inner gritty, pouncing on some b*tches phi v. mtl [game five] | 8.19.20

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feisty boy

NJDvsPHI 3.1.2019

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I reblog this every time, but it’s TK and it’s still h.o.t.

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hayzy may be afraid of them, but his dawgs got his back! kevin hayes, travis konecny, & scott laughton phi v. nyr | 2.28.20 

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Hungry dogs run faster.

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Meet Jakub Voracek. He insisted Kevin Hayes only give him the shirt he is seen wearing below. Why? Because he thinks he is the right kind of person to wear it and he deserves it. I'm not sure why this amuses me but it does. I love these idiots.

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Kevin Hayes at the Kids Press Conference during the Flyers Wives Carnival.

🎞 Taryn Hatcher

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hours later and I'm still dead over this.

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flyers + pups!

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Puppy Calendar Shoot

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Kevin Hayes for the next three weeks:

Kevin: *knocks on door with stick* KNAK KNAK… 

*no answer* 

Kevin: CAN CARTAH COME OUT AND PLAY? 

*still no answer* 

Kevin: CAHTAH HAHT?? LESS GO, CAHTAH HAHT?? 

*finally, Carter’s Mom answers the door* 

Carter’s Mom: KEVIN, GO HOME!!

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Kevin Hayes for the next seven days:

Kevin: *knocks on door with stick* ARE YOU READY TO PLAY, CAHTAH? CAHTAH HAHT?

*no answer*

Kevin: CAHTAHHAHT CAHTAHHAHT CAHTAHHAHT!!!

*still no answer*

Kevin: CAHTAH PLEASE I MISS YA CAHTAH HAHT! LESS GO CAHTAH HAHT!

Carter’s Mom *yelling through door*: KEVIN, DO I NEED TO CALL YOUR MOTHER?