if it's not too much to ask who are problematic nhl players like a whole list please? or ones you don't like personally im getting into hockey and don't wanna be looking like a clown supporting certain teams ik blackh*wks are a big one but idk much about everyone
no problem! there’s a list somewhere on tumblr of nhl players who are trump supporters; i don’t have it to hand but you can probably find it fairly easily. (and if anybody else has it handy, would you mind linking it in a reply/reblog?)
as for the ones i remember personally. p*trick kane is obviously the big one & the things jonathan toews said about that don’t make him look good either, not that you need me to tell you about the h*wks. varlamov, the avs goalie, is a known abuser; so’s desmith on the pens, so’s drew doughty on the kings, so’s austin watson on the preds, so’s kampfer on the bruins. evander kane on the sharks is violent towards women and is iirc suing a woman who got an abortion, so he’s real great. alex tuch of the golden knights is racist against latino people (and if you mention it even one (1) time on twitter he’ll block you lmao). max domi in montreal is too, he’s anti-immigration and islamophobic. brendan gallagher has said some nasty racist stuff abt pk subban. andrew shaw once called a referee a homophobic slur and then the habs made him their hockey is for everyone ambassador! you can decide for yourself how genuine his redemption arc was. (this year their hockey is for everyone ambassador is max domi. yeah.) the habs are also famous for making alex galchenyuk apologize for being a distraction when he was the victim of domestic abuse. they sure are……a sports organization.
getzlaf on the ducks is a homophobe. kevan miller on the bruins is, yknow, a trashbag republican type. mario lemieux, currently owner of the penguins, was at least present at if not participating in a gang rape and he’s hired a lot of rapists since. the tampa bay lightning organization iirc basically traded jt brown for protesting during the anthem. tom wilson of the caps has been if not necessarily malicious definitely outright dangerous in the past; i’ve heard he’s turned over a new leaf recently but i don’t know that i believe it. tyler seguin on the stars once publicly outed a gay dude without his consent and is bffs with patrick kane. ovechkin (caps) is an incredibly large putin fan, like more than you would think would ever be necessary, like the level of someone who started a MAGA club at their high school to support trump, but if he’s ever done anything heinous he’s kept it under wraps very well.
i have a grudge the size of a mountain against leon draisaitl (edmonton oilers) for not stepping up to give brianna decker her prize money this january when the nhl wouldn’t, and for not bothering to learn the names of the four (4) female athletes at the asg. morgan rielly of the leafs, aside from whether or not he said a homophobic slur at that game, said when talking about work ethic “you’re not here to be a girl about it” and follows jordan peterson on twitter so personally im not into that. brent burns on the sharks follows some scary scary right-wing people on twitter but afaik keeps his thoughts in his head where they belong. there’s some guys on the jets who are kind of trash but i can’t hold an image of a single non-laine winnipeg jets player in my mind for even a full second so you’d have to ask an actual jets fan who they are.
realistically, a lot of the guys who look unobjectionable now are probably going to turn out to be awful people later. you can’t catch em all and you’re not going to find an organization that doesn’t have at least one man you would 100% beat up if you got the chance. so long as it’s not the h*wks and you don’t get capital-w Weird about the players, if you boo the people you know (or have just learned) to be terrible when they appear onscreen it’s all good.
on the bright side: brad marchand, patrice bergeron, zdeno chara, jt brown, and pierre-edouard bellemare all seem to be genuinely great people! many of the new jersey devils wear rainbow shit all the time! you can go on the internet and see multiple videos of austin watson getting punched! also, not nhl, but hilary knight is fantastic and the face of women’s hockey and she is very i_am_aware_of_the_effect_i_have_on_women.gif
hockey is a fun time despite all the terrible men who play it. let me tell you, it’s gonna be great.
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