@ManBearFridge's comment on 'Ivan Provorov refuses to wear a pride jersey for the warmups at pride night in the NHL, citing his religious beliefs, causing r/hockey, r/NHL, and r/HockeyPatrolNews to spontaneously combust'

The two posts from /r/hockey have already been locked, but the /r/NHL posts and /r/HockeyPatrolNews are still open. This particular drama happened because Ivan Provorov, a Russian defenseman for the Philadelphia Flyers, refused to skate in warmups during pride night because he felt wearing a jersey with rainbow themes infringed on his religious beliefs. The subreddits mentioned above obviously have calm, rational thoughts around his decision. Obligatory homophobia warning, not to mention I made this on the Reddit app so the formatting may be shot to heck.

Anyways, here are some bangers from the different threads.

religion is inherently evil

Tortorella : “the real question here, is can I blame this on Kevin Hayes?”

This is a sticky situation. As a Muslim I'm not allowed to celebrate pride, so I would have probably done the same as provo. I don't believe I'm being homophobic in any way shape or form I just can't participate due to religious restrictions. I just can't see the problem in abstaining from something like this due to religion. One could say if you call me homophobic, you're in turn being Islamophobic. It's a complex situation idk.

I wonder how much of the “it’s his right!! He doesn’t have to wear it!” crowd would feel the same way if he chose not to wear a military appreciation jersey.

How are you gonna be the biggest clown on your team when you play with Tony DeAngelo

Jesus it’s a jersey, he can’t catch the gay from it

Speculation. Put the pitch forks down until we actually know why. I’m sure he’ll be asked about it post game

Bruhh… I hope this doesn’t hurt his trade value

That's his right. Just as it's also my right to mock him for being so sensitive.

Don’t worry your team sucks shit through a straw with or without your bender butt

Lmao it’s just wearing a jersey… people acting like he’s being asked to watch gay porn. Edit: For some of you angry, deeply closeted people replying to me. He shouldn’t be forced to wear it. It should be an individual choice for players, I agree. I’m merely making a commentary on the extreme opinions being shared in this thread.