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.
Tortorella : “the real question here, is can I blame this on Kevin Hayes?”
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
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
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The horseshoe really is in full effect when it comes to heckin sports ballers.
Rightoids fuming when someone takes a knee.
Leftoids raging when someone doesn’t take two.
Smh Americans
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They should meet half way and kneel on a pride flag
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reddit is so mad they can't compel political speech lmfao
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Whoever said "when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" was a moron.
Totalitarianism is well and truly here, only its wearing a progress pride flag and wielding a phial of estradiol.
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No way they make foreigners wear pro-millitary uniform.
Salute the strag, or else we will send you to genocide ukrainerionos.
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WEAR THE JERSEY, SUCK SOME PEEPEE, MARRY A MAN CUTE TWINK HOMOPHOBE!!
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This is my beef with the whole "consequences" thing Leftists keep spouting. Who the frick are you? No, seriously.....who the Frick are YOU to determine a) who should face consequences and b) what those consequences should be? Just like Youtube, Twat-face and the rest, you are Nobody. They are Nobody. No one voted you or the Twat-face Cancel Warriors into office--no one appointed you, Zuckface or the rest of the White Cis Male Patriarchy Brigade to a seat in a court as Judge, Jury or Executioner. You should never have even been given the notion that you have, any way whatsoever, the Power to determine those things. That's what the frick is wrong with society and cancel culture as it stands right now. Everybody wants to think they're fricking SPECIAL and have some Right to determine who should speak, about what they should speak, and how they should speak it.
I'm categorically against any antisemitism, Nazisms, racisms, misogyny and trans hate speech, and I think my record of posts on this site proves that. But I do NOT have the right to shut someone else up. That's not my fricking place. I an argue with them--I can disagree--I can post until the cows go home....but God did not come down from High and anoint me (or you), or anyone else, the power to cancel or shut people up just because I disagree with them.
Ya'll need to learn your fricking lane and stick to it. The Right to Free Speech is for speech you hate, not for speech you agree with. Go sit the frick down somewhere until you realize your place and learn how to stay in it.
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/r/hockey:
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https://web.archive.org/https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey
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1st r/hockey post:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/hockey/comments/10evmmt/seravalli_there_is_word_that_flyers_ivan_provorov/
https://web.archive.org/https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/10evmmt/seravalli_there_is_word_that_flyers_ivan_provorov/
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2nd r/hockey post:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/
https://web.archive.org/https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/
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r/NHL post:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/nhl/comments/10evpko/wow_ivan_provorov_refused_to_participate_in/
https://web.archive.org/https://old.reddit.com/r/nhl/comments/10evpko/wow_ivan_provorov_refused_to_participate_in/
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r/HockeyPatrolNews post:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/HockeyPatrolNews/comments/10evpa1/ivan_provorov_refused_to_participate_in_flyers/
https://web.archive.org/https://old.reddit.com/r/HockeyPatrolNews/comments/10evpa1/ivan_provorov_refused_to_participate_in_flyers/
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religion is inherently evil:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/j4tdqf0/?context=3
https://web.archive.org/https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/j4tdqf0/?context=3
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Tortorella : “the real question here, is can I blame this on Kevin Hayes?”:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/j4te6bo/?context=3
https://web.archive.org/https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/j4te6bo/?context=3
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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.:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/j4tfi9g/?context=3
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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.:
https://undelete.pullpush.io/r/hockey/comments/10evvyi/oconnor_torts_confirms_that_provorov_did_sit_out/j4thg19/?context=3
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