On the real though the Kelce brothers taking a majority of young girls “easy” questions about football and answering them legitimately and not making fun of them on the most listened to sports podcast in the world rn is so refreshing and nice and fun.
Auston Matthews has more goals than:
The Philadelphia Flyers
The Minnesota Wild
The Ottawa Senators
The Boston Bruins
The Chicago Blackhawks
The Dallas Stars
The Columbus Blue Jackets
The San Jose Sharks
The Vancouver Canucks
The New York Islanders
You want to know why less women like or care about sports? Because little girls watching the NHL playoffs for the first time just heard their future selves called distractions and better for the game if they aren’t around.
Alex DeBrincat was 12 when these actions took place within the Blackhawks org and he’s taken more accountability and apologized more than anyone who was there.
@JohnPuccio
I work for a pro men's team. I know most are not. It's not often the time is taken in a setting like that to go out of their way to break down the simple stuff for people trying to get into the sport. Refreshing to see HOFers discuss the easy stuff seriously :)
When a diver hits their head on platform & bleeds out, you'll want a lifeguard there. When a swimmer has a seizure in the pool after blacking out during a race, you'll want a lifeguard there. When a athlete has a cramp, muscle pull, or fatigue issue, you'll want a lifeguard there
JT Brown, known Twitch streamer, who just signed with IF Björklöven, joined in the NWHL chat and gifted 50 subscriptions. That money allows people access to the league and money will directly go to players. Grow. The. Game.
Imagine thinking Georgiev sucker punching Tony DeAngelo in the face in the tunnel would only be the third craziest thing to happen to the Rangers this season.
While I appreciate the recognition for Matt Dumba “doing this alone” don’t forget about JT Brown who did it first and then was pretty quickly traded and sent to the AHL.
Saroya Tinker has spent the last 6 months since being in this league doing dozens of media calls and podcasts about battling racism in hockey, raising money for Black youth in hockey, protesting racial injustice...all to be called “the white supremacist crap girl”...
Hi. Hello. If you're upset because the
#NHL
men won't be playing in the Olympics, there's a ton of amazing female players, teams, and storylines to watch. It's the best hockey in the world. Shift your focus to that because they and you deserve it.
I’m sorry I just can’t get over the “girls have something to look up to NOW” narrative like a lot of woho players didn’t make the cut for these PWHL rosters or had to retire before seeing it come to fruition but they played legitimate pro hockey and it’s such a disservice to them
@Abstruse
@notafan_jo
Very much like how years ago you could take a sound tour. Would it be assumed that if I heave headphones in, I’m listening to music and ignoring everything??? Maybe only if I’m under 25...
Why do men always suggest lowering the WNBA rim for more dunking will magically make it more profitable, and they’ll be interested in it like the second it happens they’ll all stop being sexist and homophobic and tune in.....
B**stool guys will always be like “don’t dish it if you can’t take it” when the dishing it is saying “I don’t really like that this player supports this thing” and taking it is hundreds of men calling you fat, doxing you, and threatening to kill your family. 🥴
The top person to gift subscriptions to the NWHL this weekend was a locked account guy with a few K followers, the second was a Black hockey player known for his social activism, the third was Steve Dangle. That tells me what I need to know about where the real growth is.
Erik Johnson just went live on Instagram for 30 seconds to chug a beer at the Rockies game, pour some into the Cup effectively letting it spill, Landeskog going “oh no” and then the live ending. We are approaching Caps level energy here.
Did Mike Milbury say no one goes to women’s college hockey games as if the Wisconsin women didn’t have higher attendance than the Red Wings sometimes this past season???
Matthew Tkachuk really punched a domestic abuser in the face, has perpetually pissed off a rapist and regularly stans his NHL teams sister team. Women’s rights activists don’t know what to DO with him.
@HeatherTDay
Eventually got to the point where they were like “we’re joking, it’s just fun” and I whistled to be switched out by a male guard on shift and told them to tell the same jokes to him.
I was definitely 20 at most and these were all men over 40 easily except one.
Something else to note imo, Lexi Brown rightfully called out the lack of financial support from the AHL after JT was signed elsewhere and talked about the struggles. Here he is today dumping money into the NWHL. When you care, you care.
No. 1 2020 NWHL Draft pick, Sammy Davis announced via Instagram all the proceeds from her jersey and shirsey sales this year will go to the Travis Roy foundation as well as doing a polar plunge for spinal cord injury research and awareness. Pretty dang cool.
Barstool tweeted about Sarah Fuller and every single reply tweet either sexualized her or made fun of her. This is why it’s laughable to even contemplate having them in the realm of women in sports. They attract the sexist ugly and that’s dangerous.
I wish male hockey reporters spoke out about racists and sexists and transphobes in the NHL at the same rate as they do about Tom Wilson hitting someone and not...oh say, give them all redemption arc stories.
Hockey players are exhausting, man. JJ Watt is a prominent, recognizable, social media darling shining a light on hockey and you want to put him down for it? Okay.
As devastating as all the NHL sites losses are, I fear The Ice Garden is already being left out of the shuffle.
The NHL will have coverage. Women’s hockey will take the hardest loss here. TIG has been, at times, the number one spot for women’s hockey resources.
Anyway calling all Avs fans that want to know what they’re getting into with Georgiev from someone who has not stopped obnoxiously stanning him since 2018, here is my thread of things:
Firstly yes, he punched Tony D in the face and sent him to waivers.
Shoutout to the guy at the rink tonight behind me who said “she’s been on her phone literally the whole time” to whom I just had to slowly turn around and show my media pass to like sir I’m working, I wish I didn’t have 300 new videos in my favorites rn.
Can y’all stop putting barstool on my timeline? I don’t care if they’re honoring 9/11. I don’t care if they’re talking about FDNY hats. Full stop, stop RT them.
deleting my dating apps, I want to find someone the old fashioned way (i am a subpar nhl coach fired by one team and rehired by a different one immediately after)
Getting mad Team Trans put together a tournament for exclusively trans athletes to play hockey w/ other trans athletes without making mention of playing in gendered leagues is further proof you’re not worried abt protecting women, you just don’t want trans people to exist here.
The fact that the Leafs said nothing about the NW or the Six today lol like bro even EDMONTON tweeted them. THE AVS are out here making phone backgrounds for them. Get your lame shit together.
I don’t care how good Djokovic is at tennis, he actively fought against equal pay for female tennis players, made weird comments about women being inferior because periods (?), and has violent outbursts when he loses. Man is trash. Never getting my support.
The fact that JT Brown gifted 71 Twitch subs for the NWHL today...and someone else has already shown him up. I love this league and I’m so emotional at how far it’s come and how positive the community generally continues to be. ❤️
A league with outspoken trans support being bought out by a PA with openly transphobic people in leadership positions? There just isn’t a side to any of this I want to deal with right now.
Knicks guard Quentin Grimes, brother of Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers, is in attendance at MSG with their mother Tonja Stelly to watch the Canucks take on the Rangers 👏
Let us not forget when Zucc paid for a Norwegian womens team to go to their national championship for the first time when they qualified and couldn’t afford it themselves.
I have never seen Jamie Benn care an ounce about furthering women’s hockey/sports, speaking out to help women’s sports progress, sponsoring anything so why all of a sudden now does he care about what’s “good” for women’s sports....
You can’t simultaneously push any effort for women’s hockey or gender equality in hockey while also employing this trash
@NHLonNBCSports
it’s time, let’s go.
Hi repeatedly harassing and over sexualizing women any time they are in a hockey space is not the same as occasionally saying Patrick Sharp is handsome. Thank you.
JT Brown has been donating and going to BLM protests all week and helping clean up post-riots.
Tony Deangelo is baiting fans on twitter into fighting him in the street.
You tell me what’s going on in hockey.
Tfw the Avs are more supportive of women's hockey than some actual NHL teams that were partnered with women's hockey teams.
Anyway keep doing this, we love it.
This is the same dude would was suspended multiple times for using the n word at players on the ice. Food for thought if you actually have a brain to interpret it.
The NHL doesn’t have as many fans as the NBA because it has a strong history of racism, sexism, and homophobia that alienates literally anyone who isn’t the 1940 version of a straight, white, Canadian man fan.
i swear to god if i was an olympic gold medalist, multi-olympic appearances, record breaker, etc. and all they could talk about on the broadcast was my husband or my brother, i'd see red so hard and go full kill bill
ICYMI: Brigette Lacquette, Kelsey Koelzer, and former
@TheBostonPride
GM Karilyn Pilch were all named as scouts for the Chicago Blackhawks. All will be announcing picks for Chicago at the 2021 NHL Draft.
They join Kendall Coyne Schofield in Chicago's hockey ops department.
not dave saying the vocal black female hockey player deserves to be in jail for tweeting the words white supremacist at his company, surely not, surely no correlation
There is so much that needs changed around hockey culture. So so much. Men don’t have to keep dying because y’all think it’s gritty to play through injuries and downplay them and get hooked on opioids as the answer.
@lexilafleur
I always say, men think we all must just be here for hot guys because they can’t fathom watching women’s sports unless it’s for hot women because they don’t respect us. At the end of the day, says more about them.
This is a gut-wrenching slap in the face to every victim of domestic violence. If you must sign the guy, all of this extra fluff really isn’t needed. I promise you that.
The NHL has no intention of helping any women’s hockey for any longer than a photo shoot or a ASG invite. Not then, not now, not ever. That’s it. That’s the story.
This is a pivotal moment for the NFL to put their money where their mouth is with “kicking the stigma” and caring about the mental health of these players by not continuing this game.