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Given that Bettman made the announcement after the Board of Governors Meetings, I have a feeling the decision came from the Owners not wanting to deal with the backlash more so than taking the pressure off the players. I personally think that a joint press conference with Gary Bettman and NHLPA Director Marty Walsh announcing that any player not wanting to participate in any theme night for personal, religious or political beliefs can choose to sit out warm ups or choose to wear a regular jersey instead with full support of the league and the Union. Walsh was a champion for the LBGTQ Community as a mayor and he fully supported the players who choose not to participate. All special events including Pride Night will continue with or without jerseys. On Sabres Live they even mentioned some players probably will continue to use rainbow tape on their sticks. Bud Light managed to piss off both Conservatives and the LBGTQ Community truly a remarkable feat.

https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1673034875887136773?s=46&t=h0yvSDHtOEJBIIBDkE7IaQ

Dmitri Simashev is in the US and probably will be at the draft

Booo https://twitter.com/pierrevlebrun/status/1672949554554052609?s=61&t=h0yvSDHtOEJBIIBDkE7IaQ

Per Craig Rivet the Sabres opener is October 12th vs NYR. Full Schedule release on Tuesday

EH has Orlov 5 X 6.3 Million AAV. That would work

For Montreal’s 2024 2nd Round Pick

https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1672703242487119873?s=61&t=h0yvSDHtOEJBIIBDkE7IaQ Sean Durzi to the Yotes

By demonstrating that there also is an online mob that jumps all over the team’s social media posts about pride, it’s not a unilateral phenomenon, it occurs on both sides of the issues. Twitter is bad, Facebook is even worse. Ivan Provorov was one of the most criticized players in the media this season, what happened as a result? Fox News and Tucker Carlson supported his decision and The NHL Shop and Fanatics completely sold out of His Jersey.

Looks like the coup is over.

I agree with you are saying, I do feel these nights are geared more towards making members of the community being celebrated feel more welcomed, then trying to win the hearts or minds of people who have different opinions.

What’s a better way to show support to a cause? A a tweet and a video on the team’s social media channels showing a check being presented to a group or an entire game with a themed presentation being devoted to that cause? My money is on the latter.

No they choose to wear a regular jersey in warmups or skip them all together it’s his choice

To expand on this, there is a Military Appreciation Night and one member of the military is honored at every single home game.

Avoiding issues is what leads to the marginalization of certain groups in the first place There are 35-40 home games a season which do not have anything with pride or any other special events. Pride Night in particular is usually held on a weekday night(days that regularly have lower attendance). If a person has does not want to particular event, because of personal and/or religious beliefs, they choose not to attend, as there are 40 other home games to select from. Ivan Provorov used the fact that supporting Pride Nights was against His Beliefs as a Member of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Church also says premarital sexual relations and cohabitation before marriage are a sin. Yet Ivan has lived with His Girlfriend for quite awhile now. If you are going to use Your Religious Beliefs to say why you are against something, do not be hypocritical and choose to only follow certain teachings.

So who gets to decide how much and when to do it? My stance is for a couple of games a season celebrating diversity is a good thing.

How will the online mobs respond to these tweets?

https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1672636217903464451?s=46&t=h0yvSDHtOEJBIIBDkE7IaQ

“We sign this guy, we’re no only trying to make the playoffs, we’re trying to win the cup” were the exact words that Pegula used. By all accounts Terry has stepped back over the past few seasons and allowed Adams and Co to build the team. Adams also mentioned in His Press Conference that the Sabres are now in the position to make moves that wouldn’t have made sense a year or two ago. That signals a change in philosophy.

It was Friedman and yes everyone lies.