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How the Media Has Been Complicit in the “Hockey is for Everyone” Lie

November 06, 2021

How the Media Has Been Complicit in the “Hockey is for Everyone” Lie by Zoë Hayden

The NHL has demonstrably done nothing substantive to address or investigate the underlying cultural issues that have made hockey toxic, insular, and rife with abuse. So why have campaigns like “Hockey is for Everyone” and You Can Play been covered so uncritically by the media?

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On the NHL's Colossally False "Allyship" Origin Story

November 04, 2019

On the NHL's Colossally False "Allyship" Origin Story by Andrew

On Monday, The Athletic's Katie Strang wrote the latest edition of the now-annual "what will it take for an NHL player to come out as gay" piece. It's not the first (see: 2015 by Pierre LeBrun; Brian Burke to George George Stroumboulopoulos in 2012 [transcript]

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