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Games postponed until Saturday

The Hockey Diversity Alliance on Thursday formally requested the NHL suspend its slate of playoff games scheduled for that evening, as pro athletes in other North American leagues continue to refuse to play in unprecedented numbers to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake. San Jose Sharks’ Evander Kane, a co-founder of HDA, made the request public on Thursday, tweeting: “We the [HDA] have formally requested the [NHL] to suspend all playoff games today. We strongly feel this sends a clear message that human rights take priority over sports.” The league was criticized, including by some of its own players, for not joining the NBA, WNBA, MLS and some MLB teams on Wednesday in postponing games. The NHL has two playoff games scheduled for Thursday night, with Philadelphia and the New York Islanders playing in Toronto and Las Vegas and Vancouver playing in Edmonton. Thursday’s pregame media availability for Las Vegas and Vancouver were both delayed, with no official start time as of 1 p.m. Islanders Coach Barry Trotz said Thursday morning that his players were going to have a discussion about whether or not they’ll play Thursday night. He believed that the Islanders-Flyers game would go on as planned. When asked on his thoughts of other leagues choosing to sit out Wednesday and if he expects anything similar with the Flyers Thursday night, Coach Alain Vigneault told reporters via Zoom that he has “really no idea what is going on in the outside world” and that he is invested 24/7 on his team. “We’re all for equality and social justice ... but right now we’re here to play a game,” Vigneault told reporters via Zoom. NBA players agree to resume season in Disney bubble Kane, as well as Minnesota Wild’s Matt Dumba, had expressed disappointment Wednesday that the shooting of Blake wasn’t a topic of conversation among players in a league that consists of predominantly White and Canadian players. “The NHL, we’re always last to the party, especially on these topics,” Dumba said in a Wednesday interview on Sportsnet 650, a Vancouver-area radio station. “It’s kind of sad and disheartening for me and for other members of the HDA [Hockey Diversity Alliance] and I’m sure other guys across the league. If no one stands up and does anything, it’s the same thing. It’s that silence that you’re just outside looking in on actually being leaders and invoking real change when you have such an opportunity to do so.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/27/nhl-protests-jacob-blake/

People who the government employs to protect and serve who murder instead. How’s that? Boston is behind in their series ?

From what I saw it was.

Looks like hockey is the only sport being played now

That must be the thinking

Desperate to find help for their aging superstars for one last run at cup, I guess. I'd be screaming if Sabres traded away young talent like that. Assuming its good talent Yup. Toroto obviously has good forawrds, they need cap space for defenseman. Adding young players to their organization is smart

Yes !!!

Hurrah!!!

Did anyone hear the Doc Emeric comment about kicking the door along the boards at the Aud in Buffalo? Never heard that before

Bogo!

Goal called back for offsides by Tampa. Cooper freaked out, fight followed

Oh man, poor Tampa here

I’ll put it here. Henry Jones once caused a little commentary saying blacks are faster than whites or something. I want to add some context as I know it. It’s such a horrible thing the way slaves were treated, just like farm animals, in many instances. While slavery was in place, up to the civil war, a revolution in husbandry was taking place with experiments in horse, cattle, hog and most likely slave breeding. It’s undoubtedly true this happened. Now does it explain black success in sports? Who knows, but it’s a theory that some of the facts fit. It’s been a few years since I looked at this but found almost no historical reasearch on it. Maybe that changed lately. But there should be evidence in slave handling manuals, which do exist. Its a a touchy subject to say the least. To African Americans it would be akin to a rape victim discussing her attack. Many whites just want the history of slavery to be “the past” let’s move on. That movie Django came out and the cruelty and degradation it showed, which seems pretty accurate to me, was denounced as racist by Spike Lee. There is a lot of resistance. I just wish that a comment like the one J the G said could be looked at dispassionately. I don’t think it was hateful, he just had a theory that might or might not be true. White Men Can’t Jump! <—-That’s a real movie title “The black is a better athlete to begin with, because he's been bred to be that way. Because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back. And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. And he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War, when, during the slave trading, the big, the owner, the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have uh big black kid, see. That's where it all started!”

I like them. They remind me of ‘99 Sabres. Not sure they can beat Bruins if they meet, but I’m hoping.

That’s Ray Emery on Hart’s mask https://www.nhl.com/news/philadelphia-flyers-goalie-carter-hart-unveils-ray-emery-tribute-mask/c-314883656

Islanders and Flyers will be another good series. I’m guessing low scoring

They need to pressure that Boston PP more, ya, easy for me to say. Boston looks awesome

Tampa looks nervous as hell

Bruins v Lightning !! Go Bolts!!

Who knew what and when is a really interesting question. If Botts knew, would he want that news getting out? Could he trust anyone knowing? I have a feeling they tried keeping it a secret (for obvious reasons) and when the news later broke the Pagulas fired him.

I remember RJ making me laugh once, said Krupp was all over the other player, “Like an octopus!”

This team was really good until Hutton’s eyes went dead.

Wow. I’ve loved these playoffs.

Those were great seasons. Almost overlapped with Dom!