Out of Town thread part 21
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JianYang
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The only thing I could conclude based on the market and contract he signed is that he was willing to take a financial hit in order to play in a spot where the spotlight isn't too bright, because I do seem to recall he had other offers which still would leave more cash in his pocket after taxes.
This is where the nhl gives players a unique option compared to other more mainstream sports. You can play in relative anonymity if you so choose as an nhler, and it's a very enticing thing for many players.... Obviously, montreal isn't one of those places though.
WeThreeKings
Habs cup - its in the BAG
Torts leaving no doubt he's a piece of garbage by defending him and saying he's proud of him.
You're proud of a guy who is using the NHL platform to spread hate on a marginalized group?
What a f***ing idiot. Both of them can f*** off.
Lafleurs Guy
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Ezpz
No mad pls
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Yes , what did he say/think? ThanksBut the people here are less bigoted than the main boards.
Ezpz
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He refused to wear the pride jersey because of "[r]eligious reasons." The Flyers made it worse by playing him and having Torts defend him.
ReHabs
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Didn’t wear LGBT+ colours for the warmup and cited a religious exemption. Torts seemingly doesn’t mind it. The game was played. Seems like that should’ve been the end of that…
Not sure why so many people are mad but I’m too old to have the pulse of the Comment Section.
I do feel the NHL commentariat (fans + media alike) are a bit too quick and a bit too loud about certain issues. It doesn’t seem very productive. Feels very “Reddit”.
Team_Spirit
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Ah the team with DeAngelo
These guys will find a desperate team, but lose millions and the ability to choose.
These guys will find a desperate team, but lose millions and the ability to choose.
le_sean
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Torts is the guy who once said he’d bench a player for taking a knee during the anthem. Not exactly the greatest guy.
salbutera
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Oh please….
Gord Miller told a story, Torts was out at a restaurant one winters night, and had passed a homeless woman with her child on a street corner.
Torts paid the bill for the dinner and asked the restaurant manager to get a hotel room for the homeless mother & child, along with clothing and ordered them both meals for a month.
Miller went on to say, this is standard practice for Torts and very well known within the hockey community - he just doesn’t like any type of publicity for it
“Not exactly the greatest guy…”
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Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
You shouldn't force anybody to do anything. Those who go after him for that are moronic. We are in a free society.
The narrative is certain people are oppressed. But then if certain people won't wear the colors of the oppressed, I'm gonna turn around and oppress them. Same thing with people with bullies the bullies. At the end of the day, there's no winners.
domiwroze
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Hawks win !! I thought i'd never see the day they win another one this season
RabbleMasterBlaster
J't'un gars d'chez nous
Doing nothing is still doing something. And many times doing nothing is worse than any other choice.
Anyone still want to argue that sports and politics don't mix??
Kudo Shinichi
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Like the hijab situation. People say women that wear the hijab are oppressed, and yet those same people force these women to remove the hijab as if that wasn't oppression.
Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
le_sean
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Damn a multi millionaire spent a couple thousand to help people? What a saint. I guess that absolves him from the stupid and classless comment he made.
Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
Agreed. We live in a complex World. You have people that are feminist and yet want to let women to wear the hijab. Some people say that THAT is oppressive. But others say it's in their culture. Nothing is black and white.
le_sean
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So he’s allowed to express his opinion but when we express ours about how he’s just hiding behind religion for his backwards belief, we are the morons?
Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
Ezpz
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Freedom of choice is not freedom from consequences. Provorov chose to take the low road and out his homophobic beliefs. He will be called homophobic for the rest of his career and he doesn't deserve less to be honest. Imagine sitting out of the teddy bear drive for 'personal beliefs'. On a night dedicated to inclusiveness, what a joke Provorov has made the NHL.
Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
All he said was: “I respect everybody’s choices,” Provorov said after the game. “My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion. That’s all I’m going to say.”
You're threaten by these comments? Seems pretty classy to me.
salbutera
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I’m confused what disparaging comments about LGBTQ community did Torts make exactly?
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