'A huge moment for us': NHL exec. Kim Davis on players speaking out. MORE:
spoke with reporters on a video conference call that lasted nearly 40 minutes, and any question about the NHL's plan to resume its pandemic-hit season this summer seemed wildly out of place.NBA and NFL players are no strangers to making their voices heard on social issues. Hockey, however, has been a different story — a sport where conforming, not ruffling feathers and keeping your head down has often been the rule.
Davis said she's been in contact with numerous players about ideas for pushing the sport's diversity agenda forward. The NHL is in the process of getting its Executive Inclusion Council — which will take recommendations from separate committees of players, fans and youth — off the ground this summer. "This can't be done by Kim Davis alone or just by the league," she said."We have to have those kinds of allies, those people that are in positions of power and influence that are going to step up.
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