'Eventually, words get stale. It’s about action and making a difference.' Players on the Avalanche and DallasStars applauded their peers across sports as games were postponed in protest after the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. (SportsnetSpec)
gave us the very essence of why we watch the games in the first place. In a 6-4 thriller, the Avalanche climbed back into their series by scoring three goals in the final eight minutes, stealing a win that turned this Western Conference Round 2 series around.
Here in Edmonton, you would not have known it was a seminal day across the sports world by any scoreboard reference or tribute. A pregame report stated there would be a pregame ceremony, but minds must have been changed as they simply sang the anthems and dropped the puck, Colorado and Dallas playing a game that would accrue a growing Avalanche of criticism on social media as the night wore on.“It crosses your mind when you see other leagues doing stuff like that.
Players on both sides said that their game-day schedule left them somewhat in the dark as to what was happening outside their hockey bubble, both literal and figurative. “Does this not playing solve things?” Dickenson asked. “No, but it brings attention to it and you know what, it happened kind of last second, like Seggy said. We woke up to it, we were already in game-mode, and it was kind of one of those things that it’s hard to come together that close to game time and just change mind.
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