“What happened to George Floyd cannot be ignored.” Sidney Crosby has released a statement condemning racial injustice.
called on prominent white NHLers to use their platforms to help bring about change, mentioning Crosby by name among those he hoped to see engage in the discussion.
“We’ve been outraged for hundreds of years and nothing’s changed. It’s time for guys like Tom Brady and Sidney Crosby, those type of figures, to speak up about what is right and, clearly in this case, what is unbelievably wrong,” Kane“Because that is the only way we’re going to actually create that unified anger to create that necessary change.”
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