'I just don’t understand this pain. I’ve never had to live this pain.' The NHL has a culture of silence but for the first time, white NHL players are speaking up.
"We have to be as involved in this as black athletes," Winnipeg captainhoped for when he called on white athletes to make their voices heard. Some called it "a perfect storm" — athletes, like everyone else, were at home during the coronavirus pandemic and able to focus on the graphic nature of Floyd’s death in Minneapolis and the visceral reaction.
"I think that’s why people are speaking out. I think that’s why players are speaking out," Davis said. Since Willie O’Ree broke the NHL’s colour barrier in 1958, hockey has been dotted with examples of racism. Just in the last decade, Simmonds had a banana thrown at him and P.K. Subban and Joel Ward were subjected to racist social media posts after scoring playoff game-winning goals. Smith-Pelly was taunted in the penalty box. As recently as April, New York Rangers prospect K’Andre Miller had a video chat during the pandemic hacked by someone who posted a racial slur hundreds of times.
Retired goaltender Ben Scrivens said he has "a healthy dose of cynicism" in seeing so many of his fellow white hockey players only now speaking out about racism. But he said it is nonetheless meaningful because players "can no longer claim ignorance" anymore.
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