Hockey is one of the most diverse sports in America.
Hockey is one of the most diverse sports in America. If you’re a democrat you can only see people’s skin color but American born players make up less than a quarter of the League. Hockey is a world recognized sport and an Olympic event, while the NFL only had 89 international players in the 2022 season. The NHL offers opportunities to people from 2nd and 3rd world countries that the NFL will never be able to do. I’ve also heard the NFL be compared to slavery.
Forcing certain outcomes is not equality and diversity. Giving everyone from any country in the world the opportunity to play and having multiple languages being spoken on the bench is true diversity. Both the NFL and NHL have more than 70% of their players all having the same skin color but only one is acceptable?
The author of this article is very biased calling out every flaw in the NHL while ignoring the sex scandals in the NFL and NBA. The author also makes a great argument that the team should reflect that of the city but does the Greenbay Packers accurately reflect their city? It’s a shame some people can look at others and only see their skin color. Player should be judged on the content of their character and their ability to play the sport.
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It’s Chance The Rapper, hosting “Saturday Night Live,” bundled up and freezing, playing an MSG Network basketball reporter named Lazlo Holmes, filling in as the rinkside reporter during a Rangers game. He knows nothing about hockey. He can’t pronounce Brady Skjei’s last name. He describes the action as “Lots of White dudes on skates running into each other at full speed; I don’t get it.”
The whole point of the SNL skit was to underscore how hockey is almost exclusively White, and has utterly failed to make any significant inroads into Black culture. The skit’s funny, for sure. But it’s laughing at you as a hockey league and as a hockey fan, not with you.
According to the report, 83.6 percent of league and team employees identify as White, with just 3.74 percent identifying as Black, 3.71 percent as Hispanic/Latino and 4.17 percent as Asian. Meanwhile, 36.81 percent of the league employees are women, and less than 4 percent of the league identifies as LGBTQ+.
As of last year, in the NBA, per the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport: 82.4 percent of the players were people of color, fully half the coaches and half the general managers were people of color, and 32.5 percent of senior management were people of color. Also, 43.4 percent of employees in the league office were women, as were 39 percent of team senior management.
In the NFL, which has its own well-documented issues with hiring coaches of color despite the existence of the Rooney Rule, 40.9 percent of assistant coaches and 15.6 percent of head coaches were people of color. The league office has 31.1 percent people of color and 38.8 percent women. And team senior administration is 20.1 percent people of color and 25.3 percent women (a D+ by the TIDES scorecard). The players, meanwhile, are 70.7 percent people of color.
The league touts that four in 10 NHL fans are women, adding nearly 5 million women to its fan base from 2009-2021, and that female TV viewership across ESPN and TNT rose 61 percent last season. That’s terrific, but what are those women thinking when they read about the Hockey Canada scandal, secret slush funds for hush-money and the settled lawsuit over an alleged gang rape of a woman by eight hockey players, including members of the 2018 Canada World Juniors team? Nearly the entire roster of that team is currently in the NHL, and there are still no answers from an interminable, ongoing league investigation.
When a potential new fan — or new player — turns on a game and sees almost exclusively straight White men talking about (and, let’s be self-aware here, almost exclusively straight White men writing about) almost exclusively straight White men coached by almost exclusively straight White men and officiated by almost exclusively straight White men, they don’t see themselves represented. Chicago is more than 50 percent people of color, more than 50 percent women and about 7.5 percent LGBTQ+. The team looks nothing like the city. The broadcast looks nothing like the city.
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