Posts About "You Can Play"
NWHL and You Can Play Partner Up
August 2nd, 2016 The NWHL and the You Can Play project announced a partnership for the 2016-17 season Tuesday. The partnership will see each of the league's four franchises host a You Can Play night on home ice. Every team has also appointed a You Can Play ambassador for LGBTQ inclusion efforts throughout the coming season. Those representatives will...
Will Michael Sam's Announcement Affect Hockey?
February 11th, 2014 On 23 February 2013 professional soccer player Robbie Rodgers wrote on his blog, I'm a soccer player, I'm Christian, and I'm gay. On 6 May 2013 professional basketball player Jason Collins told SI, I’m a 34 year old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. And now most recently, Missouri All-American collegiate football player...
Is The NHL Ready For a Gay Player?
May 1st, 2013 The announcement of Jason Collins coming out as the first gay athlete still actively playing was a monumental event and a great moment for the LGBT community. Numerous NBA players have voiced their support for Collins for his announcement. The NFL is slowly, but surely, getting ready for it's first player to come out with strong...
Brian Burke: A Winner Off the Ice
January 10th, 2013 It feels like just yesterday that Brian Burke walked into the Air Canada Centre, seated behind a podium taking an onslaught of questions from a media group that represented the fans on the Toronto Maple Leafs. There was a newfound excitement, fueling belief that a changing of the guard unlike any one of the 21st century would achieve...
Hockey Humility A Cloak For Homophobic Bigotry
June 18th, 2012 Harrison Mooney's Puck Daddy piece "Why our issues with NHL individuality could keep gay players from coming out" is a thoughtful, well-argued essay. It suggests that contrary to highly visible campaigns regarding gay men coming out in the NHL, the real world of pro hockey discourages that kind of attention-grabbing individuality, and...
Will We See An Openly Gay Player In The NHL Soon?
May 14th, 2012 By Brooks Bratten For an athlete, sport is a passion. An escape. A chance to be who they really are for a portion of the day. So if an athlete can’t be all of these things in their natural environment, what’s the point? The makeup of the athlete shouldn’t matter. If they can play, then they can play. Founded last fall, the...
Boston Bruins' Loss Exposes the Worst Elements of the Hockey Community
April 26th, 2012 Jim Neveau, Managing Editor On Wednesday night in Beantown, the Boston Bruins and Washington Capitals engaged in what is the first of three Game 7 contests that will end the first round of the NHL Playoffs. Just like 14 games before it, the game went into overtime, and even assured that all seven games would be decided by one goal, a...
Mike Milbury's Comments a Reminder of Where Hockey Must Still Change
April 3rd, 2012 Jim Neveau, Managing Editor Throughout the history of sports, there has been one mantra that has largely been considered to be indispensable: “suck it up and be a man”. Those types of sayings, as well as demeaning others’ lack of machismo have been trash talk staples for many years, and despite the progress of women into being...
You Can Play Project offers support and hope to LGBT athletes
March 16th, 2012 by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor In 2010, Brendan Burke, an up and coming goalie was on his way to being one of many young men who enjoyed the mixed bag of advantages and challenges that go with being part of a hockey family legacy. His father, Brian Burke, is the GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs and an integral part of Team USA. His...
