#hockey diversity alliance

[lovershines14]

BLACK ICE Red Carpet Event

“This incisive, urgent documentary examines the history of anti-Black racism in hockey, from the segregated leagues of the 19th century to professional leagues today, where Black athletes continue to struggle against bigotry.”

#hockey #matt dumba #nazem kadri #akim aliu #wayne simmonds #pk subban #anthony duclair #nhl #mine #hda #hockey diversity alliance #sarah nurse #saroya tinker #women’s hockey #devante smith-pelly

[annieqattheperipheral]

Home!! Was at the HDA event at trinity bellwoods!! Saw simmer, duke, akim and the most honourable amazing Rick Westhead!!!🙌

Now let's go content!! TV on! Go team!! I want to see flirting!!! Hard!!

fyi if you don't know, westhead broke the hockey canada scandal. Reported on the payout to EM that made everyone and the federal government go EXCUSE ME???? And why those 5 rapists have been CHARGED and currently are NOT playing in the nhl🙌

#nhl asg lb #hockey diversity alliance #nhl asg 2024 #annieQ hockey thoughts #asg lb

[wildaboutmnhockey]

sportchek: A force on and off the ice, Canadian professional hockey player @matt.dumba is committed to inspiring the next generation of hockey players and changing the face of the game. After experiencing racism, Matt, who is of Filipino heritage, co-founded the Hockey Diversity Alliance to help players throughout every level feel comfortable, safe, and welcomed any time they enter an arena.

#matt dumba #hockey diversity alliance #minnesota wild #nhl #ice hockey

[stereax]

#beat reporter stereax #evander kane #edmonton oilers #hockey diversity alliance

[buttercupjosh]

I’m working on a article. Can y’all please let me know which hockey players (current or former) have their own foundations (non team centered)? I already have the non-profits for Mitch Marner, Anthony Duclair, Erik and Melinda Karlsson, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Zack MacEwen and Hockey Diversity Alliance down. DM or inbox is fine. Thanks in advance😌

#hockey #mitch marner #anthony duclair #erik karlsson #pierre luc dubois #zack macewen #hockey diversity alliance

[halliewriteshockey]

1. Thank you for the info on the Blues goalie. What a jerk!!! I was already rooting for my beloved Avs, but will be rooting extra hard now!!

2. Did you see that Samuel Girard has a broken sternum? OMG. Poor guy. *SOBS*

3. Now would be a great time to make a donation to the Hockey Diversity Alliance in support of Nazem Kadri.

I agree!

#hockey diversity alliance #I couldn't give much but I donated a little #hockey #Nazem Kadri #poor Sammy I hope he's okay

[hockeyonlyspb]

#hockey diversity alliance #I mean they are not wrong #nhl is the pits #Bettman is out f touch and I’ve yet to hear anything sensible from his mouth #I mean why did Chicago have the first pick afte covering up tw sa? #absolute clowns

[hooked-from-behind]

#hockey diversity alliance

[flaticeball]

appreciate beloved former minnesota wild leadership and current arizona coyotes player matt dumba for refusing to let the league off the hook about this. he absolutely read them for filth, and he’s long been an outspoken voice in the conversation around the way the league fails and harms anyone who isn’t a rich cishet white boy. co-founder of the hockey diversity alliance and prominent player of colour, he’s got a lot to say about the ways the nhl never meant for hockey to be for everyone.

anyways. i was proud to have him on the wild and i hope arizona knows what a gem they have in him. we need more guys to stand up like this, and to keep pushing back even though the tape ban was reversed.

#gav gab #matt dumba #pride tape

[girldewar]

“#wrote a college entrance essay about this once” re: rpf research excuse me WHAT can you elaborate please 😭 (i say as someone who has also written some unhinged essays)

okay in my defense i didn't actually talk about rpf explicitly, but i did write about how one of the big draws of hockey for me was all the minute details and research rabbitholes you could get absorbed in. it's funny to look back on now because i think my understanding of hockey has come a long way, and also i'm kind of a completely different person than i was, lol. i'll put a few sections under the cut just for fun :3

But in late November of my ---- year, I turned on the television to watch a hockey game. It was the Flames and the Senators -- not exactly a nail-biter. I knew what to expect. I’d been to a college hockey game once at the University of North Dakota, and I’d been casually interested. But I certainly didn’t count on the Ottawa Senators setting the starting point of a great epoch of my life. The thing about hockey is that, leaving aside everything else about the sport -- statistics, personality, fanaticism, gameplay -- hockey is fun to watch. It’s fast-paced but easy to follow. All you have to do is keep track of the puck. Stoppages aren’t too common, but if they do happen, it’s probably because a penalty has been called, or because of a scrum, which both lead to more interesting circumstances. In short, hockey held my interest, and outpaced my notoriously short attention span. At least, that was how it started.

apparently i was rly trying to keep that harvard admissions officer on their toes lmao

Hockey culture is an unmitigated disaster. Awash with misogyny, masculine posturing, glorification of violence, and a thriving disrespect for the civil rights of minorities, it’s easy to brush hockey off as another antiquated hold-out of gladiatorial sports. Fans live and die for the blood of it. It’s especially easy to do so as a queer woman, someone who is definitely unwelcome in central hockey circles. It took me about ten minutes to understand that hockey Twitter, at least, was not worth a second of my time. But I hadn’t gotten as far as making it through an entire Senators game just to give up now. And finding other avenues of building community was easier than I thought. The Internet, it turns out, is shockingly versatile. Just as white male hockey fans all tend to congregate in the loud, wide-open spaces of fandom, the rest of us found areas out of view of the mainstream gaze. Within Tumblr tags, Discord groups, and even fanfiction archive forums, the women, hockey fans of color, and even us queers began to find each other. It was easier, then, to know where to start. In short order, hockey turned from something I watched as stress relief after a long school day to something I knew about. The people I talked to were knowledgeable, and the research I did on my own -- as was my wont -- helped substantiate. First it was about the teams, and then, when I had satisfied my knowledge there, the players. The politics. The rules, the statistics, the prospects. The slow stop-start of change initiatives like the Hockey Diversity Alliance. It turns out that hockey is an unquellable fount of things to learn, and it quickly became a way to collect things to know.

it's interesting to look back and see which things i felt it was important to highlight, especially given all the things that have happened in recent years with hockey culture. also please disregard all the identity flashing, i WAS trying to get into college, after all.

i go on to talk a bit about the demographic layout of the nhl & the draw of european leagues, plus why i started learning russian (to read kirill's insta posts), but that's the rpf-related section. if i were to rewrite this essay today it would be a completely different look at the world of hockey and its current landscape, but i'm giving myself some grace for having committed the crime of being 18 and not very smart.

#also all the sens bashing is so funny they were & still are one of my fave teams afdjlsjlksjl #also no i did not get into harvard thank god. that wouldve been a nightmare dont go to ivy leagues #ask #anon #rpf talk #sort of !

[wildaboutmnhockey]

hockey culture needs to do better and be better

#tw racism #hockey #nhl #hockey diversity alliance

[oeldeservesthenorris]

“For me, you’re also banning Black History Month,” the San Jose Sharks winger, of Haitian descent and also an outspoken member of the Hockey Diversity Alliance, opined. “I think we’re taking a step backwards, to be honest.”

DUKE GETS IT

#nhl #nhl hockey #nhl players #anthony duclair #san jose sharks #nhlpride

[desertpups]

Dumba rips NHL over Pride tape debacle: 'They follow and try to save face'

Arizona Coyotes defenseman Matt Dumba ripped into the NHL after the league rescinded its decision to prohibit Pride tape, questioning why the ban was in place to begin with.

"Why is that even a thing?" he told The Athletic's Eric Stephens. "Why did they have to do that in the first place? You'll never get the answers from them. You'll never get the answers for that. That's just something I've come to understand. They don't have answers for a lot of things that they do. They follow and try to save face."

"The league's going to do whatever it wants to do and they don't really think about the meaning behind things," he added. "I think they try to lay it out in whatever format it works out best for the league."

A co-founder of the Hockey Diversity Alliance, Dumba has previously called out the NHL for its lack of action when it comes to social causes. In August 2020, the rearguard said the league is "always last to the party on these topics" when criticizing its response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin.

The league sent a memo to all 32 squads earlier in October prohibiting the use of Pride tape on sticks for the season. That decision came after a select few players opted out of wearing Pride jerseys and decals last campaign.

Dumba's teammate, Travis Dermott, became the first known player to defy the Pride tape ban on Saturday, and the league reversed course just three days later.

"After consultation with the NHL Players’ Association and the NHL Player Inclusion Coalition, players will now have the option to voluntarily represent social causes with their stick tape throughout the season," the league announced in a brief statement Tuesday.

Dermott called the NHL's reversal "amazing."

"It's just given the players their voice back," he said, per Stephens. "If everyone wants to wear it, if one guy wants to wear it - no one is going to be forced to wear it - but now just having that voice, I think, really speaks volumes into what the league thinks of us, what the league thinks of the community, and really backs up their line that hockey is for everyone."

Several players voiced their displeasure with the Pride tape ban when it was still in place.

Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar said he could understand the NHL's position, but added that it put players in a tough spot. Toronto Maple Leafs blue-liner Morgan Rielly said he wished players had the right to be more involved, while Philadelphia Flyers forward Scott Laughton said he would "probably" still use the tape despite the ban.

Though Pride tape is back on the table, players are still not allowed to wear specialty jerseys during warmups on theme nights, including Pride night, Hockey Fights Cancer, and military appreciation celebrations.

#Matt Dumba #Arizona coyotes #coyotes #pride tape #nhl