Openly gay hockey players in the nhl

March 21, at p. Luke Prokop is a trailblazer in the NHL community. Ryan Fox is headed to the U. Open after all. Yahoo Sports. Dodgers star Yoshinobu Yamamoto robbed of immaculate inning on bizarrely bad call. Immaculate innings are more rare than no-hitters. And Yoshinobu Yamamoto should have had one on Thursday.

Why the NHL Still Awaits Its First Openly Gay Player

In , players in a Massachusetts high school program were accused of assaults and hazing that included a ritual that mocked gay people. Prokop has seen improvement in the culture of the game in recent years. Dave Kallmann Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Progress in his game.

Milwaukee Admirals’ Luke Prokop sees progress in his game, in acceptance of a gay hockey player

Even so, how can the NHL be tolerant of intolerance? Why do the objections of just a handful of players to sporting Pride jerseys trump the wish of most NHLers to wear them once a year? Surely the NHL could have made wearing the jerseys optional. That would have solved their Russian problem.