UPDATE: Rule be damned, Marc-Andre Fleury is wearing his Native American Heritage mask in warmups. I’m told it’s very unlikely he or the #mnwild will be fined, but he’s risking it
His mask is up to $5,600 in the auction-vastly more than any other item https://t.co/2N0SlYujh5 https://t.co/Ajnk0ysfnq
– Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) November 25, 2023
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If you’re a daily reader of our articles, you’re probably a big hockey fan, and it may even be your favorite sport.
You love hockey, but unfortunately, the best league in the world, the National Hockey League, isn’t the best in terms of management.
Indeed, more often than not (especially lately), the NHL doesn’t have incredible credibility in the eyes of fans and in the world of sports in general.
Because it makes rather dubious decisions, like the one yesterday, whenit threatened Marc-Andrè Fleury with a fine, or the Wild, if he wore his mask in honour of his wife and the American First Nations.
It’s a completely ridiculous threat, if you ask me, and Marc-André Fleury understood it.
He wore his mask without embarrassment last night during the Wild’s warm-up before serving his role as auxiliary goaltender on the Wild bench for the rest of the game.
Marc-André Fleury defies the NHL as he wears his mask honoring First Nations despite the League’s ban!
https://t.co/XanxJk316P pic.twitter.com/QMSHo0uz0Q
– RDS (@RDSca) November 25, 2023
Sb at @RDSca went too far… tweeting a
that was quickly deleted by sb elsewhere.
(I would have kept it, me) pic.twitter.com/aUWJt7l9vI
– Maxime Truman (@MaximeTruman) November 25, 2023
As for the potential fine, well, along with the Wild’s warm-up, Michael Russo, who covers the Wild’s activities, announced that it was rather unlikely that the NHL would crack down on Fleury or the Wild.
In short, the NHL looks crazy again, just as it did after refusing to allow Golde Knights goalie Logan Thompson to wear a cancer ribbon on his mask , or when it didn’t even crack down on Travis Dermott for wearing a rainbow-coloured ribbon on his stick.
In a flurry
– Speaking of the Wild, they’re having a tough time of it.
Sinking Wild face problematic math post-Thanksgiving: ‘We can’t get out of our own way’
6 straight losses, 12 in the last 15, staring up at 28 teams and down at only 3, things are looking awfully ominous for the 29th-place #mnwild
$1/month sub promo https://t.co/VDn7RAQHIa
– Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) November 25, 2023
– At least their 19-year-old Russian prospect, Danila Yurov, is performing well in the KHL.
19-year-old Danila Yurov is pretty comfortable playing on a big stage. pic.twitter.com/ubXNzNLyBE
– KHL (@khl_eng) November 25, 2023
– Uhhhh sorry? Is Dillon Dubé a wizard?
Did anyone else notice Dube’s stick mysteriously tried to follow him to the bench after sliding to the boards??
No way Dube moved that stick from the boards.
Ghosts in Nashville? pic.twitter.com/mrRuwc5yVE– Brian Costello (@bcostellothn) November 23, 2023
– Coming up.
John Mozeliak needs to pull a better rabbit out of his hat if he hopes to see the Cardinals turn things around. https://t.co/AvjNpqri8Z
– Passion MLB (@passion_mlb) November 25, 2023
– Ouch.
– Football Fights (@footbalIfights) November 25, 2023
