Through the first two days of the NHL’s pandemic-altered postseason, one player had knelt during a national anthem. Make that five now, as two players each from the Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights demonstrated Monday to protest racial injustice.
Whereas the Minnesota Wild’s Matt Dumba took a knee Saturday during the U.S. anthem, he stood up for the Canadian anthem, then raised a fist during both songs before a game on Sunday. On Monday, the four Stars and Knights players — Jason Dickinson and Tyler Seguin for Dallas, Robin Lehner and Ryan Reaves for Las Vegas — stayed kneeling through both anthems.