The Chicago Blackhawks will become the third team in the NHL this season to forgo wearing Pride jerseys during warmups when they take the ice on Sunday night at United Center against the Vancouver Canucks.
Chicago is opting against wearing the jerseys on the team's scheduled Pride Night because of safety concerns for Russian players, according to Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun Times.
A Russian law enacted in December expanded the ban on "gay propaganda" in the country, making it "illegal to promote or 'praise' LGBTQ relationships, publicly express non-heterosexual orientations or suggest that they are 'normal,'" according to CNN's Ivana Kottasova.