Back to the Ottawa Senators Newsfeed

Ottawa Senators: Jacob Bernard-Docker Kneels in Solidarity With Black Lives Matter

DALLAS, TX - JUNE 22: Jacob Bernard-Docker poses after being selected twenty-sixth overall by the Ottawa Senators during the first round of the 2018 NHL Draft at American Airlines Center on June 22, 2018 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Jacob Bernard-Docker and teammate Jasper Weatherby kneeled during the national anthem in their opening game of the season

Prior to playing their first game of the season for the University of North Dakota, Jacob Bernard-Docker and Jasper Weatherby both decided to kneel for the National Anthem in a showing of peaceful protest for the mistreatment and inequality of minorities in America.