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Evander Kane calls NHL response to Jacob Blake shooting 'insulting'

As professional athletes, teams and entire leagues didn't play Wednesday in order to protest another high-profile police shooting of a Black man, the NHL hit the ice.

Three NBA playoff games, three WNBA games, three MLB games and four MLS games were called off Wednesday in light of players boycotting in protest of a Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer shooting 29-year-old Jacob Blake seven times in the back Sunday. Meanwhile, there were no changes to the NHL's Wednesday slate.

Both playoff games scheduled after the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted theirs against the Orlando Magic -- becoming the first team to do so Wednesday -- went on as originally planned.