Pension Plan Puppets · Oct 26, 2020
Monday FTB: Hockey culture is messed up
Photo by Dennis Pajot/Getty ImagesThis has been a pretty dark year for many people, but it’s also not been a bright ray of sunshine for the hockey world. Some of these happened in 2019, technically, but close enough to now that they fall within the last 12 months:
This happened in November 2019, so not technically in 2020, but recent enough I wanted to include: that whole Don Cherry thing.
Akim Aliu and his history of dealing with racism, namely from Bill Peters.
Mike Babcock’s mind games with Mitch Marner.
Brendan Leipsic essentially getting kicked out of the league when his toxic DMs on teammates and their significant others came out.