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5 Breakout NHLers & Hockey’s Diversity Battle | Silky N’ Filthy podcast

Some things never change.

During the summer, it did seem like positive change towards improving hockey’s diversity was on the horizon.

That reasonable proposition was overly optimistic.

On the latest episode of the Silky N’ Filthy podcast, co-host Kyle Bhawan and I talked about one of the most thorough pieces of hockey journalism to come out in recent memory.

Fourteen months ago, when Akim Aliu tweeted about Bill Peters, he hoped for a reckoning in hockey. Since then, he (and his player coalition, the HDA) have grown more frustrated than ever with the NHL and its approach to race.