NHL Rescinds Pride Tape Ban

[rataylor22]

So using this reasoning...

Why aren't Burger King and Wendy's not as successful as McDonalds?

Every fast food restaurant... just do what McDonalds does and you should be as successful as McDonalds.

Because they're not as good and they don't do things as well. Glad I could help you understand.

[PenguinHunter]

Because they're not as good and they don't do things as well. Glad I could help you understand.

It has nothing to do with people simply preferring a Big Mac to a Baconator.

We all know a large part of the United States much prefer Football to Hockey.

[TrailerParkFlyers]

People who run the league truly don't care about Pride or other social events that the teams hold and in turn, don't understand the issues they are trying to reverse. So they make decisions that aren't proper to try and keep the NHL out of the major news stations.

They don't care, so they don't try to understand, so they make dumb decisions when an issue rises up.

I agree with this. The NHL knows it needs to have Pride nights but they don't really want to have them so they do them poorly as they don't have the right people in charge of Pride support.

[GinFizz]

Im not sure if you would be allowed to wear Pride tape in the NFL on gameday.

[2014olympicgold]

But yea, I'm sure the players love that they highest paid player today is making the same amount of money as the highest paid player 20 years ago. I'm sure they find that actually desirable and good.

I was like, no way this is true. I had to look. Omg, that's insane. Here's the top 5 salaries from 2003-04 season:
Peter Forsberg - $11,000,000
Jaromir Jagr - $11,000,000
Keith Tkachuk - $10,000,000
Joe Sakic - $9,880,939
Chris Pronger - $9,500,000
Average Top 5: $10,276,187.80

Top 5 salaries from 2023-24:
Nathan MacKinnon - $16,000,000
David Pastrnak - $13,000,000
Dougie Hamilton - $12,600,000
Kirill Kaprizov - $12,500,000
Seth Jones - $12,500,000
Average Top 5: $13,320,000

29.62% increase.

NBA comparisson:
2003-04 Top 5 Average: $20,680,358.00
2023-24 Top 5 Average: $48,477,419.60
129.577% increase.

The equivalent increase would be like the top 5 average for NHLers would be like $23,000,000.

[2014olympicgold]

Im not sure if you would be allowed to wear Pride tape in the NFL on gameday.

You can't, but they've done a good job at historically having strict "uniform rules" where if you don't wear certain sock lengths you get fined.

Where as in the NHL rulebook, it literally says you can use any colour tape on your stick.

[rataylor22]

I was like, no way this is true. I had to look. Omg, that's insane. Here's the top 5 salaries from 2003-04 season:
Peter Forsberg - $11,000,000
Jaromir Jagr - $11,000,000
Keith Tkachuk - $10,000,000
Joe Sakic - $9,880,939
Chris Pronger - $9,500,000
Average Top 5: $10,276,187.80

Top 5 salaries from 2023-24:
Nathan MacKinnon - $16,000,000
David Pastrnak - $13,000,000
Dougie Hamilton - $12,600,000
Kirill Kaprizov - $12,500,000
Seth Jones - $12,500,000
Average Top 5: $13,320,000

29.62% increase.

NBA comparisson:
2003-04 Top 5 Average: $20,680,358.00
2023-24 Top 5 Average: $48,477,419.60
129.577% increase.

The equivalent increase would be like the top 5 average for NHLers would be like $23,000,000.

And that's with a big jump from the new Mackinnon contract.

Top 5 salaries from 2022-2023:
Tyler Seguin - $13,000,000
Artemi Panarin - $12,500,000
Aleksander Barkov - $12,000,000
Erik Karlsson - $12,000,000
Connor McDavid - $12,000,000
Average Top 5 - $12,300,000

19.69% increase.

Yea, I'm sure players are just thrilled about it.

[PenguinHunter]

And that's with a big jump from the new Mackinnon contract.

Top 5 salaries from 2022-2023:
Tyler Seguin - $13,000,000
Artemi Panarin - $12,500,000
Aleksander Barkov - $12,000,000
Erik Karlsson - $12,000,000
Connor McDavid - $12,000,000
Average Top 5 - $12,300,000

19.69% increase.

Yea, I'm sure players are just thrilled about it.

Would you be thrilled to get paid $13,000,000 to play hockey?

[PenguinHunter]

You can't, but they've done a good job at historically having strict "uniform rules" where if you don't wear certain sock lengths you get fined.

Where as in the NHL rulebook, it literally says you can use any colour tape on your stick.

So the NHL should impose stricter rules to try and be like the NFL?

I think this is a great idea... leave politics 100% out of the sport!!

[GinFizz]

Would you be thrilled to get paid $13,000,000 to play hockey?

Yes but that is not the point at all.

[rataylor22]

So the NHL should impose stricter rules to try and be like the NFL?

I think this is a great idea... leave politics 100% out of the sport!!

Sure! Getting rid of the Anthems would be the first step in that. I'm in.

Meanwhile, making new fans feel welcome is of course not political, so the NHL should continue to follow their own rulebook and allow players to use whatever color stick tape they prefer.

[PenguinHunter]

Sure! Getting rid of the Anthems would be the first step in that. I'm in.

Meanwhile, making new fans feel welcome is of course not political, so the NHL should continue to follow their own rulebook and allow players to use whatever color stick tape they prefer.

Does the national anthem in America change depending on which political party is in power?

[rataylor22]

Does the national anthem in America change depending on which political party is in power?

Does "every person is welcome at hockey games" change based on what political party is in power? Boy what a pickle you must be in to answer such a question.

[PenguinHunter]

Does "every person is welcome at hockey games" change based on what political party is in power? Boy what a pickle you must be in to answer such a question.

No it doesn't.

Has anyone been told they can't come to an NHL game?

I know when I go to a Jets game they don't ask me anything about my identity and let me into the game.

[rataylor22]

Great so we have 2 things that don't change based on which political party is in power but we have 1 thing the US military funded sports leagues to keep doing after 9-11, so we have one action that is not political (putting tape on a hockey stick) and one thing that is political (paid endorsement of nationalism). Of note, before anyone tries a gotcha, the military no longer pays for forced nationalism because the got in trouble from DoD for doing so, however the national anthem inherently promotes nationalism, which inherently is political.