Tucker Carlson slams NHL for alienating white conservatives

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Tucker Carlson ripped the National Hockey League for tweeting last week that “trans women are women” and connected the messaging to a broader scheme by the left to “brainwash” sports fans.

Last week, the league’s official Twitter account angered many fans when it championed a “trans draft tournament” in Wisconsin.
One person responded, “So, men playing on womans teams?”

The league fired back, “Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary identity is real.”

The tweet went viral and led many to point out that the NHL is the country’s most conservative sports league when gauged by the political views of its fans.

On Wednesday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, the host welcomed former NHL star Theo Fleury to discuss the tweet, the intersection of sports and politics and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman‘s recent call for more Black players in the sport.

“What do you make of this?” Carlson asked Fleury. “Were race politics a big part of hockey when you were playing?”

Fleury said people gravitate to sports like hockey for “fun” and to escape the realities of life.

“So clearly, political forces hijack professional sports as a way to brainwash the young men who watch professional sports,” Carlson said. “That’s of course the entire point of it. It’s strategic. Why doesn’t anybody say back off?”

Fleury responded by saying hockey players are accepting people. He also opined politics have “no place” in sports.

Carlson agreed and ripped progressives for not calling for NBA teams to be more reflective of their communities.

“By the way, if they were calling for affirmative action in the NBA, I’d be totally opposed to that,” he said. “But they never will.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

Is Tucker right? Should they alienate the Gretzkys and the Tortorellas of the world or appeal to more groups other than angry white middle class men?

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LOL at politics haven’t been part of hockey before.

Hockey players don't usually talk politics, rarely. If not at all. Look how hesitant they were about BLM, the reaction coach John Tortorella had towards kneeling, etc.

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A huge number of NHLers are Canadian, and, for the most part, Canadians are less bigoted than Americans. Also, of the Canadians who are uncomfortable around trans people, many of them wouldn't go as far as to hate them or persecute them.

I know a huge number of NHLers are Canadian, but what about the American ones like Phil Housley and John Tortorella? They have said anti-kneeling comments in the past?

NHL is a moderate bunch, they are liberals and they are conservatives.......

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A huge number of NHLers are Canadian, and, for the most part, Canadians are less bigoted than Americans. Also, of the Canadians who are uncomfortable around trans people, many of them wouldn't go as far as to hate them or persecute them.

This is beyond stupid. Do you really think the average Canadian NHL player is that culturally different from the average American NHL player? If anything, if you look at high school ice hockey in Minnesota, the epicenter of the sport in the US, it is dominated by suburban Twin Cities schools, filled with kids from upper-middle class families. These are not rural rubes, of which there are probably way more from Canada in the NHL.

Upper middle class families who are swing voters, but will lean R when it comes to crime. A lot of FDNY/NYPD prefer hockey because the players and coaches respect their sacrifices during 9/11.....that's why you see a lot of cops try to patrol hockey games than baseball or basketball games....

Hockey does a lot of PD/FD games...

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Also, it should be noted that while a plurality of NHL players are Canadian, the majority are not. Here's the top 10 nationalities of NHL players (based on the 2022-23 season):

1. Canada - 42.3%
2. United States - 27.4%   
3. Sweden - 10.6%
4. Russia - 5.7%
5. Finland - 5.2%
6. Czech Republic - 3.9%
7. Switzerland - 1.3%
8. Slovakia - 0.8%
9. Germany - 0.8%
10. Latvia - 0.5%

SOURCE: https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/nationality-totals/nhl-players-2022-23-stats.html

True, but the U.S. NHL players are probably centrist/Tilt R....barely.....they are pretty much pro-police....