Hockey has long had its own internal processes of deciding who is the right “fit” for the game and who isn’t. And the NHL has long practised its own somewhat subtler form of cancel, or “exclusion culture” that today’s social media activists are responding against. In hockey’s culture, conformity can be more critical than performance for employment. Current NHL player Evander Kane spoke out this year about epithets he still regularly hears in rinks and receives online. But the fact is hockey’s culture of conformity has given coaches too much latitude and institutional cover to rule their dressing rooms with impunity.

Source: thestar November 30, 2019 14:03 UTC