“I applaud (Collins) and my guess is you are going to see more of that going forward.” “Certainly this is something that is very important to the National Hockey League, it has been and I think our partnership with ‘You Can Play’ is demonstrative of that,” Bill Daly told a Toronto radio station on Monday. and Canadian teams, said he was not personally aware of any gay players in the league but made it clear the NHL is treating any coming out as a high priority. The deputy commissioner of the NHL, composed of U.S.
That is expected to be the first of many similar announcements in the coming months in major sports leagues. professional league to publicly reveal he is gay.
TORONTO (Reuters) - The National Hockey League (NHL) has been preparing for years for the first gay player to come out in public and that groundwork may be about to pay off after the NBA’s Jason Collins opened the door to a new era.Ĭollins, a veteran basketball player, stepped into the national spotlight on Monday when became the first male athlete in a major U.S.
