In Red Wings Land

Filip Zadina could see some time in the Czech league this year - WIIM

There’s really nothing else going on, so if you didn’t look one spot to the right on the site’s header yet, make sure you haven’t missed this news from Kyle.

Around the NHL

07.23.2020 - 9:00am PT

The 32nd franchise comes to life. pic.twitter.com/4J8k0UTEn3

— NHL Seattle (@NHLSeattle_) July 23, 2020

So that’s a cool teaser. Could be nothing but it feels like Sockeye is happening based on this.

BONUS

spent the last month plus writing identifying why:

- The NHL should have 3x the players of color it currently has
- Why racial stereotypes in scouting/coaching make it so players of color almost never play center
- Why black players are traded twice as often as any other group https://t.co/i1BShbW0JC

— DJ Bodega Cat (@yolo_pinyato) July 22, 2020

This is a well-researched and well-presented piece on the issue of how even accounting for overall lack of diversity in hockey, there’s still additional layers in place which add multiple gates that block off players who otherwise would be perfectly good NHLers. It reminds me a lot of this bit from Chris Rock.