NHL - Leafs' Rielly didn't utter anti-gay slur - ESPN

Contents:

• NHL VTIGATG GAY SLUR LIGHTNG-MAPLE LEAFS GAME
• NHL: LEAFS' RIELLY DIDN'T UTTER ANTI-GAY SLUR
• NHL FDS MAN RIELLY DID NOT USE ANTI-GAY SLUR TOWARD REF [UPDATED]
• WHAT NHL TEAMS N LEARN OM THE MAPLE LEAFS' CISIVE RPONSE TO GAY SLUR ACCATN
• GAY LEAGUE THRIVG TORONTO
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: HOT HOCKEY PLAYERSGAY HOCKEY PLAYERS LIST: COLLEGE AND PRO ATHLET
• NHL: MAPLE LEAFS' REILLY DIDN'T UTTER GAY SLUR AT OFFICIAL

NHL VTIGATG GAY SLUR LIGHTNG-MAPLE LEAFS GAME

Last year, Outsports profiled an array of gay male hockey players who are g out drov and changg the sport’s sular culture. One of them, llege hockey player Brock Wton, wrote about nstantly hearg gay slurs at the rk.

The moral of the story is out gay male athlet ually have ntral or posive experienc wh their teammat, as our Out Sports study shows. The Maple Leafs players also heard about the power of clivens om a gay Olympic hockey gold medalist. The most-impactful part of eher Pri celebratn was the cisn by the Leafs to have Meghan Duggan — openly gay, a former U.

The only holdout was Rsian-born goalie Ilya Samsonov, who ced Rsia’s punive anti-gay laws. As a bon to make the Pri Night even more gay Toronto, “a live drag show set to Canadian mic in Shania Twa’s song ‘Man! A siar tone was stck by alternate ptas Tavar and Rielly, who alt wh a sudn backlash himself last season when he was acced of hollerg a gay slur durg game actn.

NHL: LEAFS' RIELLY DIDN'T UTTER ANTI-GAY SLUR

"You always thk of there's a lot of bullyg sports and people are shamed if they e out as gay, but this shows how everyone n be accepted when you have a proment figure, pecially someone we're close wh, showg that we accept you and show that you are weled here and you're safe.

Update: NHL says Maple Leafs’ Man Rielly did not e gay slur durg game. The NHL said is vtigatg the e of a homophobic slur durg Monday’s Tampa Bay Lightng at Toronto Maple Leafs game, won by the Lightng 6-2. “The NHL is aware of reports that a homophobic slur was ed durg the Maple Leafs-Lightng game, ” NHL Public Relatns tweeted.

NHL FDS MAN RIELLY DID NOT USE ANTI-GAY SLUR TOWARD REF [UPDATED]

It’s tellg that the league stat fively that a gay slur was uttered and ’s what I hear listeng to the d multiple tim. “The club is aware of the reports surroundg a homophobic slur ed durg the Maple Leafs vers Lightng game on Monday night. The issue of homophobia is one the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Club strongly nmns and tak very serly.

The league has punished players before for g anti-gay slurs.

WHAT NHL TEAMS N LEARN OM THE MAPLE LEAFS' CISIVE RPONSE TO GAY SLUR ACCATN

But a year and a month later, the NHL failed to do anythg more than fe Ryan Getzlaf when the Anaheim Ducks pta yelled an anti-gay slur at a ref Game 4 of their Stanley Cup playoff seri wh the Nashville Predators. Racist, ethnic, sexist or homophobic slurs/remarks of any kd will lead to a ban. I appld the Redd morators bee “faggot” is about the worst gay slur that n be uttered agast a man, and has been the slur of choice sports forever.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated to clu new reactn om You Can Play and background on past actns by the NHL agast anti-gay slurs. ESPNMar 12, 2019, 12:49 PM ETThe NHL said Tuday that Toronto Maple Leafs fenseman Man Rielly did not direct an anti-gay slur at referee Brad Meier durg Monday night's league nducted an vtigatn after microphon picked up a phrase durg a game at Toronto agast the Tampa Bay Lightng.

On the d rried by Sports Canada, there is a clear anti-gay slur shouted by someone near ice Leafs issued a statement om Dubas after the vtigatn was announced: "The club is aware of the reports surroundg a homophobic slur ed durg the Maple Leafs vers Lightng game on Monday night. The issue of homophobia is one the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club strongly nmns and tak very serly.

GAY LEAGUE THRIVG TORONTO

"When me out that was Man who was alleged to have ed a homophobic slur, was surprisg to me, to say the least, " Dubas said. A few weeks ago, Rielly asked to be formally volved the gay pri para Toronto this June, Dubas league has punished players for g anti-gay slurs durg gam.

Andrew Shaw, then wh the Chigo Blackhawks, was spend for one playoff game 2017 after g an anti-gay slur while seated the penalty box. Later that postseason, the NHL me unr fire for handg Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf only a $10, 000 fe for what many felt was an anti-gay slur he ed the Wtern Conference fals. : The NHL has announced that Leafs fenseman Man Rielly has been cleared of accatns that he directed a homophobic slur agast an official Monday night’s game.

Here’s the statement om Col Campbell:Najee Harris ments on Saquon Barkley and the value of RBsOffEnglishOur origal post, which ran unr the headle “NHL Invtigatg Anti-Gay Slur In Maple Leafs Game, ” is below. The NHL has announced is lookg to the apparent e of a homophobic slur by a player Monday’s Maple Leafs–Lightng game Toronto, and the Leafs are the send perd of Tampa’s 6-2 w, an ice-level microphone on the Sports broadst picked up the shouted slur:It wasn’t immediately clear who was speakg or who was directed toward, but the mentators did note immediately after that Leafs fenseman Man Rielly was upset about a no-ll. About 18 hours after an accatn that fenseman Man Rielly ed a gay slur on the ice went viral, Dubas, the general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, sat down at a prs nference and gave one of the most thoughtful rpons as to why even the implitn of homophobic language shouldn’t be tolerated the NHL.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

I don’t want to be perceived that Man feels that way or the team feels that Man was slanred…There are a lot of people our muny, people that we know, people that have fay members, where they are affected by homophobia every sgle day our muny and all throughout the world.

“Every time ’s even thought that those typ of words are uttered our facily or anywhere, we have to do our part as the Toronto Maple Leafs to e this suatn …to get rid of sual homophobia, vulgar homophobia, thgs that make people of any sexualy or sexual orientatn feel unsafe or unfortable our facili. TORONTO -- In a perfect world, Chris Murray, missner of the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn (TGHA), knows his league would not have to exist. While he feels tolerance and homophobic language have signifintly rced the past 5 to 10 years, not that long ago there was a real need for a league like the TGHA.

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"There's a good al of homophobia, trash talkg, a ltle b rougher than has to get, so people lookg for a kr, gentler league where you don't have to put up wh that [garbage] is what the TGHA is all about, " Murray the NHL celebrat Hockey Is For Everyone month, events are beg held throughout the League to promote this important iative. "I've got to adm, that aspect of the league is slowly gog away bee people are more gnizant of homophobic language and 's not beg tolerated as much as ed to be, " Murray is often enuraged when speakg wh players their early-to-mid-twenti. On Wednday, Chigo cid agast havg players wear Pri-themed warmup jerseys for their upg Pri night, cg an anti-gay law Staal brothers and San Jose's Jam Reimer — who are Canadian — and Philalphia's Ivan Provorov, who is Rsian, all poted to their relig beliefs for refg to take part warmups.

It’s igned a bate over clivy and personal eedom 's vasn of Ukrae and the anti-gay law signed by Print Vladimir Put December have bed to pose some problems for the NHL and s 32 North Amerin profsnal sports league has as many Rsian players as the NHL. "Relign and rpect are not nflict wh each other, and we are certaly disappoted when relign is ed as a reason to not support our muny, " the anizatn ' Jam Reimer cl to wear Pri-themed jerseyNashville Predators prospect Le Prokop, who 2021 ma history as the first player signed to an NHL ntract to e out as gay, lled the Pri night cints a "step back" for hockey. The NHL, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Man Rielly are adamant the star fenceman didn't utter a homophobic slur on the 's unclear is this: Did anyone?

The league released the fdgs of s vtigatn Tuday the wake of allegatns swirlg on social media that Rielly ma an anti-gay remark durg the Leafs' 6-2 home loss to the Tampa Bay Lightng the prev night. Televisn meras picked up what sound like a slur wh 1:51 left the send perd as Rielly and Tampa Bay forward Yanni Gour skated after the puck Toronto's appeared to be appealg for a penalty om referee Brad Meier about halfway through a Leafs power play, a sequence that would end wh the Lightng srg a short-hand | 'I know I didn't e that word': Leafs' Man Reilly:Leafs' Man Rielly: 'I know I didn't e that word'Toronto Maple Leafs fenceman Man Rielly and GM Kyle Dubas hold prs nference after NHL said Rielly did not direct a homophobic slur at an NHL did not say s lg if the slur had been ed, jt that wasn't uttered by the Toronto blue-ler. "When me out that was Man who was alleged to have ed a homophobic slur was surprisg to me, to say the least, " Dubas NHL, which has been vol s support of the LGBTQ muny recent years, marked Hockey is For Everyone month Febary, wh the Leafs holdg a You Can Play awarens Brock McGillis, who played both the Ontar Hockey League and semi-profsnally, and beme an advote for LGBTQ rights after he me out November 2016, said a lot of unanswered qutns rema surroundg Monday's alleged cint.

NHL: MAPLE LEAFS' REILLY DIDN'T UTTER GAY SLUR AT OFFICIAL

The 25-year-old Vanuver native was the Leafs' first-round pick (fifth overall) the 2012 team hosted 30 players om the Toronto Gay Hockey Associatn and sold You Can Play/Leafs-brand srv wh 100 per cent of the proceeds gog to You Can Play on Feb. "Homophobic language has no place sports, " the statement read.

Anaheim Ducks pta Ryan Getzlaf was fed US$10, 000, the maximum unr the NHL's llective bargag agreement, when TV meras rerd him appearg to shout an anti-gay slur tratn wh an official durg the 2017 ' Ryan Getzlaf fed for appropriate remark durg Game 4Chigo forward Andrew Shaw, who is now wh the Montreal Canadiens, was spend one game and fed $5, 000 for directg a homophobic slur toward an official durg a Blackhawks' playoff game Toronto Blue Jays centre-fielr Kev Pillar was banned two gam by the club 2017 for directg a slur toward Atlanta Brav pcher Jason said he hop Monday's alleged cint will help further the battle agast homophobia — sual or otherwise. "But there are a lot of people our muny and people that we know and people that have fay members where they are affected by homophobia every sgle day.