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Home » NHL » BREAKING: NHL Cancels All Playoff Games To Protest Shooting of Jacob Blake
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BREAKING: NHL Cancels All Playoff Games To Protest Shooting of Jacob Blake

August 27, 2020 @2:52pmby Darrelle Lincoln
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The National Hockey League is all in.

In the wake of the NBA postponing its playoff games and certain MLB teams and players boycotting matchups on Wednesday to bring attention to social injustice and police brutality in the country, the NHL made the decision to cancel all playoff games on Thursday.

Breaking: The NHL will not play any playoff games Thursday in solidarity with other leagues protesting the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin, sources confirm to @emilymkaplan. pic.twitter.com/WKESkdHAuI

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 27, 2020

The Philadelphia Flyers were scheduled to take on the New York Islanders at 7 p.m. and the Vancouver Canucks and Las Vegas Golden Knights were set to follow at 9:45 p.m.

The rapid change after the decision on Wednesday to continue playing comes after the likes of San Jose Sharks winger Evander Kane, Minnesota Wild defenseman Matt Dumba and other NHL players who are part of the Hockey Diversity Alliance took to Twitter to ask the league to postpone Thursday’s scheduled games in order to demonstrate that the issues at hand are more important than postseason hockey.

We the @TheOfficialHDA have formally requested the @NHL to suspend all playoff games today. We strongly feel this sends a clear message that human rights take priority over sports.

— Evander Kane (@evanderkane_9) August 27, 2020

We the @TheOfficialHDA have formally requested the @NHL to suspend all playoff games today. We strongly feel this sends a clear message that human rights take priority over sports.

— Matt Dumba (@matt_dumba) August 27, 2020
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