Racism in NHL

[unit321]

A Finnish player wrote a biography about his time in the NHL and he talked about a racist situation that happened. I'm not shocked. It's predominately white players, unlike football, baseball, and basketball. I see it in locker rooms for pick-up games too.

Penguins 'racist' locker room prank revealed in Jarkko Ruutu’s book

This is the black player, Georges Laraque.

 

[unit321]

double post. sorry, something is slow with my connection and I couldn't see the first submission go through.

 

[unit321]

Mods, can you delete my other duplicate posts?

 

[Osmar]

Georges Laraque (black) let Colby Armstrong (white) call him a N-Word for a prank

 

[ScottyG]

Hockey players and fans are racist?

 

[GOATpernick]

Georges Lacac

The night PK DA GAWD scored an overtime goal in Boston the top twitter trend in Boston was #******

 

[trick]

I am shocked by these allegations

 

[John Mayer]

Georges Laraque (black) let Colby Armstrong (white) call him a N-Word for a prank

 

[unit321]

I am shocked by these allegations

The book is printed in Finnish. If it gets translated into English, I doubt that would spark an outrage... as most people would not care to read about an Finnish player's life in the NHL. Dude wasn't bad but he wasn't a superstar.

 

[dtownreppin214]

i thought laraque was a goon.

 

[MVike28]

OP are you serious??? Can you not COPY AND PASTE THE GODDAMN EXCERPT?


In this story he tells how, one day after practice, Georges Laraque stormed into the locker room absolutely furious, threatening to trash the place. Players gathered around and Laraque showed a picture pinned at his locker room stall – a drawing of a monkey with a banana.

So of course everybody started to freak out a bit, worried this could destroy the team. Laraque demanded to know who did it, and after a while, Colby Armstrong stepped up and admitted he did it.

Others wanted to know why would he do such a thing.

Armstrong replied: "What do you mean? He is a [N-word], isn't he?"

Laraque just snapped and attacked Armstrong, and others tried to break them up, worried somebody might get seriously hurt. But suddenly it ended with Armstrong and Laraque laughing – it was just a prank, albeit a bit over the top. No one had suspected anything, since the guys had acted their parts so fine. But it was a hoax.

 

[MVike28]

Laraque DISGUSTING

 

[FaTaL]

Hockey players and fans are racist?

The sky is blue

Turds smell

Gay guys like azz too

 

[unit321]

i thought laraque was a goon.

Well, he was known as being a fighter, but he had the skills to make it in the NHL and tallied some goals and assists.

 

[Vilhena]

i thought laraque was a goon.

He's a confirmed c00n.