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Our solution? We all picked up NHL 20 and decided we’d take our league play to the digital ice – the EA Sports Hockey League.

We’re not particularly good – in fact, we’re the worst team in the lowest level in our league, as a byproduct of the fact that every one of us either started playing, skating, or both in the past few years (personally, I’m a life-long ball hockey player, but a relatively untrained and therefore poor skater). Besides the odd gathering at one of our places, or at a bar, or whatever, what brought us together the most was playing hockey every Thursday. When COVID-19 put the world on pause a few months ago, it meant that my real-life friend circle was suddenly low on things to do.

With that all said, I’m back on the blog today to show an example of complacency towards racial issues, and one that hits close to home. The whole policing system needs significant reform for reasons beyond, but largely made evident within its racial bias, and it’s far from the first system of power that needs a serious re-look. I would like to be in support of respectful law enforcement officials, but what we’ve seen this week – peaceful protests being broken up by extreme shows of police violence while the destruction on the peripheral is largely allowed to give cause – shows that the “one bad apple” analogy cannot be spoken without the “spoils the whole bunch” part and that the apple count is very high as it is. I’m in full support of those that they’re fighting for. I’m in full support of the millions of protesters in the streets and in the media, traditional or digital. Instead, I’ve largely used my Twitter account to amplify voices talking about and documenting the Black Lives Matter protests that are happening around the world, particularly in the United States and issues that surround them.

This site has been more or less silent, and very little of my social media content has anything to do with the sport. As you’ve probably noticed over the past few days, I’ve by and large put hockey content on the back-burner.