NHL

Brock McGillis wants to transform players into “shift makers” who can push back against language and behavior that makes players afraid to come out.

Players might now refuse to be on the ice if there is a drag queen, a gay men’s chorus, or even out gay players present.

“Enough is enough. I’m accepting who I am. I want to live the way I want to, and I want to accept myself as a gay man.”

He claims that if he were gay, he’d be allowed to make sexual comments about the women he works with.

“I honestly cannot believe that in 2016, I’m actually asked a question as to why I would support anti-discrimination groups,” the president of Tennessee’s NHL team said.

Anders Nilsson said he has friends who are gay who didn’t have it easy growing up, and that he thinks it’s time hockey started paying attention to that.

Asked twice about what happened, Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw said he didn’t remember.

The organization is “about starting the conversation about LBGT inclusion in sports.”

DALLAS – Recently acquired Dallas Stars hockey forward Tyler Seguin says an anti-gay comment that showed up on his Twitter account came from “hackers.”

The National Hockey League and its players association on Thursday announced a groundbreaking partnership with the “You Can Play” project in what is likely the most comprehensive effort by a major North American sports league to support gay athletes.