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<\/p>\nThe hysterical queens going after Ivan Provorov did accomplish at least one good thing: His jerseys promptly sold out at the NHL shop.<\/p>\n
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(LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 As a lifelong, passionate ignorer of professional sports, I do not know much about the National Hockey League beyond what has been inflicted on me against my will. But as it turns out, I do know more than many sports commentators. The latest NHL controversy has nothing to do with fights, or a bad ref call, or anything else related to, you know, the sport. It is about Ivan Provorov, a defenseman for the Philadelphia Flyers declining to wear a rainbow jersey during a warmup \u201cPride Night\u201d game against the Anaheim Ducks on January 17.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Asked about it by reporters, he cited his Russian Orthodox faith. \u201cI respect everybody\u2019s choices,\u201d Provorov told reporters after the game. \u201cMy choice is to stay true to my religion, that\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna say. That\u2019s all I\u2019m gonna comment on that. If you have any hockey questions, I would answer those.\u201d Hockey, of course, is far less interesting than the sexual politics that are now somehow part of it, and so a reporter pressed him. \u201cDid you not hear what I just said? Can you respect that?\u201d he\u00a0responded<\/a>\u00a0politely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As it turns out, there are plenty of journalists who cannot, in fact, respect that. The most notable example was Sid Seixeiro, a Canadian TV broadcaster with Breakfast Television on CityTV who was utterly apoplectic (although unfortunately not speechless) that Provorov refused to physically wear a shirt that signaled support for Seixeiro\u2019s preferred worldview:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n