Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Hockey, 2010: When the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, the Chicago Gay Hockey Assn. asked the team to send a player to ride in the city’s pride parade with the Stanley Cup trophy. The team agreed and defenseman Brent Sopel [...]
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Worse to lose in 4…or lose like the Blackhawks?
After the Blackhawks-Canucks game, I started wondering what’s a worse way to get knocked out of the playoffs: 1) Lose four straight games or…2) lose three, then come back from the dead to win three, then lose Game 7…in overtime? You gotta feel badly for the defending Stanley Cup champs. Chicago came back from the brink [...]
Brent Sopel thinks gay pride is ‘awesome’
Brent Sopel said the Chicago Gay Pride Parade was “awesome, amazing.” The Stanley Cup champion from the Chicago Blackhawks, who actually was traded to Atlanta earlier this week, rode on the Chicago Gay Hockey Association (CGHA) float for the parade on Sunday. Sopel brought the Stanley Cup and raised it over his head no less [...]
Huge media attention for Blackhawks at Pride
What started with a simple idea has catapulted into a monster mainstream media story. Within hours of the Chicago Gay Hockey Association inviting the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks to the Gay Pride Parade, the story got attention from Outsports, Yahoo, ESPN.com and other outlets. “We were shocked how the story of our invite to [...]
Burke family issues Chicago Pride statement
Philadelphia Flyers scout Patrick Burke, brother of Brendan Burke and son of Brian Burke, who earlier this week wrote a fantastic column on the state of homophobia in hockey, sent us this statement after the announcement that the Stanley Cup and the Chicago Blackhawks would be represented at the Chicago Gay Pride parade: The Burke [...]
Stanley Cup, Blackhawks to march in gay Pride
A member of the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks will march in the Chicago Pride Parade with the Stanley Cup on Sunday. This is the first time an NHL Champion or the Stanley Cup has appeared in a Pride Parade. Blackhawk Brent Sopel said he will march with his family in honor of Brendan Burke. [...]
Cubs and Blackhawks join Chicago Gay Pride
Although many in Chicago are curious whether the Chicago Blackhawks – and the Stanley Cup – will accept the invitation to participate in the Chicago Gay Pride Parade on June 27, one Chicago pro team has already said Yes to the event. And now the Blackhawks are set to join them as well. The Cubs [...]
Chicago Blackhawks invited to Pride Parade
The Chicago Gay Hockey Association has invited the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks to participate in the Chicago Pride Parade with them Sunday, June 27. It sure would help smooth over the Blackhawks’ image in the gay community after a “Pronger is gay” message was found in their post-game locker room. “We’re optimistic, but we [...]
Chicago Blackhawks: Chris Pronger is gay
The Chicago Tribune thinks Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger is a 5-foot-2 female figure skater. Now we find out the Chicago Blackhawks think Pronger is gay. They wrote as much on a whiteboard in their locker room, and that has come through in at least one photo of their Stanley Cup championship celebration. Chances are [...]
Joe’s Stanley Cup Playoffs Guide
The National Hockey League once again gears up for the Stanley Cup playoffs. A major factor in the greatness of the NHL postseason is sudden-death overtime. Now that the NFL has done away with it for their playoffs (and perhaps for the regular season as well) by giving a team that gives up a field [...]
It’s still the No Fun League
Here’s a clever idea: teams from two different sports in the same city doing funny commercials together. Done right, they’d be good publicity for both teams. An executive with the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks came up with the idea to pair up with the NFL’s Chicago Bears during a meeting of NHL honchos in which it [...]