Ask all the questions you want about whether the NHL is a big-time league, but it just made a big-time decision. On Thursday, the NHL and the NHL Players' Association officially partnered with the You Can Play project – an organization geared toward eliminating homophobia in sport.
The NHL isn't the first league to officially pair with You Can Play – that was Major League Soccer, last year – but it is perhaps the most symbolically significant right now, in two ways. First, while You Can Play is geared toward ensuring "equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation," much of its heart lies with hockey.
Second, the NHL's move may act as a harbinger – a catalyst, even – for much wider change in North American sport.
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