Other Thoughts: The Diversity & Inclusion™ Issue

Bad losses, bad initiatives and bad jerseys!

Hi everyone,

Hope y’all are doing well! We are one-ish week into the season, and we at the THWL HQ are settling in for what seems to be a very interesting hockey season. For the first time in a while, we had to choose between what we wanted to include in one of these. We don’t know if the rest of the season will keep us this curious, but we’re intrigued, nonetheless. Enjoy our Other Thoughts for this week :)

NHL Diversity Report

On Tuesday, the NHL released their first-ever demographic study of their workforce. The general reaction seemed to be, “ok, I guess?” because nothing within that study was particularly a revelation for anyone who pays the slightest attention to the sport. The general feeling we got was that while it gave us a bit more details, it was also vague enough to question its efficacy. It seemed that we weren’t the only ones who felt like this as Akim Aliu, Chair of the Hockey Diversity Alliance, released a statement to the AP, basically calling the entire effort performa…