#common nick seeler W ngl

[wehaveagathering]

i think one of the things that excited me the most about flyers pride night was that the flyers were like… proud. genuinely happy to wear the tape. seeing ersson repost the picture of him with the pride tape is huge. the numerous different ways they chose to wrap the sticks, laughton giving five thousand dollars on his own to the mazzoni center. and the number of guys who HAD the pride tape on! from what i could see during warm ups and from later posts, it was over half of the flyers: atkinson, ETA: BRINK couturier, farabee, frost, foerster, ETA: HATHAWAY, konecny, laughton, tippett, drysdale, sanheim, seeler, york, hart, and ersson!!

a couple things: A. fourteen [ETA FIFTEEN] [ETA SIXTEEN!!] is a HUGE number. B. this is an incomplete list! [IT WAS] I could definitely be misremembering as far as the guys that aren’t listed here - ersson changed his stick to a regular white tape one halfway through warmups, (which made me gaslight myself into thinking it was hart) and I didn’t see drysdale’s until this post caught my eye. subtle but there!and C. remember that staal (would not have worn) and deslauriers (let his daughters paint his fingernails and posted it) weren’t there, so we don’t even have the full picture. to me that’s amazing, considering some of the pretty poor turn out within other teams’ pride nights.

so to know that the guy with the A is setting an example every single night, actively putting genuine effort into helping the philly gay community, and knowing that that leadership has led to so many of the members of this hockey team feeling comfortable and proud enough to wear the colors of our flag gives me such real joy. to know that young hockey players are looking at their idols in the nhl and seeing that kind of support? and to me it’s just as crucial for those that aren’t queer, to see that this acceptance is not only important but also EASY. to know that if they are slinging vitriol, in a place like the Flyers’ locker room it wouldn’t be accepted.

happy pride night, flyers & fans. love you all