The @FiremanRich Blog: July 2019

Hockey Coach Todd Starnes tells team don't be disrespectful to either the American or the Canadian national anthems:

It was the first day of camp for the Hat Tricks, the new minor league hockey team in Danbury, Connecticut. And assistant coach John Krupinsky had something on his mind. Over the past few years, Coach Krupinsky has seen professional football players and women’s soccer players disrespect America by taking a knee during the national anthem. He wanted to make sure the young hockey players understood that sort of unpatriotic nonsense would not be permitted on the Hat Tricks. “We’re not women’s soccer,” he told the team in a locker room heart-to-heart. “We’re not the NFL.” And then, Coach Krupinsky laid down the law. “If there’s anybody here who is going to be disrespectful to either the American or the Canadian national anthem, grab your gear and get the f**k out now because you’ll never see the ice in this arena,” he said. “We don’t have that problem in hockey. We’re better than that, but there was no sense in wasting anybody’s time if that sh*t was going to happen.” More At: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-hockey-coach-megan-rapinoe-national-anthem-nfl-womens-soccer