The Wings have been sharing prospect reports on kids via Twitter recently which include snippets from Todd Nelson, Jiri Fischer, and Shawn Horcoff. In the Hicketts video, you can see there’s a lot of praise for the kid being put atop an unspoken concept of “yeah... but his size.” You can contrast it to the Tyler Bertuzzi one they put up on Saturday where Horcoff says he believes Lil’ Bert will start the season up in the NHL this year.
Mother of young Calgary hockey player said daughter refuses to wear ‘discriminatory’ jersey | Calgary Herald
This one’s a tangle of odd considerations around a topic that seems it could have been made less of an issue before it hit the Calgary Herald.