It’s mid-May, and in that alternate universe where this pandemic isn’t happening, Tampa Bay Lightning fans would be reading about Cedric Paquette punching a Metro player in the ECF. Instead we have two kinds of sports articles right now: deep dives into the past, and tentative steps into the future.
In a piece that dove into the past to help hockey step into a better future, Akim Aliu spoke to the Players’ Tribune yesterday about his experience with racism in the OHL. His piece is very much worth a read, and this paragraph stood out to me especially.