{"id":2868,"date":"2023-04-06T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/nhl-canadiens-gurianov-will-not\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T21:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T21:53:24","slug":"nhl-canadiens-gurianov-will-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/nhl-canadiens-gurianov-will-not\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL-Canadiens&#8217; Gurianov will not wear pride jersey for family reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     Russian forward Denis Gurianov will not participate in the  Montreal Canadiens pre-game warm-up after choosing not to wear a special Pride jersey ahead of the NHL team&#8217;s seventh annual Pride Night on Thursday against Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Gurianov made the decision due to family reasons, the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we understand the decision, we also hope the focus of attention remains where it belongs: on evolving as a society to be more accepting and welcoming of all, without exception,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>NHL Pride Night events have been under an unwelcome spotlight in recent months as some teams and a handful of players have objected to participating for reasons that include religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL club Chicago Blackhawks said in March it would not wear pride warm-up jerseys during Pride Night due to safety concerns related to the club&#8217;s Russian players.<\/p>\n<p>Last December Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law expanding Russia&#8217;s restrictions on the promotion of what it calls &#8220;LGBT propaganda&#8221;, effectively outlawing any public expression of LGBT behaviour or lifestyle in Russia.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Tommy Lund in Gdansk, editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/nhl-canadiens-gurianov-will-not\/file-photo-nhl-montreal-canadiens-at-philadelphia-flyers\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ350TL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ350TL-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Russian forward Denis Gurianov will not participate in the Montreal Canadiens pre-game warm-up after choosing not to wear a special Pride jersey ahead of the NHL team&#8217;s seventh annual Pride Night on Thursday against Washington Capitals. Gurianov made the decision due to family reasons, the club said in a statement. &#8220;While we understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ350TL-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}