American NHL players wade in on NFL anthem protest

Given that the majority of National Hockey League rosters are made up of white Canadians and Europeans, anthem protests that are dominating National Football League headlines in America haven’t yet made their way to the hockey rinks.
But they are impossible to ignore, especially for U.S.-born players who, like the rest of the world, are concerned by what’s going on in their country right now.
“I was pretty surprised,” said Edmonton Oilers defenceman Mark Fayne, a New