New York Rangers

NHL player in hot water from incident on the ice

SDGLN Staff
September 28th, 2011

NHL forward Wayne Simmonds, who plays for the Philadelphia Flyers, got into a tuft on the ice with Sean Avery on Monday night, calling the New York Rangers winger a “f-cking f-ggot."

Sean Avery's support of marriage equality continues to makes waves across the NHL

SDGLN Staff
June 30th, 2011

Andrew Burnette, currently a member of the Minnesota Wild hockey team, dropped his player agent this week because of a recent firestorm surrounding anti-gay comments.

Todd Reynolds, vice president of Canadian firm Uptown Sports Management, was very vocal in early May of his disappointment with Sean Avery's support of gay marriage.

VIDEO: Backlash against Avery's support of marriage equality creates malestrom of LGBT support

Johnette Howard - ESPN.com
May 13th, 2011

It's hard to gauge who did more to advance the cause of legalizing gay marriage in the past week -- New York Rangers forward Sean Avery (the first pro athlete to publicly support New Yorkers for Marriage Equality), or the father-and-son sports agent team of Don and Todd Reynolds, whose swift attacks of Avery's stance caused a remarkable thing to happen.

Say it ain’t so: Hockey players’ agent compares marriage equality to beastiality

SDGLN Staff
May 10th, 2011

WASHINGTON - The president of a sports agency representing some of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) top players late Monday compared gay marriage to bestiality.

Don Reynolds, president of the Canadian-based Uptown Sports Management, made his comments a day after New York Ranger forward Sean Avery announced that his support for marriage equality in New York state via a video for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Sean Avery was a “trending topic” on Twitter on Monday night and his video on HRC’s YouTube account has been viewed over 148,000 views as of Tuesday morning.

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