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While chess is known worldwide as the ‘Game of Kings’, two Russian players showed that in Russia, chess is a game for bandits.

When a professional sports league won’t even allow the bare minimum support for the LGBTQ+ community, how can individual teams and players do anything to counteract that? That’s what Frankie de la Cretaz is asking after the NHL affirmed a policy banning Pride Tape the same week as National Coming Out Day.

If a World Cup of Hockey materializes in the near future, it won't be a traditional international tournament like the Olympics. The NHL and NHL Players’ Association are still planning to host a World Cup in February 2025, though the sides have scaled back what they think they can do given the timeframe and uncertainty regarding Russian players. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly wouldn't reveal specific ideas being considered other than to say it won't be a “typical” World Cup of eight national teams playing over the course of 16 days.

“How it worked out is really random,” Canes assistant general manger Darren Yorke said. “We don’t go into any draft and think, ‘Let’s get one country over another.’ ... If other organizations thought they’d be risky, we didn’t see it that way.”

The ban rules out men’s world number two Daniil Medvedev and last year’s Wimbledon semi-finalist Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.