Lehner, Reaves, Seguin and Dickinson take a knee during singing of U.S. national anthem

Silent protests continue across the entire NHL.

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Lehner, Reaves, Seguin and Dickinson take a knee during singing of U.S. national anthem

In case you missed it this past weekend, Minnesota Wild defenseman Matt Dumba became the first NHLer to officially "take a knee" during the singing of the U.S. national anthem. Dumba made an impassioned speech before the Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers dropped the puck for Game One of their qualifying series. The next evening Dumba raised a fist into the air while the anthem played prior to his team's game against the Vancouver Canucks.

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Today, Dallas Stars forwards Tyler Seguin and Jason Dickinson, as well as Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner and forward Ryan Reaves elected to join Dumba in silent protest by taking a knee during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.

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Regardless of your political beliefs or your thoughts on protesting, this act on behalf of Seguin, Dickinson, Lehner and Reaves is sure to raise eyebrows across the sporting world. Especially considering Reaves' own words about protesting the anthem just yesterday. 

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It certainly sounds like Reaves had a second thought on things, or someone got in his ear a bit and made him see things differently. 

In any case, personally I have no problem with it. Does it offend me? No. Does it make me want to jump up and act though? No. Frankly, I long for the days when politics stayed in politics and didn't bleed over into other avenues of life like sports. But that's just me, I'll never judge someone for having strong feelings about it either way.

I'll admit thought that I do pine for the days when I could enjoy flipping a game on the TV without having to worry about left wing, right wing other politics but rather whose playing left and right wing on the powerplay. Ah... the good old days. Before nearly every athlete decided to use their "platform" to pipe up about their political beliefs. It's 2020 though and like most of us, I'm doing my best to be open to new ideas. I mean, if a hard headed dude like Ryan Reaves can change his opinion on things, maybe I should try to be a little more open minded, no?