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Czech hockey fans hurl racist insults at NHL player

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The Czech Ice Hockey Association said Tuesday it had fined top-flight Pirati Chomutov after its fans showered racist insults on black NHL player Wayne Simmonds during a game. Canada’s Simmonds, the Philadelphia Flyers’ right wing, joined another Czech top-flight side Bili Tygri Liberec amid the NHL lock-out sparked by failed…

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Man charged over NHL banana toss

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A 26-year-old man was charged on Wednesday in connection with throwing a banana on the ice at a black National Hockey League player during a pre-season game last week, police said. Chris Moorhouse of London, Ontario, was issued a summons byprovincial police on a charge of engaging in a banned activity under the province’s trespassing…

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Outcry over banana tossed at black hockey player

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NEW YORK — National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday that the tossing of a banana at a black player during a pre-season exhibition game Thursday night in Canada was “stupid and ignorant”. The incident came during a game-ending shootout at London, Ontario, when Philadelphia Flyers right wing Wayne…

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