{"id":470864,"date":"2023-11-25T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470864"},"modified":"2023-11-25T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T08:44:09","slug":"fleury-snubs-league-ban-and-wears-mark-of-native-american-heritage","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fleury-snubs-league-ban-and-wears-mark-of-native-american-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleury snubs league ban and wears mask of Native American Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc-Andre Fleury didn&#8217;t comply with NHL&#8217;s ban and wore custom mask for the Minnesota Wild\u2019s Native American Heritage night on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Fleury stepped on to the ice for the team\u2019s game against the Colorado Avalanche wearing the specially designed mask and agent Allan Walsh confirmed earlier in the day the league informed his client he couldn\u2019t wear the mask, even for warm-ups.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marc-Andre Fleury is wearing his Native American Heritage mask in warmups. \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WPSITbHz5U\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WPSITbHz5U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1728225281679458576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The NHL prohibits players from wearing specialty jerseys, masks, stickers, decals or tape for theme nights.<\/p>\n<p>The league initially didn&#8217;t let players use rainbow-colored tape on Pride nights before reversing the decision. The reason was a serious backlash from around the hockey community. Teams are also not allowed to dress players in themed jerseys for warmups this season after a handful of players decided last season to opt out of Pride Night warmups that included special colorful jerseys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc-Andre Fleury didn&#8217;t comply with NHL&#8217;s ban and wore custom mask for the Minnesota Wild\u2019s Native American Heritage night on Friday. Fleury stepped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":470867,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17358],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18065],"acf":{"announce":"Minnesota Wild\u2019s player wore the mask during the warm-up before the game against Avalanche ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470880,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470864\/revisions\/470880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470864"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470864"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}