Amanda kessel gay

The year-old Nashville Predators prospect and Calgary Hitmen defenseman announced on social media that he is gay, becoming the first active openly gay hockey player under an NHL contract. While the past year and a half has been crazy, it has also given me the chance to find my true self. I am no longer scared to hide who I am. Today I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay," Prokop wrote in an Instagram post on Monday.

On Team Canada, the goals came from Sarah Nurse and team captain Marie-Philip Poulin, who is now the only hockey player to score in four Olympic gold medal games. The meeting is another chapter in the heated rivalry between teams that have monopolized gold and met in every final but one since the sport was introduced to the Winter Olympics in With every Olympics, visibility around LGBTQ athletes grows, thanks to both individual competitors and an increase in the sheer number of athletes who are publicly out. Her path to gold included nine goals, which ties her for the most goals scored in a single competition.

There is more to this than a payback angle, more to it than a Kessel scoring the game-winner in the Ottawa Senators' rink to dash the hopes of the Maple Leaf. One year out from the Sochi Olympics where Canada will be far, far away from the home-crowd advantage it had for the past week at Scotiabank Place, the Americans won the worlds on Canadian ice for the first time. Talk about a springboard into Sochi for the younger Yanks and a crossroads for Team Canada. Youth beat experience, just like some forecast from the dawn of the tournament.

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