Values the Ducks taught me part 2-Diversity

Hey everybody, its blog time again! After a 2 week hiatus, I'm dusting the ol cobwebs off and talking about the most esoteric shit ever spewed out on the internet. But I digress: Hands Across America, The Olympics, a riot, what do all of these things have in common? They bring people together, if history has taught us anything it is that we need to be united as a country and not torn apart by the color of our skin or what we might hold dear. This was the obvious agenda of Coach Gordon Bombay or as I like to refer to him as Better Bono.

Now when I think of the NHL, I basically think of an entire league named Doug, meaning the diversity within the league is probably that of the Mormon church. Even every team the Ducks played had a roster full of either white people or Jamaicans who for some reason live in Trinidad and Tobago.

The land of tie-dye and steel drums

Now in the first film the Ducks brought something to the game that had never been seen, racial integration, and goddammit no one else liked that. Well if they were pissed in D1, those people would have had a god damn stroke from what they saw in D2. Lets go down the list shall we:

1. Luiz Mendoza
Hails From: Miami, Florida (South Miami if you read his jersey)
Importance: First Hispanic to succeed in hockey.

BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF HOCKEY...maybe. As the nations fastest growing demographic, it was only a matter of time until the Hispanics made a move onto the rink. And the first to break this barrier was Luiz Mendoza. Luiz's contribution to the team was mind blowing, goalie-shitting speed. However, he had two problems that came with his strengths, his ability to stop was straight up zero and the concussions he got from slamming into the walls at literally breakneck speed are putting him on route to be the next Ali.

But Luiz was not going to let this handicap stop him from earning the respect he deserves. He soon learned to stop, scored a goal and paved the way for many Hispanic athletes to come.

2. Ken Wu

Hails From: San Fransisco, California
Importance: Being the first gay hockey player

Freddy Mercury, Harvey Milk, NPH; all of these openly gay people have made positive contributions socially, culturally and politically. Sports has been an area of our popular culture where we have not seen many gay people flourish. This all changed with Mr. Ken Wu. Although he never officially said he was gay, he was a male figure skater, c'mon.

I'm nooot gaaaaaaaaaaayyy!

Today the gay culture is an extremely polarizing topic. What I'm going to assume is that the good ol bash brothers at first were not too happy with having Wu as a teammate as we saw Dean Portman lifting him onto the goal an giving him a right cross knocking the poor kid's ass out. But as the time went on Ken won the extreme adoration of them by going into some sort of rage and beating the absolute hell out of the Iceland goalie. Riots ensued and Ken became the third Bash Brother, this is how society needs to be people!

3. Russ Tyler

Hails From: South Central Los Angeles
Importance: Social Context

If you look at the history of the United States, South Central LA has been and still is an incredibly interesting spot. Compton, crips and bloods, NWA, all things that scare the absolute hell out of white people everywhere, came out of South Central. Now Russ Tyler was just a huge dick at the beginning of the movie by talkin shit to anyone he could. The reason, because the Ducks lost their way and didn't know how to play street hockey. So the Ducks followed Russ and his gang to their neighborhood basketball court and played some hockey on rollerblades (don't worry basketball wasn't popular in the early to mid 90's). It was their that Russ dropped the damn atomic bomb of hockey known as the knuckle puck.

Kenan Thompson - Knuckle Puck
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Now this was enough to earn him a spot on the Ducks after Adam Banks had a bad case of smashed wrist. It was here, he dropped the knuckle puck and scored a goal for the Ducks and for the people of LA. It just goes to show that no matter what sports can make you a better person.

Didn't play sports...