NHL Goalie Roasts Woke 'Climate Pledge Arena' After Electrical Issues Wreak Havoc on Game
On Saturday night in the NHL, the New York Rangers defeated the Seattle Kraken, 4-1, under bizarre circumstances.
Poor lighting inside Seattle’s nauseatingly woke Climate Pledge Arena forced the two teams to take unusual measures.
After the game, Rangers’ goalie Jonathan Quick mocked woke Seattle for failure to keep its own arena properly lit.
“I thought, you know, it’s Climate Pledge Arena, maybe they were using energy-efficient bulbs or something,” Quick said, according to New York hockey columnist Arthur Staple, who posted Quick’s comment after the game.
Jonathan Quick on the bank of lights being out from the start in Seattle: “I thought, you know, it’s Climate Pledge Arena, maybe they were using energy-efficient bulbs or something.”
— Arthur Staple (@StapeAthletic) October 22, 2023
As Staple noted, a “bank of lights” inside the arena would not function “from the start” of the game. This created an absurd situation in which one end of the ice was darker than the other.
In fact, the Rangers’ Blue Line Station blog called it an “extreme difference in brightness at the two ends of the rink.”
Blueshirt Banter, another Rangers’ blog, described a series of delays that produced a strange sequence of events in the darkened arena.
First, officials stopped play only 69 seconds into the game, and a long delay ensued. At that point, poor lighting affected the Rangers’ defensive zone, including the goaltender Quick. Eventually, the two teams agreed to switch sides of the ice every ten minutes so as to prevent competitive disadvantages.
NHL games have three 20-minute periods. Under normal circumstances, teams switch ends after the first and second periods. This would have left the Rangers’ defensive zone darkened for 40 of the game’s 60 minutes. Thus, the 10-minute compromise allowed play to continue.
Seattle scored its first and only goal 8:41 into the first period. New York answered less than four minutes later. Both first-period goals occurred on the darkened end of the ice.
New York controlled play from then onward and came away with the victory. But the teams combined for only 46 shots on goal. For comparison’s sake, during the 2022-23 season NHL games averaged more than 62 combined shots per game. Clearly, therefore, the arena’s poor lighting situation and consequent delays affected the quality of play.
As one would expect, Climate Pledge Arena amounts to nothing less than a virtue-signaling, woke nightmare.
For one thing, it trumpets itself as “the most progressive, responsible and sustainable arena in the world.” Then, in full-throated self-congratulation, it declares that it did not take its name from a corporation. Never mind that it actually took its name from The Climate Pledge, a ghastly woke offspring of corporate behemoth Amazon.
The Climate Pledge Arena’s website’s info page also features a “Land and Peoples Acknowledgement Statement.” Liberals use these statements to make themselves feel good while patronizing American Indians.
“Climate Pledge Arena acknowledges that we are on the homelands of the Coast Salish peoples, who continue to steward these lands and waters as they have since time immemorial. We recognize Washington’s tribal nations and Native organizations, who actively create, shape and contribute to our thriving communities. Climate Pledge Arena is committed to doing our part to engage with, and amplify the voices of, Native peoples and tribes,” the statement said.
One cannot help wondering what makes woke liberals behave this way. The self-righteousness alone causes everyone but themselves to recoil in horror at such obvious and shameful pride.
In any case, a darkened arena ironically helped illuminate the differences between two types of people.
On one side, we have woke liberals who — for psychological reasons that go well beyond a single article — feel an obsessive need to proclaim their own moral virtue no matter the cost to others.
On the other side, we have regular people who simply want the lights to work.
Truth and Accuracy
We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.
Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. Advertise Today.
