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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
Damn... the cancel culture is going strong now.
Not exactly sure how I feel about this. The Russian athletes literally have nothing to do with this war.
Is this more to do with CCM protecting their own business, cut ties with anything to do with Russia just so it looks good for their brand and in the future, they won't risk receiving any sort of backlash cause who knows what they'll get blamed for down the road.
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In this case, I do think it is more than cancel culture or out of all incidents, if anyone is deserving of being cancelled, Putin gets the gold medal for that award.
The point of the sanctions against these oligarchs is that if you benefit from relationship with Putin, you suffer from your relationship with Putin. Put the damn squeeze on him to stop this shit. Ovi is no different, you can classify him as Russian athlete oligarch, he wouldn't be playing in the NHL (or any athlete) if Putin didn't put the stamp of approval on it. Ovi often buddies up to Putin.
So far, Ovi's comments have been quite weak ass, understandably, his family lives in Russia. But if he donated one year of his salary to help with Ukrainian relief efforts, refugee settlement, etc. I still don't think he would have done enough for all the benefits he has received from being a Putin supporter.