Sharks' Twitter account to send 'LGBTQIA+ information' instead of 'normal game content' on team's Pride Night

During sporting events, teams' Twitter accounts will nonstop retired unrecorded updates and highlights passim nan games.

However, that won't beryllium nan lawsuit for nan San Jose Sharks Saturday night.

The squad is hosting Pride Night astatine SAP Center against nan New York Islanders, but those successful attendance will not beryllium nan only ones seeing their celebration.

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The San Jose Sharks logo connected a jersey during a crippled against nan Vegas Golden Knights astatine SAP Center Oct. 4, 2019, successful San Jose, Calif. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

The Sharks tweeted connected Saturday that they will "offer accusation and facts astir LGBTQIA+ topics" alternatively of "our normal crippled content" passim Saturday's contest.

"Our dream is that this contented will service arsenic a reminder that location are issues much important than goals, highlights, and wins," nan squad said successful its tweet.

"Hockey is not for everyone until everyone is comfortable playing, working, aliases being a instrumentality of this unthinkable game."

The NHL has travel nether occurrence successful caller months arsenic 2 teams and an individual subordinate refrained immoderate wearing pride-themed jerseys during warmups.

The Philadelphia Flyers' Ivan Provorov cited his Russian Orthodox belief for his logic not to participate successful warmups connected his team's Pride Night. The remainder of nan squad wore LGBTQ-themed uniforms.

The New York Rangers promoted its Pride Night successful January, saying players would wrap pride-themed portion connected sticks, but that scheme was besides nixed pinch nary explanation. The aforesaid point occurred pinch nan Minnesota Wild earlier this month.

The San Jose Sharks playing against nan Vegas Golden Knights astatine SAP Center Oct. 4, 2019, successful San Jose, Calif.  (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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The Sharks are 19-36-14, and their 52 points are nan second-lowest successful nan league.