NHL, NHLPA celebrate the launch of the Player Inclusion Coalition, a group of former NHL and women’s professional Players helping to advance equality and inclusion in the sport
This morning, the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players Association announced the launch of the NHL Player Inclusion Coalition, supporting the group with $1 million USD committed to programs that promote diversity in hockey. Devils Director of Player Development Meghan Duggan is a member of the coalition and we spoke exclusively with her about her participation and the impact the coalition is making in the sport of hockey.
Meghan Duggan knows how lucky she is. In the sports community members of the LGBTQ+ community don’t often feel welcome, but for Duggan in hockey, she feels like “one of the lucky ones. It was a safe place, all growing up in in high school and college, it was never a place I really did feel excluded, and that’s rare.”
But with that luck comes a deep understanding and appreciation that it isn’t the same experience for others. Most don’t have an experience like Duggan, who is the Devils Director of Player Development, most have struggled to find acceptance, to feel like their sport is a safe place to be their authentic selves, to feel like they belong. That is why it was imperative she be involved in any sort of movement to help change the space around hockey, which has afforded her so much.
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