When the Boston Bruins finally dispatched the Vancouver Canucks in the seventh game of a hard-fought -- even mean-spirited -- Stanley Cup final last June, the two embittered teams found it in themselves to line up at centre ice and shake hands… Thomas, the late-blooming superstar from Flint, Mich., is the lone American citizen on the Bruins' Stanley Cup-winning roster, but rather than meet the president, Thomas turned away the honour like a weak slap shot from a bad angle.
Naturally this became the story out of the day. I mean Thomas disses the president? Really? http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/01/23/grange_on_thomas/
My Take: Political protest has been around longer than the NHL, longer than White House visits have become commonplace for championship teams. If Tim Thomas feels strongly he doesn't want to be seen as supporting anything White House or Obama, that's his choice. Personally, I think the politics he supports are as wacky as an episode of PeeWee's Big Top but his choice is his alone to make.
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