Victim Of Racist Incident Last Week, Monday Night Philadelphia Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds Calls New York Rangers’ Sean Avery “Fucking Faggot”

Irony alert writ-large: Last Thursday night in London, Ontario Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers was the victim of a loathsome act of bigotry He handled that situation with class and dignity, and the entire hockey community rallied behind him in its aftermath. But on Monday night, reports SB Nation, as the Flyers hosted the New York Rangers, Simmonds got into an altercation with Sean Avery, a gay ally, and it appears as though Simmonds described him in disgusting anti-gay slur, calling Avery a “fucking faggot” from the bench, being restrained by one of his teammates. Avery, who has worked tirelessly to eradicate homophobia in hockey, has yet to comment.