{"id":84270,"date":"2020-08-28T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=84270"},"modified":"2020-08-28T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:34:08","slug":"nhl-investigation-former-florida-panthers-dale-tallon-racial-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/08\/28\/nhl-investigation-former-florida-panthers-dale-tallon-racial-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Opens Investigation Into Former Florida Panthers GM Dale Tallon Alleged Racial Slur Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL has opened an investigation into former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a> general manager Dale Tallon after he allegedly used a racial slur. The alleged racial slur usage took place while Tallon was with the team in Toronto for the Stanley Cup qualifying round.<\/p>\n<p>The league confirmed it was \u201clooking into the matter,\u201d but gave no further information into the situation or the timeline of the investigation. Neither the NHL nor the Panthers clarified when Tallon allegedly said the slur or what he said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking news: The NHL is investigating former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlaPanthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlaPanthers<\/a> GM Dale Tallon for allegedly using racially-charged language while in the Toronto bubble: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qNFTkmRC3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/qNFTkmRC3A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Richards (@GeorgeRichards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeRichards\/status\/1299391966665420807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Dale Tallon Alleged Racial Slur Use<\/h2>\n<p>The initial investigation from <a href=\"https:\/\/floridahockeynow.com\/nhl-investigating-former-panthers-gm-dale-tallon-for-using-racial-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Hockey Now<\/a> claimed that neither the NHL nor the Florida Panthers were willing to comment on the investigation. Tallon also declined to comment after repeated calls and texts from Florida Hockey Now.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes as the NHL followed the likes of the NBA, WNBA, and a number of MLS and MLB teams in postponing its playoff games in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake. To show support for the continued fight against police violence toward Black people, the NHL did not play on Thursday and will not play its scheduled games on Friday. Just yesterday, the Panthers tweeted their support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the end of racial justice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneTerritory?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#OneTerritory<\/a> stand in support of the athletes and sports leagues who are pausing operations to bring light to racial injustice. Keep using your voice. <br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; x &#8211; Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1299106562800259074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Tallon Parted With Panthers on August 10<\/h3>\n<p>Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2020\/08\/10\/dale-tallon-out-as-panthers-gm\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fired Tallon<\/a> on August 10 after the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a> trounced the Panthers in the qualifying round. During Tallon\u2019s 10 years with the team, he led Florida to one playoff series win. It is not clear whether Florida knew about his alleged use of the racial slur before they made the decision not to renew his contract.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0However, a team source told Florida Hockey now that Tallon&#8217;s firing had nothing to due with his alleged use of racially-charged language.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Panthers began the search for a new general manager after parting with Tallon. Apparently the team interviewed at least 12 possible replacements.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"dO10K5MZSTZumSkblw1XRw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/875491714\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'dO10K5MZSTZumSkblw1XRw',sig:'g1CyM84fmLNxAPpsod2s5045uqmKW9PM6AvJm7LsK7Y=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'875491714',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL has opened an investigation into former Florida Panthers general manager Dale Tallon after he allegedly used a racial slur. The alleged racial slur usage took place while Tallon was with the team in Toronto for the Stanley Cup qualifying round. The league confirmed it was \u201clooking into the matter,\u201d but gave no further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3516,"featured_media":84275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,4547,4548],"tags":[5462,1008,4528,106,37,38],"class_list":["post-84270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-dale-tallon","tag-fired","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Nik Kowalski, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}