Blues' Binnington addresses old tweets about burkas
St. Louis Blues netminder Jordan Binnington addressed tweets from 2013 that resurfaced prior to Game 1 of his club's first-round playoff series against the Winnipeg Jets.
The tweets, sent in 2013, were initially uncovered by The Mercury News' Paul Gackle.
I was thinking. when people who wear the burkas are at the airport how is the security able to see if that's them in their passport... Srsly
— Jordan Binnington (@binnnasty) January 25, 2013
Also If you're underage & nervous of getting into a bar, throw the damn burka on. no way the bouncer will get into that awkward questioning
— Jordan Binnington (@binnnasty) January 25, 2013
"It was a while ago when I was a teenager," Binnington said Wednesday, according to The Athletic's Jeremy Rutherford. "It was a little sarcasm and joking around. That's what life is about, you live and learn and you grow as a human. I'm just here to play a couple hockey games."
NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly also commented on the matter, per The Canadian Press.
"Obviously, we don't condone public comments that could be perceived as insensitive. But based on what we've been made aware of to this point, we don't believe there is any basis to specifically address or even comment on five-year-old social media posts from a player who wasn't even part of the National Hockey League at the time," he said.
Binnington, 25, surged onto the NHL scene in his first season. He went 24-5-1 with a .927 save percentage to play a gigantic role in the Blues' second-half playoff push.