The San Jose Sharks apologized for a scoreboard shoutout that appeared to reward Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Hispanic heritage night time. It’s additionally referred to as the “Los Tiburones” sport.
“SJ SHARKS FANS LOVE ICE!! GET’EM BOYZ!” the message mentioned throughout Saturday’s sport at residence because the Sharks mascot waved and blew kisses, according to the video.
“Throughout the first intermission of tonight’s sport, an offensively worded message which had been externally submitted was inadvertently displayed on the in-arena scoreboard,” the staff said in a statement on X. “Sharks Sports activities & Leisure deeply regrets that this message, which doesn’t meet our group’s values, was not detected throughout our commonplace evaluation course of. The Sharks group sincerely apologizes for this oversight, and we’re actively working to find out the origin of the message.”
Whereas some on social media theorized that ICE merely referred to hockey, the staff can’t afford PR missteps.
