I'm curious. Do we remove Canada from the IIHF and retire players for the mass graves found with the residential schools? Do we retire all Americans because of the invasion and subsequent torture of the Iraqi and Afghani people? Should we not allow Germans because of the heinous acts perpetrated by Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party? Do we retire Swedish players because of the databases of Romani people they kept or forced sterilization of transsexual individuals during the 1970s? Should we be barred from creating British players because of the acts of barbarity that the British Empire has done for centuries?

We need to stop equating people with the heinous acts of structural elements of a country. Putin and his Oligarchs are to blame. Any of the old boomer bootlickers that proudly cheer for the death of Ukrainians are to blame. While the missiles are creating untold death in Ukraine, there are still victims among the Russian populace. People worrying about family members in Ukraine. People with ties to those in Ukraine. And people with a good heart that don't want to see these obscene acts of horror take place on their neighbor.

I just wish people would sometimes step back and take a look at the big picture. Everything isn't so clear as you think it is and that's okay.