The topic of celebrations in sports in general is pretty interesting to me. I feel like it's an extension of self-expression -- which the sport itself should be in many cases -- and that to police it is fundamentally problematic. Crossing over from hockey to other sports for a second, there was a lot of hand-wringing and complaining about Brazil dancing to celebrate a goal when four goals up against Korea in the World Cup the other day... but that's just what Brazilians do. They dance to celebrate. It's their thing.

If Jamal scored and celebrated with a dance on the ice, and people had comments, it would be weird. The man is Jamaican. We love to dance.

Sure there's a topic of whether some celebrations can be disrespectful etc etc but honestly unless you go waaaaay over the line, it's just people being soft imo. I would celebrate a goal against "war torn oppressed nation #153" at 20-0 by dancing or whatever. Why wouldn't I? It's not a problem unless I'm ... I dunno... pelvic thrusting at the travelling opposition fans, or wiping fake tears with their flag or something.

That all said, overly choreographed celebrations can come across as pretentious douchebaggery. I don't think it needs to be policed though.