Ahh cancel culture.... aka accountability. Especially here but really Peel still wins when it’s all said and done. So really nothing changed.
I mean, there's always going to be people on the extremes that use terms like that as insults and way too loosely. At least in the way reasonable people use it, the criticisms of cancel culture largely stem from people having histories put on blast online and being given zero understanding, leniency, or forgiveness to past acts. Basically, cancel culture tends to selectively ignore that people are humans and humans make mistakes and *sometimes* change.
Cancel culture doesn't really apply to Peel here though. It's a giant joke with Peel, it's just the NHL trying to save face publicly despite every hardcore fan and person in the know knowing game management is how refs function for many years. He got in trouble for saying the thing out loud people already know, the NHL doesn't want to do anything about, and on a mic that shouldn't have been live.
