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Sheng Peng: And kind of a separate question, but also a very good question: without outing anybody, were there any openly gay hockey players when you played or that everyone kind of knew about or you knew about, and how do you think in general an NHL room would react to a player coming out?

Dan Boyle: I don't mind the question, but like, yeah, no, in 18 years I actually don't know if--has there ever been a gay hockey player come out?

SP: Not in the NHL, not in like, I think-

DB: At the NHL level, of course, I mean, yeah. Yeah, no, so no, I mean yeah, it's not something that has ever come up in the 18 [years], not just in--it's never come up in the NHL as a whole. Now if you use statistics and life, you would think, you would think that's not possible. But, and then how would we, you know, I think the truth is, can I sit here and say there wouldn't be jokes and jabs? No, a locker room is a tough place to be, no matter if you're gay, straight, your dick size, your color of your- you know what I mean?

[SP laughs and adds something here that I'm unable to make out.]

DB: Yeah, yeah, but it's fair game for everybody, and it's one of those tough, just, it's locker room love, I call it. Like, you just--everybody kind of makes fun of each other, but at the end of the day you're all brothers. So, there would, I'm sure, be some jokes, but that being said, would I care if there was a gay player on my team or not? I don't give a shit, as long as he helps me win hockey games. I couldn't care less, and it's--there's nothing wrong with that. So it's not even-- it's, yeah. I didn't expect to have that [question]. I didn't have this on my bingo card either, but.

[Talking over each other, unclear.]

DB: I don't think it would be a problem because it's who we are as a human race. We--that's who we are.

SP: Well, let me go deeper though, because I do have a follow up. Do you think though that you would have teammates that might have an issue with it? Like you don't, and probably most of your teammates wouldn't, but you know it might be possible.

DB: Well, again, based on statistics in the world, then yeah, then there would be some guys that would have issues with it.

SP: That's normal, right. That makes sense, yeah.

DB: There's racism, there's sexism, there's homophobia. You would think, you would think that somebody would have a problem with it. Not me.

SP: Okay. Thank you-

DB: Unless, unless, unless you didn't work hard, and didn't fucking make us win games, then I'm coming---

[All laughing]