Dallas Stars’ Tyler Seguin Tweeting on Thin Ice

(GayWebSource.com – Gay Media & Press Network) – Posted by Doug Magditch – HisBigD.com

July 9 UPDATE:

In his meeting with the Dallas media Tuesday morning, Seguin apologized for the tweet, and insisted it was a hack-job.

“My Twitter was, in fact, taken over along with a few other things that are with my name. It definitely didn’t feel good that my name was out there saying negative things, but I definitely want to apologize to anyone that was hurt by what I said.”

He explained that it was a decision made by him and Dallas Stars’ president Jim Lite to shut down the Twitter account.

ORIGINAL STORY:

The Dallas Stars have a new player: Tyler Seguin. He isn’t even in Texas yet, but the team is already apologizing for him.

This tweet went out from Seguin’s twitter account Saturday night:

No, Seguin wasn’t coming out of the closet. Media are speculating the “Only steers and queers in Texas” tweet was the work of a prankster.

The Dallas Stars organization immediately distanced itself from Seguin with a statement:

“In no way, shape or form does the Dallas Stars organization condone or agree with the message that was sent out through Tyler Seguin’s Twitter feed last night. We’ve addressed the issue directly with Tyler and we’ll continue to work on educating our players regarding the importance of their conduct on all forms of social media.”

You can’t see the tweet anymore. It’s since been deleted. Seguin claims his account was hacked, and that this wasn’t the first time. So, he shut down his Twitter profile.

After repeated attempts by “hackers” to try to damage my reputation I have decided to shut down my twitter account for a while.—
Tyler Seguin (@tylerseguin92) July 07, 2013

Funny that he put “hackers” in quotes, isn’t it?

Anyway, this wasn’t the first time Seguin drew fire for a homophobic tweet. In April, he was