A fan threw a banana peel at Wayne Simmonds during his shootout attempt in Philadelphia's 4-3 loss to Detroit on Thursday. The game was being played in the John Labatt Centre in London, Ontario. "When you're a black man playing in a predominantly white man's sport, you've got to come to expect things like that," Simmonds said. "Over the past 23 years of my life, I've come to expect some things like that. But I'm older and more mature now, I kind of just left things roll off [my back]. I try not to think about stuff like that." Simmonds isn't the first black player to have a banana peel thrown at him during an NHL game. Kevin Weekes had a similar experience during a playoff game in 2002. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman called it an "obviously stupid and ignorant action" and added that the individual who threw the peel "in no way representative of our fans or the people of London, Ontario."