The Dallas Stars dropped the ball on Friday when the team held its "Hockey is for Everyone" night. The team did not wrap its warm-up sticks in rainbow tape, as many teams have done this season out of support for the LGBTQ community. While they ran the league's public service message on the video board, there was no expanded pregame ceremony to honor the day.

Stars president Jim Lites said a busy week was the cause of the oversight.

"We have run all of the league-sponsored PSAs on `Hockey is for Everyone.' We have donated hundreds of hours to all of the initiatives, including sled hockey, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ community. If we dropped the ball, we apologize," Lites said. "It's been a hectic week. We have been focused on Dave (Strader) and his return and doing work for the cancer society in conjunction with that. We spent all today with Pevs and the American Heart Association. That's not an excuse, but it is what it is. If we left somebody out, we really apologize."

On Twitter, fans were not happy with this reasoning, especially considering the Stars had so much time to prepare for the game with a bye week leading up to Friday's game.

...they were too busy to use pride tape? okay. https://t.co/derGPVlb10 — alix 🌼🌸 (@freckledbutt) February 27, 2017

"Were just so busy we completely forgot about LGBTQ people" https://t.co/mHEVdvyRB9 — kae bae ✨ (@kaila__mc) February 27, 2017

they were too busy 🤔 coming off a bye week 🤔 when people have been asking for weeks 🤔 https://t.co/hhBrePOm7u — emily nielsen (@eknielsen) February 27, 2017

This is so pathetic. DO. BETTER. https://t.co/5fxg3dIJAJ — wild and reckless heart (@dizzzylu) February 27, 2017

Cool, glad you apologized. Now fix it. Time for a do over. Or can you only "recognize" everyone on one special day? https://t.co/Viv9kj3naI — Carolyn Wilke (@Classlicity) February 27, 2017

This is why a lot of people are upset (2nd to last paragraph): https://t.co/2hJTZjcpIk ..an expectation was set & the team failed to deliver https://t.co/pQ0XPLGUtc — Dario 🏖🐭 (@DarioMouse) February 27, 2017

We forgot? That's their excuse? I mean, a random teenager could come up with a better excuse than that. https://t.co/MzAQVakUqC — ldietz (@ldietz) February 27, 2017

Sadly, this is an incredibly weak excuse. I'm happy they support so many other initiatives, but was a 20yd field goal missed @DallasStars https://t.co/Af5FHOboTI — Everything is Fine (@fivetooldrinker) February 27, 2017

There is still no word if the Stars will do anything to rectify the mistake.