"I caught it from the side of my eye. It was a banana. Hopefully, that wasn't directed towards me being black," he said after the Flyers lost 4-3. "Because if it was, that's just somebody being ignorant."
Simmonds also acknowledged to the Associated Press that the banana rattled him, but "you learn to deal with it."
"When you're a black man playing in a predominantly white man's sport, you've got to come to expect things like that," he said.
