The N.H.L. on Wednesday condemned misogynistic feedback made by the Washington Capitals ahead Brendan Leipsic and the Florida Panthers prospect Jack Rodewald in a bunch chat on social media.

Their feedback included vulgar disparagement of the girlfriends and wives of different gamers. The chat additionally described sexual conquests in graphic phrases and included dialogue of cocaine use.

“There is no such thing as a place in our league for such statements, attitudes and conduct, irrespective of the shape,” the N.H.L. mentioned in a press release. “We’ll handle this inexcusable conduct with the golf equipment and gamers concerned.”

Leipsic, who’s in his fourth N.H.L. season, apologized on Wednesday for the feedback and mentioned in a press release that he acknowledged “how inappropriate and offensive these feedback are.” The Capitals launched a press release to a number of information media organizations saying that they might take care of the matter internally.

An Instagram group chat the place the messages had been posted was hacked, Leipsic mentioned, and pictures from the dialog had been then posted on different social media accounts. He mentioned he and the opposite members believed the chat was non-public.

“I’m dedicated to studying from this and changing into a greater particular person by taking time to find out the right way to transfer ahead in an accountable, significant method,” Leipsic, 25, mentioned. “I’m actually sorry.”

Rodewald, who has 10 video games of N.H.L. expertise with the Ottawa Senators, performed within the Panthers’ minor league system this season.

This was the second incident of offensive conduct condemned by the league this spring. The opposite concerned racist remarks by somebody who had hacked right into a videoconference that includes the Rangers prospect K’Andre Miller, who identifies as African-American. A string of racial slurs scrolled throughout the display for a number of seconds throughout the reside chat earlier than the Rangers shut it down.

The workforce and the league had been criticized for not anticipating hassle on the videoconference as a result of its platform, Zoom, had repeatedly been the goal of offensive hacks.