to whichever anonymous nhl player answered the question 'do you think connor stays in edm and if not where does he go?' with 'if he doesn't, buffalo, he has a hero complex' who are you and where can i read your angry fanfic
baby mcdrai (+ some current) but was thinking about first overalls and their desperate need for a high pick from the year or two before their draft to be their emotional support animal
(see: macklin celebrini and will smith, connor bedard and how much happier he seems with frank nazar this year, auston matthews and mitch marner, connor mcdavid and leon draisaitl, idk enough about them but jack hughes and nico hischier seem to fit the mold, etc.)
and how connor mcintrovert needs that german bitch around so much to say things like “you can’t teach that” when reporters ask stupid questions and also for joint honeymoons… anyways!
really funny to see not a single oiler experimenting with the new relaxed dress code because they go as their captain goes and connor began wearing suits to hockey games at the age of five and im convinced he doesn’t actually know how to stop
Being an NHL enforcer is a special brand of insane. Your job is evil. You know it's evil. Everyone knows it's evil. But it's Your Job. It's the only job you know. You (usually) make up for it by being charming and fun and a good locker room presence. You also take incredible pride in how good you are at your job, which is evil. You are good at your evil job. Everyone in the locker room loves you and everyone in the fanbase loves you and everyone outside of the fanbase hates you, until you are moved to their team and they love you, at which point everyone in your former fanbase hates you. In all of this, you are a man amongst boys, and you know it, and they know it, and those boys want it too. Your job is evil but you are good and hated, and loved. And all of this will kill you in the end, because the body can only withstand so much physical trauma night after night.
The Vegas Golden Knights are looking to sign Carter Hart. Take my hand, let's bully the front office <3
Per Chris Johnston via the Athletic (archived)
In the same article, he says the Canes have reconsidered their own hiring of Michael McLeod due to backlash:
You can and should bully the shit out of any NHL team for this. There aren't a lot of active Knights fans on here but a few are taking action over on Twitter, and it would be sweet if hockey fans across the league spoke up and added their voices to our efforts.
If you are having trouble with what to say, below the cut is a helpful email scaffold that @stereax kindly drafted! Please add/take away details at your discretion.
[Email subject line: something along the lines of "Please do not sign Carter Hart".]
Hi! My name is [YOUR NAME], I am a [Golden Knights/hockey] fan [since XXX] and an advocate for sexual assault survivors. I am writing to you today to implore of the Vegas Golden Knights to not sign Carter Hart.
I find it deeply distressing that [my favorite/any] NHL team would consider signing any players that were involved in the recent Hockey Canada scandal. This is not just about the game of hockey, but a deeper and more pervasive issue of the culture of sexual assault within hockey. While none of the players were convicted of sexual assault (due to insufficient evidence), the evidence is clear that these men deeply traumatized EM, trauma that has taken her years to recover from. By signing Hart, or any other player involved in the scandal, Vegas sends a message to sexual assault survivors, and indeed many female fans of hockey, that their voices are not important, and that what they have gone through does not matter if the person that abused them is marginally better at a sport than someone else. This goes against Vegas's core value of community.
[If Vegas goes forward and signs Hart, I will: cancel my season tickets/not renew my season tickets/no longer buy tickets/cancel my KnightTime+ subscription/no longer be a fan of the team/whatever other consequence you can think of.]
Please reconsider signing Carter Hart. By not signing Hart, the Golden Knights can take a stand for sexual assault survivors, underline that there is no room for such heinous actions in the NHL, and reaffirm that hockey truly is for everyone.
As a HR person, I'm going to very gently suggest another template that gives the same message in a way that will be more received by the target audience. In the end, the HC Five were not convicted of sexual assault, so arguing 'they did it anyway' is not going to go far (even if we all know that's what happened). The judge did not say there was insufficient evidence, but rather that EM's testimony could not hold the weight of evidence. Writing either of those things is basically telling the NHL that a Superior court conclusion should simply be ignored, which is not a strong argument for those who believe Hart 'won'. It also gives you little ground to stand on, because the Knights will just point back to the case and its verdicts.
But you can still strongly argue against Hart being hired. Maybe consider something like:
[Email subject line: "Please do not sign Carter Hart".]
Hi! My name is [YOUR NAME], I am a [Golden Knights/hockey] fan [since XXX]. I am writing today to implore you not to sign Carter Hart.
I find it deeply distressing that [my favorite/any] NHL team would consider signing any players that were involved in the recent Hockey Canada scandal. It is clear from the scandal that Hart does not represent core values of our hockey community - respect, integrity, and accountability. The 2018 situation occurred during a Hockey Canada gala, where Hart was a legal adult representing a national league. His actions, and the resulting situation, should not have taken place in the workplace. While the court cannot make judgment's of a player's character, it is the NHL's duty to ensure players are well-rounded representatives of hockey's core values. Hart's behaviour that night was unacceptable, and typified the pervasive, problematic attitudes within hockey culture that have repeatedly made news in recent years, including acts of violence, discrimination, and repeated sexual assault allegations. The NHL and associated organizations have worked hard to change this culture - thus, to sign someone who is the face of that very culture is to revert all progress that has been made. It signifies hockey's refusal to change.
I cannot support a team that believes his behavior is fitting to represent our sport at the professional NHL level. [If Vegas goes forward and signs Hart, I will: cancel my season tickets/not renew my season tickets/no longer buy tickets/cancel my KnightTime+ subscription/no longer be a fan of the team/whatever other consequence you can think of.]
Please reconsider signing Carter Hart. By not signing Hart, the Golden Knights can underline that there is no room for such behaviours in the NHL, and reaffirm that hockey truly is for everyone.
As I've pointed out before, use the league's own language:
troubling and unacceptable behaviour, poor moral judgment
falls short of standards we want to see in the league, not the values we want to see in role models
Be the pearl-clutching, think-of-the-children caricature that gets attention. Conservative executives listen to other conservatives. Use their language. Emphasize how we expect players to be role models for children. Even if you're a 20yo with no kids you can make up a persona (keep details to a minimum, the point is to be relatable to the audience they think they want) who won't take their kids to games, or buy merch, or will support someone else.
The league lives and dies by ticket and merch sales. Make a point that you will hit them where it hurts using language they can relate to and can't refute.
One thing about sports fans that I love is our unerring ability to make our special guys or our team yhe center of the narrative, regardless of how involved they actually were in the narrative. Former teammate who got traded from my team just won in the postseason despite only playing 4 games total? Well of course she REALLY belongs to us. Aging player our GM allowed to walk now finding new bones and new life on a different team? Well of course we taught him everything he knows. Player yeeted across the planet for draft picks and sent to the minors? Well of course, they birthed new prospects for us. My special guys are always part of the proceedings. Know this.
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