Bruce Rick

1. I don’t believe that’s true he acted like Trump. 2. I would revise my original post - Matthews has never given me an on-ice reason to hate him and that’s the point I was trying to make. Leaf fans loved to make shitty made up reasons why they hated him, and defend him when he supports a facist.

If someone hates Matthews because of that, legit reason to do so but the root of this thread is someone implying you can’t hate hockey players because they all have bad politics - I can and will.

Birky spent years hating Matthews for made up reasons and is defending him when legitimate reason comes

Nah - idols come and go. Love Willy until he gives you a reason not to. That’s how life usually works. So far Willy rules. Don’t expect someone to fail you but act appropriately if they do.

I’m not going to defend it. Wish he didn’t do it. Worlds apart from supporting a facist.

Hate to say it but I’m not sure :/ . Swedish politics are pretty bad. Bunch of Scandinavian countries have leaned into textbook North American right wing nonsense recently.

This is pretty easy, will support a player until they give me a reason not to, won’t be shocked, will not support them after.

Can’t complain because majority of NHL players are MAGA? Oh no I can pretty easily do that and not just hand waive away bad politics.

And yet I can pretty easily say I don’t have to accept that.

Look mooning a security guard is bad and he deserves all the scorn for it but it’s worlds apart from supporting a facist.

‘Then you’ll hate every hockey player!’

WATCH ME BRUH

I can absolutely say Matthews gave me zero reason to hate or dislike him until he did bad politics… it’s pretty easy to hate your favourite teams captain because of politics actually.

Yea Birkys right, you should hate the captain of your team for made up reasons, the gives a shit meter and lack of truculence and not *checks notes* actual reasons like shitty politics… hmm wait.

Anybody uttering those words should’ve had their careers ended as a result immediately.

Let that sink in - present day asshats are MORE ENTITLED THAN THE LITERAL FRENCH MONARCHY BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.

‘The Dow is over 50 000!’
‘Groceries aren’t too expensive, just eat tofu, there are plenty of other proteins to choke’
‘They don’t need healthcare or education, let them buy iPads!’

Knowing smallest amount of history is hilarious because I feel like it’s genuinely accepted the ‘let them eat cake’ thing never actually happened and was rooted in deep misogyny and hatred of the monarchy.

There are a dozen present day people who say similar but much worse and more unhinged things.

I feel like casual fans being surprised to learn the men’s hockey team are all Trump guys is one big difference between the US & Canada. Most of my normal friends aren’t hockey fans, but it’s just taken for granted that hockey players are probably bad guys. We all went to school with hockey players.

Im not sure Girard has really lived up to the hype.

Again, I guess I'm naive, but I can't believe these guys don't have someone around them smart enough to say "Take the incredibly easy way out and just say your NHL team needs you".

It's not even a politcal or a moral thing, it's just basic PR.

Here’s the thing tho - he could miss it for ‘scheduling reasons’ and literally every angle of his life would applaud him for it. I’m not sure there’s anyone in his direct life that would even criticize him for not going. He’s literally taking the harder path by going.

I’ll tell you what player wouldn’t have put up Trump shit: hero and angel Nazem Kadri.

There was a lot of non-reasons based on hurt feelings and stupid expectations before this trump shit… zero legitimate reason now.

Send Matthews to St. Louis for Thomas / Neighbours / this years 1st immediately.

There’s is zero angle for which it would be difficult for Matthews to not attend Trumps SOTU for ‘scheduling reasons.’

Like outside 3 players he has zero relationship with, literally everything about his life, family, where he plays makes it so easy for him to not go.

I think it’s fucking hilarious there’s a group of Leaf fans out there that hated Matthews for zero legitimate reason, who are defending him after getting the first legitimate reason to hate him.

If Matthews goes to the SOTU - send him to St. Louis for Thomas / Neighbours / multiple 1sts yesterday.

I think it’s fucking wild someone how hates Matthews has been given his first legitimate reason to hate Auston Matthews and this is the thing he defends. Wild.

The one line to know here: "after spending extravagantly to try to defeat Mr. Mamdani at the ballot box last year, they [the city’s wealthy + well-connected power players] find themselves in the wilderness, unsure how to approach the administration of a democratic socialist who owes them nothing..."

They’ve been projecting McKenna to be a bit like Jack Hughes, but that can’t be right since McKenna apparently stands up when someone disrespects his mother

Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

okay, this is funny, though

This is the thing I don’t get - they’ve been grifted absorbent amounts of money. Take two days off and take a trip on your own dime lmfao.

I don’t know what he did in college but the only way I know how to describe literal fbi director Kash Patel’s public and professional behavior is: guy who always wanted to be in a frat but wasn’t and is now acting out that regret and insecurity in middle age, at the expense of the whole nation

Excuse me, my inventory is full o fucking keys in resident evil thank you

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.