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I have a sense that a lot of Heated Rivalry fans, especially those new to hockey, are Americans and thus not familiar with the concept of "tall poppy syndrome" and how it might impact the HR characters.

Tall poppy syndrome is the concept that in certain cultures it is better to be among the crowd instead of standing out. Standing out can open you up to criticism and attempts to cut you down to the level of the rest.

This is not a concept which thrives in America; we are the country of American Exceptionalism, and many Americans believe if you just work hard enough you too can be a famous celebrity and be adored and placed on a pedestal above the rest. However, Canada IS a country where tall poppy syndrome thrives (interesting to note that articles about it actually focus on the way it disproportionately affects women, but I digress).

As Canada's national sport, hockey is very influenced by this mentality. Standing out is Bad and Frowned Upon. You make the blandest, most boring statements possible so there isn't anything interesting for the media to fixate on and criticize you for. Celebrate a goal in a way that is seen as too flashy? You will be cut down. Be too much of a "distraction" by existing as a non-white person in an insanely white league? Cut down.

I distinctly remember seeing this video of a commentator talking about PK Subban, a Black player, and how he should be more like this boring ass white guy and the commentator did a Freudian slip and said the other guy was doing things the "white way" instead of "right way."

Knowing this, it makes a lot of since that Ilya is the one drafted to Boston and Shane to Montreal. In Montreal, Ilya surely would have been told he was too much, should tone things down, that he was drawing the wrong kind of attention. While still inside that hockey culture, Ilya's brash and over-the-top personality is much more appreciated by an American fan base than a Canadian one. He surely was still criticized for his behavior, but likely with more of a sense of 'there goes Rozanov again.'

Shane is absolutely in bad place when it comes to TPS. He's a generational talent AND a minority. He's playing in a crazy hockey-obsessed market in Canada. He's also secretly gay. Shane has tried so, so very hard to be that perfect player that blends in but does the job well. He can't be showy. He can't be seen as cocky. Because he was already in a vulnerable spot. But I don't believe there was ever anything he could do to really 'fix' himself in a way that would truly please people.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don't like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

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This is Doris Pollas, the cofounder of the organisation now known as lgbt+ Denmark which by being founded in 1948 is one of the oldest ongoing queer organisation in the world.

Doris lived in a farm in Jutland as a child. She was always butch and figured out she was a lesbian in her teens. When she heard about a club in copenhagen where boys kissed boys and girls kissed girls she went just some months after and it was through that club she started a paper connecting queer people all up to seventies and co founded lgbt+ Denmark.

She is now 97 years old and wishes for every queer person to have an as loving and accepting family as she did.