I know a lot of people aren’t sport fans in the heated rivalry fandom so it’s like they don’t understand how insanely devastating it was for the metros to turn on Shane but like here’s the thing
Shane Hollander is in canon objectively The Best hockey player alive, he’s Hockey Jesus, he’s the fucking pride of the city. Even people who don’t follow sports know who Shane Hollander is and they know they root for him. Like he’s the Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan of hockey. He’s a household fucking name alright.
If you guys have seen how entire cities band together for games like NYC for the Knicks recently or in Philly with the Eagles it’s like that but the Best Player is on your home team and he’s not only the Best on the team but in the fucking league. In a country where hockey is so popular like Canada, Shane Hollander is the fucking prince of the whole country because he’s the guy who’s just that insanely good at what he does.
So for the metros to turn on him, effectively self sabotaging their entire team by refusing to work with Hockey Jesus because he’s gay they genuinely are choosing to fuck their own chances up in such an unbelievable way. It’s like if the Bulls told Michael Jordan he wasn’t allowed to shoot free throws or dunk ever in games because the other players didn’t want him to pass to them so he had to just stand around. And even then that isn’t close to the bullshit Shane has gone through. If you had a generational talent and you wasted him all because he likes dick or one annoying Russian dick in particular after he won you the equivalent of the NBA championships MULTIPLE TIMES OVER.
Yeah Montreal would literally be on fire and the damn city would revolt after Shane leaves bc wtf do you mean you thought that throwing away Hockey Jesus would go over well in Hockeylandia.
