Commentators on my activity page: yes sorry people WOULD actually be wondering if Ilya Rozanov, scorer of 67 goals in his rookie season, Hart winner, Cup winner, etc was having a mental breakdown if he walked away from Boston and signed with Ottawa during the first year of his free agency.
Ilya's not just good he's generational. Both he and Shane are supposed to be SO absurdly good compared to the rest of the league that they can drag their teams to cups with ~3-4 years after signing. They're not fucking Tavares man they're like Crosby and Ovechkin but better because fiction.
Anyway a guy like that, moving to a team he has no connection to, in a city that's not appealing for any obvious reason, that he seemingly has never even visited other than for game nights? And he's not explaining why? It's not TJ going back home, it's Rozanov going to a random fuck off city in Canada.
So yeah, no, I legitimately think people would actually wonder if it's some kind of mental break. Like he just couldn't handle the pressure in Boston and picked the worst team in the league deliberately to take himself out of contention for future cups.
I don't even think people would assume he had a partner in Ottawa because literally unless he was dating fucking Justin Trudeau or some other high ranking Canadian government official why wouldn't they just move to Boston, or why wouldn't he just split his time, he has the money to charter flights, like it makes no sense.
Actually I wonder if that would end up being the most popular conspiracy. Ilya Rozanov is dating a high ranking Canadian governmental official and that's why he won't talk about it and also why he has to live in Ottawa. Rozanov x Trudeau fanfiction starts soaring on AO3. Rozaneau. Truzanov
