#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

https://twitter.com/JenScrivs/status/758520714458607617

When you don't think you can possibly love Jenny Scrivens more than you already do, and then this.

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[(Anonymous)]

I recently looked at Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's twitter profiles while logged into the twitter where I follow hockey folks, just to see who followed them. And while I (unfortunately) found quite a few players following Trump, Jenny Scrivens was the sole player who followed Hillary.

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[(Anonymous)]

Nah, Zenon Konopka, Robert Bortuzzo, Janine Weber, Meghan Duggan, Erik Condra, Sheldon Souray, Angela Ruggiero, Zach Boychuk, Anthony Bitetto and Theo Fleury all follow Hillary as well. Also, no doubt there's a lot of Trump supporters among hockey players, but a lot of those follows are from when Trump was mostly known as a reality TV figure, or because players met him in non-political contexts back then (which still doesn't make it great, but is different from having followed Trump in, like, the last few days or weeks or even months, like some other players have done.)

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That's good to hear! I realize my comment might have been misleading -- Jenny was the only player I follow who follows Hillary, but I knew she couldn't be totally alone. I don't follow the folks you mentioned (though now I feel like I should). And of course there are likely other Hillary supporters in hockey who just don't use Twitter to follow her -- Ben Scrivens, for instance.

And that is a reassuring perspective, re: Trump. Because some of the followers who popped up ehen I checked were...unpleasant surprises.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I should mention that a good handful of those players following Hillary also follow Trump as well! That was what taught me to be wary about judging people on their follows. I think Angela Ruggiero, for example, has followed Trump from the time she was on the Apprentice. A lot of hockey players imo just don't strike me as politically aware enough to really classify them as "Democrat" or "Republican" as much as just well-meaning but uninformed on a lot of issues. Some others are probably just following multiple candidates in order to be aware and informed. What's more suspicious is when someone follows every single relevant disgusting Republican politician from the last two election cycles (Brent Burns, Cam Janssen), or when they followed Trump at around the time of his acceptance of the Republican nomination (Brandon Dubinsky), and of course, when they tweet overt Trump support or other gross shit (James Neal, Kelli Stack, the Lamoureux, Clayton Keller).

I don't know about Hillary supporters specifically, but some other players/former players who are politically aware and progressive/liberal/leftist according to their tweets are Mike McKenna (<333), Jakob Chychrun, Devante Smith-Pelly, and Brent Johnson. Also, fwiw, Tara Watchorn, Jonathan Toews, Kevin Westgarth, and Hayley Williams follow Bernie Sanders.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

...is naming Zach Boychuk a really good example? TBH I expected his account to follow Hillary, Trump, Bernie, and even Martin O'Malley and Carly Fiorina (do they have twitter accounts? If so, his probably follows them).

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[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm assuming whatever follow bot he uses only picks up on hockey follows (because those are the majority of his interactions). He doesn't follow Trump or Bernie, but he does follow Obama. And he has tweeted things that are consistent with those being his political leanings. I think it's a more "significant" follow than most hockey player follows of politicians.

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[(Anonymous)]

Even as a presidential candidate, Trump has a reputation for saying insane shit on Twitter that no other candidate in the election does.

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[(Anonymous)]

Just saw that Toews follow Bernie Sanders. That was a surprise.

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[(Anonymous)]

SA

And Lexi LaFleur Brown too. Less surprising.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not surprised at all considering the high vibe, organic garden side of his personality that everyone thought was fanon exaggeration until it turned out to be real.

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[(Anonymous)]

Tbf, there are an awful lot of people this election who plan on voting for Hillary who don't actually like Hillary, and thus would not be following her on twitter. I know a ton of them IRL. Both lifelong democrats and republicans who will be holding their noses.

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[(Anonymous)]

She's also not a ""celebrity"" in the sense that Donald Trump is, and a lot of people just don't use twitter to follow politicians in that way, probably because most politician's twitter feeds don't contain anything very "interesting." There are a good amount of players who have made their political positions pretty clear on twitter without following one nominee or another.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I saw a screenshot of a tweet from Matthew Tkachuk that read "Trump for president!!" but it was time-stamped sometime in 2012, giving it nowhere near the same meaning (although I guess it isn't impossible that he still thinks it'd be a fun idea).

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[(Anonymous)]

Or just aren't into following politicians on social media. I'm fairly engaged in politics but still have very, very little patience when it comes to piles of tweets and emails and such.

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[(Anonymous)]

This election has been great for me wrt weeding out repellent hockey people, and vindicating the ones I already loved.

Meesh Crechiolo, Bruce Arthur and Mark Lazerus forever tbh. They've all been pretty anti-Trump in recent days and it's like praise hands emojis everywhere in my head.

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[(Anonymous)]

Laz forever.

Also because the Blackhawks beatwriters are more fun when you follow all of them. Some rando congratulated Tracey on her marriage the other day (she's not married) and Laz and Kuc's responses were hilarious.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

The pens winning the cup + free agent day this year had this effect for me in a hockey context. A really useful event to help cull the herd.

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[(Anonymous)]

Free agent day?

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[(Anonymous)]

You are the kind of Pens fan people hate. Your comment has literally nothing to do with the topic at hand, and inserting the Pens into every sub-thread for no discernible reason is grating af.

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[(Anonymous)]

Bruce Arthur has definitely made some gross comments about politics this election cycle.

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[(Anonymous)]

Deets?

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[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if any conservative Penguins find it weird to play for hugely influential Dems like Burkle and Morehouse. Especially Morehouse, who was literally in politics.

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[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, just my opinion, but I think it probably wouldn't even occur to most hockey players to feel weird about it, unless (maybe not even) they were really hardcore ideologues. The sense I get from hockey players is that even many of the ones with strong conservative convictions aren't all that politically aware, and that most feel that politics and hockey are separate. Also, iirc, Mario Lemieux is a registered Republican (although at some point he did donate money to HRC), and much more a face of the organization/present in their day-to-day than Burkle or Morehouse afaik.

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[(Anonymous)]

This was the tweet that secured my love for her:

https://twitter.com/jenscrivs/status/659720234404814848