#29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's 100% true. I've personally really, really deeply liked some players that I then found out sexually assaulted someone; it was deeply uncomfortable, but I stopped liking them. And I haven't seen anyone cheering for Zolnierczyk.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Slightly off topic from what you were saying, but it's hilarious to me as a Pens fan seeing a newish fan bring up Zolnierczyk as a reason the Preds as an org are terrible and you aren't allowed to like them. Guess you never read back far enough on Wikipedia to see who was playing for the Pens in 2013...

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

In the few hours since the Preds clinched the west I've seen multiple Pens fans who were 100% on the Preds bandwagon suddenly start caring a lot about Harry Z/Ribeiro and talking about they could neeeever root for the Preds because of that. It's so transparent and it drives me crazy. You either care or you don't!!! I know most of us in this fandom choose to ignore certain unsavory aspects of our favorite teams or the NHL in general but don't be totally fine with it one minute and find it morally abhorrent the next!!

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I'm confused as to what you are accusing these fans of, exactly. What exactly is transparent, here, if they had been rooting for the team before this?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

not-ayrt

Transparently motivated by rooting interest. They're Pens fans, they're no longer rooting for the Preds because that's who the Pens will face if they beat Ottawa. This is exactly why I'm hopping off their bandwagon too but I'm not pretending Ribeiro and Zolnierczyk (who played for the Pens relatively recently lol) have anything to do with it.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Gross. :( I wanted the Preds to get to the final because if the Pens couldn't win it, the Preds would be my second choice. I assumed that was other people's reasoning, too!

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

They transparently only care about the bad shit Ribeiro did when he might face their team in the SCF. Before that it was a-ok.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Amazing but unsurprising. I hadn't seen what you described yet but as soon as I read your comment I checked out the twitter feed of the Most Woke Pens Fan and... yep, there it is.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Really, Pens fans are not people who should try to go too far in the sex-crimes event at the moral purity Olympics. I'm not saying any NHL team would look great under that microscope. But no one wants a debate on why one sex crime wasn't as bad as some other sex crime where opinions are determined by rooting interest, so maybe don't go too far down that road?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA

With Harry Z occasionally you'll get someone talking about him finally making the NHL or other hockey related stuff, but I think for the most part it helps that he's just an injury replacement call-up who isn't very good. Easy at least as a fan of the team to disassociate somewhat and only feel actively shitty if he scores or if a player you like takes a pictures with him. It still sucks though that the culture won't weed out these people.