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Originally Posted by djsFlames
I really don't care for featurettes on players personal lives, as we come to like them for what they do within the profession and the game. It's hard to personally connect with these players when their lifestyles don't seem real to most viewers when it's lived on millions of dollars. I've grown up around money, but not that kind of money. Where they have vacation mansions and blonde modelesque trophy wives that are obviously just gouging their pockets. I mean, in their shoes, we'd all live the same, but how are we supposed to relate to stuff like that? I'd rather just not know those details and know them for their time spent around the rink and the game. Save the MTV cribs. Give me more hockey talk.
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A lot of hate there. A lot of people like to get to know their favourite players better. And are you sure you are watching player features on NHL hockey players? Most player features I have seen focuses on how they grew up and their family: childhood photos, parents home, sibling rivalries and love, their life with wife and kids. Very identifiable stuff. As for their wives, most definitely are attractive but your generalization about how they gauge their pockets is a great disservice and sexist. Most hockey players don't grow up living in a life of luxury. Even if they come from money they don't have time to enjoy it. They have beautiful wives because they are elite athletes and women are drawn to that. But for NHL players in general, many of them marry at a young age to their high school or college sweethearts before they really came into money. I say there are more NHL players who married at a young age than those who enjoyed the rich bachelor lifestyle.