Social media has given everyone a megaphone with a couple keystrokes, and anonymity.
Be more edgy then the next guy and you’ve got an audience, as a troll or otherwise.
With that recognition on social media, positively or poorly, is all the satisfaction those who spend far too much of their time on the platforms and spew whatever, is really looking for.
You don’t have to veer to far off the usual internet paths to find as much vile material about any public figure at any given time, so this really just as an extension of that.
But yes, TSN creating the event to what it is now, and thrusting it in the collective public’s face as some sort of measure of our standing in the sports world, has something to do with that.
My guess is Andrew Ebbet isn’t getting such messages for missing the shootout shot which ended the Spengler Cup for Canada a few days back. Both games meant as much or little to the world view of Canadian hockey, in the big picture, as the other.
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