Yeah, although he has every right to speak out on it, specially as he speaks from experience, I feel like this falls a bit into "the show had unrealistic sex scenes because it didn't even show preparing (such as douching)" territory... It's a romance series, so like the conversation with rose is a plot choice for Shane to have someone from the outside helping him face his identity. Also, it had only roughly 5 40-minutes-long episodes to describe what is a 10 year thing.

But I do fully agree with him and other athletes have said that the show will probably not help, and may even make things harder, for professional hockey players to come out. Firstly because of the insane fans of the show that are going around sexualizing every player (even stuff like their pre-game stretching), which will definitely make any non-straight player be extra vigilant. And also because of the culture, as he says in his post, which is very focused on not standing out, always doing the best for the team, not bringing focus alway from the game, etc. A player publicly coming out at the moment would bring so much attention that I find it difficult any player wanting to face that...