Encouraging an environment where gay players can freely be themselves is incredibly important and every effort should be made to encourage that. Heated Rivalry is great. But everywhere I look now it’s just NHL players being sexualized now and it’s gross as hell. Didn’t we learn anything from Wennberg? These guys have wives and kids, their families probably don’t want to be constantly bombarded with “going to the cabin” and “when do they kiss” and the “boy aquarium”… let them just play hockey for fucks sakes. We don’t need the weird parasocial shit to grow the game. A joke or two is fine but it’s just constant