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But I just figured it would end on its own, honestly.

I thought it would last a few days and people would get, you know, enough of it and it would go away, but it just didn't.

And as for the NHL, they were they were pissed.

I mean, to put it frankly, I definitely got the sense from some of the people that I speak to on a regular basis at the NHL that they were really angry that this was happening.

And why?

Like, can you get any more specific about like why this would have been an embarrassment to them?

Like, what is it exactly that they were so sensitive about?

They were sensitive about the fact that the all-star game is something that a lot of old-time hockey people, and there's a lot of old-time hockey people that run the National Hockey League, see as something prestigious, one of the ultimate honors for a player.

And so this was not something they wanted to happen.

And it was happening.

And they didn't really know what to do about it because they didn't have any fail-safes in place to prevent it from happening.

After one day of John sitting atop the all-star vote.

John gets a text message.

He gets up out of bed, goes over to his phone, starts reading it.

And he's just standing there for like a while.

They thought it would be a good idea to release a statement.

And they wrote up this statement for me.

And it basically said, thank you for the support.

I don't want your votes.

Please vote for other guys on my team.