Jad Abumrad

I'm the only scrawny couch potato, basically.

But anyway, the thing that jumped out to me about this article is that it's a sports story, but it's actually so much more.

Like it's a story about voting.

It's a story about cyberbullying.

It's a story about, you know, sticking it to the establishment.

It's a sports story, but it's like it's one that feels like it could only have happened at this very specific moment that we're living in right now.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if we can always paint sports as a microcosm of society, but in this case, it's undeniable that it was.

So the whole story starts with this guy, Greg Wyshynski.

hockey stuff.

Greg is a hockey journalist.

Senior NHL writer for ESPN.

Known to his legions of fans as Puck Daddy.

Is that a self-given name?

No.

He got it from his editor when he first started blogging about hockey.

The other option at the time was Zamboni Pony.

Oh.

Which would have been a horrible name and I very much avoided an entire, you know, 10-year run of people calling me the pony.

That's true.

Right.