Ryan Kennedy

Like, I guess Mitch Marner would kind of be on the cusp.

Same with Brady Kachuk, where, you know, like, I don't know when they started getting phones and social media and that sort of thing.

But the kids today, they've been forged in the fires of troll armies.

And, you know, Gavin McKenna –

The interesting thing about him is, you know, right from the beginning of the season, you know, I went to see his first couple of games at Arizona State when he first joined up with Penn State, and Penn State coach Guy Godowski was talking about just what a cool customer McKenna was, just a really calm guy.

And, you know, his teammates, you know, I remember Charlie Serato saying after the game, like, you guys don't even see all the craziness.

Like, we have people, like, follow, you know, like,

running up to our bus and everything, trying to get a look at him.

And, you know, he's totally calm about it.

And obviously there was, you know, things that happened during the year that rose his profile even more.

But I am kind of intrigued to see what this generation's like, because they know about social media more so than certainly people our age did.

And I'm probably the generation just before them, how they handle it.

I think it's going to be something to watch.

A hundred percent agree.

And, you know, you think about like the sort of baby boomer colonists, like how much hate could they have possibly gotten?

in the 80s and 90s.

Like, their editor could just not show them the mailed-in letter from some angry fan, you know, in wherever it happened.

Yeah, you've got to buy a stamp.

You know, you've got to walk through the mailbox.

You really have to sustain that hatred.