This is a guest post by Nick, an Ottawa Senators fan living in Toronto.
Twitter has quickly become the new home to the breaking hockey news universe. The workload is primarily shared between TSN analysts, Bob McKenzie and Darren Dreger. Smaller roles are shared by some of the usual rumour mongers such as NHLSourcesSay (a.k.a. mystery man Eklund #2), various teams’ beat writers, as well as even some players. In my mind, the comedy of hockey on Twitter took off earlier this year when Dan Ellis (formerly: @33dellis) pronounced his displeasure with the NHL taking 18% of his $3 million contract. Ellis’ rant led to the popular hashtag: #DanEllisProblems. Of course, in the wake of the aftermath, Ellis deleted his account, but hockey on Twitter lives on.
The popular, hockey column on Twitter is currently called #FailedNHLBestsellers, and is home to a number of witty jabs and ironic titles. Below is just a sampling of hockey fans’ book ideas:
Do our readers have any Failed NHL Bestsellers?
#FailedNHLBestSellers Skating for Dummies By Colton Orr
ReplyDelete#FailedNHLBestSellers - "Staying with your NHL clubs and not choking" by: Ryan Ellis and Brayden Schenn.
ReplyDeleteToo soon?
How To Brush Your Teeth by Team Russia
ReplyDelete#FailedNHLBestSellers - "Not collapsing in the third like my brothers team" by: Brayden Schenn.
ReplyDelete"Quietly celebrating in English" by: Team Russia #FailedNHLBestSellers
ReplyDelete@ Brad-My Grandma made a similiar comment about the Canadian team last night haha she said they were taking lessons from the Leafs
ReplyDeleteDrinking & Flying etiquette By U20 Team Russia
ReplyDeleteHow to Be Loyal to Your Team by Mats Sundin
ReplyDeleteWorst part is I made that comment, and sure enough the same day the Leafs blew a game in the third... wow. Okay well at least they won in a shootout.
ReplyDeleteHow to fight fires by Chad Kilger
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