Hockey Prompt:

I am not super active on social media, but when I do hop on there, hockey’s presence is super lackluster. We all know what hockey interviews are like. The get the pucks in deep type answers sort of carry over to social media. Outside of a handful of players there is not much personality at all. I do not think this is the fault of the players. Guys like Brad Marchand are hilarious on social media and having players roast fans should be the norm. The problem, in my opinion, in the NHL itself. They play it safe in absolutely every facet of the game. They already know that they are the least popular of the big sports (in the states) and do not want to rock the boat and risk even more fans leaving. To solve this, the league just needs to let players be themselves. Hockey players are weird, goalies especially. Let the players be the weird little guys they are and they will get memed to hell like Bryz did forever ago. Once you get some Manning face mask level of memes out there people will be talking about the sport and the game grows.

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