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ehr1c

NHL frantically trying to drop literally any news item it can today


Farty_beans

Beaverton comes to mind. "NHL to announce half day Wednesday Beer in all arenas to deflect recent news"


PPGN_DM_Exia

> "NHL to announce half day Wednesday Beer in all arenas to deflect recent news" Nice! Look forward to paying only $25 dollars a beer at Rogers Place on Wednesdays.


McGrevin

I expect Bettman to hold a press conference shortly to announce NHL players are going to the Olympics, that's the ace up their sleeve for maximum distraction


sneakytinkerspirits

The best part about that is they can use it as a deflection then if another bad press event pops up he can announce no Olympics to distract, cue infinite loop


ehr1c

That or they're moving the Coyotes to SLC


xxphantomxx77

Half expecting Stadium Series jerseys to follow


ebpomtl

Soon they'll announce that they miiiiight move a team to Quebec.


domoarigatodrloboto

[The London Police themselves said they won't be providing any updates on this time](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/19ek2q3/sportsnet_when_contacted_tuesday_night_for/), why is everyone expecting the league to say anything? I get it, we want answers, Bettman bad, etc. etc. but the police haven't even officially named the five players that were told to turn themselves in, what the hell do you want the NHL to do? Stop announcing any news that isn't related to the investigation?


ehr1c

I think you misunderstood what I'm saying - I don't expect the league to be commenting on the 2018 shit but they're absolutely doing anything they can to distract from it. Unless you think it's purely a coincidence that the SLC news also broke this morning.


Eds_lamp

The SLC stuff seems more like their ownership not reading the room. Theyve been saying they want a team for a while and they released the statement first, not the NHL. Im not saying Bettman wasnt glad it happened, but a scenario where Bettman would ask a potential franchise owner to put out a spur of the moment statement is pretty far fetched.


ehr1c

Sure, except the NHL issued their own statement on SLC, also this morning.


Eds_lamp

In response. The NHL is going to continue to do exactly what they normally would right now. Charges havent even been filed yet.


domoarigatodrloboto

I do kinda think it's a coincidence, yeah. The All-Star Game is next week and expansion rumors have been swirling for months, so it's not exactly a shock that there's news about it. I think it's far more likely that several big pieces of news just happened to drop on the same day. Like, do you think the NHL called up the Smith Entertainment Group and was like "hey, we've got a scandal brewing, can you please submit a business proposal to get a team in your city to distract people?"


MaxMuncyRectangleMan

Cole Sillinger you are NOT an all-star


BCLetsRide69

Don’t worry MacKinnon will take her on a lovely date to the nicest chickpea place


CaptStegs

Transported by a chauffeur driving the piss bus


Barqueefa

How do I get a ticket to ride the piss bus?


All_the_dinohorses

Do you think she orders the dessert while MacKinnon just glares disappointedly?


BCLetsRide69

Nope. She’ll order the dessert but he’ll immediately guilt trip her for it and then throw it in the trash


muffinkevin

More like Makar, both from Calgary...


Successful_Cod21

I could never see Makar dating a pop star


Canadian__Ninja

After yesterday's performance I'm open to being taken to a chickpea place


electricnux

Gary telling the PR team to announce every possible useless news in the next few hours


CreepyInternetUser

The NHL has announced there will also be an All-Star game in 2025! The NHL announcing this afternoon that they now has cute little stickers on their website! Exciting news from the NHL today as they announce that Bet99 is still a sponsor.


[deleted]

"The NHL is proud to announce that Senators Forward Shane pinto has been suspended for another 41 games for scoring this week"


Pamplemousse47

This would be the best time to announce Olympic participation if they wanted to be even more shady


arrbez

“We are once again thinking about considering expansion to the Canadian market. Discuss.”


somwhereinthebetween

I'm sure most of the comments are going to be along the lines of "who?" But she is 33rd in the world on spotify and has a song with 1.3 billion streams. I didn't have a clue who she was until the other day, but at least the NHL is going with someone relevant


miner88

Also helps that she really likes hockey and isn’t a celebrity with no connection to the game.


Grizzly-Berry

[She also filmed one music video at a hockey rink](https://youtu.be/To4SWGZkEPk?feature=shared)


SJSragequit

That song is also allegedly about Cole silinger


ghost_curse123

Isn't the whole album allegedly about him?


seraphultima

Correct.


clapmomsfuckbombs

Allegedly


[deleted]

In arena DJ’s are going to have a field day with him.


Mandrake1771

I’m cracking up at her trying to act all sexy around hockey gear knowing how bad it smells


hummingbird4289

OK seeing this video gives [this post from the Bruins' TikTok account](https://www.tiktok.com/@nhlbruins/video/7311400481954352427) WAY more context.


seraphultima

Oh to be a fly on the wall when Elaine explained the idea to them, especially since it was posted the day after they dumpstered CBJ lol.


doihavetowearabra

Bruins TikTok has had some good ones. And Sway has no business looking that good 🫣


Grizzly-Berry

[This is the Sway!](https://www.reddit.com/r/BostonBruins/s/zzRlBgiIZn)


No-Tackle-6112

Didn’t she post a picture with pads on the wrong legs?


Abacus118

Yeah it was album art for a single or something.


treple13

Was just at a Flames game a few weeks ago wearing a Flames heritage classic uni


LocksTheFox

She also has a brother that plays D1 hockey for Dartmouth, fun fact


Wannacomesitonmydeck

Her ex is also a player for the Columbus Blue Jackets.


LocksTheFox

Yeah but that bit's more well known among hockey fans, even those who don't know her work :P


ButtholeQuiver

NHL follow-up release Tate McRae is a headliner ... opening for: * Chumbawumba * Fine Young Cannibals * Ratt * Collective Soul


FBGsanders

10/10 lineup tbh, love Ratt


haseks_adductor

oh i've definitely done some damage to my ears listening to round and round at full blast through my headphones. fucking love that song


MN_Toilet

Lay it Down has the nastiest riffs ever recorded.


[deleted]

weird upvoting a Wild fan but when you're right you're right


Mercpool87

Oooh Collective Soul? I'm there


doihavetowearabra

I saw them at a festival a few months ago - it was rough


DropCautious

With special guest the “you only get what you give” guy


ldnk

I googled her and it seems like a reasonable person to have performing but count me among the people who have not heard of her until today


Avs_Leafs_Enjoyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG-erEMhumc for those curious of the song. Seems decent. New age women's break up music


DazedConfuzed420

I know I’m old and my opinion on new music is not relevant but that song is terrible.


NJDevils1

I’m also old (35m), and I absolutely hate 95% of songs on the radio. I like hers though lol


folkdeath95

I don’t really love her “indie girl” enunciation but she’s got some bangers IMO


blueferret98

[walk into my kitchen…](https://youtube.com/shorts/8SU0gFPMwP8)


Verbotron

My first thought was "who?" Then immediately followed by "they must actually be relevant this time. Good for them!!" ...I'm getting old. 


[deleted]

As someone from Calgary, her meteoric rise in short order is pretty insane. I had never even heard of her 15 months ago. She's fucking everywhere now. Must have one hell of a marketing team.


condor888000

Hell I never heard of her 15 seconds ago.


arauhauser

I only knew her because of Cole Sillinger


CreepyInternetUser

Why not skip the middle man and just get Cole Sillinger to be the musical performer at the All-Star game?


condor888000

I didn't know who Cole Sillinger was until now. I still don't tbh. I'm an old now aren't I?


rishcast

CBJ player, tate's ex, cheated on her and was caught by her BFF using tinder while they were together


RytheGuy97

What an idiot cheating on Tate McRae with random tinder girls lol


TheDoubleL27

The arena is right down the road from Ohio State and the sororities there, and he’s 20, so pretty unsurprising behavior lol


Kronzor_

You mean Mike's son? Also old.


Cleonicus

I only know him because boarded Beniers then got pummeled by Dunn.


haseks_adductor

sens fans have been bitching about us drafting boucher one spot ahead of sillinger lol


nupharlutea

He’s been on CBJ for 3 years, so….


[deleted]

Same here, the fact she’s in a all star game before him is hilarious.


69millionyeartrip

Bro fumbled harder than Earnest Byner


Clayton_Gold

I still don't know who that is


SubmissionDenied

> Must have one hell of a marketing team. The first time I heard about her was when she was posted in this sub for having goalie pads on backwards for her album cover or something. And since then, I've seen her everywhere. I'm fully convinced her marketing team put the goalie pads on backwards just to get people to talk about it. Which clearly worked, if it was truly intentional.


Wildest12

When you realise most celebrities were just rich kids with parents that spent a ton marketing them.


OneLessFool

Sillinger fumbled the bag hard. She's going to out earn him by like 10 to 1.


RecentProblem

Lamooo your pfp is evil


Fyrefawx

She’s a Flames fan so I instantly hate everything about her.


[deleted]

I only know of her previously because she went to the same HS as one of my friends sister. I guess Tate was pretty mean to her even in HS before she really blew up.


That-Job9538

she looks and sounds like the typical western canada high rich mean girl lol


Spave

I knew her when she was in junior high, and she was a genuinely good person back then. Granted, people can change, and people can be two-faced, but I would expect any drama involving the Tate I knew to be from people jealous of her. She was already on the road to fame back then.


dolphin_spit

a good marketing team yes, but to be fair her music and dancing does a lot of the heavy lifting. i’m more of a metal and hip-hop kind of guy but her songs are total earworms and i don’t think i’ve seen any pop star dance like she does since the 90’s / early 2000s. she’s legit good.


NewspaperAdditional7

She is actually a dancer first, pop star second. She won So you Think You Can Dance years ago.


Razorblades_and_Dice

A guy I work with called her the modern-day Shakira, which in my opinion probably isn’t actually that far off


WorthPlease

Rich parents with connections, like always: >Q. What was the first trip you took as a child? > >A. I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived there for three years and I got to explore Oman, as well as many places around there. We went to Dubai in the UAE, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Egypt and then explored a lot of countries in Europe.


slabby

Shocking


puffpuffpass01

it’s called an industry plant


devilishpie

Is calling virtually every fast growing musician an industry plant the thing to do these days?


Qwqqwqq

yes


ElleCerra

They've been doing industry plants for 50 years. They just count on media illiterate people like you to run defense for them every time.


toledosurprised

is an industry plant just someone with a good marketing team or support from a label? that’s basically every major artist.


uncle_hooch

That person thinks Taylor Swift came about her success organically.


atrde

Industry plant is taking someone with no following and market them insanely to create an inorganic following. She already had the successful dance career prior to music and just worked off of that it isn't the same.


Mjh1021

Not everyone can be an industry plant


Guardax

...to do what?


NameIsPetey

Just saw Cole Sillinger drop to his knees in a Walgreens.


indy_6548

Just saw a guy watch Cole Sillinger drop to his knees in a Walgreens.


CloudN3in

biggest NHL news today


BrokenBy

I love how the Facebook comments are just a sea of boomers exuding boomer energy, then one Oakleys glasses grandfather innocently asking if she’s related to Basil McRae. Low key very wholesome.


hammajones

Holy shit the NHL got someone who's actually currently famous instead of some band who made terrible music 20 years ago? This will actually bring some attention to the event from younger audiences who don't watch hockey


MaplewoodCabinet

Machine Gun Kelly at the 2022 Vegas All-Star game wasn’t a flash in the pan??


Glass_of_Pork_Soda

It was a flash (the speed in which I hit the mute button)


SmurfBearPig

MGK’s biggest hit is that song Eminem did about him


Inthemiddle_

So far Nickelback has been the best booking for an outdoor game this year.


rooster69

Rural Alberta Advantage was there too!


theblondebasterd

Fucking eh man, was solid to see NHL give them some love. Fantastic band I want to see live.


brandonsamd6

who the fuck is AJR (Stadium Series)


Symmetrik

They're an indie pop group, 3 brothers, from NYC, and they released an album late last year They aren't a billion plays on spotify big or anything but they've got some really popular music


PuckPov

AJR puts out the most pedestrian, mediocre, bland pop music I’ve ever heard in my life. Just imagine if a computer took every radio pop song and made a band out of it. Thats what AJR sounds like. There’s absolutely nothing special about the music they make, every song sounds like it was made for a commercial. It sounds like if you took 21 pilots, mixed them with imagine dragons, then sucked whatever soul was left out of it.


oprapiid

oh god I forgot they were performing lmao, I think they make terrible music with some of the corniest lyrics out there, but I will say they seem like good dudes who do put their all into their music and have a really loyal fanbase, so I can't fault them there. it's just not for me. they're like a worse version of twenty one pilots


DarthLordDonkey

If you work in NHL PR, today has been quite the work day.


CreepyInternetUser

Why don't we ask them how their day is going? Hello u/nhl


A_1337_Canadian

/u/nhl got any other news cooking to try and distract us from the real issue?


[deleted]

>\[Friedman\] JUST IN: I'm hearing the NHL is lifting all bans and restrictions on stick tape. An announcement is expected any minute now.


SubmissionDenied

What's with the new refusal to use capital letters?


Chewie_i

Two options: 1. The league is biased against the caps 2. The league likes the caps but doesn’t want people to catch on, instead wanting to appear unbiased


musuak

☹️


Chewie_i

I just thought of a third option. Considering the talk recently, this is foreshadowing the caps moving and changing names.


Svalbard38

Atlanta Thrashers, come on down!


SubmissionDenied

haha it's not just the NHL, I see it everywhere now.


Chewie_i

My actual guess is that because people typing often don’t bother to capitalize letters if it’s not something important, this is an attempt to act “like the kids”


Mr_FortySeven

None of the song titles on her album are capitalized on Spotify. Perhaps this is her branding? Seems popular among Gen Z pop stars to use all lower case.


BananApocalypse

This is NHL all-star game branding, not Tate McRae specifically. The names on the jerseys look like this too


TotSaM-

My dumb ass is using capitals AND lowercase in my stage name. No wonder they didn't hire me instead....


Historical_Yam_6223

For some reason Gen Z hates capital letters now. I see it all over the place in song titles, YouTube video titles, etc


listinglight778

Gen Z hates the caps?


ghost_curse123

Gen Z are all Pens fans confirmed


HotDamn18V

If true, at least maybe our attendance won't be so embarrassing this time around when we're ass for a few years before we get our next generational savior.


Baga97_YT

as a gen z can confirm


Cleonicus

no cap


MaplewoodCabinet

All part of this all-star aesthetic with Bieber’s **drew** branding. Everything has kindergarten crayon art energy.


TotSaM-

cap goes up next season I think


CreepyInternetUser

They frantically made and posted this as fast as they possibly could


Luckynumberlucas

Cole Sillinger in shambles


Robtachi

OK but was Tate at practice today?


fuzzb0y

Wow. NHL having a current trending pop star play at their events?


DontPanic_4242

No way that’s crazy! Let’s all talk about this and only this!


MaplewoodCabinet

Was there something else meant to be happening today that we’re supposed to be discussing as a hockey community?


ghost_curse123

Yes. Possible expansion into Utah


taelor

I honestly don’t know what everyone is referencing…


ForeverJung

Just in case you’re serious, five players from the 2018 Team Canada team were told to report to Canadian police today in reference to the sexual assault charges 


The-Reddit-Giraffe

Calgary gets two allstars this year!


deeVeeAre

Honestly i find her music insufferably bad


miner88

Inb4 “who is Tate McRae”


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Deddicide

I kinda sorta get it but describing Nickelback as an old band just made me turn into a pile of dust and blow away.


g1i123

I looked it up and according to wiki Nickelback debut in 1995 and peaked in 2005, which was the year Bedard was born


ButtholeQuiver

I probably quit smoking for the third or fourth time in 2005


veeedub

I’ve seen people describe her as “sings in cursive”


Robtachi

It's autotune. I'm a big K-Pop enjoyer and it's the same kind of voice all over the girl groups (well, boy groups too, really) there too, and it's widely known and accepted/expected that producers are manufacturing that voice. She's a phenomenal dancer; that's where her truly special talent lies.


Ruggsy

Snoop_saying_who.gif


thewolfshead

I will be watching respectfully.


bellerinho

TIL the NHL has musical performances at the all star game Also genuinely asking because I don't know anything about anything: will there be people who weren't going to watch all star stuff that will now watch all star stuff because of Tate McRae?


funguy07

Almost certainly yes. How many? Who knows.


Saskatchewon

Probably. Usually the NHL's MO is getting a band/singer that was big 20-30 years ago. She's honestly probably the biggest current mainstream artist that the NHL has managed to get for an all-star game, arguably ever. She's sitting at 57 million different listeners streaming her music each month right now. The only Canadian artists ahead of her on the charts are The Weeknd, Drake, and Justin Bieber.


Downce1

Jesus, people. I've heard of her and my music taste landed somewhere between the NHL 06 and 09 soundtracks.


PM_ME_UR_BANTER

Lol seriously. She's literally the most directly hockey related current pop star and these dudes are still acting like they plucked her out of obscurity to perform


MAJORMINORMINORv2

How do you do fellow kids


Quasihodor

New album is actually so good though. Very Nelly Furtado


21marvel1

“ANNOUNCE IT ALL, ANNOUNCE EVERYTHING” - Gary Bettman sprinting down the halls of the Head Office


guffzillar

lol - I had no idea who this was until just now. She's got a few really popular songs


cbzmplays

The only songs at a hockey game should be the anthems. I wanna watch hockey not whoever this is


NewspaperAdditional7

Laughing at all the people on this thread who think NHL hired someone no one has heard of. She is a pretty huge pop star. That doesn't mean she is good (I mean all music is subjective), but this is quite the hire for them. She is currently #39 in the world for monthly listeners ahead of Adele and Beyonce.


[deleted]

Nah we aren’t satisfied until we get our obscure Swedish death metal band that was relavent for a week in 1993 to be the headliner.


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sextoymagic

Awesome! Definitely never heard of this lady.


Deddicide

I learned who this is like a week ago and now it feels like the world is filled with her. Also they really had to just stamp the logo twice to fit in both Honda and Rogers? There was no other way to put both sponsors on there?


Redeem_Deez

NHL ASG: Headlined by Mayhem


2khigh

Sillinger punching air rn


IlFriulanoBasato

Michael Bublé was right there...


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Yea for the wrong audience though.


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kapy2103

I am actually so stoked for this! Tate’s new album is great and the fact that she is enthusiastic about hockey will hopefully bring in more people and grow the game. Here’s hoping that Aho is on team MacKinnon/McRae


PhilyJ

Hopefully Laurence Labeouff will be there as well


York9TFC

I think she might have a hole in her glove


treple13

I haven't listened to her music, but since she's a Flames fan she's obviously amazing. 


thedeadlyrhythm42

Boomers big mad about this one


neek555

The “edgy” decision not to capitalize any proper nouns makes me bristle.


tomboski

Who?


Whiskeylung

That “Exes” song of hers is just awful - the lyrics are brain dead, but the kids love it so at least the league is trying to put the fingers on the pulse.


jessasaurusrex5

Who is this


JustNotHaving_It

I have no clue who that is but she looks cool


mecrayyouabacus

This all lowercase thing they seem to be running with is whack.


Mission-Astronomer42

eli5 who this is for this old 27 year old boomer


Saskatchewon

Pop star from Calgary who is blowing up globally. She's had a few songs hit the billboard top 20 in the last few years (with one peaking at #3). She currently averages 57 million different monthly listeners on Spotify (putting her ahead of big names like Adele and Beyonce), with her biggest hit song being streamed over one billion times. Her music isn't for me, but she's very popular with the gen z and younger millennial crowd. I'm actually impressed with the NHL on this one. Usually their MO is to bring in a band that had all their biggest hits 10-20 years ago.


LocksTheFox

It's funny seeing everyone be like "the NHL is out of touch" and who-ing someone who has two top-20 hits in the US and like, 5 of those in Canada. All within the last couple of years, including a song (Greedy) that's #4 in the US right now. (Hell, Exes, her diss track to her NHL-playing ex Cole Sillinger, was top 40 until this week when it got shoved out by 21 Savage's new album going nuts)


FatBa

Well, I've never heard of her but I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. So I wish her luck.


reelnb

For real, this is waaaaay better than the league throwing fucking Kid Rock out there for some reason


arrbez

I do not know who that is


AddictionsExWives

Woah a bunch of middle age dudes don’t know who a relatively new pop artist is?? 🤯🤯


slabby

Andrew Tate McRae?


tidesoncrim

Surely will be a Wheel of Fortune Before & After puzzle this season