Pour information, le podcast Decoder Ring vient de publier un épisode sur la saison 1995 des Canucks et la rumeur selon laquelle « un joueur défensif avait eu une liaison avec la femme du gardien de but, ce qui a détruit le moral de l’équipe et laissé la franchise en difficulté. » J’ai pensé que cela pourrait être intéressant. https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2024/06/sex-lies-and-hockey-a-vancouver-canucks-rumor-refuses-to-die
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« Jeff Brown fucked my wife » is a classic NHL story. So much so that I once saw a bumper sticker of it.
From memory. Was that Jeff Brown and Kirk McLean?
Well worth a listen. Really good.
This and the Kesler fiasco set our franchise back decades. Trade anyone friendly with Silovs wife.
A link to this was taken down by some trigger-happy mods pretty quickly yesterday.
It is a good listen, especially the part where the woman rumored to have done it, wasn’t even Kirk’s wife at the time. She inherited the slander from the previous wife, lol.
That’s a pretty good podcast. I’ve listened to quite a few of the episodes. They take deep dives into common tropes, urban myths and popular cultural beliefs and mine out the truth and expose the untruths. I’ll definitely give it a listen
Five years ago my co-ed softball team disbanded cuz half the team started screwing each other. Ended up in three divorces but at least we won our in-season tournament. Kinda the same thing.
Decoder Ring is a pretty solid podcast. Lots of good episodes.
I remember hearing about this at the time and.. well, it made sense and explained a lot of things, especially when the best offensive d-man the Canucks had ever had to that point (bar maybe Paul Reinhart) was exiled to fucking *Hartford* for Jimmy Dowd and Frantisek Kucera.
Go to Storylines episode on CBC app. “What the Puck?” is the episode. It does a good job of delving into the rumours, giving facts and debunking this age old rumour that every other team has their own version of. Kirk, Brown and both women talk about it with the simple reason Brown being moved is he didn’t get along with the coach. It’s a great listen as I remember my friends and I repeating it like an urban myth when we had no factual reason to.
I believe the only one I remember being fact in this kind of scenario is Brendan Shanahan having an affair with Craig Janney’s wife in St. Louis (Which ironically, probably could have been avoided had he reported to Vancouver in « The Trade ») to the point that Shanahan and her are now married.
I swear almost every team that has been in the NHL for more than 10 years has one of these « player X slept with player Y’s wife/girlfriend » urban legends.
Great podcast episode. Being a young fan back in 1994, I had always heard the rumor as being about his first wife. I actually had no idea that he’d been married in between his first and most recent wife until pretty recently.
I’m so glad that they spoke to both women. I hope folks actually hear this and stop giving Jane such a hard time about it. It’s gross that it’s followed her around like this all these years.
Great find!
Ah, good ole Canuck urban legends, like the infamous « Dan Cloutier was involved in a fatal hit and run » that I heard about decades ago.
Its fair to say NHL players think that NHL fans that believe these stories are morons.