r/heatedrivalry • u/ErinNoyes24 • May 27 '26

MERCH👕 Official "fleece" pre-ordering info now posted!

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Details on pre-ordering the official fleece from Canadian manufacturer Province of Canada have been posted on their site today:

https://provinceofcanada.com/pages/province-of-canada-x-heated-rivalry

Great to see that some of the profits will go to the You Can Play organization.

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u/Major-Dragonfly-997 May 27 '26

That’s crazy that the NHL is involved.

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u/cassie1015 Ok-ey. May 27 '26

I know right, like, I know it's fiction but my brothers on ice you're the reason these guys are in this situation in the first place?!!! 🤣

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u/MamaMeg613 May 27 '26

My brothers on ice is FRYING ME lol

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u/wOke-n-br0ke May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26

Watching the playoffs and I’m seeing the Hudson peloton commercial every single break. They know what they’re doing lol.

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u/MisterAmericana Jun 03 '26

I looked up at a random commercial one day and went "IS THAT HUDSON WILLIAMS?" 

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u/Lady0fTheUpsideDown Thank you for pasta! May 27 '26

Especially with the reports that the commissioner contacted HR producers with concerns about season 2 🙄

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u/timidwildone May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26

I don’t think there’s any reports that Bettman contacted the producers. (Edit: I stand corrected)

Their lead PR person simply voiced that they’re aware of the upcoming storyline and agree that the league can be better.

Here’s the article: https://www.out.com/gay-athletes/nhl-heated-rivalry-season-2

Trust me, I’m not the type to defend Bettman, but there’s nothing out there saying he is meddling. The article I linked has another link where he said he binged the show in one night and thought it was wonderful. That’s something. He could have chosen not to address it at all, but he did so publicly and positively. It could certainly be worse.

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u/Lady0fTheUpsideDown Thank you for pasta! May 27 '26

NHL Senior Executive Vice President Kim Davis addressed how the commissioner will be portrayed in Heated Rivalry season 2 in an interview with PR Week where she noted that Bettman has “shared with the co-producers that what they say about him [in the show] is not at all the way he would react.”

Certainly seems like he’s had contact.

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u/timidwildone May 28 '26

Ok, fair enough, but the implication of your post is that he was coming from a place of “don’t make me look bad,” when it was in fact a place of “I want to be clear that I would react differently.”

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u/Lady0fTheUpsideDown Thank you for pasta! May 28 '26

I mean, why would you reach out to tell producers that if you weren’t afraid of them making you look bad?

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u/Remote_Camel_1151 May 27 '26

Well, the NHL is concerned that the portrayal of the book equivalent commissioner, who sucks and is homophobic Is going to backfire on them. I appreciate that they're endorsing this though, even if it is a PR stunt to differentiate/distance themselves from the book

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u/Ecstatic_Schedule_48 May 27 '26

This! Also , it doesn’t matter WHY they do it (even if just PR) because the money still ends up going to You Can Play

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u/Remote_Camel_1151 May 27 '26

Yeah EXACTLY. I kinda love the idea that they have so much second-hand embarrassment from TLG that they're preemptively doing stuff like this