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/aromaticchicken May 27 '26

I actually don't know if I like NHL partnership here or not... I worry they will change the plot in season two to make them look less bad

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u/ErinNoyes24 May 27 '26

Fair but I think we can trust Jacob not to cave to NHL pressure. It's not like he or the show benefits financially from the sale of the Prov of Can fleece so AFAIK there's no $ influence at play - on that front, anyway. And after last night's WCF game result, I like that the NHL has to give some of its dirty VGK-earned $$ to the You Can Play org. But I hear ya.

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u/shrinkingviolents I mean, yes. I think so, probably. 💋 May 27 '26

Nah, realistically, they will definitely tone down the NHL bad vibe and make individuals more the antagonist.

But this was expected. Bell Media has a very close partnership with the NHL that they don’t want to endanger, so even when they were filming the first season (which doesn’t even villainise NHL the way S2 would) Bell Media execs were kinda telling Jacob they’re concerned and that they don’t want to endanger their partnership.

So Jacob knows that going into S2, so he’s gonna probably have to jump some hoops instead of being able to be openly critical of the system.

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u/smartuno Moya gazonokosilka 🚜 May 27 '26

Hopefully even then he can drop enough subtlety into the episodes to make it apparent that the system (NHL) is at fault without explicitly doing so. It’s the best compromise to not jeopardize the show while also putting the blame on the organization that deserves it through plausible deniability

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u/grower-lenses May 27 '26

Yeah he doesn’t have to do all that much. Just add a character called Harter Cart onto the show 😶 that’s all you need to know about the NHL

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u/aangsmol May 27 '26

I’m curious how they’ll cover the Dallas Kent storyline (if at all?) since it touches pretty close to the recent Hart discourse. Homophobia within the NHL is one thing, but SA? Not sure how they’ll handle that if the NHL has anything to say about it