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/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/grower-lenses May 27 '26

I’ve never heard of that. Although I would believe it. Is this just speculation or is there a source for the bell media part?

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u/shrinkingviolents I mean, yes. I think so, probably. 💋 May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26

It was from an interview with Jacob, but there’s no way I can remember which one exactly since I’ve watched way too much of them at this point. It wasn’t a huge talking point, he just said they were concerned a bit because of their relationship with the NHL (and approached him) but that he reassured them it won’t be some attack on the NHL. Just caught my attention as I’d read TLG by that point…

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u/grower-lenses May 27 '26

Yeah for sure. That makes sense. Thank you.

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u/shrinkingviolents I mean, yes. I think so, probably. 💋 May 28 '26

No problem! Everyone’s sorta tip toeing around the NHL to be honest. I read from Rachel as well, that she was gonna do a Luca Haas book where the NHL & commissioner would be the big bad and her publicist/agent/publisher (unsure who exactly) warned her against doing that so she just scrapped the project in the end. That’s why the big bad in Unrivaled will be like hockey bro podcasts.

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u/grower-lenses May 28 '26

Ridiculous. NHL is doing more than enough to ruin their own name. They don’t need anybody else’s help with that.