I don't know. I follow baseball a lot more closely than hockey, though I'm certainly not the world's biggest baseball fan or anything, and I've seen people asking a lot of questions that I would have thought were general knowledge even among non-sports people.

"How do I get romance money without anyone thinking I'm Vapid Like Those Bitches" is the eternal question each author of romance adjacent books they take Very Seriously must ask themselves in a think piece at least once.

LitFic authors aren't going to admit that they are writing romance because they act like genre romance is for idiots and for bad readers and it's all garbage mommy porn.

In other words, "Literary romance" doesn't exist because of the snobbery of capital-L literature.

Given when that scene was set, it's believable -- YouTube was still relatively new.

My father just asked me why I burst out laughing.

And that seems to be a lack of familiarity with ANY sport, since most major leagues sports in the US have a draft and something similar to an All Star game.

Yeah, in the book, Scott has three good friends on the team. They’ve only shown one of them on the show so far.

It does have a bunch of really great scenes involving the side characters, though -- there's one line in particular that I really hope makes it somewhere into season 2.

Yeah, Common Goal wasn't my favorite -- the entire "conflict" was basically that both guys had decided, "I need to find someone who fits this particular checklist of characteristics," and then find someone who's the opposite of that, and brood about it for a long time.

Ryan is on the same team as Troy just before Role Model — Troy was basically Kent’s asshole sidekick in that book. But it also shows a lot of the physical and psychological toll of the game on the players, in ways I don’t think the other books do as well.

And I’d argue that at least parts of Tough Guy are important to include, too.

The big reveal in Game Changer is what happened at the end of episode 5. It does include one scene that might possibly be part of the next episode, but it's not a major spoiler at all.

Apparently some people think that homophobia is an American thing, and thus wouldn't be that bad in Canada? Some Americans seem to think of Canada as, like, a magical socialist wonderland of equality, rather than as a real country.

I would have assumed that most people in the US are aware of the homophobia in sports culture in general, even if they don't know hockey in particular, but I've seen a lot of comments from people who seem to have no clue about that at all.

This is something where I think it depends on how familiar the viewer is with the NHL and pro sports in general -- I'd thought it was very obviously implied, but I've seen people saying, "Why don't these players just come out? There's nothing stopping them except themselves."

Ryan Price is one of the main characters in Tough Guy. There are a bunch of scenes that happen in Role Model that are referenced like, "Oh, and this thing happened" in The Long Game. Common Goal has less overlap with the Shane/Ilya story, but more with Scott/Kip.

There is a Centre Street in Chinatown.