First before anyone comes for me in the comments, this is only like a quarter serious. My daughter and I are both aware that these players owe us nothing and have much more important things to think about before games. But...
I think Connor Garland may have beef with my child.
It started at the Maple Leafs game.My daughter made a sign asking Garland to trade a puck or stick for somw shark gummies, something I've been told are his favorite candy. Garland looked at my daughter several times but looked absolutely pissed each time. No big deal, a lot of the players look angry when they are on the ice. Outside of the looks, though, he ignored her. Also no big deal, because like I said, we know they ha e bigger things going on than fan interactions during warmup. Not every player is Charlie Coyle, who had already tossed over like 4 pucks at that point. We wrote the whole experience off as a "we'll get em next time".
Move forward to last night, we are in the Tunnel of Pride and my daughter is waiting against the barrier. The team comes out and everyone is giving out fist bumps and high fives, but when Garland got to my daughter, HE PUT HIS ARM DOWN. She has a video of him dapping the kid directly in front of her and then immediately moving his hand to his side. Now I will admit, we did not pay atrention to what he did with the person after her, but all in all, evidence is pointing to the fact that my kid may be in a feud with a professional hockey player.
I love a mystery, so I plan to have some fun getting to tbe bottom of this, but my working theory is that he has heard me yell "short king" a few times when he's gotten on the ice, but only noticed my daughter when he looked in the direction it came from (she has bright pink hair and kind of stands out among the usual hockey fan).
