NHL players are bothered by Jalen Ramsey's voice for talking shit

With the NBA season still a month away, NHL players needed a new source to attract their insecurity.

Last month, the ESPN profile of Mina Kimes, the Jaguars cornerback and true shitposter Jalen Ramsey boasted that his competitive nature would make him an elite talent in all sports:

"Apart from baseball, for which he says he lacks coordination, he has excelled in every sport he has ever tried. He took lacrosse for a season and, once he figured out how to handle the baton, ran circles around the competition. ("There are not many blacks doing it," he says with a smile.) He never tried skating, but if he trained for six months, he could probably break the NHL.

What should have been considered an abrupt self-promotion of its size was considered an affront to hockey by current NHL players. The center of the Sabers Jack Eichel has described it as "insulting to our league", while the winger of the Blues Vladimir Tarasenko said that Ramsey "degrades". Others, like Dylan Larkin. Most of the players surveyed in today's ESPN article about Ramsey's comments reflected an attempt to protect the sport from the outside. These undeniable professional athletes acted as if the defensive backs of the Jaguars were going to threaten to take their place.

The Colorado Avalanche Center, Nathan MacKinnon, was one of the few respondents who said this in their intent:

"I think it's great, I mean, I'd like to see him skate," MacKinnon said. "I think it would be pretty funny. He would not be able to get up. I think that he just likes to talk. It does not matter. "

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"It's good for the NFL, for someone to go out and talk like that. This attracts a lot of attention, "said MacKinnon. "If it happened in hockey, it would make the sport a little more popular, and we would take it."

Someone understood it! Ramsey is not going to give up on being the best corner of the NFL to pursue a hockey career, so you do not have to take what he says so seriously. (In addition, it is amusing to imagine that Ramsey, with his abilities and ability to acquire skills faster than average due to years of rehearsal in a sport, is a quick winger who shouts on the ice.)

Of course, another acceptable way to handle all this is to be like Evgeny Kuznetsov, who may or may not have given Ramsey common ground to join the Capitals:

"I would like to see that, that's for sure," Kuznetsov said. "He can come we can help him. It's cool if an athlete wants to try something new.

Help them defend the cup, Jalen.

[ESPN]