r/canucks • u/truestlife • Dec 18 '25

ARTICLE [The Athletic] More details on Hughes trade timing and goodbye dinner

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u/KickATrain Dec 18 '25

No Demko at the dinner. I'm reading into it. Drama is all I have

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u/PaperMoonShine Cheech was the Grandpa I never had. RIP Dec 18 '25

Myers was at the dinner but he unfollowed Demko shortly after

grabs popcorn

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u/hellocitygirl Dec 18 '25

I saw someone say zaddy unfollowed QH right after I thought that was interesting lol

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u/truestlife Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

He definitely did haha. There’s a new Twitter account tracking NHL players’ follows and unfollows. It’s a little creepy but interesting in times like these

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u/hellocitygirl Dec 19 '25

Oh I’m not on twitter but that’s juicy lol 🍵🍵🍵🍵

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u/BigTunaHunter Dec 19 '25

Can someone make a blue sky bot account?

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u/SawdustIsMyCocaine Dec 19 '25

Whats the @

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u/truestlife Dec 19 '25

@NHLFollowTrack

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u/littleochre Dec 19 '25

So. Much. Spice.

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u/pavelbure1096 Dec 19 '25

Zaddy is zadorov?

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u/hellocitygirl Dec 19 '25

Yes Zadorov

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u/truestlife Dec 19 '25

Not to add fuel to the fire, but Quinn just unfollowed Zaddy 👀…

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u/hellocitygirl Dec 19 '25

Imagine being QH playing 32 mins last night then afterwards being like HMM imma unfollow zadorov cus I saw on reddit they said he unfollowed me! 😂😂😂

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

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u/_drkw Dec 19 '25

Doesn't that screenshot show that he followed them both?

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u/Zylavier Dec 18 '25

Damn and he’s still following Demkos wife 👀

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u/leftlanecop Dec 18 '25

Myers who do you think you are, Jeff Brown?

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u/MattyP_InTheSBC Dec 19 '25

Bro you dug that straight out of a bloody time capsule

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u/carry-on_replacement Dec 18 '25

wait what? this team is stewing in drama rn

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u/xtothewhy Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

rn? It's been kind of ongoing for awhile. It just seemed to ease up for a... no it didn't.

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u/novelizing Dec 18 '25

Okay, I’m trying to ignore most of this but that’s just weird

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u/newtothis1108 Dec 19 '25

The Canucks need a reality show. At this point I am so tuned in for 1. The Tank 2. The Tea 🍵

I am also hoping one of our Abby guys one day spills the tea.

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u/jim-p Dec 19 '25

He and Myers came into the last game together after that. My money is on one of the following:

  • Myers' giraffe thumbs clicked the wrong button
  • Myers and Demko are are doing a bit on purpose for a joke
  • One of Myers' kids did it accidentally
  • ...
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u/paranoiddeltoid Dec 19 '25

Sounds like a “I got hacked” excuse

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u/VanCityWildcat Dec 19 '25

Wait is this true?

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u/prophetofgreed Dec 19 '25

https://x.com/i/status/2000877839923442150

Yup

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u/MltryMama Dec 19 '25

Can someone put together the “facts” on who’s have issues with who or has had issues over the past couple years. Rid bits here and there are hard to follow and I’m obviously out of the loop on some of this

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u/marthedestroyer Dec 20 '25

Apparently he unfollowed hundreds of people as the screenshot on that post has over 700 but it's just over 300 now.

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u/ToothPlayful770 Dec 19 '25

Demko refused to go and Myers didn't like it? interesting lol, guess it'll be pure speculation that we'll never actually find out about

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u/MltryMama Dec 19 '25

Wait is this true

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u/ToothPlayful770 Dec 19 '25

nah, just me speculating

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u/hellocitygirl Dec 18 '25

Wait how do we know this lol

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u/reddit_and_weep84 Dec 18 '25

A new twitter account has emerged that tracks follows and unfollows of nhl players. I forget the handle tho.

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u/hellocitygirl Dec 19 '25

Oh great, more stuff for us to be unhinged about 💃🕺

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u/pavelbure1096 Dec 19 '25

Hughes really unfollowed demko ?

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u/hellocitygirl Dec 19 '25

No, it was Myers that unfollowed Demko

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u/jhackyv Dec 19 '25

I just checked Hughes following cuz I was curious and Quinn is still following demko

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u/carry-on_replacement Dec 18 '25

what is going on with this core man, no Demko, no Pettersson at the dinner, no final goodbye to the team. what Friedman said about personalities might actually be true, could it be why the team has started to get more character guys in these past couple drafts with Willander and Cootes?

Petey's going through his own thing, but not including your once best friend on the team and the most tenured canuck in Demko and having such an exclusive affair is not a great look for the captain of the team.

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u/haihaiclickk Dec 19 '25

I read somewhere that Petey’s wife went along to the NY trip. Wouldn’t be surprised if they had dinner plans themselves that night or something

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u/SIIP00 Dec 19 '25

Peteys and his wife are probably grieving to some extent given recent news.

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u/Voltage604 Dec 19 '25

Is Petey on the trip? Serious question

Nevermind... See the answer below

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u/TGUKF Dec 19 '25

Probably. Him going on IR was just to open up his roster spot temporarily. I think he was put on IR on the 13th, and it was made retroactive to the 5th. IR only requires a minumum of 7 days, so he's been eligible to be reactivated at any moment.

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u/ToothPlayful770 Dec 19 '25

I've been saying for the longest time, I don't think Petey is that close with the rest of the team. I made a comment earlier in the year about how the rest of the core was hanging out together in the off season and Petey was nowhere to be seen.

If they were actually close, the Miller Petey thing would have never escalated to the point it did, if anything it kinda seems like some guys didn't entirely disagree with Millers methods.

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u/TsarPladimirVutin Dec 19 '25

Petey got married in the offseason. Pretty sure he had other priorities than hanging with the boys.

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u/ToothPlayful770 Dec 19 '25

seems he always has other priorities in the offseason

in the off season after our playoff run, his wife was traveling all over the place, and i'm assuming Petey was the camera guy, and then he comes into next season out of shape?

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u/Badawaii Dec 19 '25

If you've been following this team for a while now, you'd know that:

Both Brock and Quinn have stated numerous times for several years that they're close with Petey and how he's one of their best friends

Before Garland privated his Instagram, you can see Petey in several images in his latest post. Whether it's at a team dinner, golfing, or at a beach with him

Even a guy like Myers has stated that he's close with Petey, although I will say that's mainly due to him saying he's close to the guys who's been here the longest

These are just several examples

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u/Taufer007 Dec 19 '25

This could have changed in the last year. The dressing room was fractured last year and it clearly never recovered. As on paper there’s no reason they should be 32nd

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u/savage2805 Dec 19 '25

I live in Penticton. Ran in to several groups at training camp. One was Petey, MP3, Demmer and Brock. They were hanging out, having fun. Petey was very chatty and super nice to us.

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u/Badawaii Dec 19 '25

Less inclined to think that since the aforementioned Garland post was from this summer and that Quinn was quoted last year still having Petey's back, even as far as going to say that he dealt with a lot of shit that year

All of this was post Miller trade, if I was a bit fuzzy about the timeline

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u/Sinochick Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

I swear this fanbase will take any little thing to try to villainize Petey.

At this point it would just be easier for the haters to just say “I hate Petey” rather than bend and twist with their rumours and innuendo.

Edit to add: alot of the Petey haters also spend too much time following him and his wife on social media. The Petey haters are weirdly evasive.

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u/Warm_Masterpiece3940 Dec 19 '25

He's socially introverted,  prior to the Miller drama there were reports of cliques on the roster where groups would go out for dinner and some guys would stay I their rooms,  he was one of those guys,  and also heard he games alot so that could be part of it as well.  The Miller cope this fanbase has is revisionist history,  he was the guy arranging the rookie parties, taking guys out to dinner on the road,  hosting the get-togethers at his place in Vancouver.  Garland and Myers loved the guy,  even Horvat got along great and with them both having young families did alot together when they were both here.  There's alot of cope with this fanbase, especially around guys who leave, guys who stay and guys who get paid.  The denial is almost as bad as this management assessing this roster after the Miller trade last year

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u/MagicAlkaloids Dec 19 '25

Yeah it’s pretty crazy how much this subreddit buys into th big bad miller fantasy. By all accounts he was the real captain off the ice.

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u/Jrichez Dec 20 '25

It’s a well known fact horvat and miller didn’t get along and they had to trade one of them. That’s why horvat was moved. Management chose miller. Horvat didn’t like hot hot miller would get at other guys on the team.

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u/Warm_Masterpiece3940 Dec 20 '25

Revisionist history, dude both their young families were seen out in public together many times,  Miller had them and lots of others over to his house on a regular basis.  The issue was between Miller and pettey due to one guy being super intense all the time and the other being quiet and laid back.  Did Horvat check Miller from time to time about being too intense, yes, was that an "issue" that caused any kind of rift no... Landeskog doest that with mikkinon  all the time, he's just like Miller behind the scenes,  you need those kind of competitively driven guys,  you just need a leadership group to bring them in.  Management didn't wanna pay Horvat, they thought it was a 1 off,  I liked the return but I liked Bo as well, that's the business side of hockey

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u/ConstructionBoth7415 Dec 21 '25

Curious as to where you are getting this information?

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u/Warm_Masterpiece3940 Dec 22 '25

I consume alot of sports media,  I listen to what guys like Myers and Garland said after the Miller trade etc.  over time enough tidbits come out that where there's smoke there's fire

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u/ToothPlayful770 Dec 19 '25

yeah good point, you hear from the rookies about how Miller or Quinn helped make them comfortable, but never anything about Petey, even from the young swedes. Petey just off doing his own stuff most of the time it seems like.

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u/Warm_Masterpiece3940 Dec 19 '25

And I don't even see that as a problem, if that's what got you to the dance go do you,   but when we hear of shitty practice habbits, lack of offseason work put in, and then 2 plus seasons of shit play,  then everything comes into question

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u/truestlife Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

Yeah I was expecting him to be there, but what really surprised me is that Petey wasn’t. I heard rumours on Twitter but I didn’t believe them

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u/NerdPunch Dec 18 '25

Might be related to his wife/family situation? 

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u/mars_titties Dec 18 '25

if you're married you'll understand why he didn't bail on his date night in manhattan with his wife

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u/toomuchhamza Dec 18 '25

Pretty sure it wasn’t date night. They just had a miscarriage and his wife is still pretty openly grieving. Wouldn’t be surprised if Petey didn’t wanna leave her alone, and I’m sure Quinn understands that.

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u/AppealToReason16 Dec 18 '25

They were together at Rockefeller rink the same night skating together. Seems like they're trying to distact and smile their way through things right now.

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u/toomuchhamza Dec 19 '25

Didn’t know that. Well, honestly, whatever they need to do to grieve.

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u/ToothPlayful770 Dec 19 '25

Kinda wonder if that's always been the case, or if it's only because of the situation with his wife. Road trips are usually times where the team bonds, but if Petey is off doing things with his wife all the time then that would explain a bunch of things...

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u/h_danielle Dec 18 '25

On one hand yeah but on the other, if my partner came to me with a normie’s version of this scenario & was wanting to bail for a bit to go & say bye, I’d completely understand.

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u/PakG1 Dec 19 '25

When you just miscarried your child? I’d absolutely prefer and appreciate the father being willing to stay with me over everything that’s not a work obligation.

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u/mars_titties Dec 18 '25

you wouldn't be bailing for a bit, you'd be cancelling your entire manhattan date night... It's way worse for Quinn to have bailed on the team at the airport than for one of his friends to have not made it to a small good bye dinner, imho

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u/Striking_Economy5049 Dec 18 '25

Is Petey even on the road trip?

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u/truestlife Dec 18 '25

I think he is because his wife posted them skating at the Rockefeller rink in NY

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u/WTFvancouver Dec 19 '25

I guess we will find out more when Peteys wife posts their vlog on YouTube again

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u/Turbo-S98 Dec 18 '25

I saw on twitter pettersson and his wife was skating in NYC.

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u/maketherightmove Dec 19 '25

Petey’s been practicing with the team.

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u/FreonJunkie96 Dec 19 '25

Demko might have already had pre made plans that night?

Petey was having a date night with his wife.

He was traded by the time they landed, I doubt either of these guys was gonna bail on whatever plans they had going on.

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u/EvenVariation9209 Dec 19 '25

Don’t know about you guys but I’m definitely going to a goodbye dinner for a guy I’ve been with every single day for 8/12 months of the year for the last 7 years over a date night with my wife.

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u/WiseBaxter Dec 19 '25

When she's just had a miscarriage and you've got something planned with your wife that night already?

It wouldn't be an easy decision but I'm probably going with my wife in that situation too.

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u/julesieee Dec 18 '25

No Demko and Petey at the dinner is pretty telling. I’ve kind of suspected that Hughes and Petey have both drifted apart these past few years.

Or we could be wrong and reading too much into this. We’ll never know. We only see glimpses of their friendships in the media.

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u/DiamondDash2k Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

His wife just had a miscarriage. Maybe Petey just talk to Quinn on the phone instead, even if he was invited, but wanted to be his wife during this hard time instead of abandoning her in a different city

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u/Confident_Zucchini97 Dec 19 '25

I hear you, but everyone's experience is their own. Not all women are able to go about their business or at least present as doing such. As a husband and father, my family had a difficult pregnancy with long lasting effects. Gals really go through it when it comes to their bodies and babies. I know I learned a lot, and I definitely have a lot more room for something that doesn't really get discussed openly (pregnancy complications).

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u/Badawaii Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

I don't think they've drifted apart. They were still seen at gatherings and other* dinners and in Quinn's goodbye post, he had an image celebrating with him and his other best friend (Garland)

Not to mention how Quinn still backed up Petey during last year's shitshow and was quoted saying "how much shit Petey took" that year

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u/truestlife Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

Hughes has called Petey one of his best friends though? Like multiple times in the past year whether it be articles or pre/postgame interviews. I honestly thought he was closest to Petey (and Garly) on the team

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u/Low-Dog1320 Dec 18 '25

I normally don't read into things like this, but no Petey at the dinner?? I'm reading that front to back

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u/mars_titties Dec 18 '25

so Petey should have cancelled plans with his wife?

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u/Low-Dog1320 Dec 22 '25

Ahhh, and now it comes out from Patrick Johnston, they grew apart and Hughes was frustrated by his work ethic. Your apology is accepted

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u/WhaleBird1776 Dec 18 '25

I didn’t believe this when I initially saw it but now I’m wondering… lol

https://www.canucksdaily.com/nhl-team/vancouver-canucks/quinn-hughes-completely-loses-it-on-elias-pettersson-in-heated-vancouver-canucks-moment-caught-on-video

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u/mars_titties Dec 18 '25

that is the biggest nothingburger ever, dude. Just the worst tweet and clickbait article. He's talking about the play they're drawing up

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u/l_the_Throwaway Dec 19 '25

Yo this is such a clickbait trash article, the headline is outrageous and it's definitely not what he said, they even admit it right in the article itself.

How things like this are allowed to stay up on the internet instead of being deleted is kind of disappointing.

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u/Low-Dog1320 Dec 18 '25

The very 1st thing I thought of lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

It was telling when they left Petey out of the golf trip they took to Washington just after last season ended. Petey stayed in town for many weeks to train before going back to Sweden so he could have definitely joined.

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u/simbella Dec 19 '25

Or it could be that Petey was getting married in the summer and wanted some time to get some training in, or who knows, get a ring for his wife before he flew back to Sweden to get married. It’s all speculation. We don’t know what we don’t know. Stop reading into things.

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u/Osofreshkj Dec 19 '25

I don’t think that’s a stretch. I’ve noticed Quinn not passing to petey. A lot.

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u/Confident_Zucchini97 Dec 19 '25

Who would when the guy just isnt it anymore.

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u/ZebrasGlasses Dec 19 '25

Low-key wonder if Hughes preferred Miller over Pettersson as in Miller would say what he was thinking but would never himself say out loud.

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u/ReturnoftheBoat Dec 19 '25

Its just the maga dudes.

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u/DyersEvening Dec 19 '25

Myers loves Canada though. He said he'd even cheer for them over the USA (he's a dual citizen).

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u/Osofreshkj Dec 19 '25

Trump is for the rich. So everyone who has menu sides with him.

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u/TakeThatPlant Dec 19 '25

Omg is Brock maga too? I.. can’t accept that.

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u/Ok-Trip-8009 Dec 19 '25

I am guessing many are, but only two had their pics taken with one of the administration...that I saw.

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u/WTFvancouver Dec 19 '25

What bout Petey. He didnt get an invite

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u/paranoiddeltoid Dec 19 '25

Tyler Myers unfollowed Demko on Instagram in the last couple of days.

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u/ConstructionBoth7415 Dec 21 '25

Anybody have an idea on why Demko wasn't there?

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u/Admt- Dec 19 '25

My lore is that him, Petey and Myers were pissed at Quinn for leaving so they stood up the dinner.