Not every Columbus Blue Jackets player has submitted a bitter tweet about Mike Reilly signing with the Minnesota Wild (yet?), but a couple of them are coming across as jilted lovers.
It started out with what almost felt like a “subtweet” on June 17, as Ryan Johansen simply said “We didn’t want him anyway.”
We didn't want him anyway
— Ryan Johansen (@RyanJohansen19) June 17, 2015
Apparently that bitterness lingered over the holiday weekend, as Brandon Dubinsky (pictured fighting Sidney Crosby in the main image) chimed in last night.
(The #burntbridges hash tag seems like the height of the “sour grapes” angle, at least if you’re looking at this in terms of a bitter breakup.)
Dubinsky’s tweet prompted plenty of responses, and he even had a little give-and-take:
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Michael Russo wondered if, erm, the holiday spirit(s) might have been involved:
Some players should have a Twitter curfew
— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) July 5, 2015
(Dubinsky is from Alaska, so he may have been celebrating the Fourth of July. Just saying ...)
Anyway, it’s all in salty-good fun, right? The Blue Jackets face Minnesota in a preseason game on Sep. 24, then in two regular season contests on Oct. 22 and Jan. 5. Perhaps we’ll see at least one contest that features Reilly, Johansen and Dubinsky entering on-ice @-replies, then?
Maybe Dubinsky’s just bitter about this “coaching decision,” though:
#CBJ Brandon Dubinsky fired from Team Dubinsky before the opener. Dalton Prout replaces him. Suspicious.
— Shawn Mitchell (@shecky218) July 2, 2015