Twitter roasts NHL for jumping on John Scott bandwagon

Twitter users shut down every single tweet the NHL sent out about John Scott.

The NHL All-Star Game was all about John Scott. As part of a successful fan-voting campaign, he got to captain the Pacific Division where he would score two goals and start a (staged) fight with Patrick Kane. Even though it was in Nashville, Scott got a bigger reception than any Predators players and at the end of the game, he was named MVP. In many ways, he saved the All-Star Game.

The NHL did all they could to heap the deserving praise on Scott, but fans don’t forget. Considering they wanted no part of him in the game, and even tried to orchestrate a trade because of it, people saw any John Scott tweet as bandwagon jumping on the NHL’s part, and the fans let them have it:

Fox Sports 1 anchor Jay Onrait even got in on the action!

You have to feel for whoever runs the NHL’s Twitter account. (S)he’s likely just an intern and had nothing to do with any of this. Whoever was running that account was probably genuinely happy for Scott, but instead had to take shots that were directed at Gary Bettman. But who knows, maybe this was all a marketing scheme on the NHL’s part to get people interested in the All-Star Game again. If that’s the case, mission accomplished.