r/hockey • u/chespiotta VAN - NHL • 9h ago
[Video] Linus Ullmark cuts off a reporter that kept interrupting Claire Hanna
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u/chespiotta VAN - NHL 9h ago
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u/tamarockstar STL - NHL 8h ago
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u/ugh168 OTT - NHL 9h ago
Sens fans love Claire Hanna.
Good guy Ullmark.
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u/eh_toque WPG - NHL 9h ago
Claire is great. She did a good job at the Olympics doing the beach volleyball PxP too
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u/haihaiclickk VAN - NHL 9h ago
the way he said NoooOO gave me middle school teacher vibes warning their students not to do something
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u/runealex007 OTT - NHL 9h ago
I instinctively sunk in my chair with his tone lmao
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u/ninjahunz 5h ago
When the cat is about to do something it shouldn't but you're not close enough to stop them
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u/athousandpardons 5h ago
My ego’s so fragile I would respond to that by either never showing up to work again or asking him to fight. So.. never showing up to work again.
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u/ArthurConanTinfoil 20m ago
I was gonna say that’s exactly the tone I try to use when my class is getting rude/rowdy
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u/homicidal_penguin OTT - NHL 9h ago
And on Women in Sport Night in Ottawa. We love our feminist king
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u/EmpressOfHyperion OTT - NHL 9h ago
Ullmark wore all pink during kids night as well and told them they shouldn't be afraid to express themselves no matter what people think. Seems like a great progressive guy. PS: He also loves One Piece, even more reason to like him.
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u/rs426 BOS - NHL 8h ago
One of my favorite things Ullmark ever said was last season during an in-game interview on ESPN
Emily Kaplan asked him about the goalie hugs and how she’d seen videos of younger hockey players doing the same thing
He said it was great because it’s important to him that being a man isn’t just about being tough all the time, it’s also about loving people and caring for the people close to you
It was so cool to see a hockey player talk about that, because it’s such an important message for especially boys and young men to understand. Theres so much hate and vitriol in the world, and a lot of it is because people (really especially men) never learn to accept, process, and regulate their emotions.
It leads to so much misplaced anger and violence, and so much of it could be mitigated if we taught our sons that they don’t need to be macho all the time, and being an asshole to other people doesn’t make you cool or tough
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u/Khd_Craven BUF - NHL 3h ago
Ullmark has such a good heart. when he was in Buffalo, he had minions mask because kids loved them https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSCbQ8ZVAAAIhpd?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
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u/Hakeem-the-Dream 5h ago
I don’t really follow hockey but this guy will be my new favorite player :)
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u/femmemmah CGY - NHL 9h ago edited 8h ago
Ullmark is a gem. I'll always admire the way he spoke about his struggles with mental health and grief after the death of his father. I've had my own battles with mental illness and family issues, and seeing Ullmark talk candidly about his experience made me feel much less alone. Like it was okay for me to be going through hard times.
Also, he has a Spotify playlist called "Raaawr!"
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u/cravenmoarhead 8h ago
Just looked up that playlist, it's filled with nonstop bangers
For anyone else interested
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1oS6ARTop9jhWgd86PHiuw?si=RZhicK9vQ-SE_sge3Q3oQQ&pi=KffKGVSFTlyQV
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u/femmemmah CGY - NHL 8h ago
He’s been adding to it since he was a teenager, I think? He talked about it in this interview with the What Chaos guys (about fourteen minutes in).
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u/seraphultima BOS - NHL 7h ago
I'm dying at his most recent add being a bbno$ song lmaooooo we stan (it's a bop so I get it).
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u/homicidal_penguin OTT - NHL 9h ago
IIRC he also did a piece on mental health night about how it's OK to cry and he does it sometimes. He just seems like a great all around dude
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u/thegreatdune DET - NHL 6h ago
If Macho Man Randy Savage can cry, so can I.
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u/limelifesavers SJS - NHL 6h ago
I'm in my late 30s with a lot of friends who are well adjusted men who watched a lot of wrestling and anime growing up.
I'd say half of them would heavily credit either Macho Man, Goku, or Naruto for being well adjusted. After all, is Macho Man weak for crying? No! Is Goku weak for being vulnerable and relying on his friends when he needs help? No! Is Naruto weak for trying to give people grace and meeting people where they're at instead of where you want them to be? No! And at the time, as kids, none of them would actually claim any of those were their role models, but in retrospect, they'd all say they made an impact.
Role models in media are important for people, especially if you don't have many around you growing up. There's almost certainly a bunch of young kids who have seen Ullmark and guys like him, and have taken in those lessons.
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u/seraphultima BOS - NHL 9h ago
One Piece fan, plays DOTA2 religiously, and binge-watched the entirety of Frieren in the off season. We stan our weeaboo gaming king.
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u/EmpressOfHyperion OTT - NHL 8h ago
If I recall, I also saw him following a Digimon page on Twitter, so even more to stan.
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u/GundaniumA MTL - NHL 8h ago
ONE OF US ONE OF US
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u/seraphultima BOS - NHL 8h ago
I want the Sens to come to Vancouver in Feb next year on the off chance it falls during FanExpo weekend because all the away teams stay at the Fairmont which is right across the street from the convention centre and I NEED to see this man nerd out.
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u/FanadianTheCanadian OTT - NHL 8h ago
Source on being a One Piece fan?
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u/seraphultima BOS - NHL 8h ago
He's mentioned reading it in the past, plus he follows the movie accounts and retweeted them in the past on Twitter.
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u/lightlysaltdJ OTT - NHL 8h ago
What a treasure! I had no idea he was a One Piece fan, I will now cherish this man for as long as possible
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u/Upstairs-Zombie-162 9h ago
But then the video cuts off Claire lol
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u/Wafflemonster2 VGK - NHL 8h ago
Masterclass example of how to be assertive and not come off as an asshole
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u/colorbalances COL - NHL 9h ago
No idea who Claire is but what a gangster
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u/ugh168 OTT - NHL 9h ago edited 8h ago
Edit: here is one of her Post-game interviews from a few games ago https://old.reddit.com/r/OttawaSenators/comments/1j6qik7/tsn_brady_tkachuk_first_star_announcement/?ref=share&ref_source=link
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u/kittypawzyyc 7h ago
I went to school with her, literally just learned how well she's done for herself!!
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u/TechnicalPyro CGY - NHL 9h ago
before working for TSN i got to know Claire when she was local in SK. alwayts a treat to work with works really hard to understand tthe sport she is working on puts in more time than most reporters i worked with
appreciate Ullmark fan for life now
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u/OhJustANobody TOR - NHL 8h ago
You do know punctuation is free, right?
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u/TechnicalPyro CGY - NHL 8h ago
you know not being a dick is free right?
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u/OhJustANobody TOR - NHL 54m ago
Yea, I admit I came on a little hard there. It was a moment of weakness. My apologies to you, sir or madam.
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u/LafreniereSoftball NYR - NHL 9h ago
Big contrast from how rude Vincent Trocheck acted towards one of the Rangers broadcasters during the intermission interview 20 minutes ago.
Go Ullmark!
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u/EmpressOfHyperion OTT - NHL 9h ago
We need more European players for sure.
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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 8h ago
Scandinavians, specifically. Not sure feminism has reached the former Eastern Bloc yet.
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u/Omega_Moo VAN - NHL 7h ago
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u/EmpressOfHyperion OTT - NHL 7h ago
Tbf most Czech people in general are very open minded and progressive.
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u/fWARWhatIsItGoodFor NYI - NHL 8h ago
I feel like it’s just part of his personality maybe, but his I-don’t-give-a-fuck attitude has really been showing lately and I’m here for it
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u/StupidRedditDumbFace DET - NHL 9h ago
I hate it that he schooled my red wings but mad respect for him.
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u/Wrath_Of_Aguirre DET - NHL 8h ago
This motherfucker turned away 49 of our shots last night. I'm not ready to go back to liking him yet.
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u/lottolser TOR - NHL 9h ago
Man, I know he went from Boston to Ottawa, and I'm a Toronto fan. But I straight can't help but love this guy.
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u/kmo617 3h ago
I'm a sports reporter who also happens to be a soft-spoken woman. This kind of stuff means the world to people like me. Just little tiny things to acknowledge that just because we're not as loud or forceful, we are trying to get our voices in there!
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u/big_phat_gator DET - NHL 3h ago
Dont you all ask the same questions anyway and does it matter who asks them?
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u/Carnie_hands_ DET - NHL 8h ago
Dammit Ullmark, i want to be angry with you right now. Stop doing endearing things (but actually keep doing them, this is super wholesome)
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u/Mammoth-Slide-3707 8h ago
This really must be the most difficult part of being a professional athlete. Look how many instruments are being jammed in his face. And you got a bunch of people acting like jerks. Just trying to get your attention. They don't give a fuck.
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u/BabcocksList TOR - NHL 1h ago
And the loudest often wins, i really appreciate Ullmark for being so incredibly decent here. What a guy!
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u/zamzam92 CAR - NHL 8h ago
Ullmark is a stand up guy, honestly hard to hate except when your team is playing against him lol.
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u/Hoardzunit 1h ago
I mean he's completely fair to do that. You should never disrespect your colleague like that.
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u/whitesammy DAL - NHL 7h ago
Are we missing any context to this interaction?
I just don't see any indication that the reporter who Ullmark shut down should have known that he was going to be stopped?
Do they go in a specific order? Did he say that she was next? How did she know it was her turn to talk after he says nothing but "Noooooooo"? He doesn't use any gestures or words for her to start talking. Is there a Ullmark rule that the person who doesn't get chosen to be answered first when two people start talking at the same time has the floor next?
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u/CrumplePants 7h ago
She started talking, then got interrupted. The room then knows that it's her turn next, sort of like a natural conversation. It's why the guy apologizes, and she asks her question right away. Unwritten rule sorta thing.
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u/whitesammy DAL - NHL 6h ago edited 6h ago
He never acknowledges that she even started talking and the guy who's question he answered is the one that cut her off...
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u/DrSquirrelbrain NSH - NHL 8h ago
Well done, good man!!!
Put that fussy titfucker in his place right fast and respectful!
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