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| Oilers star Connor McDavid in NHL action vs Philadelphia on Tuesday night. |
The new president of the Toronto Blue Jays has only been on the job for two days, and he is already the most hated man in the Great White North.
Immediately after the club announced that popular general manager Alex Anthopoulos had rejected a new contract offer, speculation swirled that he was being pushed out by Mark Shapiro, former president of the Cleveland Indians.
The intensity of the hatred became more evident on Tuesday night when, during a home contest against the Philadelphia Flyers, forward Connor McDavid, the face and future of the Edmonton Oilers franchise, slammed hard into the end boards and suffered a broken collarbone. Twitter reaction was immediate and unrelenting:
"None of this would have happened if Rogers (owners of the baseball team) would have kept Alex. Shapiro's a bum!"
"Somewhere in a hotel room in Toronto, Mark Shapiro is slamming a Connor McDavid voodoo doll against a wall."
"What's a 48 year old American guy doing picking on an 18 yr old Canadian boy? I'm gonna cheer for the Phillies."
McDavid, the number one pick in the 2015 NHL draft, is expected to be out of action until January at the very least.
From Our Edmonton Bureau
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