No one comes to 11 yr olds B-day party, Leafs+NHLers step up

[Deadly Dogma]

I thought this was a nice story. Also article title is Leafs focused but a ton of other NHLers tweeted this lil fella.
Leafs' Marner, Tavares planning birthday surprise for 11-year-old fan - Sportsnet.ca

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[Sheppy]

Pretty awesome stuff, actually. I'm no Leaf fan, but it's great how they're stepping up.

I got the address and am sending him a bunch of Leaf hockey cards when i get off work.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Man leaf fans get it at all ages

but good on marner, he seems like a very likable person on and off the ice. Should add on the rest of org, its really cool that nhl teams more so than other sports really(from my expierence/view) reach out to fans in ways like this.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Nice to see. Happy birthday!

 

[jetsforever]

Awesome that all those guys (and Tetris ) reached out to him!

 

[Dr Pepper]

Reading through those celeb tweet responses, I'm most amused with the way Mark Hamill signs his tweets.

 

[BigEezyE22]

Any chance parents just f***ed up with the invites? Probably one of those e-vites with a broken link. End of the day, Leafs just bailed mom and dad out.

 

[buud]

Good on the Leafs. Yes, pro hockey players are doing good deeds everywhere. Beautiful!

little fella!

 

[Dr Pepper]

Any chance parents just ****ed up with the invites? Probably one of those e-vites with a broken link. End of the day, Leafs just bailed mom and dad out.

Not to mention the fact that dad just friend-shamed his own kid......like, "hey internet, no one came to my kid's birthday party. Here he is in a depressing empty room, looking like he just finished crying."

I don't think I'd want my picture taken if I was the kid in that situation, maybe that's just me though. I don't have any kids so I can't attest to the lengths some parents would go but this does seem a bit much.

 

[tfong]

Not to mention the fact that dad just friend-shamed his own kid......like, "hey internet, no one came to my kid's birthday party. Here he is in a depressing empty room, looking like he just finished crying."

I don't think I'd want my picture taken if I was the kid in that situation, maybe that's just me though. I don't have any kids so I can't attest to the lengths some parents would go but this does seem a bit much.

You know, i kinda had that feeling. Like I mean he made it public and IDed himself so its like telling the internet his son has friend issues? Like i was thinking the last thing i would want to do when i had that occur was to announce it to the world.

 

[BLNY]

That's really cool.

 

[tucker3434]

Not to mention the fact that dad just friend-shamed his own kid......like, "hey internet, no one came to my kid's birthday party. Here he is in a depressing empty room, looking like he just finished crying."

I don't think I'd want my picture taken if I was the kid in that situation, maybe that's just me though. I don't have any kids so I can't attest to the lengths some parents would go but this does seem a bit much.

This is my thought too every time I see one of these. Does this kid really want to go viral for not having any friends? Sounds awful.

 

[Rob Brown]

You know, i kinda had that feeling. Like I mean he made it public and IDed himself so its like telling the internet his son has friend issues? Like i was thinking the last thing i would want to do when i had that occur was to announce it to the world.

I mean, I wouldn't personally do it, but if the kid is struggling and isn't going to see any of this himself since he isn't on Twitter, what's the harm? The dad was probably pissed off and sad and took a chance and look at the outcome. It probably means the world to his son.

 

[KCC]

I think the kid didn’t have any friends and the parents set this up on purpose. Lol. Wouldn’t surprise me if most of that is true.

 

[JT Kreider]

I think the kid didn’t have any friends and the parents set this up on purpose. Lol. Wouldn’t surprise me if most of that is true.

Or it was all a scam so he could meet Marner and Tavares and get free Leafs tickets and the kids birthday isn't even until March

 

[RorschachWJK]

That was such a great thing to do! Kudos for the players

 

[bobc222]

I think the kid didn’t have any friends and the parents set this up on purpose. Lol. Wouldn’t surprise me if most of that is true.

Can't ever just have a happy story can we?

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

I think the kid didn’t have any friends and the parents set this up on purpose. Lol. Wouldn’t surprise me if most of that is true.

Well, he just got 23 friends who are probably much cooler than all of the 11 year olds in the world.

 

[Rob Brown]

Can't ever just have a happy story can we?

It's pathetic really. Zero impact on anyone here yet there are people that feel the need to make up stories and hypotheticals.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

I think the kid didn’t have any friends and the parents set this up on purpose. Lol. Wouldn’t surprise me if most of that is true.

Probably the truth.

 

[BonMorrison]

I'm torn on this tbh, I feel like parents especially today with the ease of access of social media tend to exploit their children a lot of times without their consent. Like I guess it's great this paid off and everyone's happy but like there are definitely posts out there with the same thing that don't get traction and suddenly you've just outed your child as having no friends for no reason.

idk - I get that the intent on this is rather harmless but I feel like having reasonable discourse on this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

 

[holy]

That kid is actually a 35 year old actor and the whole thing is a hoax.

 

[JT Kreider]

It's pathetic really. Zero impact on anyone here yet there are people that feel the need to make up stories and hypotheticals.

Not really, because it's really hard to give stories like this the benefit of the doubt these days with how sick some people are out there and how they'll take advantage of a situation like this for fame

 

[Rob Brown]

Not result, because it's really hard to give stories like this the benefit of the doubt these days with how sick some people are out there

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean, to be honest.

 

[JT Kreider]

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean, to be honest.

If you're saying that it's wrong for anyone to question this little boy and the parents intentions.. well not really**, its getting more and more hard to give people the benefit of the doubt these days