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What Happens When You Tweet :)

05/31/2015 at 12:28pm EDT

from Dave Stubbs of the Montreal Gazette,

And in Toronto, former Ducks forward Smith-Pelly tweeted just this:

: )

It was then that the ground opened up and the fires of hockey hell licked at his feet.

By 11 a.m. on Sunday, Smith-Pelly’s wordless, two-keystroke tweet had generated nearly 1,500 retweets and been favourited almost 1,900 times.

His Twitter mentions from Ducks fans, that is, comments tagged to the tweet, referenced his body size, many times; the couch on which he was watching the playoffs; his NHL future; and much, much worse.

“The worst one?” Smith-Pelly said with a laugh, repeating the question 12 hours after the skies had opened. “That I was too bad to be on a (crappy) team, that the Canadiens had lost in the second round. It was hilarious. I thought it was great.”

There’s some history here, of course.

Smith-Pelly, 22, was traded to the Canadiens in late February for forward Jiri Sekac; it was the Ducks who brought Smith-Pelly into the NHL in the second round of the 2010 entry draft, 42nd overall.

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