The First Thing Nick Cousins Did When He Woke Up Was Unfollow Jakob Chychrun On Instagram

When I saw Jakob Chychrun absolutely demolish Nick Cousins last night, my jaw dropped. Just an astonishing hit, one of the more violent hits you'll see that results in no penalty. Just a massive hit right through Cousins' body. Hopefully he's ok and is making strides and recovering today, obviously you never want to see a player go down motionless like that, clean hit or not.

But there is a funny wrinkle to this hit. There's a Twitter account that tracks who players follow and unfollow- usually it's just some horny guy following an IG model, or unfollowing a Tkachuk brother. But at 2:48 in the morning, it seems Nick Cousins woke up, presumably in the hospital, grabbed his phone, and did the funniest thing:

UNFOLLOWED. Boom. 

I gotta say I can't really blame him. If someone nearly took my head off like that, I probably wouldn't want to see his smiling face either. Protect your peace, king!

I love that this is just what we do now. Whether it's Alix and Sofia, Alix and Alex, Rico and whatever person he's mad at that day, we settle our scores by unfollowing on social media. That's how you KNOW this shit is serious.

I think this is where pro sports, especially hockey and football, is super interesting. Because every pro knows they enter into an agreement where something like this can happen to them. Where one hit can change everything and take away everything you've worked for. So even though the hit was clean, I can't blame Cousins for being like fuck that guy. He should be mad at his teammates though, none of them stood up for him. So weird to see that. 

Great hit by Chych. All that raw goat milk he's been drinking and horse heart and pig liver he's been eating finally showed up.