#for example: mitch marner is putting the collar on. auston matthews is grabbing a leash.

[timbitshockey]

a thing i believe and have discussed at length with my friends in real life who have participated in team sports is that if you take any large enough group of guys, like, say, a hockey team. okay? are you with me? you take those guys and you put them in a saw trap style room where the doors lock behind them. in that room is an equal number of collars and leashes. you still follow? okay. you tell that group of guys that they are allowed to leave ONLY when every collar is on someone and attached to a leash and someone else is holding the other end of the leash. they don't have to do anything else! just half of them will have to put on a collar and the other half will have to hold onto the attached leash. after that the doors will unlock and they will be allowed to leave. i fully believe that in that scenario these men know absolutely instinctively and with NO discussion needed which of them will put the collars on and which will hold the leashes. it will not even occur to them to have done it a different way than their first instinct. this is a truth of the universe