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The ones who knew

Summary:

Scott Hunter takes the biggest night of his career to do the unimaginable: come out of the closet.

But there were a handful of people who knew all along, sort of.

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Or, following 4 girls on stan twitter that were pretty sure Scott Hunter was gay from the beginning.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Chapter 1: The ones who knew

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NHL News
@NHLNews_

Scott Hunter wins his first MLH Cup with the New York Admirals

8:14 AM · Jun 10, 2017

23.3K Retweets    924 Quote Tweets    72.1K Likes

Pink News
@Pinknews

Scott Hunter makes history as the first out gay hockey player

8:14 AM · Jun 10, 2017

50K Retweets    1.1K Quote Tweets    130.5K Likes

The Hunters 🏹

Liz
Wtf is going on???????
Did he just do that?
Kate
Omg, I can’t believe I lived to see this day!!!!
Sunshine
Feeling so #vindicated right now
Now what?
Sunshine
Now get ready for war, we're gonna be defending him against homophobes for the foreseeable future

Sunshine
@sunshine&rainbows

I still remember when i got death threats and my acc got banned cause i said he was the gayest guy on the NHL, lol

Pink News @Pinknews· Jun 10

Scott Hunter makes history as the first out gay hockey player

9:00 AM · Jun 10, 2017

2 Retweets    1 Quote Tweets    30 Likes

Liz
@Huntedshark

The quotes under this tweet are disgusting, as expected. The NHL better do what they have to to protect Hunter, his bf and the team from all the homophobes that they have so happily welcomed into this sport. Things are changing now, whether you like it or not, get used to it.

NHL News @NHLnew_ · Jun 10

Scott Hunter wins his first MLH Cup with the New York Admirals

9:10 AM · Jun, 10 2017

500 Retweets    10 Quote Tweets    1.1K Likes

Kate
@katherinehunter

Winning the ultimate trophy the day he came out, who's doing it like him?

NHL News @NHLnew_ · Jun 10

Scott Hunter wins his first MLH Cup with the New York Admirals

9:15 AM · Jun, 10 2017

600 Retweets    30 Quote Tweets    1K Likes

Alex
@hunterwife

If God hates gays then do we keep winning?

Pink News @Pinknews · Jun 10

Scott Hunter makes history as the first out gay hockey player

9:25 AM · June 10, 2017

1K Retweets    100 Quote Tweets    15K Likes