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03	September 2018

Shut Up About 'Fortnite' Already, Hockey Teams Tell Players

Major League Baseball isn�t the sole professional sport that has an axe to grind with Fortnite. Professional hockey teams are asking players to check their adoration for the game.

Some players are reportedly being told to take out Fortnite references off their social media accounts and at the very least one general manager reportedly said the action has become a problem.

Rick Westland, a correspondent for Fortnite Items The Sports Network, broke this news about players within the Ontario Hockey League being told to remove social media references to the game. Another hockey reporter, TVA�s Renaud Lavoie, says an unnamed NHL executive expressed his very own concerns.

�That GM informed me it�s a problem,� Lavoie told Sportsnet 590. �Before, the athletes were going to bars. Now, they�re staying in hotel rooms or at home and playing video games for hours.�

To be clear, only a few hockey team is against Fortnite. Earlier this year, the Toronto Maple Leaves would play together being a bonding exercise. (Not for nothing, but the team was eliminated inside the first round of the playoffs recording.)

And the Carolina Hurricanes took a team holiday to Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, to playtest the sport earlier this month.

Hockey players, like baseball players before them, are interested in Fortnite because they have plenty of downtime between games and travel. The game is often a quick way to unwind and relax your Fortnite Items for sale brain. But in May, Boston Red Sox pitcher David Price missed a start from the New York Yankees as a consequence of mild case of carpal tunnel syndrome.

It wasn�t certain that he�d gotten that from playing Fortnite, which captured crossed the $1 billion threshold. But Price made a decision to stop playing the sport, a minimum of around the ballpark, in order to be safe.