Twitter, for better or for worse but probably on the whole for the better, has changed the way we consume professional hockey.

It’s made coverage of news more immediate, transforming everything from delivery of breaking news to viewing of game highlights. At the same time, it’s created countless pitfalls and unscrupulous habits that sully the delivery of that news. (It's also created a platform where pundits can chow down on their own feet.)

It’s created access points to connect fans with players, teams, pundits and other fans. To that end, it’s created ways for magic moments that otherwise would have never been possible – like a fan delivering a burger to a hungry player that requests one – while at the same time creating a means for abusing these lines of communication (ask April Reimer).

It’s made watching hockey a communal experience in the digital space, necessitating a second screen to keep up with the conversation while keeping up with the game itself.

It’s created an unprecedented marketplace of ideas and communications. Sometimes those ideas and communications enhance life. Sometimes they make life more difficult. Sometimes they make you want to climb into the corner of a darkened closet and stay there until it all blows over.

In the end, everything we experience away from the screen – humor, insight, jerks, harassment, dumb arguments that consume our days, weird diversions that stoke our creativity but suck away our time – is transferred to that marketplace. It’s an amplified microcosm, heightened by the anonymity and impersonal nature of the medium. Some people are good. Some people are bad. Some people feel good when making you feel bad, which makes them terrible.

But none of it is ever boring. Even the dumbest of hashtags.

As we said, Twitter has changed the way we consume hockey. Here are 10 outrageous hockey moments during 10 years of Twitter:

10. Dan Ellis Problems

In 2010, NHL goalie Dan Ellis took to Twitter to lament the lack of respect for hockey players as specialists in their fields, comparing their years of preparation to those of a brain surgeon.

A month later, he piggybacked on a tweet by NFLer Reggie Bush to further lament his financial strife as a millionaire:

“If you lost 18 percent of your income, would you be happy? I can honestly say that I am more stressed about money now than when I was in college.”

With that, #DanEllisProblems were born, as a journeyman player was recast as an oblivious pro athlete in 140 characters.

9. Mediator Guy Serota Canned

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If there’s nothing else we’ve learned about social media, it’s that it can create instant celebrities and instant controversies.

Which brings us to Guy Serota.

Who the hell is Guy Serota, you may ask? Well, in 2012, he was part of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service mediation team tasked with attempting to end the NHL lockout. He was also a boorish Twitter presence, and “that guy who thinks he’s in on the joke except he should leave it to the pros.”

Once his Twitter comedy was exposed, Serota said the funniest thing he’s ever uttered, which was that his feed was hacked.

Thanks to the tweets, he was dropped from the mediation. But he did help introduce “ass mode” to the hockey lexicon, briefly.

8. Down Goes Brown and the “Fake Brian Burke” controversy