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Scrivens said it is not the NHL’s version of The Real Housewives franchise but rather a show that portrays the trials and tribulations of their lives, whether it’s packing up after a trade or watching a spouse struggle with a demotion to the minors.

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“We’re not getting paid, we’re not getting scripts,” she said. “They’re really just following us around and seeing what happens.

“Some of it may appear dramatized on the screen but it’s really what we go through. It’s trades, it’s about our spouses getting sent down or getting called up. I know I’ve been through that before. It’s not easy. It’s not something your friend down the street can relate to.”

Scrivens, who also sits on the board of the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, met Ben at Cornell University, where she too was a goaltender.

He said after Tuesday’s practice that his role in the series was very limited, which is the way he wanted it, although he backed Jenny’s belief that it could change some perceptions.

“The wives are not going to the spa every day,” he said. “Basically, everyone involved has a career.

“The only thing you worry about with something like this is that they have the final say in what airs. You worry that you’ll say something and they’ll cut off a sentence that changes the context of what you were saying but it wasn’t like we had cameras following us around all the time.”

There was a film crew in Edmonton for a week last summer, and during that stretch they captured the couple’s trip to the Edmonton Humane Society. They left with Ezra, a six-year-old German Sheperd-Rottweiler mix.