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Late last week, Twitter user “Wiseman Lorenbg” had something to say.

It was Friday afternoon and the final article in a week of off-ice news stories about the Ottawa Senators had just been published online.

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The week had started with the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun reporting about a YouTube video, filmed during an Uber ride, that showed several Ottawa Senators laughing at their team’s woes and badmouthing one of their coaches.

The story polarized fans, with some swiftly defending their team, attacking the publications for posting a video that had been taken and posted without the players’ consent.

The story stayed in the news throughout the week, culminating Friday when the Senators refused to let an Ottawa Citizen reporter onto the team’s charter flight to travel with them to an away game.

And it was this story that “Lorenbg” wanted to talk about.

“Boohoo … (sic) for some overweight sports reporters not flying first class with the team after they breach their privacy. Got to hell,” Lorenbg tweeted in reply to a Globe and Mail post about the story.