I don't want to hate Ryan Donato, seeing as he and loyalty-driven self-loathing were the only reasons for American hockey fans to tune into watch Team USA at the Winter Olympics, but he's not giving me much of a choice by being such a well-rounded person. Notching three points in your first professional game is impressive, but it's not something we haven't seen before. The same can't be said for waking up the next goddamn morning and going full-Allen Iverson on the contending NHL team that inserted your 21 year old ass into their lineup down the stretch of a promising season so you can hit the books in an Ivy League classroom. I mean, I can't - in good conscience - call the kid a try-hard, because clearly things come pretty fucking easy for him. However, his decision to simultaneously partake in school and professional sports adds a little insult to the injured egos of those of us that didn't even have the educational wherewithal to skip a Wednesday afternoon beer pong game on behalf of a quality attendance record, never mind a practice with the pro athletes that recently became our peers. Son of a bitch is just out here showing up the best hockey players on the planet and the sharpest young minds in higher education at the same damn time by casually pulling double duty as both, so how are people that aren't anywhere close to being either not supposed to feel some type of way about it? Like, congrats to Ryan Donato on breaking barriers and shattering expectations while managing his time wisely as a newly legal drinker, but would it kill him to save some accomplishments for the rest of us?
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