Funny and heartwarming, retaliatory and poignant, our 12 greatest NHL tweets of 2015 prove that Twitter can be used for good.
The nature of the medium is immediacy, but when gleaning the best tweets of the past 12 months, it was surprising to see how many photos and comments still hold up as we move into 2016.
Here, month by month, is the cream of the 140-character crop.
Feelings on Stephen Harper aside, the image of Connor McDavid using Bobby Orr as an autograph table is the perfect way to start….
January
“OK, now stand up straight, Bobby, and bring the car around, will ya?”
February
Matt Martin photo-bombing his own fan — on the dude’s birthday! — is brilliant:
More: February’s Top 10 tweets
March
When Jordyn Leopold stole trade deadline away from the players and brokered her dad’s trade home to Minnesota:
April
Picture a four-year-old girl waking up a little early on Easter morning, wandering into the living room and seeing this:
May
The Discovery Channel popping out of nowhere to smash on the Pittsburgh Penguins was out of this world:
June
Taylor Hall got jokes:
July
I just love the idea of two dudes vacationing in Peru and randomly running into Captain Everything:
August
Roberto Luongo, still got it:
September
Not pictured: Defenceman Jerry Naked.
More: September’s Top 10 tweets
October
“Hey, Brent. Would you like a paper plate for that second slice of pepperoni?”
“Nah, it’s good right here directly on this bench in the visitors’ dressing room where a bunch of sweaty athletes have previously sat. It’s staph-infection-licious.”
November
Brendan Gallagher digs into the YouTube archives to destroy former NHLer Jim Kyte:
@jimkyte please mr.kyte do tell us more about all the honour you played the game with… https://t.co/JMUWy8RIAp
— Brendan Gallagher (@BGALLY17) November 28, 2015
More: November’s Top 10 tweets
December
When the caption improves the photograph:
More: December’s Top 10 tweets
