On opening day of the 2026-27 season, the NHL dropped seven short audio dramas on Spotify featuring the names and likenesses of six real players, including Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel, framed like bite-sized romance audiobooks. Less than a week later, the league quietly pulled all seven episodes. The whiplash rollout has become a flashpoint for a bigger question dogging the league all season: can it actually turn a surge of romance readers in…
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