Explainer | #FartGate: Why the hockey world was talking about farts after the Canucks-Lightning game

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FartGate explainer: Why the hockey world was talking about farts after the Canucks-Lightning game

It’s often the first question that a friend or partner — or if you’re in a really stinky situation, perhaps even a stranger — will ask when the all-too-familiar sound or smell of “passing gas” abruptly interrupts a conversation or a calming moment of silence. Guilty or not , the deflection of blame begins.

It was a moment between Sportsnet broadcast partners John Shorthouse and John Garrett during Wednesday night’s game between the Vancouver Canucks and Tampa Bay Lightning that had the internet investigating. During a very ordinary play, Canucks defencemen Quinn Hughes went to retrieve the puck from his defensive zone when an audible “A moment of silence, and then: “Was that you?” Shorthouse pointedly asks Garrett.

 

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