Do fans really know if a hockey player has a reputation of being “a ladies man”?
I don’t know anything about hockey (or most sports), but would a fan like David really know that Ilya had a lot of female partners? And I’m wondering how a sports fan (who reads the New Yorker and doesn’t even know what YouTube is) learn about such a thing? Are sports broadcasters mentioning that so and so has a reputation for being a player or whatever? Genuinely curious if this is poetic license or if David having heard such stories is plausible. Thanks in advance for your input.