Let that picture sink in for a moment. Does it enrage you? It should.

The photo, tweeted by Peter Hassen, shows Justin Bieber, who “played” “music” at the United Center last night, posing with the Stanley Cup inside the Chicago Blackhawks’ dressing room. Evidently, he saw fit to dress for the occasion, sporting a black boy-tank and cut-off sweatpants. I wear this when I’m disgustingly hungover, not when I’m going to see the greatest, most sacred trophy in professional sports. But as Bieber, a Canadian, proved when he met Prime Minister Stephen Harper in November, dressing decently – or at least, not like an extra from a Dexy’s Midnight Runners music video – just isn’t his thing.

And even more troubling, Hassen is not merely a fan – he’s the Senior Director of Market Development and Community Affairs for the Blackhawks.

There’s plenty to criticize the Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs for: being an unreasonable, greedy ringleader in the 2012-13 lockout, after which he made next to no concessions to the fans lining his fat wallet; his backhanded compliment to Cam Neely at the 2011 Stanley Cup parade; some of the most expensive beer prices in the entire league; serving leftover, week-old soft pretzels to the press at Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final – so soggy, I thought they were some sort of asiago cheese deal or something.

JJ would never let this happen. My goodness, Chicago, even the Miami Heat had enough decency to bar Drake from the locker room.

 

 

Meanwhile in Chicago, the NHL players’ union is holding its annual meetings. Or at least, it’s trying to. Bieber’s screaming, pre-pubescent fans have other plans, according to Minnesota Wild forward Zenon Konopka.

 

 

And besides, Bieber is, at least allegedly, a Toronto Maple Leafs fan, according to an interview with radio DJ Mike Missanelli of 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia. “It is a tough team, but you know that I’m not joining a bandwagon,” he said. He even attended the Leafs’ practice in 2011.

So perhaps it makes sense Bieber would celebrate with Chicago, the team that avenged Toronto’s historically crushing defeat at the hands of the Bruins in the first round of this year’s playoffs. After all, it’s not like Toronto has given him any opportunity to rightly hoist the cup during his lifetime, and it’s doubtful they will anytime soon.

On the bright side, at least he knows which end is up.

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