Ryan found a seat in the back row and tried to swallow his anger. It was like Harvey had never existed. He’d given everything he had to hockey, and when there was nothing left, hockey had abandoned him. He didn’t even seem to have many friends or family here, and maybe that was what happened when you were a miserable addict everyone feared.
Yeah this I vibe with - we know that Ryan is replacable because he's traded every year and has never really stuck anywhere for super long. This is kind of the payoff and he realizes that because he's not "famous" for hockey that he's just a product who will be abandoned by everybody else once he outlives his usefulness - this was basically the entire point of the scene with his new coach at the beginning of the book.
