She also told the world that anyone who had a Coates jersey, T-shirt, hoodie, player’s card, photo, hockey stick, puck, Happy Meal toy or even Cracker Jack sticker, should bring that to the arena and trade it in for anything they wanted. Signed stick of Shea’s? No problem. Signed jersey of Brody’s? Here you go. Game puck signed by Lawson? All yours. Coates was being erased, completely, from reality.

