Something Wrong? #blamesubban

**RGM81** · 09-19-2011, 08:03 AM

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sport...798/story.html

It's with the irreverent hashtag #blamesubban that Montreal's sophomore defenceman is blamed for . everything.
"One guy came into the dressing room last year and said: 'My washing machine is broken. 'Hashtag blamesubban,' " he said, laughing. "I wasn't on Twitter yet, so that might have been the first I heard of it."
(Subban says the first real blamesubban came when he was 6 years old and he and a sister broke a lamp with a ball. It goes without saying who took the fall.) The #blamesubban hashtag is cyber-folklore. Its roots seem to date to last November, six months before Subban had joined Twitter, when then-Flyers captain Mike Richards accused the rookie Canadien of being disrespectful toward veteran players.
Someone hashtagged #blamesubban for something unrelated, and today it's practically a staple of Habs fans on Twitter.
Cammalleri has been on the platform longest of the Canadiens, having first logged on in February 2010.
"It's pretty cool - a way to find pointed information that you know you'll be interested in," he said, almost apologizing that, to him, Twitter sometimes makes newspapers and TV news redundant.

With a team-high 86,000-plus followers, Cammalleri uses no other social media platform, such as Facebook or Myspace. But he enjoys Twitter, starting on it to identify with fans, using it now "as a sociological experiment of sending thoughts out to study the responses" that flood back.
With many of his tweets simultaneously translated into French out of respect for Canadiens fans, Cammalleri follows "what I find interesting, from rather serious to really goofy. I like to mix it up."
Gionta, who joined in May and has the second-fewest tweets on his team to Weber, jokes that Twitter "is not my thing, but I try to help out and give back to the fans. I can find a week or two goes by and I haven't done anything, so I shoot something out there."

I am proud to say that I've had a few of my tweets invoking that very hashtag. It's cool that he takes it all in stride . . . #justPKbeingPK