boo, i am 15 minutes into the podcast and it’s just been revealed that we are not hearing from the mclean ex-wife who he was married to in 94
now i vaguely remember reading this story about this woman some years ago. i feel bad for her but def feel clickbaited a second time.
edit: wait, now the 94 ex-wife is speaking. ok let’s see where this is going…
So I just listened too and... the whole thing is kind of set up on a straw man? The opening both made it sound like McLean's second wife was married to him at the time (which makes no sense to those of us who were around), and also spins a tale of contrast between 1993-94 and 1994-95 that has no basis in reality (only to deconstruct it later... but it's not deconstructing something that anyone ever believed).
McLean's real dropoff was in 1995-96, not the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season (and it was during 1996 that the rumors first took hold because he actually was divorcing his first wife). The team had an almost identical winning percentage in the two seasons being compared – nobody ever had an idea that "they were amazing in 1994, but horrible in 1995". If anything, the 93-94 season was a huge dropoff from 1992-93. Hell, even their narrative of Game 7 of the Cup Final was made up (making it sound like the Rangers broke a 2-2 tie to win).
They sheepishly come around to admitting that this comparison is false later... with McLean even misremembering that they made it to the 3rd round again (but it was the 2nd). In other words, the podcast was making up a pretty weird narrative to spin out of nothing.
On that topic, I've never heard
anyone suggest that McLean's
second wife was involved (how does that make any sense?!) So I both feel bad for this woman who has been plagued by it, but am also confused what space-time continuum people are living in... I assume It must arise with people who have no recollection of the actual time period. But that said,
all she would have to say is "Kirk and I got married in 1997, you must be mistaken."