KURTIS MACDERMID: AN ENFORCER DRIVEN MAD
NEW YORK, NY - In their previous meeting Rempe defied expectations by eschewing MacDermid's challenge to a physical showdown. Instead, he opted for a different kind of confrontation, delivering a punishing blow to Jonas Siegenthaler that left the Devils reeling. MacDermid, consumed by rage, attempted to confront Rempe, only to be thwarted by the intervention of the referees. In a moment of cruel taunting, Rempe waved provocatively at MacDermid, goading him like a puppeteer manipulating his marionette. The sight of Rempe sent him into a frenzy, his obsession reaching fever pitch as he foamed at the mouth in impotent fury.
As the weeks passed and anticipation for the rematch between the Rangers and the Devils grew, MacDermid's fixation on Rempe reached new heights. Rempe was his only shot at relevance for his career that was hanging on by a thread. His wife, in a futile attempt to provide some semblance of normalcy, would make him a morning latte adorned with artistic foam designs. However, MacDermid's mind played cruel tricks on him, as he hallucinated seeing Rempe's face in the foam, leading him to hurl the mug across the room in a fit of blind rage.
His domestic sanctuary became a labyrinth of torment, in the dead of night as he rose to relieve himself, he found himself haunted by the specter of a tall shadowy figure lurking in the darkness—a figure that bore an eerie resemblance to Rempe himself. His TikTok & Instagram feeds became a bizarre menagerie of Rempe-related content, while even the simplest act of watching television became torturous as every image seemed to morph into Rempe's visage.
But it's not just at home where MacDermid's fixation manifests itself. Every time he saw someone on the streets waving to somebody else, he had flashbacks to Rempe taunting him with the wave. Everywhere he turns, he's met with reminders of his nemesis. Whenever he walked by the Empire State Building he was reminded of the Rempe memes, he even hallucinated and saw Rempe climbing the building with airplanes in the grasp of his hand like something out of King Kong. Fans taunt him mercilessly, chanting "REMPE! REMPE!" wherever he goes, MacDermid resorted to wearing one of those novelty disguises with the glasses & nose whenever he had to go in the public eye. Ranger fans snapped a photo of him in disguise and it circulated on social media and only made the humiliation worse. MacDermid became a hermit, the walls were closing in as he refused to leave his house for weeks.
Finally, the long-awaited showdown arrived, and Madison Square Garden crackled with anticipation as the Rangers and the Devils took to the ice. In a climactic battle that seemed destined from the start, Rempe emerged victorious, besting MacDermid in a physical altercation that left the Devils' enforcer battered and bruised.