If people are doing psychopathic things like Twitter DMing wives of players with threats about their play, or stealing the players shoes from outside their posh condo, I would say lay off that is strange and out of line. Booing at an arena isn't the same as those things.
This entire thing is hysterical. Brady seems like a good-guy and a great leader, but he is young and doesn't have a ton of experience dealing with a market place that has any real pressure. This is the most lax Canadian market next to maybe Winnipeg. This fanbase has endured more BS than any other team over the last decade or so, maybe with the exception of Arizona. Then Brady gets boo-boo faced and accuses the fans of being unwilling to withstand adversity? How absurd is that.
He scolded the same fans who are still hardcore enough to support the team through buying tickets in spite of a decade of Melnyk/Dorion, a rebuild that is going on 7 years, and a team that for the last 3 years failed to meet very soft and reasonable expectations that were sold to the fans.
This isn't Vegas being spoiled with the most absurd and team-friendly expansion draft rules of any pro sports league ever, being handed a contender, and the fans getting upset at the team when they just miss the playoffs for one season. This is Brady shaming hardcore fans for STILL CARING ENOUGH TO BOO after all the BS the team has laid on the fans the last decade.
I get they have a ton of injuries and are battling through a weaker lineup, but that's a micro issue. The boos were more of a macro issue. This isn't one bad game that got those boos. It's multiple years of terrible starts that torpedo the season before it even begins. If Brady sincerely feels the players are giving 100 percent on the ice, then maybe as captain it's time for him to step up and endorse changes else where in the organization.
The fans should probably be shamed, but for the opposite of what Brady said. They should be shamed for being so trusting in an organization that has constantly treated them as dispensable and let them down. So trusting that some of them likely spent hundreds of dollars on a night out, ruined by an awful product on the ice. Some of these are working class people who probably should have known better than to trust this team with their one big night out for the next little while. I don't want to be too hard on Brady, but it's a bad look for the son of a millionaire to criticize what might be one of the most resilient fanbases in the league and accusing them of not being willing to withstand adversity. It makes him look out of touch and soft. Quick, someone ask him how much a banana costs.