OKAY SO, let me tell you about Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel! Which, come to think of it, could fit into enemies to lovers, if you squint. But! Some years ago, Connor McDavid was coming up on his draft year, and had a lot of deserved hype coming into it, so some teams tanked to try to get him. Jack Eichel went second in that draft and went to Buffalo, a terrible team that had tanked the most to get McDavid and then didn't get McDavid. There was some it-seems-to-me to have been manufactured rivalry between McDavid and Eichel over who would go first and who would go second in the draft, but anyway, McDavid went to Edmonton (which did the thing it always does and squandered the career of a promising rookie) and Eichel went to Buffalo (where... it seems like he might get a trade from there at some point? IDK I don't follow these things). But these are basically two very very good hockey players whose careers are going nowhere because their teams suck, and there was some great fun with their dynamic in their draft and rookie years.

Also, like... both of them could have signed to other teams after their rookie contracts ran out. But no one does that, because this is hockey and the NHL and all that. The fact that they're both squandering their careers didn't have to happen. Also, I am morally opposed to sports drafts, so there's also that.