Wheels' penchant for oddball sports jerseys is a Homage to <<Le chandail du hockey>>.
Roch Carrier's story is very well known in Canada and while a full-on B Plot would likely have been looked at as plagiarism rather than a Shout-Out back in The '80s, something more subtle... Glen Simpson died of AIDS sometime between 1992 and 2001.
This explains why Snake's never mentioned or contacted him in The Next Generation.- Alternately, he committed suicide and Simpson will talk about this with the Baker twins.
