Justin Bieber is now a Pittsburgh Penguins fan

This might be the best thing ever to happen to the Pittsburgh Penguins, especially if you're the kind of hockey fan who really hates them.

Such as, to pick one example that I promise is totally random, a Philadelphia Flyers fan.

Justin Bieber posted the following photo to his Instagram feed on Wednesday:

Bieber is famously a hockey fan. But the Canada native (London, Ontario to be precise) has a history of changing sides often when it comes to picking his favorite teams. When Bieber showed up to the Air Canada Centre in April for a Capitals-Maple Leafs playoff game, he was seen wearing one of Toronto's famous blue-and-white sweaters. As the Washington Post's Dan Steinberg noted at the time, Bieber has previously been seen wearing Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings gear.

And if you think the Flyers might have been spared this atrocity over the years, alas, they have not been. He donned the orange and black at a Wells Fargo Center concert last year.

The man, it has to be said, is a bandwagoner.

Gasp.

(I realize that I risk having my email inbox and all of my social media feeds obliterated by Bieber's army of loyalists. I can take it. I think. I hope.)

This much is certain: the PR department at NBC is quite pleased that Bieber is paying attention to its most prominent sports property of the moment.

Now, for the heck of it, let's look at some of the replies to that tweet…

Like him or not, he's officially Pittsburgh's problem for the time being. And for the rest of us, that's just fine.