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could you imagine having this thing on your phone in public

could you imagine rocking the full "I love Jan Rutta" white highlight black times new roman kit in real life. dressing your entire family in it

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Ully doing Ully things

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yeah

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Mary Soon Lee, "How to Thank Earth"

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nightmare blunt rotation. hank is there so you don't wanna leave. but biz and gretzky are there so you do wanna leave. and there's two other dudes there too i guess

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Never in doubt lol

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the goalie of generosity and gifts

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"Go time 🔜" —San Jose Sharks/X (2025 Apr 14)

—via San Jose Sharks' IG story (2025 Apr 14)

Henry Thrun:

CCM Super Tacks AS1 shoulder pads

Timothy Liljegren:

Bauer Vapor APX shoulder pads

CCM Tacks AS-V Pro elbow pads, specifically the white model shown in this website listing

Marc-Édouard Vlasic:

Jofa 8800 shoulder pads

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the size difference between mukh and goosh is just unreal

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Jarry???

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the goalie of generosity and gifts

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WSH v NYI (4.15.25)

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How to Go Twelfth- for Valentina Tereshkova x Jessica Campbell

@hockeyblrpoetryclub space edition

(Vitor Munhoz, Steph Chambers, Michael Chisholm)

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Capitals: those ogapey boys are at it again

He's come so far in learning how to celebrate with the boys.

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POINTS AND GRINS. I LEARNED BOUT THIS TWO WEEKS AGO!!

ok anatomy/biology/fluid lesson below

ok so for starters ur heart has 4 chambers - two top chambers that gather blood and two bottom chambers that actually provide the push to get the blood through ur body. the top chambers are called atria (singular atrium, latin for room) and the bottom chambers are called the ventricles. the right-side atrium gathers blood from the entire body except the lungs and feeds it to the right-side ventricle, which pushes the blood into your lungs. the left-side atrium gathers blood from the lungs and feeds it to the left-side ventricle, which pushes th blood into the rest of the body! congrats u now understand how the heart works

now the heart works fantastic like this if you're outside of the womb and breathing air, bc breathing air means ur lungs are nice and big and puffed-up so the blood can get through them easily. but fetuses don't have nice big puffed-up lungs they have crunched-up lungs like a popup tent shoved in a bag, so that when they emrge from the womb all they have to do is scream/cough/cry and the lungs puff up and their blood goes thrugh the lungs nicely. its hard to push blood through crunched-up lungs. SO, the heart has a neat little trick.

it just. keeps a little hole. so it can mostly ignore the lungs. in fetuses, this is great! the fetus right-side atrium feeds some blood into the right-side ventricle and then sends the rest through a little hole in the heart wall to the left-side atrium. sharing is caring! and guess what the hole is called:

the foramen ovale! (latin for hole + oval = oval hole! wow we are so creative)

in most people, this hole gets covered up by a flap of tissue that flops into place right after they're born and puff up their lungs, and then as the baby grows the heart merges that flap into the rest of the wall to completely close the hole, leaving only a little inprint where it used to be, called the fossa ovalis (latin for flattened area + oval. a flattened oval area.). it takes maybe a month or so. but if your heart does a little fucky wucky, sometimes it doesn't close that hole all the way. that's when you get a:

patent foramen ovale! where patent is latin for OPEN.

this varies a lot in severity - some people's foramen ovale doesn't close up at all and remains super open, giving them symptoms like severe fatigue or high heartrate. some people's foramen ovale stays open juuuuuuust the tiniest little sliver. not enough to make you feel it on a day to day basis - clearly, since tanger's been doing NHL hockey for years - but just enough to cause problems.

see, a healthy heart isn't meant to cope with having bonus holes. bloodflow inside the body is very, very smooth, because smooth is much easier on the tissues than rough is. blood inside the body flows like those cool teapot videos where they pour water out of the teapot and it stays in a perfect cylinder stream for like two meters falling through the air. that's good, smooth flow (laminar, for the fluid-dynamically-minded). you really really REALLY don't want bloodflow inside the body to be rough and swirly, because things start to clump up when flow gets swirly - envision leaves in a river getting caught up in the little whirlpools, or those foamy buildups that you see on a beach.

when blood gets swirly and things inside it clump up, you get blood clots. which cause strokes. not fun!!!

anyway, the good news is you can 100% fix a patent foramen ovale with minimally invasive surgery - they'll probably stick a very long skinny tube in his big leg artery (the femoral) and use that to sliiiiiide it on up through the other arteries to get to the left ventricle, then wiggle their way into the left atrium and either put a little plug in the hole or sew it up. both are common ways of addressing congenital heart defects such as this. then the four to six weeks is spent resting to heal the spot where they shoved a tube into his artery and also the spot where they changed his heart a little bit and it needs to heal up and the cells need time to get used to the new stuff around them. after that, barring further complications, he should be good to go!

patent foramen ovale isn't one of the rarer congenital heart defects; people sometimes go their whole lives without knowing they have a heart problem because the human body is really good at compensating for anything it lacks. the in-class example of this was a marathoner who had been running for 3+ decades, started feeling unusually fatigued at the age of like 50, went to his doc and found out he had a hole in his heart. he didn't even know. his heart and lungs just got so good at pumping blood and keeping his oxygen levels up that it had never affected him before. aint biology cool???!!!!

what iiiiii wanna know is when did they realise tanger's got a PFO - post-strokes? did a cardiologist notice something on an MRI? what's his flow patterns looking like? what about his valves? i wanna see his ultrasound dopplers so bad man

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