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I'm not surprised, but somehow I'm still disappointed.

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I love Datsyuk so much. And I'm always kinda shocked when no one is like "Yeah he's my favorite player" but EVERYONE has heard of him and everyone has tried to emulate him.

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So like idk if anyone who still follows me will care but if it's something you'd appreciate still, let me know somehow. I never stopped posting about K*ne, but I did use a trigger warning tag so people didn't have to see it. It started around the SA allegations and I've never hid my personal unpopular opinion about that, but out of respect for mutuals who were affected by it, I tagged everything "pkane tw".

I can still do that if it's something anyone appreciates. Bc he's on a team that I root for now. And I never fully stopped posting about him. And his unexpected bromance with Tarasenko gives me so much life and I love it.

I'll likely continue out of habit, but I do plan on slowly just tagging him as his name again like I do for most others.

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re: not calling tarasenko vladdy, one of his nicknames is vova!! i think it was more when he was on the blues but it’s what i call him because there is also only one vladdy in my heart

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Vova ties it up! | DET vs NSH | Oct. 19, 2024

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Bench Moment - Wings @ Predators - Oct. 19, 2024

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lakings: À bientôt, Québec 🛫

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lakings: GKGs per 60 📈📈

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Christopher, your hand.

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Honestly, it's shitty Wings fans that kinda pushed me away from the fandom and focus more on the Kings. I LIVE in Michigan. I live by an ECHL team and an hour away from the Griffins and by a pretty decent at times college hockey team, so I am SURROUNDED by hockey people, most of whom are Wings fans. Met some really stupid fans in my lifetime, but no one so fucking brain dead they'd say Feds is overrated.

When Mlive used to allow comments it was a goddamn cesspool.

Yes, I am big mad over this. This douchebag probably lives in Michigan. Yikes.

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If you're a Wings fan and you genuinely think that Sergei Fedorov is overrated, 1.) I hope you're not actually living in my state, we already have enough fucking idiots voting and storming the governor and generally being a nuisance, don't need more. 2.) Go fuck yourself and watch the Lions or something. 3.) You're wrong. Bye.

Feds is my favorite Red Wing of all time. Yes. Over Steve Yzerman. Yes. Over Nick Lidstrom. Dats and Z are tied for second but I grew up in the 90s watching Fedorov. He was my first hockey crush at like 8 years old 🤣🤣. I'd pick him over 99. He could literally play any position and play it well. He was so fun to watch on ice. Like if we're talking realistically all time greats, obviously Gordie Howe is the best Wing of all time and one of the best NHL players in general of all time. Duh. But to say Fedorov is overrated? You're out of your fucking mind lmao. Garbage Wings fan, what a fucking joke.

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Any time I watch or read a redraft of the 2005 draft and someone puts Price at two and Kopi at three I KNOW you live on the EC and don't stay up until 1 AM like me to watch hockey out west. In no world, no parallel universe is Price going over Kopi. Someone can still be overrated while also being extremely good and that is literally Price for me. I'd take Quickie over him, any day. I'm also biased too, but you can win a SC with an average goalie. You won't do nearly as well without a franchise centerman. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙃

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Okay, so this is actually something that has always fucking bugged me about both the Wings and the Kings and it's truly the most frustrating thing to me, but also I know this is an unpopular opinion as a fan of both teams.

It really grinds my gears how both teams are sooooooo determined that everyone has to be a two-way player. Like. I love a good d as much as every other sloppy bitch around. Defense wins Cups, looking at you C*nada teams.

But if the player's skill set is offensive, why do teams demand they do both, even when they're not fucking good at it. Look, they should learn to clean up their game, yes. But I don't want K*ne on my team to watch him backcheck.

Like cab Fiala take less dumbshit penalties? Uh, duhhhh. But he's no Kopi or Dunno. He scores goals. Just let him score goals. Like idk. Biggest annoyance was watching Detroit do whatever the fuck it was with Mantha.

I fucking love him. I hope he does well everywhere he goes. But Detroit really put his balls in a vise grip when it came to him having to focus on defense first. You got a kid who scored like 60 something fucking goals in juniors and then you demand he play defensive hockey and also wonder why he's not scoring.

So honestly. I fucking HATE that both Tarasenko and K*ner mention defense when talking about Detroit. Frankly, this shouldn't be why you sign players like them. Like can they clean up their game? Sure. Tarasenko is slightly different, he's a bigger body and he's played on the PK before.

But like Coach Q understood what he had with K*ne. He is a hardass defense first coach, but he understood that PK is wasted on the PK. Defense is not where his skill lies and it's not something you want him to have to focus on, it's a waste of his hands.

I'm not saying that they should just ignore defense. I'm just saying that there's nuance.

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Helene St. James asks the most painful questions. Like I'm watching the Vladi interview from when he first signed and she was the first to talk and like jfc. She's always insufferable, tbf, but she's just truly the fucking worst.

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As much as I was expecting a Vladi jersey number change, it just reminds me of how much Detroit sucks for not fucking retiring Feds' number yet. Like jfc, just hang his number from the fucking rafters already. The fact that they're just being petty little shits while also having the stone cold audacity to name an arena the Pizza Pizza arena is mind-boggling.

I still don't know how I feel lol. If you've followed me for a while, then you know that David Backes and Vladimir Tarasenko are my two favorite (former) Blues players, w/ Oshie as third. So like on one hand, NICE. On the other hand, it's weird lol.

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Okay I went down a rabbit hole and I was right, guess K*ne helped sell Detroit to Tarasenko and I just find that so funny for some reason.

Like the fact that they just became besties is hilarious and also kind of sad? Like they both go to the Rangers, right? And everyone knows K*ne and Panarin were close and had a ton of chemistry together. But Tarasenko also loves the shit out of some Bread lbr, he wanted STL to sign him. So I'm expecting that they get to NYR and basically have like 50-50 custody over Panarin and instead they become besties and room together and sit on the plane together and talk about how much they're bros now and it's just something that was not ever on my bingo card.

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Jfc Kempe's head shot is I N T E N S E this season. Anyway, I'm rooting so fucking hard for Turcotte this season, I want this boy to break out. And obviously I'm on the "Byfield keeps getting better and better" train.

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Anze Kopitar Wants To Be The Middle Pancake 🥞