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Nicklas Bäckström & the Washington Capitals (+ nickeovi) ― Remember, Christina Rossetti |insp.; per @lafragolina’s tags

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for @gordiemeow <3

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the creation of adam // the creation of duo

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19 & 91 / eurydice: a play - sarah ruhl

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the creation of adam // the creation of duo

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HI i was wondering where the quote in your blog title comes from!

hello! it’s from an interview alexander semin gave a couple years ago! one of the questions he was asked was about which hockey players he still keeps in touch with from his nhl days, and his answer to most of them was alex ovechkin, which then led to him saying “he is my greatest friend.” :-)

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Babe, are you lost. Please look up sportsmanship in the dictionary then come back to me.

Can 100% guarantee this isn't even from a Panthers fan, but simply someone who felt like being on the bandwagon and will go back to forgetting they exist after the playoffs.

Please this is laughable and embarrassing for you 😔

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reblog and put in the tags the story/origins behind your ursername

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“when I think about the feeling of being free, that was the closest I think I’ve been to it so far.”

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Hockeyblr Directory Google Form

Hello all! @jakeguentzels mentioned making a hockeyblr directory so that it'd be easier for everyone to find other blogs who like the same teams. So, I will be undertaking this task, and if you could please fill out this google form if you'd like to be added.

This questionnaire consists of two questions: (1) your user name and (2) your favorite teams.

Please, answer and reblog so that as many people in hockeyblr can fill it out.

If you have any questions, please send me an ask or a message, and I'll help in any way I can.

Here is the link to the google form

The directory will be made within the coming two weeks.

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Let me guess your “type” when it comes to hockey players; show your answer either in the replies or tags!

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1. It seemed that they were born to meet

The Petrov line—Valeri Kharlamov, Vladimir Petrov, and Boris Mikhailov—played on the world stage throughout the 1970s, and pretty much crushed it.

In World Championships alone, their line scored the most points in the tournament in:

1969

1973

1974

1975

1977

and 1979.

1973 was the year that they scored 86 points, which still stands as the record for a single line. If you want to know how close anyone is to passing it, the second most points by any line is only 56—them again, in 1977.

Their total works out to about 5 points per game on the national team in the World Championships. During the regular season, all three of them played for CSKA Moscow in the Soviet League, where each member of the line brought in about 1.2 points a game (the top scorer of the group was worth a bit under a goal per game). In recorded international play they scored 539 total goals (plus an incalculable number in exhibition games and discontinued tournaments). In the Soviet League, they scored 1086.

Now, the wildest statistic might be this: they did that over thirteen years together.

Most lines are lucky to last a year or three.

Their records are unbeatable now because World Championship goaltending has probably gotten better, but also because the way the game is not just played, but made, has changed. For better or for worse, I don’t think we’ll see three athletes who know each other so well again.

In the ‘80s the Soviet style would come to be exemplified by the mechanical precision of the Green Unit forwards, who besides being the same size were all equally skilled skaters and all shot in the same direction, so they could pull into tight formations and any player could pass or reposition seemingly interchangeably. Kharlamov, Petrov, and Mikhailov were not like that. Each was the very best version of a very different physical style.

(And, in Kharlamov's case, fashion style).

As their teammate Tretiak put it, “It is very difficult to talk about [them] separately—and, perhaps, wrong.”

“It seemed,” he felt, “that they were born to meet.”

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inspired by this post

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what planet are you truly from?