larsnicklas

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sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever

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he is half my soul. as the poets say.

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sasha s.emin girls are william n.ylander girls btw. direct line, do not pass go, do not collect $200. defending william comes naturally to me bc i was doing it with sasha s.emin on yahoo answers in 2011

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something about the way the team you loved in your adolescence will never really leave you and you’ll never really get that same feeling ever again like you DO love teams and players but it’s in a different way. not a worse way but certainly a different one

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i loved sasha s.emin with a fervor that can only really be felt by a teenager with a righteous indignation and defensiveness over how mainstream hockey media spent all their time bemoaning what a waste of talent he was lmao. a lot of being a caps fan during the ovi era has been this, actually. but s.emin in particular was such a polarizing figure. insane offensive instinct, very visible when he wasn’t backchecking (but much better defensively when he wanted to be than he ever would get credit for lmao), once said c.rosby wasn’t anything special and made all of canada really really mad which is so funny to me. i think there’s also an allure to a guy that just like… DID sometimes check out. like i’m sorry but it’s simply impossible to fire on all cylinders as an elite athlete 24/7 and he was like. i’m not going to pretend i am!! and i think there’s something to having unworldly talent and also being perfectly comfortable with operating at 85-90% most of the time. like i do think fans got frustrated with him but NOT me i was like yeah he’s so real and valid actually. say what you want about sasha but he was always honest lmao. honest on the ice and off of it too, where he wasn’t quite as extroverted as, say, ovi. but he was a GREAT quote when he really locked in. had a wicked sense of humor and really spoke with candor when he cared to. anyway there’s not really a point to this except that i do miss him and i do sometimes think of what might have been if things had gone just slightly differently. oh and also: he really did have the best wrist shot of all time like this is not a joke. a s.emin wrister was one of the most beautiful things in hockey and i’m really not joking. sasha s.emin they will never make me hate you

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sasha s.emin is in dc 😭😭😭😭😭 og caps young guns you will never be forgotten by me……

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many fun positive things about hockey fandom growing esp post-2020 when i feel a lot of people got into it but i will say many are missing out on the Classics…….. like the kids these days are NOT doing it like they were back in the early to mid aughts…

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For Nicklas Bäckström, it became extra emotional when he walked over to Ovetchkin's wife Nastya in her box, and the greatness of the moment sank in. – I just hugged her. Then it let go. It was the same as when I saw Ovi here. I was very teary-eyed. It was very special. I've known him for a long time. I've known his family for a long time…, says Bäckström and gets teary-eyed again. You got a kiss from him here, and it was a bit of a beer shower. How has it been here? – Yes, exactly. I'll probably get a kiss on the mouth later tonight too, laughs Bäckström, who was then asked if it would be as wild a celebration as after the Stanley Cup victory in 2018. That celebration became almost even more famous than the victory itself. – Haha, yes, you can come with me to DC and we'll party a little. [Google Translate]

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moment of unspeakable beauty today when one of my coworkers called another coworker "judas" for not splitting a can of white monster with her, and i got to watch the guy who sits next to me open a new google tab, type in "jeudis," and say quietly to himself "french thursday...?"

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btw ovi drunk nicke-posting last night was so affirming to the nicklas girls who were weeping sobbing clutching at their hearts that the 895 primary apple wasn't nicke's

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logically I Know it's an irrational thought to have but it still irritates me to no end when stuff that's super popular gets the exact intended emotional reaction out of me

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when u just moved to moscow and now ur at a party and have no idea what is going on and ur man won’t translate for u and then he gives u a sideways look like YOU’RE the one who’s embarrassing for not clapping

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"amazing. first thing when I saw it, i was like 😟, because chychrun just, was right in front of [sorokin] so, hopefully he didn't touch him, so they didn't call [the goal] back." -NICKLAS BÄCKSTRÖM ON 895

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AS SOON AS I SAW NICKY, I JUST WANT TO CRY (x)

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gifing for the first time all season.... please hold

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can i say something