#“/his/ shooter” hey thanks okie for making me more sad about the whole stevie signing a pto w toronto

[ratatatastic]

"Just the way this guy goes on the ice and he prepares... it is unlike anything that I've ever seen. How he is on his edges—he is so detailed oriented. And Stevie—Stevie Lorentz—got a lot of play because he was shooting on him, he was like his shooter. I would go on, you know, once out of six or seven times, we would do some passing drills and he's always working on the things—if he gives up a goal he then the next day he wants to work on 20 different shots that are similar to the situation on the goal he gave up. This guy is just—he doesn't shut it off. So I think giving him that extra day really helped him reset and realise that he's the main reason why we got to this point." "I thought you were gonna say that you started to shoot and then rung one off his neck, and you weren't allowed back anymore." "No! He wants me to hammer him off his head as hard as I can! He loves it! He just—he screams at guys all practise too! They'll rip one high and he'll go 'Oooouuuuu!' It's unbelievable! He's—" "Just tauntin' 'em?" "Yes!" "You gotta be crazy to be a goalie!"

Spittin' Chiclets | 7.2.24 (x)

more annecdotes about the resident 36 year old rink rat that taunts the team into doinking him in the head with pucks and everyone involved is absolutely baffled but slightly endeared by it, more news at 11

"Funny enough I—like, if street hockey, ministicks, I always wanted to be a goalie too! Like, for some reason I always wanted to go in net. You know, probably because of [my Dad] and then, um, you know, once you get dinged a couple times and the shots get too hard you realise—then it's not so much fun after all so... Yeah, it was great he'd always—" "You probably wanted to be goalie 'cuz you're fucking crazy, man! Those guys are bananas! I actually went as a goalie in morning skate one time when I was suspended in the coast, and it was the scariest thing ever, bro. It's nothing like blocking a shot because you're literally just standing there, and these guys are shooting right at you. It's unbelievable!" "Yeah! You gotta get in the way of the stuff to save it! That's crazy! I know, and like obviously gear is like great and they don't really feel—but there is, like, that psychological thing going on where, like, you know, you wanna move out of the way 'cuz it's gonna hurt! I get—I mean, it must not hurt that much, like, 'cuz Bob's crazy, man! Bob loves taking—Well, I wouldn't say loves taking it off the head, but he doesn't hate it, like he—" "Feels good?" "You know, every once in a while—they hit him in the head and you go up and say sorry he's like, 'No, no! It's all good! I love it, I love it!!' and like, kind-of shoos you away so."

The Buzz Pod | 8.7.24 (x)

so speaking of banking pucks off bobbys head and how much he loves it flashback to that day in october of 23 where bobby was doing that for practise and managed to rope in matthew to the shenanigans to the utter confusion of everyone involved (x)(x)(x)(x)