#HI NEWSIES TAG IT'S 2024

[psych0t1c-bread]

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♡ Intro:

♡ Total time taken: 33 hours and 25 mins!

(Tumblr killed the quality of this 💀)

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♡ Hi!!! Welcome to my page!

♡ You can call me Emzy or Psychee, either one. I go by he/she/they.

♡ I am a majority Undertale AU poster (but i will reblog literally anything I want, so I do have tags to weed through things) and have a few of my own AU's that I have yet to flesh out fully, so stay tuned for that!!

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♡About me:

♡ Creator of 'The Outcasts' on Wattpad (go give it a read!! /nf)

♡ Bisexual(?), aceflux (maybe demiromantic+sexual? Idk)

♡ Christian (not the bad kind don't worry 🙏)

♡ ISFP-T

♡ I don't feel comfortable putting my direct age out here, but I am older than a minor!

♡ Delta Sans enthusiast 🧡 (I have been hyperfixated on him for 5+ years)

♡ Neurodivergent + disabled (ADHD, PTSD, FND; feel free to ask questions about any of these!!)

♡ Came to Tumblr on 03/19/2024

♡ Anyone can PM/DM me at any time for any reason!! Vents are welcomed!! (If you vent, make sure to go to the 'send a message option' and not any of the other ones.) However, I am not the fastest at replies, so it might take me a while to read and respond to your message.

♡ Feel free to tag me in anything!!

♡ If you threaten me, I will threaten you back. Please do not try me. I have no shame

♡ Tetrachromat

♡ Please do not ship my characters unless I have specifically stated that they are either dating or that I am ok with those certain characters being shipped in general. None of my child OC's (anyone under 13) are allowed to be shipped unless I have stated clearly in the book that the kids have crushes on each other, or until they are aged up in the future books. DO NOT ship my adult characters with anyone under 20

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♡ My shayla, my bestie, my dearest beloved ✨️ : @0ceansatlas

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♡ Fandoms:

♡ Undertale + AU's

♡ Musicals (Hamilton, Newsies, EPIC)

♡ Music

♡ FNAF

♡ Gacha

♡ Sanders Sides

♡ Star Wars (specifically Mandalorian)

♡ Creatives (writing, art, singing)

♡ ROTTMNT

♡ PJO + HOO

♡ Steven Universe

♡ Gravity Falls

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♡ My other socials:

♡ Wattpad and AO3: Psych0t1c_Bread

♡ TikTok: psyc0t1c_bread

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♡ Rules for donating:

♡ Please don't send the same ask twice in one day

♡ My account is currently frozen due to lack of money, so I will support and post your asks/GFM's but will not be able to donate

♡ Please don't pressure me to donate, I am literally broke

♡ Please be respectful in my ask box

♡ I have learned how to call out scammers, so if you try to scam me, I'm putting you on blast

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♡ My tags are:

#(Emzy/Psychee)'s Art - for my art

#(Emzy/Psychee)'s Drabbles - for my writing WIPS

#(Emzy/Psychee)'s Writing - for any finished writings that I post here

#Outcasts - for anything relating to my book

#Delta - for anything to do with him

#Character Rants - for info on characters

#Trauma Rants - for any vents/rants I do

#(Emzy/Psychee)'s Posts - for my posts

#(Emzy/Psychee)'s Asks - for my answered asks

#Headcanons - for any character headcanon

#Outcast Angst - for anything traumatizing that I post abt relating to the Outcasts, including whump and angst

#Writing/Art Tips/prompts - for any tips or prompts relating to writing and/or art

#🍉 - for anything about/relating to Palestine

#Donations - for finding people to donate to

#(Emzy/Psychee)'s tags/comments - for anything I tag or comment on that's random

#Scams - for anything that someone tells me is a scam (I will be making a list of the scams that I've been told about so no one gets confused!)

♡ Anything un-tagged is a reblog or a like!

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♡ List of current scams that I've reblogged or posted on accident (as in I didn't know it was a scam before I posted/reblogged it):

♡ devotedlyclassycollector

♡ foggyruinspost

♡ tremendouskidcoffee

♡ casualmusicbird/Bitita Nyaata

♡ bettermentgiver

♡ scentedsublimenightmare

♡ deepestheartcreator

♡ freebelieverobservation

♡ happydefendorhologram

♡ furiouslystarmark

♡ choppedstrawberryglitter

♡ lovelytoolgladiator

♡ gloriousdestinycollector

♡ furiousinternetenemy

♡ gaziianaliifatmaah

♡ sopostreview

♡ omahe

♡ yusufzalka

♡ luciamkir

♡ janet cheptoo

♡ friedgardenlady

♡ shinytastemakerphantom

♡ reallyuniquedaze

♡ weepingyouthpenguin

♡ nishverian

♡ choppedreviewsong

♡ ssmwita/sssmwita

♡ feargod1987

♡ pinksuitcate/Lavine Akoth

♡ magicalbluebirdkitty

♡ myavenuesheep

♡ What I've noticed is that these scammers have a pattern of having 3 specific types of words put together, some examples of word types being adjectives, descriptor words, places, emotions, actions, or animals.

♡ If there are any more scams that I've accidentally reblogged, please let me know! I've been trying to check on the accounts that I post about, but clearly the methods I've been using to check aren't working, so I'll try my best to do better.

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♡ DNI:

Pro-isreal, pedos, proship, TERFs, bigots, racists, narcissists, scammers, Trump supporters, etc.

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♡ Ok, that's all! Thank you!

[ao3feed-newsies]

(I Know) We'll Be Fine

by, Nyx_thedragon by Nyx_thedragon Jack drops Morris’s hat at some point, and continues running, bringing himself through newsies square, right past the Horace Greeley statue. He can’t hear the Delanceys behind him anymore, and turns to check how far behind they are. He can’t see them past the crowd of newsboys watching him. As he’s turning back around to look where he’s going, Jack slams into someone -- a boy, looking to be around his age, maybe a year younger. The boy is wearing a blue striped button-up shirt under a brown vest, brown pants, and a matching brown newsboy cap. His hair sticks out from underneath just enough that Jack can see that it’s curly, and his eyes, when Jack finally looks at them, are strikingly blue. The boy Jack’d run into stares at him, rightfully annoyed. “What do you think you’re doing?” There’s some shouting of Jack’s name behind the boy, and when Jack looks, he sees the Delanceys trying to push through the crowd of newsies, who’re trying to keep them back. He looks back at the boy, and smiles easily. “Runnin’!” ~~~~~~~~~~ My attempt at a 1992 Newsies rewrite. The main plot is the same. (Title from the song "We'll Be Fine" by Jorge Rivera-Herrans) Words: 4520, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Newsies (1992) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen, M/M, Multi Characters: David Jacobs, Jack Kelly (Newsies), Sarah Jacobs (Newsies), Les Jacobs, Spot Conlon, Racetrack Higgins, Bryan Denton, The Newsies (Newsies) Relationships: David Jacobs/Jack Kelly, David Jacobs & Jack Kelly, Jack Kelly & The Newsies, David Jacobs & The Newsies, Crutchie & Jack Kelly (Newsies), Racetrack Higgins & Jack Kelly, David Jacobs & Mush Meyers, Spot Conlon & Jack Kelly Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, mostly - Freeform, Canon-Typical Violence, Non-Graphic Violence, Fluff, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Background Relationships, Minor Spot Conlon/Racetrack Higgins, Minor Kid Blink/Mush Meyers, they're not the focus but they're implied, Rated T for swearing, Jewish Jacobs Family (Newsies), it's mentioned once and doesn't affect the plot but it's important to me that you know, references to the Hard Promises script, just one detail tbh, Based on Newsies (1992), Rewrite, Canon Rewrite, no beta we die like snyder should have read : https://ift.tt/coz1gZb - December 19, 2024 at 10:21PM

[newsiesminibang24]

Artist Sign Up Deadline Extended to January 31st!

Hi! We have 12 artists signed up for the bang, which is enough to continue, however, the more the merrier! I have extended the deadline to the end of January in hopes of having more artists sign up.

Tag your artist friends! Reblog! Spread the word!

Important Info:

Fill out this Google Form to officially sign up for the bang as an Artist

You will need a VALID email address (used for check-ins, pairing, etc). A copy of your responses will also be sent to this email for your records

You can sign up as an artist if you are already signed up as an author as well!

NO AI GENERATED ART OF ANY KIND WILL BE ALLOWED

This form will stop collecting responses on February 1st. That means January 31st is the final day to sign up for the bang as an Artist.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop an ask!

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[clevereverest]

Lovely List of My Written Works (Part 2)

Edited when new fics are published • Part 1 of List

Search “#clevereverest fic promos” for summaries and tags!

— First person listed in the relationships tags is the story’s POV unless otherwise specified

My AO3 Dashboard

Make It An Occasion - Spot/Race, Spot & Everyone • 1,999 words

It's Spot's 22nd birthday! As the party planner and an awesome boyfriend, Race knew exactly what to do.

(Even Good) Luck Has Limits - Race/Albert/Spot, all POVs • 12,833 words • 2/2 CH

Race is an artifact hunter, insatiably drawn to the more dangerous points in life. What—or who—he finds along the way is left up to chance, but his good fortune only extends so far.

[ Newsies Fic Exchange 2024-25 // Part 2/2 of “Finite” Series ]

Call It Intuition - Albert/JoJo • 3,145 words

Albert has been sneaking into another kingdom's palace for a few months when he finally runs into one of the servants. Oddly enough, trust comes easy for them.

[jack-kellys]

hi i’m rizz!

❕NEW: tortured artist jack fic!!! ❕also FIC EXCHANGE IS LIVE!

couple things about me if you’re new here:

primarily a newsies blog, all other theater content is under #musicals normally

am mixed!! white/black

22 year old blogger, little nsfw content. will not follow minors if a blog indicates they are one

twitter is timdrakes_ mostly for art reposts

ao3 is, naturally, rizzjackkellys, my full government name

navigation:

#rizz.analysis: my down to business newsies intellectual tag, home to all of my rather extensive newsies uk posts specifically (and other posts ofc)

#fizz writes: exactly what it sounds like! and without tumblr scrambling any of my ao3 direct links >:)

#fizz draws: i do exactly that also pretty regularly

#writing game: i do a LOT of snippet and au idea asks and they're all stored here! this is the secret #fizz writes.

#fizz freaks: i talk a lot

current:

‼️ASSIGNMENTS are live for the Newsies Fic Exchange 2024-2025, which i am running right now!!!! fics are due January 24th!!!‼️

painting over mirrors: a short fic about jack kelly the artist, and the ghost of creation that haunts him. davey pov. read here.

[logansdogmotif]

welcome to my blog!!

hi! i'm logansdogmotif (my real true birthname i promise you) and i'm 16 and from the uk!

my ao3 ☆

my letterboxd ☆

under the cut is my main fandom list, sideblogs, and blog navigation - soon there will also be masterlists for my aus! if you're feeling really cute and cunty you can commission me to write you a fanfiction or draw you some fanart from any of the fandoms below (dm me i'll tell you what i'm comfortable with on a case by case basis!)

MAIN FANDOM LIST

skulduggery pleasant

x-men (specifically cherik + wolverine)

interview with the vampire

lord of the rings/the hobbit

yellowjackets

a song of ice and fire

succession

buffy: the vampire slayer

9-1-1

newsies

spring awakening

rent

if we were villains

it

rivals (tv 2024)

SIDEBLOGS

reblog archives: @wolverinestitties

the ancient old crusty dead blog that was my whole childhood and i couldn’t bear to delete: @saracenruedoesntknowthings

photography and pretension: @likevaloursminion

dinosaurs and such: @journeytotheisland

BLOG NAVIGATION

i won't put tags on anything that isn't initially mine so if you wanna find any of my original yapping or art or fanfiction or something it'll be tagged with 'loganyaps' and if you wanna find art i've done just filter 'art' and etc. <3

[maribatserver]

Tag Team Tournament 2024 - Special Acknowledgements

This year saw a lot of great submissions and great players, and as we love to honor creativity here we have a few special awards to share!

First, we'd like to take a moment to honor our artists, few and far between as they often are:

Both @velveteenshadow and @tree-reads created art for this year's Tournament, and we hope that you'll take the time to check it out.

As usually happens over the course of our Tournament, your creativity takes you in exciting new directions, and we love to see it.

We added a special new bonus for collaborative works to encourage people to work together this year, and @velveteenshadow and nory_gail took us up on that by co-writing multiple bullet fics for the Tournament. Hopefully next year we'll see more creators working together and inspiring each other, because it sounds like they had fun with this.

This year was also the first year that we decided to start accepting chapter updates to existing works, since those are just as exciting to see as new fics.

Many thanks to @olivia-anderson-fanfic for clawing his way out of fandom retirement to update some of his Maribat WIPs in the name of participating in our tournament again. We were delighted to see you back!

Another new facet to this year's tournament came in the form of our Team Playlists, which @newdog14 created to try and inspire you all. To her glee, she succeeded with at least one player.

Thank you @tree-reads for using the Art Couple playlist as inspiration for fics, you made Newsie squeal smugly (which we didn't know you could do) and she is never going to shut up about this.

It wouldn't be the Tag Team Tournament without prompt stacks, though this year only one work took on the challenge of using them all.

A round of applause for @velveteenshadow and Nory_Gail for using all of our prompts in one submission. Bravo!

Last but not least, a thank you to the unsung heroes of several teams, whose dedication ensured their team wouldn't end up in last place.

With the Tag Team Tournament over, our Team Playlists will remain public for all those who enjoyed them. They may also grow, now that there's nothing to say it's unfair if one has more songs than another. Thank you to everyone who listened to them, and we hope that you'll continue listening so that you might be inspired another day.

With our special awards accounted for, we'll move on to what we know you've all been waiting for with baited breath: The Tournament Top Dogs.

[ablatheringblatherskite]

IMPORTANT:

This is a family friendly/PG/mostly SFW (mostly because I occasionally reblog stuff with violence/gore, swearing, and intense whump lol) blog, so please keep that in mind when interacting! Any NSFW interactions will be blocked.

I am also an unashamed Christian!

Things to know about me:

FIRST THINGS FIRST, I am a proud member of the Rogue Squadron, so jot that down >:)))

(basically, we like to spam our friends for fun. so you might see me spamming the replies and even reblogging several posts in a row)

Second, I write fanfics :))) I have fics for Hamilton, Star Wars, ATLA, Marvel, Wednesday, the Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, and One Piece. Drop by if you want to HERE!

Genres I write: Fluff, friendship, healing, hurt/comfort, whump, angst, romance

and here's my YouTube where I post my edits!

And my Artfight account HERE!

I also have RP BLOGS!

@vicomte-raoul-de-chagny

@comte-philippe-de-chagny

Here's things I enjoy:

Writing, Musicals, Books, good wholesome comedy, chocolate, pretty gifsets, editing videos, etc.!

Things I'm posting a lot about ATM:

One Piece, The Phantom of the Opera, Epic: The Musical, musicals in general, Star Wars, writing related stuff, random stuff I find funny, and Christian things.

And Things I like!:

The Phantom of the Opera, Epic: The Musical, One Piece, HTTYD (including all the series and the third movie), Spider-Man (personal fave are the TASM and Spiderverse movies), The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars (excluding sequel trilogy sorry), Avatar: The Last Airbender, Daredevil, Les Misérables, Batfam (Wayne Family Adventures!), Wednesday, the Addams Family, His Dark Materials (the show), Manifest, My Adventures with Superman, Over The Garden Wall, NBC'S Timeless, Wings of Fire, The Hobbit, Artemis Fowl, Ducktales (2017), Hamilton, Newsies, Anastasia, Lego: Ninjago, TMNT (2012), Harry Potter, Studio C, Jk! Studios, their Freelancers series, and more that I cannot remember right now!

Where I am considering some of these fandoms:

I am a Hadley!Raoul, Book!Raoul—and Raoul de Chagny in general—defender, and a Raoulstine shipper (BUT I love the Phantom/Erik and do not dislike him by any means 🥺), and I don't really like Love Never Dies much. I'm a Tyler Galpin apologist but NOT an Xavier Thorpe hater. I also love the Star Wars original trilogy and the prequel trilogy, but not really the sequels. I don't hate the third HTTYD movie and I love all the HTTYD series. My favorite Spider-Man movies are the TASM ones, and Andrew Garfield is my fav Spider-Man/Peter Parker. Yes I love both Narnia and His Dark Materials.

Ships I love:

Hiccstrid (HTTYD), Raoulstine (Phantom of the Opera), Odypen (Epic the Musical), Zekaela (Manifest), Silverparry (His Dark Materials), Wyler/Weyler (Wednesday), Petroclair (Wednesday), Clois (My Adventures With Superman), Peter and Gwen (TASM), Jaya (Ninjago), Lyatt (Timeless), Gomez and Morticia (The Addams Family)

Blorbos:

Raoul de Chagny, Roronoa Zoro, Sanji, Telemachus of Ithaca, Peter Parker, Matt Murdock, Tyler Galpin

YouTubers I watch:

Andrew Burriss, DanTDM, The Merrell Twins, Aaron Burriss, Moriah Elizabeth, and Sam Tabor

Some other people I'm a fan of:

Hadley Fraser, Ramin Karimloo, Andrew Garfield, Charlie Cox, The entire cast of Jk! Studios (aka the OG Studio C cast), David Tennant, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy Jordan

Fic Masterposts

Phantom of the Opera

Hamilton: An American Musical

Star Wars

Wednesday

Chrumblr Whumblr 2024

Whumpuary 2025

More lists to come!

Here's some fics I have in progress!

MY DEAR NUTCRACKER (Phantom of the Opera)

WOE IS WE (Wednesday)

My sideblogs:

@vicomte-raoul-de-chagny (Raoul de Chagny RP blog)

@comte-philippe-de-chagny (Philippe de Chagny RP blog)

@whumpsandwhimpers (Whump blog)

@bookworms-and-bluestockings (Book blog with friends)

@the-other-roronoa (One Piece OC RP blog)

POTO RP BLOGS MASTERLIST HERE!

(rogue squadron banner by @mrgartist! and Raoul de Chagny defense squad GIFs made by @faded-florals!!)

Personal tags: #asterrisks, #longer asterrisks, #favorite asterrisks, #asterrisks in the tagses, #my writings, #aster's writing journey, #my editses, aster's art, #aster's inbox, #was tagged, #by my friend, #my photography!

Other tags: #I like the funnies, #me, #astercore, #note to aster, #note to little aster

#writer problems, #that writer's life, #writing/literature, #writing references, #writing prompts, #fanfic writing references, #fanfic prompts,

#whump writing, #whump writing references, whump, whump art, whump prompts, whump writings/whump stories

#for future reference, #adulting, #parenting, #children, #important, #awareness, #educational

#i need to add this to my commonplace book, #to watch, #video posts, #audio posts

#fic recs, #to read, #tumblr writings (original stories), #tumblr fics (fanfics on Tumblr), #tumblr stories (real life stories), #comics

#classic Tumblr, #wholesome, #little wonders, #ow my hubris, #SORRY SIMPING HOURS

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[our-future-is-up-to-us-2]

About Me

About time for this...

Hi everyone!! 

Call me Ava! I use she/her pronouns.

Non-Musical Fandoms (in no particular order...)

- Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts (books and movies) 

- His Dark Materials (books and TV series) 

- The Vampire Diaries (TV series)  

- The Big Bang Theory (TV series)

- The Witcher (TV series) 

- Monument Valley (Video game series)

- BBC Sherlock (TV series)

- Detroit: Become Human (Video game)

- The Queen’s Gambit (TV series)

- The Stanley Parable (Video game)

- BBC Ghosts (TV series)

- The Last Of Us (TV series)

- Les Misérables (2012 movie and musical)

- Narcos/Narcos Mexico (TV series)

- Good Omens (book, TV series, musical)

- Deadwater Fell (TV series)

- Before Your Eyes (Video game)

- Ted Lasso (TV series)

- The Day Of The Jackal (TV series)

- Ripley (2024) (TV series)

- Squid Game (TV series)

- Peaky Blinders (TV series)

Musical Fandoms (in no particular order...) 

- Hamilton 

- Heathers 

- Be More Chill 

- 35MM 

- Newsies 

- Waitress 

- A Chorus Line (2006) 

- Falsettos

- Little Shop Of Horrors 

- An American In Paris 

- Once 

- Lempicka

- Les Misérables

- Jekyll And Hyde

- Anything Goes

Writing: 

AO3 is linked here

RP blog is linked here

Planning to post certain works/writings here on Tumblr!! Eventually, you can search for my writing under the tag, ‘ava writes’! 

Thank you for checking out my Tumblr!! :D 

[amtushinfosolutionspage]

DGB Grab Bag: Kessel’s Hot Dog Hockey Card, Shootouts, and a Puck to the Dome

Three stars of comedy

The third star: Joe Thornton and Brent Burns – When they’re not challenging WWE tag teams, they’re mastering the weirdly specific sub-genre of commercials that involved them just randomly yelling at people.

The second star: Jonathan Ericsson – Just be a nice guy and toss a puck to a fan, what’s the worst that could happen?

(Via r/hockey.)

The first star: Phil Kessel’s hockey card – It was tempting to give this week’s obligatory Phil Kessel spot to this or maybe this, but instead we’ll go with his new hockey card featuring his day with the Cup. Yes, that one:

At some point, we’re going to have to disqualify Kessel from future appearances in the three stars. That moment is currently scheduled for one day after I write my last column. Besides, he had to be first star because everyone in his family is winning stuff this week. Hey, speaking of which…

Debating the Issues

This week’s debate: Wednesday’s women’s gold medal game between Team Canada and Team USA was an all-time classic. But should Olympic gold medal games end with shootouts?

In favor: No, of course not.

Opposed: No, of course not.

The final verdict: No, of course not.

The NHL Actually Got Something Right

The NHL does not award the Stanley Cup based on the results of a shootout.

Trivial Annoyance of the Week

The women’s gold medal game ended in a freaking shootout.

OK, I think the point has been made. But we all agree on this, right?

Actually, it seems like we do. In the moments before and after Wednesday’s shootout, the reaction was pretty close to unanimous. Just about everyone was dreading the way that game ended. American media. Canadian media. Analytics guys. Legendary American players. Canadian Olympians from entirely different sports. Me. You, assuming you’re a decent person.

So why did the game have to end in a shootout?

That’s not a rhetorical question; I’d really love to know why you’d ever use a shootout in a gold medal game. In the round robin or earlier playoff rounds, sure—maybe you don’t want one team to get trapped in a six-period marathon that hurts them for the rest of the tournament. But the gold medal game? Why?

It’s not about keeping the rules consistent, since they already make overtime longer in the final game. It’s not about needing the ice for the next game, since there isn’t one. It’s not about fatigue, you’d think, since it’s the last game. Or is it? That’s the only option that makes sense. But not much.

Sure, players are going to get tired in long games. We saw that on Wednesday, when Team Canada looked absolutely gassed as overtime went on. But that’s hockey. Conditioning is part of the sport. So is bench management. The shootout probably didn’t change the result of the game, since a Team USA win was looking inevitable the longer it went.

But that’s the problem—they deserved that win, a real win, not a gimmicked one that gives Canadians an out. Wednesday’s shootout was just about as good as a shootout can possibly be, with some dramatic stops and truly great goals. Jocelyne Lamoureux’s winner will become an iconic goal in international hockey history. But it was still a shootout. Shootouts suck. Sometimes they’re a necessary evil, maybe. But gold medal games are never one of those times.

The Canadian men will play for gold this weekend, and while there’s no chance they can match the drama and intensity of the women’s final, here’s hoping they at least get to settle the biggest hockey game of their lives by playing hockey.

And if at some point in the future, somebody tries to invoke Wednesday’s classic as a reason to consider using the shootout in the NHL playoffs, load them into a bobsled and slide them into a lake.

Obscure Former Player of the Week

It’s been an interesting week for Montreal Canadiens fans. Their current captain, Max Pacioretty, is expected to be traded before Monday’s deadline. And the guy who held the job before him, Brian Gionta, was the captain of Team USA at the Winter Olympics.

Not many players can say they’ve worn the “C” for the Canadiens; it’s a list that includes legends like Rocket Richard, Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau and Newsy Lalonde. In recent times, the honor hasn’t been quite as prestigious, with names like Mike Keane, Vincent Damphousse and Pierre Turgeon taking their turns. But the Canadiens are so enamored with their own history that just holding the job confers a certain type of fame on a player. You wouldn’t think it would be possible for there to be any obscure former Habs captains.

But then you’d be forgetting this week’s player: Walter Buswell.

Buswell was a solid defensive defenseman who started his NHL career with the Red Wings in 1932. He spent three seasons in Detroit, racking up 13 points in 140 games, before being traded to the Bruins as part of a deal for future Hall-of-Famer Marty Barry. Boston flipped him to the Canadiens two days later for Roger Jenkins, and Buswell spent the next five seasons in Montreal.

Those seasons weren’t very good. The Habs missed the playoffs for the first time in a decade in Buswell’s first year, then lost in the opening round in each of the next three. It was a tumultuous time, with Montreal burning through five coaches and three GMs. By the 1939-40 season, Buswell was one of the oldest players left on the team, and was given the captaincy after Babe Siebert retired to become the team’s latest coach.

It ended up being a forgettable year; Siebert never coached a game because he drowned in Lake Huroan during the offseason, the team had a stretch where they won one game out of 20, and the Canadiens finished dead last, a feat they haven’t repeated in the almost eight decades since. It was also Buswell’s last as captain, and as an NHL player. Toe Blake took over the honor and held it for most of the next decade, while Buswell headed to the QPHL and was out of hockey entirely by 1941.

Be It Resolved

The trade deadline is now just three days away, and while the market is picking up, it’s still been fairly slow. That’s a bit of a surprise, given that there are a decent number of sellers this year. And you’d think there would be more draft picks in play, since this year’s crop is considered to be a relatively weak one. But so far, GMs don’t seem to want to move their 2018 picks.

But maybe there’s a way around that. And the key may be hidden in this week’s least interesting deal: The one that sent Eric Fehr from the Maple Leafs to the Sharks for a seventh-round pick.

Most Leafs fans’ reaction to the trade was something along the lines of “Wait, we still have Eric Fehr?” And they only kind of did—he’d been loaned to Anaheim’s AHL team, so he wasn’t even playing for the organization. But the Leafs wanted to free up a roster spot and a bit of cap space. The Sharks needed some fourth-line veteran depth, so they coughed up a late pick.

And it really was a late pick, because the Leafs don’t get the choice until 2020.

It’s relatively rare in the NHL these days to see a draft pick traded more than two years in advance. But maybe it shouldn’t be. Maybe that’s the way to loosen up the market a little bit. If NHL GMs are going to be tightwads with their next bushel of draft picks, then let’s start trading ones for future drafts.

Like, way in the future. Forget 2020. Who wants a 2024 first rounder?

There’s actually plenty of precedent for hockey trades involving far-off future picks. It happens in junior hockey all the time. Check out this year’s biggest CHL deadline trades; they’re full of future picks. Here’s a team trading nine draft picks that stretch all the way to 2023. Here’s a team giving up three picks, none earlier than 2021. Here’s a team trading their second-round pick in 2026. That’s eight years in the future. That’s so long that the Sabres might even be good by then.

How much fun would it be to see NHL teams trading picks from 2026? Do you know how to properly value a draft pick that far down the line? I don’t! I bet NHL GMs don’t either, which would lead to all sorts of unpredictable results when they sat down to work deals. Plus imagine tracking the ups and downs of a rival team, knowing your team owned their first rounder a half-decade from now. It would be great.

Granted, junior hockey isn’t the NHL. Draft picks aren’t as valuable, and teams go through cyclical and relatively predictable stages of contending that make trading away future picks a little easier. But it’s not like an NHL GM has never thought of acquiring future picks. In fact, it was pretty much the trademark of the best GM ever, Montreal Canadiens’ legend Sam Pollock. He built a dynasty out of ripping off dumb teams, stockpiling their future picks and then turning them into guys like Guy Lafleur and Larry Robinson.

If Pollock could do it, couldn’t the GM of your favorite team? Well, no, because they’re not as smart as Sam Pollock. But you think they’d be willing to try. And even a dumbed-down version of the Pollock strategy could probably break a few logjams.

So be it resolved, let’s stretch out the event horizon for NHL trades. You can’t give up your precious third-round pick this year? Fine, give us your second from 2021. You probably won’t even be the GM by then, so let’s get this done and hit the bar.

Classic YouTube Clip Breakdown

With the trade deadline looming, GMs all across the league are sitting in conference rooms with their front office staff, plotting out the moves that will impact their teams for years to come.

But what do those highly private conversations sound like? As it turns out, we have at least some idea, thanks to one team that figured it would be a good idea to film a crucial decision and put it on the internet. Spoiler alert: It would not be the only bad decision they made that week.

It’s June 29, 2013, with the draft and free agency just days away. These fine folks you see here are the assembled brain trust of the Boston Bruins, who’ve just finished up their second Stanley Cup final appearance in three years. Everything is going well. Let’s see if we can pinpoint the moment that changes.

The star of our clip is, of course, then Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli. He also looks really miserable throughout this entire clip, which makes me wonder what he must look like today with the Oilers. Has anyone seen him lately? Are we completely sure he hasn’t gone goth on us?

Things start off with what seems like a reasonably straightforward problem: The team wants to re-sign Nathan Horton, but as Chiarelli puts it, “we’re having difficulty.” That was true; Horton was basically stringing the Bruins along, waiting out the clock to get to free agency. We eventually found out he wasn’t happy with the Bruins waiting to negotiate, but at the time, the whole thing was a bit of a mystery.

Still, it’s Nathan Horton. Good player, but he’s not going to make or break your team. No need to panic, right?

Yeah, not so much. As Chiarelli explains, signing either Horton or a reasonable replacement will mean they’ll have to move a player, and the guy he’s focused on is Tyler Seguin. At this time, Seguin is 21 years old, three years removed from being the second overall pick, and has already led the Bruins in scoring. But he’s coming off a disappointing playoff run, and now he might be on the block. Chiarelli opens the floor to feedback.

First up is Keith Gretzky, making his second ever YouTube section appearance. He apparently isn’t much a Seguin fan, accusing him of not wanting to pay the price. He’s followed by director of player personnel Scott Bradley, who suggests Seguin isn’t physical enough and relies on his skill.

“Sound familiar?” Chiarelli asks, in a pretty transparent reference to Phil Kessel. “Yeah, it does,” Bradley replies, and then there’s a weird jump cut where something is clearly edited out. I’m assuming it was somebody else going “It sounds like Keith’s older brother, somebody remind me if he turned out to be any good?” and then being dragged out of the room and thrown down an elevator shaft.

We see a shot of Chiarelli talking to Don Sweeney, which ends up being a bit of ironic foreshadowing given how this all plays out. Meanwhile, we get a voiceover by Denis Leary, which is weird, because I don’t even remember Bill Hicks doing this bit.

Chiarelli calls “Paul,” which is Horton’s agent Paul Krepelka. We only hear one side of the conversation, but we can tell from Chiarelli’s reaction that he’s not hearing good news. “Done,” he tells the group. We then cut to a shot of Jim Benning making the exact same face that every Canucks fan made last week when they found out about Jim Benning’s extension.

We skip ahead a day, and now Chiarelli wants everyone to weigh in one a potential Seguin trade. Bradley’s up first, and this time he’s done being subtle; he just buries Seguin. So does Bruins legend and team president Cam Neely. If there’s a dissenting voice in the room, we don’t get to hear it—these guys clearly don’t like Seguin, and they want him gone.

I mean, can we just take a moment to appreciate how insane it is that this was all filmed and released? As a fan I love behind-the-scenes stuff and as media I want as much information as possible, but it’s crazy that the Bruins would let this see the light of day in a league that obsesses over bulletin board material. The only saving grace is that surely everyone involved learned their lesson and never let themselves be filmed talking trade ever again.

All that said, now I kind of want to know what the Kessel trade conversation was like in 2009. I’m guessing it was just Chiarelli taking off his jacket Ric Flair-style and elbow-dropping a photo of Kessel over and over.

Chiarelli goes to work the phone, talking to an unnamed GM about first round picks and prospects. That’s where our clip ends, although you can watch the rest of the episode here. That clip doesn’t give us any additional insight into the eventual trade, which saw the Bruins send Seguin to Dallas as part of a seven-player deal for Loui Eriksson and prospects. We just skip ahead to Eriksson meeting Cam Neely, touring the rink, and waving a watch in front of Benning while repeating “You will sign me to a terrible free agency contract in three years.”

The epilogue: Seguin immediately blossomed into a point-a-game star, and is the sixth-leading scorer in the league since the trade went down. Eriksson, who’s never been anyone’s idea of a physical player, lasted three years in Boston. All in all, not good.

So what happened to the brain trust in the meritocracy-based NHL? Well, three (Chiarelli, Benning and Sweeney) are currently running teams, and two more (Gretzky and Bradley) have since been promoted to assistant GM. But at least they all learned a valuable lesson about the dangers of trading a top pick from the 2010 draft.

Have a question, suggestion, old YouTube clip, or anything else you’d like to see included in this column? Email Sean at nhlgrabbag@gmail.com.

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