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"The first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy." - Jack Kerouac
Summary In July of 2023, Evie looked at a list of cities in North America and rolled a die. Just like that, she packed up her life and moved to Chicago, a fresh start. The 2023-24 NHL season started well for Tito; he did not expect the call on November 28th telling him that he was being traded. To the worst team in the league. And just like that. 10 months after being ripped from his home, he had to pack up and move again. To an unfamiliar city, and to unfamiliar faces. Which is why, when Tito and Evie ran into each other, quite literally, on Christmas morning, they both latched on to a familiar face. Over the next few months, they became close friends. They didnât talk about the nights shared in Chicago clubs. They didnât need to. Because they're just friends. Right?
This is a completed fic split into episodes for easier reading. It was written for @bqstqnbruin as part of the Winter Fic Exchange 2k24 hosted by @wyattjohnston.
Episode 1. Blue Christmas (4.9k) Episode 2. I. Winter (4.4k) Episode 3. Pal-entine's Day (4.8k) Episode 4. Four-leaf Clover (5.5k) Episode 5. Evie's Birthday đ¶ïž (5.6k) Episode 6. II. Spring (4.8k) Episode 7. Not Goodbye đ¶ïžđ¶ïž (5.4k) Episode 8. III. Summer (4.8k) Episode 9. Tito's Birthday (4.2k)
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Under the cut: author's notes, tropes, warnings & disclaimer, fun tidbits, chapter summaries
Author's Notes: This fic was written for @bqstqnbruin as part of the Winter Fic Exchange 2k24 hosted by @wyattjohnston. It got so out of control long so quickly. I genuinely had so much fun writing this, it's basically my magnum opus; if you look closely, I think you can probably see my soul in there somewhere. I would like to thank @devilssacrament, @wyattjohnston, and @forgottenflowers for being my editors, holding my hand and keeping me sane in this. Also, thanks to @swissboyhisch, and @imperatorrrrr for being a sounding board for ideas . All of your help and support has meant so much to me. You are all just the fucking best, I am sorry this has been my entire personality for the past month, I will probably return to normal soon. Probably...
Tropes: a gut-wrenching mix of angst and fluff with a happy ending, slow burn friends to lover (tbh, idiots to lovers let's be real), alternating POVs
Warnings: alcohol (one instance of alcohol poisoning by side character), mature content bordering on smut (mostly occurring in clubs/public), references to a toxic past relationship. Disclaimer: This series is set in Chicago but does not mention the name of the team based there. Only other Chicago players mentioned by name are: Nick Foligno, Jason Dickinson and Connor Bedard. Other notes: NHL players featured Mat Barzal (a heavily featured supporting character/bestie) and brief mentions of Zach Hyman and Matt Martin. Assume that Tito and Evie are always speaking in French with each other.
Face claim for Evie (if you want one, but you can imagine whoever you like): Adeline Rudolph
Fun Tidbits: Original Character (she/her) called Genevieve Gignac or Evie (pronounced eh-vee) is the oldest sibling of Tito's juniors teammate and friend Brandon Gignac. Along with their other sibling Wiliam, they grew up in Montreal. Evie had been living in Toronto for six years, before moving to Chicago in the summer before the fic starts. I did way too much research so a lot of the little facts are true. Nicknames: (ma) chouette (shoo-wet): owl (mon) chou/chouchou (shoo): in practice, honey, sugar, baby, sweetheart // by definition, my cabbage or my profiterole/cream puff (depends who you ask) Solours (soul-oars): the QuĂ©bĂ©cois name for the yellow Care Bear with the smiling sun on its belly Solouâ (soul-oo): a diminutive Evie decides to use
Cook, Cook, drink your tea, But save some in the pot for me. We'll watch the tea leaves in our cup When our drink is all sipped up. Happiness or fortune great, What will our future be? -- "Afternoon Tea at Pittock Mansion" by R.Z. Berry
Episode Synopses:
Blue Christmas Evie and Tito are both starting life anew in Chicago. It's an unfamiliar city with unfamiliar faces. They're both alone on Christmas. Maybe it's fate that brings them together. Jason and Alandra Dickinson are already smelling smoke from this fire.
I. Winter Tito injures his wrist in the first game of 2024, heâs out for 6-8 weeks and then his car breaks down. He thinks maybe heâs cursed. Evie becomes a shoulder to lean on. Barzy gets suspicious.
Pal-entineâs Day Tito returns her kindness by being a shoulder Evie can lean on when she is having a hard time after all-star break. She tells him itâs anxiety about work. He brings her a box of pastries and they cuddle on the couch all day; he doesnât realize itâs Valentineâs Day. Later, a hook-up goes very wrong.
Four-leaf Clover Titoâs been playing again, and during his first stretch of away games begins to miss home. Well, Evieâs home anyway. When he sees her in the bar, he canât help but show it. Barzy calls him out on his lies.
Evieâs Birthday Sometimes the music moves you. Sometimes the bass pounding in your chest makes you do things you wouldnât do. Fuck it, itâs your birthday. Thatâs what Evie tells herself anyway. There are gifts given, but there are also secrets kept.Â
II. Spring Tito tries to tell herâ he doesâ Itâs just he needs to find the right time, and something keeps coming up. Evieâs honest with herself. But does that even matter? Mat decides maybe it is his time to intervene.
Not Goodbye Evie realizes that her time is running out. To do what? She doesnât know. But she has one last night to find out. That is untilâ Well. Itâs too late now. Tito flies home and wonders if that will be the worst mistake of his life.
III. Summer They try to get on with their summers as if nothing is wrong, convincing no one. How long will it take them to realize they canât keep pretending like everythingâs fine? And who will finally take the leap of faith?
Titoâs Birthday Tito receives the best birthday present he has ever gotten: the girl he loves standing at his parentâs front door. It was never destiny or fate; it can only be by choice. And theyâll choose each other every time. Eventually, anyway.
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Giving Nick a mirror is a devious move⊠do it more!!!!!!!!! BULLY THE CAPTAIN!!!!!!
Thanks to @snekjin for the names of the dudes who I just couldnât place (kicking myself for not recognizing Valsic, like itâs so obviously him!!!)
#nick foligno#nf17#taylor hall#th71#kevin korchinski#kk14#Andreas Athanasiou#aa89#connor bedard#cb98#drew commesso#dc33#landon slaggert#ls84#jason dickinson#jd18#teuvo teravainen#teuvo terÀvÀinen#tt86#wyatt kaiser#wk44#chicago blackhawks#frank nazar#fn91#alex vlasic#av72#Ryan Donato#rd8#artyom levshunov#al55
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broken
January 5, 2024
Connie was skating down the ice with the puck against her stick and looked up right as her jaw rammed right into the Devils playerâs shoulder, Connie fell over onto the ice, her hand immediately going up and holding her jaw as she quickly got back up and hurried to skate off the ice.
Connie knew something was wrong, there was to much pain and to much pain that fast.
Connie hurried off the ice right to the trainers letting them guide her off the ice and down the tunnel to the medical rooms to start looking at her injury.
She spaced out during most of the time watching the game on the tv as the trainers checked on her until she heard someone walk in and looked over seeing Nick walking in with a grin directed at her.
Connie furrowed her brows not talking as the trainers told her not to, she saw him get into the fight on the ice and he seemed to be rushing off the ice after.
âWe protect our own.â Nick simply explained with a grin as he walked over to her gently ruffling her hair like he always does, he knew he only hurt her finger and a broken finger was worth getting back for Connie.
Nick smiled seeing the thankful look she gave him as she couldnât say it, âIs it bad?â Nick felt nauseated seeing the obvious pain she was in and it felt like one of his own kids was hurt.
Connie nodded yes as it was painful and she was very uncomfortable too.
Nickâs face soften and gently squeezed her shoulder with his good hand, âWhat can I do?â Nick softly asked her.
Connie made a call gesture and pointed to her self and Nick thought for a moment before asking, âCall your mom?â
Connie nodded slightly, she knew her parents more so her mom would be worried seeing her going off the ice and not coming back and she couldnât call her right now.
âI will do that.â Nick softly promised her before the trainee called for him to head to the other room so they can splint his finger.
Once the trainers finished examining her with the game still going she got to change out of their uniform and into comfortable clothes and watched the rest of the game.
She turned back to the TV and barely a minute went by before Alex got into a fight against Nate.
Connie watched his fight intently as he fought for a good few minutes before the referees spilt them apart.
The trainers allowed her to have her phone once the game was over and they waited for the team to finish up and everything gets packed up before they all head to the airport to head back to Chicago.
Connie looked up as the door opened quickly and Alex rushed in with his suit on but messily and his tie hanging from his pocket, he let out a small sigh seeing her but still rushed right over to her.
âHow are you? Are you okay?â Alex quickly rushed out scanning her face worriedly seeing her face wrapped up in a bandage specifically holding her jaw in place.
Connie reached out gently grabbing his hand and squeezed his hand softly stopping his from continuing and made him look at her eyes and she gave him a small nod reassuring him that she is okay.
âIs it your jaw?â Alex softly asked letting out small sigh of relief that she told him she was okay, Connie nodded once to his question, âDo they know if itâs broken yet?â Alex hesitantly asked.
Connie tried to clenched her eyes shut but hissed at the pain it caused in her jaw making her look at Alex with teary eyes answering his question.
âOh Bubbles.â Alex softly cooed bringing her into a gentle hug being mindful of her jaw and gently rubbed her back.
Connie never really liked hugs growing up much and they always just felt awkward but she always endured them thinking it was just her being awkward.
But hugging Alex, like an actually hug not on the ice after a goal, it was comforting and something she surprising really enjoyed.
Alex just held her softly rubbing her back letting her be comforted for a few minutes before gently and reluctantly pulling back.
Connie gave him another thankful look and he just smiled.
âCome on we got to get to the bus.â Alex softly told her and backed up letting her stand up and he saw her suitcase and back pack next to the medical bed she was sitting in and grabbed them giving her stern look stopping her from grabbing them.
Alex carried their bags as they walked through the arena and out to the bus where most of the team were already sitting in.
Alex knew Connie really didnât want to talk right now he just guided her down the bus and gave everyone a stern glance to leave her alone and brought her to the row where Kevin and Lukas sat across from.
Connie slid into the bench first and Alex sat down after.
Kevin and Lukas gave her concerned glances and Alex grimaced shaking his head motioning that her injury was not good.
Connie stared out the bus window feeling her pain medication slowly starting to finally kick in a little but not much.
The bus pulled up to the blackhawks plane at the airport and the team all slowly started getting off the bus and helping the staff load up the converter belt with all the luggage.
Alex set Connie and his bags on the belt and guided her to the plane not wanting her to try to help.
Connie sat down on the window seat again and Alex sat on the seat next to her.
Connie was having a hard time keeping her eyes shut and Alex noticed and put the arm rest up between them and gestured for her to lay her head down on his chest.
Connie took a second looking like she was debating it before scooting closer and resting her head on his chest being careful not to touch her jaw againt him and his arm wrapped around her shoulder.
Connie was out within minutes.
âIs it bad?â Lukas whispered once Kevin and Lukas sat across from Alex and Connie giving a sleeping Connie concerned glances.
âThey think itâs broken.â Alex whispered quietly back.
Kevin grimaced still looking worried at his best friend. Lukas gasped softly looking at her sadly.
Connie was fast asleep on Alex not moving at all the entire flight home.
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Karaoke â„ Chicago Blackhawks
As per usual, I went with the players that I know. I have no idea what their music preferences are, this is purely based off vibes. This what I think the Chicago Blackhawk's go-to karaoke songs are.
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Connor Bedard - he knows every word to 'We Didn't Start the Fire' by Billy Joel for some reason that he never tells anybody. He is dared to sing it one day because it's an older song, so he does it perfectly and surprises every person in the room
Colin Blackwell - 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift. 100%
Jason Dickinson - a stunning rendition of 'Vienna' by Billy Joel
Ryan Donato - keeps it classic with 'Don't Stop Believin'' by Journey. It's very mid, but not bad
MacKenzie Entwistle - a horribly off-key version of 'Livin' on a Prayer' by Bon Jovi
Nick Foligno - claims he is too old for karaoke but sticks with the classics too and goes with either 'Hotel California' by Eagles or 'Under Pressure' by Queen
Taylor Hall - there's about a 55% chance he sings something Nickleback and the other 45% is 'Love Like This' by BlackHawk for some sentimental reason
Seth Jones - something Katy Perry, I feel like. No reason, just a feeling. More than likely it's 'Firework'
Kevin Korchinski - either something by Zach Bryan or a 'The Last Saskatchewan Pirate' by Captain Tractor duet with Reese Johnson (please tell me somebody will get it)
Philipp Kurashev - adorably accented version of 'Call Me Maybe' by Carly Rae Jepsen. Everybody loves it
Petr Mrazek - first an enthusiastic attempt at 'Dream On' by Aerosmith, then plays it safe with 'Sweet Caroline' by Neil Diamond, met with applause and sing-along
Connor Murphy - also claims he's too old for karaoke, then proceeds to whip the most excellent cover of 'It's My Life' by Bon Jovi out of his back pocket and absolutely floors everybody
Alex Vlasic - 'Shut Up and Dance' by Walk the Moon or 'Stacy's Mom' by Fountains of Wayne. Or some other 2000's hit
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My favorite thing in the nhl is when a star player has the most random chosen nemesis/rival on a team. Every Oilers Hawks game, Connor McDavid gets into like 3 shoving matches with Jason Dickinson.
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Chicago Blackhawks || 2024-25 NHL Season
(Opening Night Roster vs UTHC)
#Chicago Blackhawks#NHL#Nick Foligno#Seth Jones#Connor Murphy#Connor Bedard#Taylor Hall#Tyler Bertuzzi#Teuvo Teravainen#Alec Martinez#TJ Brodie#Petr Mrazek#Alex Vlasic#Patrick Maroon#Craig Smith#Jason Dickinson#Arvid Soderblom#Luke Richardson#2024-25 NHL Season#Hockey#Hawks
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hockey team thickness - Chicago Blackhawks 2024 VERSION (roster as of 27.07.2024)
#htt#chicago blackhawks#pat maroon#nick foligno#taylor hall#alec martinez#joey anderson#seth jones#connor murphy#alex vlasic#craig smith#ryan donato#laurent brossoit#tyler bertuzzi#jason dickinson#teuvo teravainen#connor bedard#philipp kurashev#ilya mikheyev#andreas athanasiou#petr mrazek#frank nazar#kevin korchinski#tj brodie#landon slaggert#arvid soderblom
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The Blackhawks wish Tommy Hawk a happy birthday
#chicago blackhawks#joey anderson#jason dickinson#jarred tinordi#reese johnson#alex vlasic#kevin korchinski#connor bedard
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I WANNA HEAR FROM THIS DUDE. Give him an entire hour of anonymity, let's hear it all
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TW: skate blade injury, medical, emergency, blood, bruise
Ok this is an EXCELLENT article about neck guards and cut-resistant turtleneck undershirts.
please read to the end. Dr Hayley Wickenheiser provides incredible insight about freak accidents and the medical emergency process that shifts the article a couple of times.
$wall: After Adam Johnson's death, will 'stubborn' NHL players embrace neck-protective gear?
A little more than a year ago, T.J. Oshie read a story about a young boy who was cut in the neck by a skate blade during a youth hockey game. Almost instinctively, Oshie reached for his phone and contacted his partners at Warroad, the hockey apparel company he helped found six years ago. What started as a way to create undershirts that werenât itchy and irritating had developed into a safety-conscious business that helped develop new, cut-resistant fabrics to protect playersâ wrists and Achilles tendons.
Now, Oshie wanted turtlenecks to protect the most dangerously exposed part of a hockey playerâs body â their neck, and the carotid artery within. Sure enough, Warroad came up with a sleek turtleneck with its âtiloâ design, which includes cut-resistant panels built into the fabric.
It worked.
And Oshie still didnât wear them.
In fact, he doesnât believe a single player in the NHL wears anything of the sort. None of the bulky neck guards that are mandatory in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League (but not the Western Hockey League). None of the Kevlar-style fabric turtlenecks that are becoming more readily available all the time, from companies such as Warroad, AYCANE, and Cut-Tex Pro.
Players have their reasons. Oshie said NHL rinks are âhotterâ than ever, with guys sweating through several undershirts a game, and the thought of wearing a turtleneck in such a warm environment is unappealing. Players are superstitious, wearing the same shoulder pads they used in juniors, using the same brand of skate theyâve worn since they were kids, using the same tape job and knob style theyâve used forever. And, well, turtlenecks and neck guards donât look cool. Heck, only Wayne Gretzky and Tomas Plekanec ever really pulled off the look.
âItâs not a cool look having neck guards on,â Oshie said. âFor whatever reason, itâs just not something thatâs sleek and looks great.â
But then Oshie learned about Adam Johnsonâs death on Saturday night. Johnson, a former player for the Pittsburgh Penguins, was cut in the neck by a skate blade during a game in England and died, shaking the hockey community to its core. Players and coaches from around the league expressed their heartbreak over the tragedy. But Oshie did more than that.
He ordered five Tilo turtlenecks from his company. One for him and four for some of his teammates to try. Theyâll arrive on Monday. And heâs going to try playing in them. Because Johnsonâs death did more than devastate the hockey world. It opened the hockey worldâs eyes to an inherent â and possibly preventable â life-threatening risk that comes with playing the game.
At any level.
âI just wish these things never had to be made, and injuries like this would never happen, because itâs so sad,â Oshie said on his way to the Capitalsâ game against the Sharks on Sunday evening. âIt hits me pretty hard, just thinking about my kids. I could take one to the neck tonight. And for them to not have a father â itâs just so sad and it makes me think twice about protecting myself and my neck out there. Whether it looks cool or not.â
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Jason Dickinson didnât know what had happened to Bostonâs Jakub Lauko last Tuesday at the United Center, he only knew that it looked gruesome. One of Dickinsonâs Chicago teammates asked him what had happened and Dickinson speculated that Lauko had hit his head on the boards and âsplit open.â
After the game, Laukoâs bloodied face was still a topic of conversation in the Blackhawks dressing room. Dickinson heard someone say that it was a skate blade that caught Lauko in the area of his left eye.
âA skate?â Dickinson said. âHow did that happen?â
âIt was your skate!â a teammate told him.
âAre you kidding me?â Dickinson responded. âWhen?â
It had happened when Dickinson was falling into the boards after a push from Bostonâs John Beecher. Lauko was already down on all fours, and Dickinsonâs skate caught him in the face. As mangled as his face was in the aftermath, Lauko was extraordinarily lucky the skate missed his eye. Dickinson never even felt the contact.
Dickinson, after learning it was his skate, immediately checked in with the teamâs medical staff to find out if Lauko was OK, and was indescribably relieved to find out he was. Dickinsonâs heart went out to Johnsonâs family on Sunday, but he also spared a thought for the player whose skate caught Johnson in the neck.
âI feel for (him) as well,â Dickinson said. âHeâs on the other end of that and heâs going to have some stuff to work through, because thatâs heavy stuff. I guarantee he feels guilty right now, even though itâs a freak accident.â
Thatâs a word you hear a lot when it comes to skate-cut injuries, whether itâs Pat Maroonâs skate slicing through Evander Kaneâs wrist last season or Matt Cookeâs skate tearing Erik Karlssonâs Achilles tendon 10 years ago. A âfreakâ accident. A âfreakâ play.
But is it? After all, this is a game played by people moving at exceptional speeds with exceptional force wearing exceptionally dangerous weapons on their feet. If anything, itâs shocking that skate cuts donât happen more often.
Hayley Wickenheiser, a Team Canada legend, assistant general manager for the Toronto Maple Leafs and emergency physician, bristled at the depiction of such incidents as âfreakâ occurrences.
âI donât think this is a freak thing, I think it happens quite a lot,â she said. âItâs just the injuries are superficial, or the players are lucky. This isnât something that doesnât happen; it happens a lot in hockey. Sticks come up, skates come up, and the neck is very susceptible. So whatever we can do to make (neck protection) more mainstream and just part of the equipment, the better for the future of the game. It just makes sense to me.â
Indeed, while terrifying incidents like the cuts suffered by Johnson and former Sabres goaltender Clint Malarchuk are thankfully very rare, it seems like every player has a story to tell of a close call, a near miss, a Lauko-style bit of âluck.â Dickinson took a skate on the collarbone during a game against Vegas last season and âimmediately panicked,â wondering if a major artery was nicked.
âI remember the ref looked at me right away and said, âThat was real close, Dickie,ââ Dickinson said. âIâm like,â Yeah, youâre telling me. I can fâing feel it.â
Oshie was volunteering at a camp at his alma mater, North Dakota, some years ago, when he was rough-housing with the kids. They were dog-piling him on the ice, falling all over each other, laughing hysterically.
âThen one kid came in full speed and slid into the pile feet-first, and he actually hit me square in the face with his skate blade,â Oshie said. âSo I had to get stitches above and below my eye. I still have a scar in my eyebrow that goes into my forehead. Luckily, it was flush with my face so it didnât cut my eye.â
They canât all be âfreakâ incidents, right?
âItâs unfortunate,â Blackhawks coach and 21-year NHL veteran Luke Richardson said. âItâs one of the fastest games on Earth, with razor blades on the bottom of your feet. Itâs very scary and things happen quick. ⊠I donât know if thereâs any way to guarantee that thereâs going to be protection. Even if you do wear something. You canât be in a tin can top to bottom out there for protection. Itâs the risk that the pro players take.â
Richardson cited Oshieâs company as a valuable resource for players, and suggested that with time, neck protection will become normalized in the NHL. When he entered the league in 1987, there were still players playing without helmets. It took years after that for visors to become the norm to protect playersâ eyes. Richardson hoped that with neck protection becoming more and more common â and mandatory â in lower leagues, itâs only a matter of time before it âgraduates upâ to the NHL.
Arizona center Nick Bjugstad, who played with Johnson in Pittsburgh and called him âjust a kind human,â said he couldnât bring himself to watch the video, so he doesnât know exactly how the cut happened. But he thinks the answer is pretty obvious.
âThere are times that your feet go out from under you and you donât have control,â Bjugstad said. âAs far as the precaution going forward, Iâm sure itâll be discussed in the league. Itâs even more important on the youth side of things, with the lack of athletic trainers and whatnot. I hope we can figure something out as a hockey community that protects us from something so tragic happening.â
Scott Sandelin, who coached Johnson at Minnesota-Duluth, said making neck protection and Kevlar-style undergear mandatory has come up in conversations around the NCAA championship committee, with longtime Mercyhurst coach Rick Gotkin leading the charge.
âHe was like, âWhy do we wait?ââ Sandelin recalled. âWhy do we wait for something like this to happen before you mandate something?â
Dickinson said the NHL provided a video at the beginning of the season highlighting the benefits of cut-resistant sleeves to protect the wrists and Achilles tendons, and those have become quite popular around the league. But neck protection remains ignored by everyone other than goaltenders.
Johnsonâs death surely opened some eyes around the hockey world to the risk of skate cuts to the neck, and it appeared that several Providence Bruins, in the AHL, wore neck guards on Sunday. Thatâs a start.
But why does it have to be a years-long process? Why canât it happen sooner? Why do players have to be grandfathered in to avoid any mandates whenever a new equipment mandate is instituted?
âBecause theyâre stubborn,â said one NHL equipment manager, who was granted anonymity so he could speak freely. âItâs a monkey-see, monkey-do league. All it would take is one guy to wear it. Then two days to get used to it.â
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Wickenheiser has a similarly simple solution to getting players past all their superstitions and habits, to get them to embrace what seems like such an obvious solution to a terrifying problem.
âYou just put one on,â she said. âI wore one for 20 years with the national team, it didnât interfere with anything I did. ⊠Itâs just like anything else, when one player does it, everyone sees it and it becomes normal. I canât even remember hockey without visors now, and I grew up watching the world of hockey without visors. I canât even imagine not playing with a visor with how fast the game is.â
As an emergency physician and all-time hockey great, Wickenheiser is perhaps uniquely qualified to weigh in on the subject. She knows how well-stocked NHL arenas are in terms of medical care. She also knows itâs not nearly enough if, God forbid, a situation similar to what happened to Johnson happens in an NHL game. The thought has frequently crossed her mind that if there were an incident at a practice, she might be the most qualified person in the rink that day. She runs the scenarios in her mind constantly, and âit truly horrifies me.â
âYou know how little time and resources you have to save a life in that moment,â she said. âThe deck is entirely stacked against you as a physician. In the NHL buildings, there would be qualified physicians, thereâs (emergency medical services) in the building. You have every resource at your fingertips. But what you donât have is time. You need a surgeon and you need blood and you need time, and thereâs none of those things in that moment. Itâs just such a devastating injury. It freaks me out, for sure.â
Itâs something players rarely think about. Canât think about, really. Richardson said it was similar to a football player coming back from a knee injury â if youâre constantly wondering if the surgically repaired knee will hold up, youâll never be playing at full strength and full speed. Hockey players have to feel invincible out there in order to take the risks they take on seemingly every shift.
But Oshie said thereâs an instinctive, almost unthinking awareness of what your skates are doing at all times. Because the danger is always in the back of your mind, if not the front.
âI think youâre always very conscious of where your skates are when youâre playing,â he said. âI know I am. If someoneâs on the ground in front of you, even if you get pushed from behind, you always get your feet out of the way, if that makes sense. It might look terrible if someone is about to fall on someone and goes knees-first, but thatâs what you do instead of trying to land on your feet. I just assume that everyone else has that same mentality. But those very freak things happen. You get pushed from behind and you stay on one foot and the other foot comes up. I took a skate blade to my visor in our last preseason game, just this year. So I was a couple inches away from being cut somewhere.â
The game only gets more dangerous with each passing year. Players get bigger, stronger, faster. Skate blades are removable now, and they stay razor-sharp throughout the game, rather than dulling with each shift. Ignoring the risks wonât make them go away.
The introduction of the slap shot led to the goalie mask. Whippier sticks and more dangerous shooters made visors inevitable. Ten or 20 years from now, itâs easy to envision players regularly wearing full face shields. The Karlsson and Kane incidents, among others, helped spur the creation and popularization of wrist and ankle sleeves.
Neck protection will undoubtedly follow. Itâs just a matter of when.
And if Johnsonâs tragic and shocking death doesnât prove to be enough to open eyes and open minds, then what will?
âThere are options out there, and itâs not a bad idea at all,â Dickinson said. âItâs about awareness. And events like (Saturday) night, events like Kaneâs, like Karlssonâs â those really make guys think and get them worried. Itâs definitely something Iâd consider now. I mean, who cares what it looks like? Looking lame and living is a lot better than the opposite.â
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BLACKHAWKS NEW VIDEO
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so in honor of this , instead of bluey for bath time my daughter gets hockey ;) also WHY IS NICK FLOIGNO THE BEST DAD EVER LIKE COME AND DADDY MY DAUGHTER PLEASE
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#hockey#twitter#connor mcdavid#jason dickinson#edmonton oilers#chicago blackhawks#deeply homoerotic sports journalism
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All shook up
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surgery
January 8, 2024
It has been a rough past two days for Connie, having been confirmed her jaw was broken and needed surgery and having to wait to get surgery while sheâs been in quite a lot of pain and moving at all makes the pain worse, also having to get use to drinking liquids so she has not been having a good time.
Connie knew her mom had a very important conference through out the week and made her mom stay there not wanting her to miss it and she promised to update her family on everything.
Since Connie didnât have her mom with her and the team also got back from Jersey so late the team had asked someone to stay with her and Alex offered right away so heâs been staying with her for the last two days only leaving for a game and practice.
Connie was currently waiting in the hospital bed about to get taken back to finally get her surgery and hopefully get on the road of recovering and to get back on the ice.
Alex was of course with her sitting in the chair next to her and Jason was also there but not with his wife and daughter because they didnât want to have newborn in the hospital for most the day, something that Connor completely agreed on.
Connie fiddled with her hands trying to not freak out about having surgery in a few minutes.
Alex put his hand on top of her hands, stopping her from fiddling and gave her a gentle squeeze, âYouâre gonna be okay Bubbles.â Alex spoke to her softly reassuring her, âIt will be over before you know it.â
Connie managed a weak smile.
Jason raised an eyebrow at the two smirking knowingly.
âHeâs right.â The nurse spoke as she walked into the hospital room, âIt will be over very quickly.â The nurse reassured Connie as she unlocked the wheels of her bed.
Alex squeezed her hands once more giving her an encouraging look before standing up and walking over to Jason and standing next to him.
Connie waved at the two as the nurse wheeled her out of the room.
âSuch a sweet boyfriend you have sweetheart.â The nurse commented as she wheeled Connie down the hallways.
Connieâs eyes widened in shock and her cheeks turned bright red right away, she shook her head no, she was not dating Alex but she was confused why that the idea of her dating Alex made her feel this way.
The nurse raised a skeptical eyebrow seeing Connie shake her head no, âWell you better tell him that, he stares at you with so much love.â She could tell that boy is in love with Connie it was obvious with how he looks at her.
Connie didnât respond but her brows were furrowed thinking if the nurse was correct but she was not sure what she felt for Alex but she could worry about that later as she was wheeled in to the Operating room.
Connie stared at the bright lights on the ceiling before the mask was placed on her face over her mouth as she closed her eyes.
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Jujhar and Stalock are some pretty nice dudes, apparently!
Source: Blackhawks TikTok
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Then&Now || Jason Dickinson
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Josh and Razor: *talking about Jason Dickinson*
Me:
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