#WHL

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TWO NHL matches being played tonight, and none of them are teams you care about? Searching desperately for some hockey to watch? How about some FREE hockey!! Every Wednesday, the WHL streams a FREE game on their youtube channel. This week we have the Spokane Chiefs vs the Kelowna Rockets!! They play 3 hours from now. Come hang out in #wntd lb and Experience Major Junior Hockey.

As always, I pick up a player/players to root for!!

BEHOLD: Andrew Cristall #82 for the Chiefs (WSH 40th overall in 2023).

If you were even peripherally following the WJC this year you may have seen people banging their pots and pans about his omission from team Canada.

THIS IS HIS DIVORCE MATCH!! He was recently traded from the Rockets.

And of COURSE people were mad he was left at home… he has 67 points in 30 games played (<- ahaha what the fuck) He’s on pace for 127 points as of writing and had a 7 point night just recently LOL!!

Ok now that I look at all this (Rockets were sellers at the trade deadline.. oh nyo…) we may be in for a bloodbath !! Um. anyways vibe check:

He’s one of those prolific Juniors Scorers who is also a Medium-Short King by NHL standards (5’9 in his draft year, currently 5’10) and just oozes skill…which of course means I keep stumbling across extremely divided takes on where he belonged in the draft rankings. Clips of interest: 1 / 2

Here’s a gifset I made of Cristall at camp with the Caps. He was so confused and it was rather charming to me <3

I remember him being a VERY late camp cut and like can i just say we desperately need to work out a better solution than sending players like him back to Juniors to beat up children (manyyy such cases… eyeing Q.Musty)

I am delighted by this update article from after he got cut where they admit they know he’s doing this: “[Assistant GM Ross Mahoney] said he was impressed with how Cristall took the news, and how any residual anger he might have has been used to torment the opposition in the WHL.”

Honourable mention to Berkly Catton #27, Spokane’s captain. A very very fun player to watch. I’ve seen less than a handful of his matches. Dynamic, fun playmaking + he’s a beloved Kraken prospect so I’m ALWAYS rooting for his success. I imagine we’ll be hearing from both of them <3

[satrnretrnsintrlude]

why is “man amongst boys” the biggest green flag descriptor one could have 🥲 also 6’2, 202 pounds AND HE WAS LIKE 18 HERE??? JESUS CHRIST

[wollerjoseph]

baby leaf blades picture dump🥹🥹

[frasermints]

i personally think all hockey games should be on different days at different times. none of this primetime bullshit. i should be able to watch every single hockey game ever if i want to. these leagues need to stop double booking my attention.

[cactustreesmotel]

teddy bear toss shenanigans feat. a win from YOUR seattle thunderbirds

[annieqattheperipheral]

ok tsn I'll hand it to ya. this was v good

[byramsjosty]

moment of appreciation for oliver bonk’s semicolon tattoo <3

[halliewriteshockey]

Remember my baby goalie who starfished in protest against a goal in practice?

He just won against the top ranked team in the east tonight (and got first star)

And his best friend gave him the hug he deserved

[regina-pats]

This is huge.

I’m so glad that the WHL is taking some sort of safety actions after recents events

[onmytape]

carson carels scores the teddy bear toss goal

dec 7th, 2024

[ice-hockey-is-pretty-cool]

Examples that show goalies are the best, part nineteen

1. Hunter Virostek with this beauty of a save

2. I love it when goalies are a part of the goal celebration (Kolby Hay)

3. What are you even doing? (Jacob Otto)

4. A classic, Ken Dryden taking out his French-English dictionary on tv (SRC's eight gala 1973)

5. Just warming up (Martin Brodeur

(30) & Patrick Roy (33))

6. Gloveless saves are my love language (Charlie Lindgren)

7. You have already seen it, but I just love it so much (Marc-André Fleury)

8. Zoning out or getting dialed in? (Left: Martin Jones, right: Stuart Skinner)

9. The Swedish national team is too precious

{part 18}

>part 19<

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None of your favourite NHL teams playing tonight? Stuck on what to do after the (FREE!) PWHL match finishes? (TOR vs NY btw… get their asses sceptres <3)

Wednesday Night in the Dub, a weekly FREE game hosted on youtube, will be on 2 hours from now. This time it’s the Calgary Hitmen vs the Prince Albert Raiders!

players I’m watching:

Carter Yakemchuk (Hitmen, #26)

7OA in 2024 by OTT

made it pretty far in training camp/preseason before being sent back. fun video breaking down some of his game

does he know hes a dman? sources are unclear. <- you may see him attempt to deke the pants off everyone

Carson Wetsch (Hitmen, #16)

82OA in 2024 by SJS <3

Captain, fellow goon, and boybestfriend of Yak.

childhood friends with macklini age 4-12.

also said he would like to stand there during baseball🧍‍♂️

[wollerjoseph]

baby leaf fraser minten OT winner and first star of the game!!🥳🥳

[frasermints]

i wish i was better at math so i could make a pretty spreadsheet of all the nhl players that came from the chl that were w vs q vs o and like. their fighting statistics in the w/q/o vs the nhl and which chl league produces the most/worst enforcers

[cactustreesmotel]

fraser minten pride tape send post

[iamidentical]

official photo of fraser minten's pride night tape job