#and the GWG no less!!!!!!!!!!

[riotforbear]

handsome boy next door first nhl goal day!! VAN VS PIT 10.26.24

[hauntedppgpaints]

Goalie Goals: a brief history

Hey y'all. Resident goalie lover coming at you with something that I have been obsessed with since I got into hockey: goalie goals!

There are two kinds of goalie goals: a goal that was awarded to the goalie because they were the last to touch the puck before the opposing team got an own-goal, and an actual SOG.

In total, there have been 18 goalie goals across NHL history, scored by 15 different goalies. 11 of those goals have been SOG, while 7 have been own-goals.

The first goalie to be credited with a goal is Billy Smith of the Islanders, during the 79-80 season. It was an own-goal, with a player on the opposing team (Rockies) accidentally shooting into their own net. As of right now, this is the only goalie goal where the goalies' team still lost the game (the Islanders lost, 4-7)

The next two goals would be scored by Ron Hextall of the Flyers. The first (1) would be in the 87-88 season, against the Bruins. The second (2) would be in the 1989 playoffs (first playoff goalie goal!), against the Capitals. Both goals would be actual SOG's, making Hextall the first goalie to score with an actual SOG.

The fourth goal (SOG) would be scored by Chris Osgood of the Red Wings, during the 95-96 season, against the Whalers.

The fifth goal (SOG) would be scored by Martin Brodeur (1) of the Devils during the 1997 playoffs (second playoff goalie goal), against the Canadiens.

The sixth goal (own goal) would be scored by Damian Rhodes of the Senators, during the 98-99 season, against the Devils. This is the first goalie goal to help with a shutout for the scoring goalie.

The seventh goal (own goal) would be scored by Martin Brodeur (2) of the Devils, during the 99-00 season, against the Flyers. This is the first, and so far, only goal to be considered the GWG.

The eighth goal (SOG) would be scored by Jose Theodore of the Canadiens, during the 00-01 season, against the Islanders. Second goalie goal to help with a shutout.

The ninth goal (SOG) would be scored by Evgeni Nabokov of the Sharks, during the 01-02 season, against the Canucks.

The tenth goal (own goal) would be scored by Mika Noronen of the Sabres, during the 03-04 season, against the Maple Leafs.

The eleventh goal (own goal) would be scored by Chris Mason of the Predators, during the 05-06 season, against the Coyotes.

The twelfth goal (own goal) would be scored by Cam Ward of the Hurricanes, during the 11-12 season, against the Devils.

The thirteenth goal (own goal) would be scored by Martin Brodeur (3) of the Devils, during the 12-13 season, against the Hurricanes.

The fourteenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Mike Smith of the Coyotes, during the 13-14 season, against the Red Wings. This one holds the record of being the closest to the end of the game, being scored with less than a second left on the clock.

The fifteenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Pekka Rinne of the Predators, during the 19-20 season, against the Blackhawks.

The sixteenth goal (SOG) wouild be scored by Linus Ullmark of the Bruins, during the 22-23 season, against the Canucks.

The seventeenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Tristan Jarry of the Penguins, during the 23-24 season, against the Lightning.

The eighteenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Filip Gustavsson of the Wild, during the 24-25 season, against the Blues.

Some fun facts!!:

There hasn't been a goalie goal scored at home since Mike Smith, over 10 years ago

7 goals have been scored at home. 11 have been scored away.

Only one team has had more than one goalie goal scorer: the Predators, with Mason and Rinne

Only two goalies have scored during the playoffs: Hextall and Brodeur

Only one goal was scored with a backhand: Theodore's

Only three goalies that have scored are currently playing: Ullmark, Jarry, and Gustavsson

Two teams are tied with most goalie goals against (2): Devils and Canucks

it's been 45 years since the first goalie goal was scored

[hawkepockets]

ok ik this is gonna be an unpopular post but i’m not comfortable letting others take all the heat—

the current one-sided conversation about @/guildwarsgirl’s alleged harrassment “for liking logan” has, i think deliberately in some places, conflated two very different episodes.

according to ppl who have mutual friends with gwg, she’s been receiving bullying messages on tumblr and whisper chat, including death threats, for some time now just for posting about an unpopular character (logan). this is third-hand information—i have no way to verify the frequency or intensity of any messages she may have received in private, but cyberbullying is of course unacceptable.

i don’t see what bearing that has on what went down at tyria pride, which was, for those who don’t know, gwg attending in a logan cosplay and announcing “seraph pride” at each new map to draw attention to her presence as logan and specifically her presence as a fictional police officer, which prompted several replies of “acab,” “no cops at pride,” “pass on logan,” “read the room,” and other light barbs. feeling unwelcome, she chose to leave rather than switch characters or quietly drop the bit. this can hardly be characterized as mobbing and driving someone from the event.

i understand why gwg may have felt like those comments were a culmination of any harrassment she was experiencing prior - but in reality this was just organic low intensity clowning on an unknown attendee for their situationally inappropriate behavior at pride. behavior that, intentionally or not, invoked real world fears about police violence and infiltration & constraint of the lgbt movement. it was a faux pas, plain n simple, and it was racially charged.

this isn’t really about logan at pride though—it’s about the public meltdown abt people’s remarks at pride, followed by an immediate and overwhelming sympathetic response: free art, an outpouring of encouragement to repeat the same insensitive behavior at next year’s event, pointed underlining of community rules, and an immediate, visible circling of the wagons in response to a white blogger’s tears, forcibly aligning any questions, commentary, or discomfort about what happened at pride with “bullying and death threats.” this does not foster a safe space for discussion about sensitive topics, especially not for poc.

incidentally, while word was starting to get around about “seraph pride” yesterday, a “make some noise poc” call-and-response at the same pride march got only 2 woohoos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

and i don’t want to hear any dismissal of that as accidental or not representative when one of my formative experiences with this community was the real mobbing and discharge of an artist of color from the same social circles now closing defensively around a white girl. just think about the tone you’re all setting as white bloggers, and worry less about policing the tones of poc

[sergeifyodorov]

Hughes brothers for the character ask meme?

im going to be real my first impression of quinn was from noted quinn scholar tanya txstars talking abt him. i dont even know what the first little bit was about because i was like “yeah everyone i follow just has that one guy they’re obsessed with” and then i actually saw photos of quinn and then started to Get It.

jack was the more famous of the three from the getgo. I knew he was a devil but didn’t know which one was jack and which one was nico for a while so there is that

and i’m like 90% sure my first thoughts on luke were THERE’S A THIRD ONE???

IMPRESSION NOW

Quinn: he is my scrungly. More than the generic fact that i find him hot in a wetpathetic roadside cat kind of way and that i am impressed and delighted by his skating and his ice time, I do really genuinely like him. He comes across as somehow both an idiot well-meaning jock and as an honestly intelligent man; maybe he’s just an airhead stoner. He’s the eldest daughter of our dreams. He should absolutely be the next captain of the Canucks. He’s level-headed and stands up for his teammates off the ice (talking openly about how he thinks they mishandled an injury!?) and is just… an ideal man. He’s also definitely got ghosts after him.

Jack: NIGHTMARE CHILD. I probably first started to hear his name from all the xreader writers who wanted to take him to prom, but once you actually start looking at and seeing him beyond the Boy Band Fluff, he’s… kind of a greasy sharp-toothed demon child? I do like him -- quite a good deal, to be honest, but the instant he let sweat slick his hair back and the playoffs knocked a tooth out he immediately became Interesting to me, as opposed to just some mouse.

Luke: Luke’s relative lack of screentime means my impression is a lot less nuanced than the other two: he both terrifies and excites me. Terrifies because the Devils are in my conference so i’ll have to see him three times a year… and excites because Quinn, Ellen, and Jack all say that he’s the best of the three of them. Can you BELIEVE how good that would make him. Quinn’s one of the best offensive defencemen on the planet (and pretty good defensively, despite what you might think!) and still has a few years before his peak, Jack’s a hundred-point forward at 21, and Luke is BETTER THAN BOTH OF THEM. 

FAVOURITE MOMENT

Quinn: the “taking his ESL teammates out to the movies” is endlessly charming to me… even if he picked rather a terrible movie to show to his esl teammates. also pretending to be a really bad driver at petey. Older brother supreme

Jack: either aforementioned tooth loss or any of his comedic falling-overs. Third place goes to snarking to the media… that boy wants nothing to do w any of it. If he was in toronto they’d have ripped him jaw to tailbone

Luke: overtime gwg w jack assist!!!!!!

IDEA FOR STORY

Quinn: what if i told u im partway through a quinnfic as we speak… he is dealing with the horrors surprisingly well all things considered

Jack: i am not of the opinion that he should get like. romcom fluff. he is as of yet not that type of girl. Get his ass to the mobster movie/wizard maze/indiscriminate pwp. Send him to something violent and a little bit horny and way too complicated for his little brain full of titty magazine and bits of lint. Bamboozle him and cover him in blood and let him top badly. many people are saying this

Luke: until such time as we see Character Traits from him (im not a umich girly dont tell me anything you’ve seen from there) i am content to let him remain for now a background character. he’s big and he has jack’s nose and quinn’s eyebags and he’s the baby. That’s enough

UNPOPULAR OPINION

Quinn: i am a quinn will become a leaf eventually truther. not that every born leafsfan will become a leaf at some point in their career but he will. Not because he hates it in vancouver because im pretty sure he doesn’t… just that there’s destinies out there u can’t escape. Im also a quinn will become a devil eventually anti. he’s not going to do that he likes offseason brother time and offseason brother time only

Jack: the beard is a good look on him

Luke: tall people shouldn’t have older siblings it’s wrong

FAV RELATIONSHIP

Quinn: quinnpetey kissa time. petey’s cringe little gay romanticism is now going to lead him away from brock to A Person With A Sustainable Future As a Canuck… quinn is going to let petey infringe on his space and his feelings and his bedsheets. they will hold hands through the horrors (vancouver canuckdom)

Jack: now hear me out i want us to explore whatever freudian attraction he had to pk subban. nico is cool and all but there’s more out here

Luke: not in an incestfic way but i do love his relationships w his brothers… siblings i do not understand them

FAV HEADCANON

Quinn: there was once a canucks raffle, where you could win bags each of the canucks had chosen stuff for… most of it was kind of generic. wine, a trip somewhere nice in the city, sometimes you’d get a sweater or a record or something. quinn chose cast iron pans and a cookbook. he wants to know how to cook well, he drives a reasonable car instead of petey’s fancy sports cars, he gets esl teammates to repeat his meaning back to him so he knows they understand. he’s grounded in a way few hockeys are and this is part character analysis from what we know and part extrapolation but that’s SO fascinating to me. i think he also knows stuff like how to sew on a button and clean an oven and tie a tourniquet.

Jack: could do sweet tricks on the trampoline

Luke: i dont think he’s going to take after either of his brothers in the personality department… he cares too much he’s going to suck up to the media way more when they want him. He’s avoiding that for now by being shy but he very much did puke into that garbage can at the frozen four he CARES

[jackhues]

buttercup pretends to be offended by the brendan goal but she's also so happy for him

yup! she's known brendan her whole life bcz his dad is her dad's agent and they're all good friends like that. sid used to 'babysit' bren and once he grew up a bit, bren would 'babysit' bee (he's 7 years older than her). they have a big bro/lil sis relationship as well but they argue/banter much less than her and and nate.

when she sees the goal she's like screaming loudly and cheering and recording - like she's literally stopping herself from crying (she lets a few tears out anyways). the ppl around her are like ... girl ur in a pens jersey, the pens did not score. but she doesn't rlly care bcz bren did and it was his first ever and it might be (it is) the gwg for vgk.

after the game, she sees bren and she gives him a look and is all like "how dare you score against my dad's team? you could get a goal against any other team, but nooo. that hurts bren, it hurts." and brendan's laughing bcz he knows bee's pretending and he goes "i'm so sorry bee, i'll never do it again, come here" and he pulls her into a hug while he's all sweaty and bee's trying to run away bcz she hates it, but the two just laugh at the end of it. and then bee goes, "i'm so happy for you, i'm so so proud of you. you deserve that goal." and bren tries not to tear up bcz she's the first person who told him he deserves that goal and it just means so much to them both.

[hopetorun]

For your fic writers ask list, 7, 18, & 32 pls - a/carouselstars ♥️

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

it's a very straightforward one, i think, but i just love getting to shape a whole story and craft something coherent and complete and compelling and satisfying! it's very rewarding to have an idea of something in my head and make it into a whole thing! especially a thing that other people enjoy or connect with or moved by!

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

January 22, 2022 Rogers Place, Edmonton Flames 3 – Oilers 5

Matthew gets there first, collapses down onto the bed. He thinks about taking his pants off first, because he feels like putting on a show, but he doesn’t actually move before the door opens. Matthew still doesn’t move. Leon’s hand lands on his ass, firm, and he squeezes.

“You played well tonight,” he says. Matthew hums.

“We still can’t beat you,” Matthew mutters. It’s muffled by the pillow. Leon smacks his ass a couple times, not hard enough to hurt.

“I’m just glad we finally won a fucking game.”

A few more footsteps, and then the bed shifts and creaks as Leon drops down next to him. His arm falls across Matthew’s back, and they’re sharing a pillow. There’s a heartbeat of silence, and another, and Leon sighs, gusty.

Matthew wants—he doesn’t know what he wants. He wiggles closer to Leon, until their hips are touching. Leon sighs again, and he presses even closer to Matthew. “Tippett’s gonna get fired,” he says. “Feels shitty to be excited about someone losing their job.”

The silence after that feels heavier. Matthew doesn’t know what to say. “We dropped seven games in a row,” Leon continues.

“I know,” Matthew says.

Leon snorts. “Of course you do.”

“I pay attention.”

This time, when Leon squirms, he ends up with his head tucked against Matthew’s arm. It’s not like he’s never seen Leon tired before; long games, long season, late nights on the bed in here. But this is different. It feels like Leon wants something from him, comfort or reassurance or maybe just someone he can say this shit to.

Matthew gets his arm out from between them and manages to tangle his fingers in the ends of Leon’s hair. It’s still wet at his nape.

“They made Bouch first star tonight,” Leon mumbles.

Matthew can’t choke back his snort. “He’s a good kid,” he manages. Leon bites at the muscle of his arm. “Maybe if you were less pissy.”

(from preference)

when i first started putting this fic together, i did a lot of timeline research -- what games the flames and oilers played, the outcomes of those games, penalties, highlights, etc, but also some broader stuff like win or loss streaks going into the games, the timing of coach firings, so on. a lot of the time those details didn't really inform what i chose to do in the story, but they really clearly did here and i enjoyed being able to pull so much stuff in, even if people reading it wouldn't necessarily need to pick up on it! the repercussions of a 7-game losing streak and the emotion tied into that, plus the knowledge that tippett was in fact fired shortly after this game, gave me a nice setup for leon to be more vulnerable with matthew, and specifically to be vulnerable about something that isn't sex. and then for them to have sex that doesn't feel like it's a little bit about hockey, which is important for them!

i actually thought a weird amount about the three stars/winner's room connection for this story. a lot of fic i think pretty just uses those to determine who's doing the picking for the winner's room, but they're chosen by local media and it gets weird sometimes! i wanted there to be some discretion there, like they're suggestions but deviating from them is normal. anyway it also cracked me up that leon was not first star of this game (2g, 2a, including the gwg) and evan bouchard was (2g). also a fact that informs one meaningless line of dialogue in this scene: bouchard played 43 games for the 2015-16 london knights.

sorry to leon for making fun of him for being pissy. i do it with love.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

i really wish i did a better job keeping track of lines i love! i ought to just record them all in a journal or something but i always get distracted. anyway i had to go on a quest to find the name of this poem bc i think about it a lot but am, as mentioned, bad at keeping up with things: rehearsal notes by len verwey, which ends with

where the script says scream a step to the side and possibly a finger touched to the mouth will do.

but also, and on a very different note, i think all the time about the dedications in the series of unfortunate events books.

[alpinefurnitures]

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[hugyourgoalies]

get yourself a captain like gabe landeskog

[titsbeauvillier]

Nothing makes the happiest boy happier than his best friend scoring the GWG with less than a minute to go

SEA @ NYR • 01.30.2022

[rinkrats]

🥺 that mike lange story. But also those tags #sid loooves christmas #he loves giving presents #looks good in red #piles on the pounds fast #post hockey career as santa 😂😂👌🏽👌🏽

he loves his mementos and presents and is COMMITTED to them. scrapbooking. matching jackets. little pills with hidden motivational messages~*~ his love language is gifts and neck smooches and stalking geno. relevant right now are some anecdotes i sent a friend earlier this year for dorky sid gifts fic fodder:

1. Crosby's constant thoughtfulness would be impressive from anyone, much less someone of his stature.

"Sid always texts me happy birthday, he's always asking me like, how's Russia?" Evgeni Malkin said. "We talk and message all summer. He asks me how my skates are. He knows, like, everything. He follows my Instagram, I think (laughs)."

In addition to having a handle on those little details, Crosby is constantly providing those around him with memories and mementos. If the team is on the road and goes, say, sightseeing or to a sporting event and takes a group photo, Crosby will later send a framed copy to everyone.

When Ron Hextall and Brian Burke watched their first Penguins game in person, Crosby is the one who approached head equipment manager Dana Heinze and asked for two used game pucks to give to the new GM and president of hockey ops. 

After the Penguins won in 2009, Crosby had jackets made for the three players on the team who had scored a Cup-clinching goal in Game 7: Talbot (Pittsburgh), Ruslan Fedotenko (Tampa Bay) and Mike Rupp (New Jersey).

"They were blue jackets with gold buttons, and each one had a patch on it that said 'GWG Game 7,'" Talbot said. "At one of our first team meals the next season, he presented us with the jackets and did a big ceremony with the music and stuff. We had a private room in the restaurant. I still have the jacket."

-The Consummate Teammate, Captain and Ambassador, Feb 2021

2. Merz: My first interaction with Sid was when we were on the bench, guys were talking about a teammate, and the first thing this 15-year-old says is, “Hey, guys. Let’s keep everything positive. Don’t talk about your teammates that way.”

Salcido: When we were getting ready for nationals, he found these little pills that you could put a hidden message inside. They unscrewed, and inside was a tiny scroll. He gave one to every teammate. … He had everyone fill one out. He didn’t tell anyone what to write, but he made it known that we all knew what the goal was: winning nationals. So we wrote on our scrolls, rolled them up and put them in the pill thing. We kept them with us everywhere we went.

-‘Is this real?’: Stories of Sidney Crosby’s year at a Minnesota prep school, May 2020

3. On “Butterfly Boy” Jonathan Pitre:

Though the Senators are his team, Sidney Crosby has always been Jonny’s favourite player. After the TSN documentary airs, Tina gets a call from the Penguins. Sid needs Jonny’s measurements. He wants to have a suit made for him by his personal tailor, Domenico Vacca.

“It’s the kindest, sweetest gesture,” Tina says. “Sid heard that Jonny went to a lot of games, so he wants him to look like he’s one of the guys.”

“I want him to feel like a pro,” Crosby says. “Here’s a guy who is going through something so painful, and his first thought is always, ‘How can I help others?’ When I was young, I’d watch on TV the players coming to the rink in their suits. That was a cool part of being an NHL player. I want him to feel that, to make it as real as possible for him.”

Tina tries to discreetly measure Jonny while she’s changing his dressings. But he’s way too smart for that.

“Um, Mom, why are you measuring me? Am I going for surgery again?” he asks.

“No, no!” Tina replies, trying to reassure him and come up with a good lie, all in the same breath. “The doctor needs them just to make sure they have proper dressings next time you are in.”

A few weeks later, the sharp navy blue suit shows up at their front door, along with a couple of ties, an autographed stick and a handwritten letter from Sid. 

“His eyes just light up,” Tina says. “Jonny always liked to be well-dressed, and he just loves having his own suit. It fits perfectly. He looks so good in it.”

-Beauties by James Duthie (2020)

4. Pascal Dupuis inspired his Pittsburgh Penguins teammates on their run to the Stanley Cup, and Sidney Crosby found a special way of driving that message home.

Dupuis retired in December with lingering health concerns because of blood clots. Despite his NHL playing days coming to an end, the veteran forward remained an integral part of the Penguins and was in uniform to hoist the Cup after Pittsburgh's six-game win against the San Jose Sharks in the Stanley Cup Final.

On Sunday, Dupuis brought the Cup home one last time as a player to share a special day with his family, friends and hometown fans.

"Yes, it does feel bittersweet a little bit," Dupuis said. "You get the Cup, you want to celebrate. But at the same time I got a gift by the mail [Saturday]. Basically, it's a book of all the pictures of all the good stuff we went through. It came from Nova Scotia, so you guys can figure out who it came from (Crosby), but he couldn't give it to me during the season, he saw me skating a little bit.

"And he sent it [Saturday], before my day with the Cup, so he knew what he was doing to get me right here," Dupuis said, putting his fist over his heart.

-Pascal Dupuis shares Stanley Cup with family, friends, Aug 2016

5. In 2011, Crosby was out of the lineup with a concussion, and the Penguins made their annual visit to Children’s Hospital.

Crosby got along so well with one boy there and was so touched that he later asked Bullano to go back... just the two of them, no cameras, no attention.

When Bullano and Crosby met for the follow-up visit, Crosby appeared clutching a pair of Toys “R” Us bags, filled with a Transformer toy the two had discussed.

“He literally bought every type of this toy they make,” Bullano said. “[Crosby] had never seen it before and thought it was so cool.

“There are no pictures of this. There’s no video. He was laying in the bed with the kid. They were just playing. We were there for over two hours. I got to know the mom really well because we were just sitting there.

“The kid had no idea. Didn’t expect it. They had no idea he was coming. We got there and he said, ‘Hey buddy. hope you don’t mind that I came back.’ The kid couldn’t believe it.

“[Crosby’s] crazy cool about stuff like that.”

What’s crazy is trying to recount the many times stuff like this has happened with Crosby:

• The Little Penguins Learn to Play program has been around for nine seasons, outfitting now 1,200 kids with free head-to-toe hockey equipment. Not only does Crosby serve as the face of the program — which the NHL has now adopted — but he helps fund it, too.

“There’s an awareness of what a person in his position can bring,” Penguins vice president of communications Tom McMillan said. “I think he activates that as much as anybody I’ve seen during his playing career.”

• After a recent practice, Crosby noticed a local family in the Penguins dressing room, approached them, introduced himself, learned their story and wound up giving them a signed stick.

Nobody asked Crosby to do that, and he wanted zero credit when discussing it a couple days later.

“For people who have the opportunity to come in here, people dealing with certain things, if you can brighten their day a bit or spend some time with them, it’s something that’s special for all of us,” Crosby said.

• A few years ago, through a team charity event, Crosby befriended a 4-year-old Amish boy with cancer. Crosby remarked to Bullano how much he loved talking to the boy because of how engaging the boy was and how he wasn’t consumed with technology. Crosby even tried to visit the boy but learned he had passed away.

• He learns the first and last names of the kids who attend his hockey school in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.

“Two kids came from Japan its first year,” Bullano recalled. “He was so blown away by that. He couldn’t wait to meet them.”

• Earlier this season, the Penguins welcomed Grant Chupinka, 24-year-old cancer patient, into the dressing room. Crosby chatted up Grant and his parents, Steve and Kim.

He spent his usual time — about two or three times the requirement. Gave the tour. Then found out the Chupinkas didn’t have tickets for that night’s game and decided he would pay for them to go.

“I’m sure he could just give them an autographed puck or something, but he takes his time to go out and see them and talk to them and get to know them,” Brian Dumoulin said. “It speaks volumes for him and who he is as a person.”

Spend any length of time with Crosby during his visits with those less fortunate, and a few things become obvious.

One, Crosby is really good at these. Smooth but not in a slimy way. Sweet. You know how when you’re around someone talking and they go out of their way to make eye contact with everyone around? That’s Crosby.

He’s also humble, always introducing himself like those he’s meeting don’t already know. Holding a hand is no issue. And Crosby is the rare 20-something pro athlete without kids who acts every bit like he does.

“It is not an easy situation to talk to someone with terminal cancer,” McMillan said. “A lot of people couldn’t do that. He has an amazing ability to do that and make that person feel good.”

Crosby has welcomed several Make-a-Wish kids and tries, if at all possible, to schedule such events for practice days — to maximize the time he’s able to spend.

He’s developed a special friendship with Patrick McIlvain, a soldier who nearly died when he took a bullet to the head in Afghanistan. McIlvain actually does physical therapy with one of Crosby’s sticks.

A former club hockey player at Cal U, McIlvain comes by every year, and the Penguins don’t even bother to tell Crosby. Either he already knows or immediately stops what he’s doing to come say hello.

“He’s not doing it to leave a legacy,” said Terry Kalna, Penguins vice president of sales and broadcasting. “His numbers leave the legacy. He’s just a down-to-Earth, good guy.”

Before a visit, Crosby has Bullano email him what is essentially a scouting report on who he’s going to meet. He likes to learn about them, their situation and what they’ve been through. As much information as he can ingest. Crosby never just swoops in, shake a hand and leave.

“As much as anyone has ever seen, he accepts the responsibilities of being not just a professional athlete but a star professional athlete,” McMillan said. “He views it as part of the job. Like coming to the morning skate. That’s just what you do.”

Put another way, “he owns those moments,” says Kalna.

Said Bullano, “He’s just a good human being.”

-When it comes to giving, Sidney Crosby does as much as he can, Feb 2017

6. When Crosby received a generous signing bonus on his Reebok deal, he wanted to share it with everyone.

“He gave everyone on the bus gifts,”  says Oceanic radio commentator Michel Germain. “Him sharing his bonus with all the people he’d been travelling with for two years, that impresses me greatly. I think the most important thing about Sidney Crosby is his personality and the kind of human being he is. What he exuded. The inner richness he’d already developed.” 

-Superstitious and generous, Dec 2006

7. also this simply because it makes me ;w;

Even in defeat — no, especially in defeat — Sidney Crosby proved why he wears the "C" for the Penguins.

After the game, with his heart sinking and his season over, the Penguins’ captain bent over, sank to the ice to pick up the puck, took it to linesman Tony Sericolo and then skated to his team’s handshake line.

I immediately thought of a View from Ice Level I’d written on Crosby making sure a retiring official was sent away from PPG Paints Arena properly. I knew picking up the puck wasn’t for the same reason that was, but I also knew, in some way, it was connected to Crosby’s awareness and respect of the game.

“It was for the Islanders,” Crosby told me after the game, his eyes swollen from a first round exit – by way of a sweep to make it worse. He told me how the winning team always wanted the puck, and it was his way of providing it for the Islanders.

Crosby looked me right in the eye as he told me this, just as he did with every other member of the media to come to him after the loss.

I could tell from those swollen eyes and the way he sat at his stall, by himself with his hands folded as he stared blankly, that Sidney Crosby is much more used to being on the receiving end of a puck when a series ends than he is at retrieving it for the winning team.

That scene. His swollen eyes. Staying in the locker room until most had left – talking to anyone who needed him. Most of all, though, picking up the puck that prompted my question in the first place and making sure the right people got their piece of their own history.

It all adds up to one thing: In victory and in defeat, Crosby respects the game above all else – just as he’s always done.

-Even in defeat, Crosby shines, April 2019

[tapejob]

If you’re looking for a narrative carter verhaeghe spent 6 years working his way up through the echl/ahl before finally getting a shot with Tampa and helping them with the cup in 2020. Right after that Tampa told him they weren’t gonna resign him so he went to their state rival and had a 36 goal revenge season before the panthers were eliminated by tampa when they won their second cup without him. This year he had 55 goals in the regular season and is only 2 points behind mcdavid for most playoff points despite playing 1 game less including a 5 point night to bring the panthers back from trailing 3-0 and THREE consecutive gwg (2 in overtime). Basically Panthers v Bolts in round 2 is gonna be spicy and you should get in now

THE HOT EX NARRATIVE I LOVE IT. gnawing on this with my teeth i will be marvelling at mr verhaeghe very closely from here on out

[shijiujun]

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH MISS S | 旗袍美探

OKAY FINALLY ANOTHER REPUBLICAN ERA DETECTIVE SHOW THAT LOOKS FUN AF AND HAS ALL THE NICE COSTUMES IN IT!!!

Summary: Su Wenli is a rich af lady that just returned from Paris in the first episode, and she chances upon a mystery immediately at the docks where she meets Luo Qiuheng, the cool-headed, tall, handsome af lead detective at the central police station (there’s a name for this, but I can’t remember). Her inquisitive nature leads her to butt into like the case immediately, and throughout all the cases she and LQH fall in love!!! Despite LQH going like “why is she here again” for the first few episodes.

Subplot: Su Wenli’s younger sister disappeared 20 years ago, and the man suspected of the crime was put in prison but no body was ever found so he’s also trying to appeal to get out after so many years, so I guess they’ll find out what happened to her sister.

Where to watch: NO SUBS - Duboku.co and any other Chinese streaming sites tbh, I’d recommend kankanwu but a user told me it’s a problematic site for them so do proceed with caution as always | SUBS - WeTV I suspect has it because the official platform for the show is Tencent

Broadcast schedule: 34 episodes, APPARENTLY 2 episodes daily from Sundays to Fridays, 1 episode on Saturdays 

Here are the pros of the show:

A+++++ COSTUMES!!! AND SETS! Okay not gonna lie the CGI is a little off at some parts BUT the costumes are frickin lovely. SWL (Miss S) rocks both European-style and Chinese-style outfits, and she has ALL THE HATS, ALL THE DRESSES, and gosh when she’s in the qipao even LQH is like whoa wow what a goddess (not that he says it but he’s a little dazed for a bit) - She has a GORGEOUS BLUE CAPE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO STEAL!!!

The cases aren’t overly complicated and it’s pretty easy to guess who the possible murderers can be, but we’re in this for more than just the cases

GAO WEI GUANG!!! Jfc, my Dijun is back!!!! And he’s got that cool, cold, stoic feel about him BUT he’s totally bribable with delicious sweets!!!

Ma Yili who plays Miss S is gorgeous as well, that short hair cut?!!! That hair pin?!! The way she walks?! The way she talks?! She’s a soft, shameless woman and I LOVE THAT.

GWG and MYL have chemistry in this one.

The camera work is hilarious?!! Usually I hate the cliche romance movements like bridal-style lifting at inopportune times but THIS ONE THE TIMING IS HILARIOUS, SPOT ON, and very romantic

There’s a gay couple in the episode 5 case and they’re being blackmailed but they’re kind of out which is pretty amazing considering the Republican era XD

CHARACTERS!!!

SU WENLI - GORGEOUS, RICH SUGAR MOM (IDEK WHERE HE MONEY COMES FROM IT SEEMS LIKE SHE PRINTS THEM OUT OF THIN AIR)

Honestly, she’s been back a total of like less than a week before she adopts THREE PEOPLE. A servant from the family where the first murder happened at, and two young men who were about to make trouble but were accosted (hired) by her as her chauffeurs. She’s shameless, knows exactly how to pout and bribe to get her way, is sassy and takes no nonsense I LOVE IT and she has LQH wrapped around her finger

Within five episodes she has:

1. Adopted cute little Tao Zi as her assistant who now lives in her luxurious house with her 2. Adopted the two young men as her legit chauffeurs and also informants, giving them A MERCEDES BENZ FOR THEIR GOOD WORK ON THE FIRST CASE 3. LITERALLY ADOPTED a young girl who was a suspect in the second case 4. Moved into a mansion that looks like a frickin palace!!! 5. Kidnapped two suspects from LQH and raced LQH in her brand new sports car back to the city, leaving LQH and his old car in the dust

And look at her gorgeous outfits and hats?!!

AND THIS CAPE?!!!

LUO QIUHENG (Aloof, stoic, rational detective who has a sweet tooth and is obviously not immune to SWL’s charms)

GOSHHHH MY DIJUN!!! I love him in this one too, he’s all “you shouldn’t be here”, “you’re not the only smart one here”, “be good and don’t intervene on the investigation” but then SWL bribes him continuously with sweets and it’s amazing to watch!!! He threatens to arrest her all the time (and she kind of is arrested once) but he always sounds worried about her. Everytime he finds her in trouble he’ll LITERALLY PICK HER UP IN BRIDAL CARRY HAHAHA and he’s half resigned, half exasperated and a whole lot fond of this Miss S I AM TELLING YOU!!!

GWG in a leather jacket is a crime!!!

Him eating something that Wenli gave him:

And his brain cannot fathom her wealth, but I don’t blame him, I can’t fathom her wealth either. This is when he asks the single butler Xiang Shu if it’s tiring for him to clean up such a huge place on his own and he says, “Someone else does the cleaning. Me don’t clean.”

Cue LQH going ????:

Other characters include Tao Zi, SWL’s cute assistant WHO HAS A CRUSH ON LQH’S DEPUTY OFFICER SHEN, and Officer Shen likes her too AND BOTH LQH and SWL try to matchmake them and give them (misplaced) advice

Ahhhh this show is honestly amazing and the humour is right on point!!! I’d watch Gao Weiguang in anything but REPUBLICAN ERA DETECTIVE IN SHANGHAI?! Sign me up!

[himbeaux-on-ice]

two things, tangentially related, that I will post here instead of starting fights in instagram comments:

1) Nick Suzuki proved he is smarter than literally every hockey pundit when he said (paraphrasing) “I don’t care about proving why Vegas was wrong to trade me, I’m focused on proving why Montreal was right to bet on me and give me these opportunities.” Focusing on hypotheticals of what he “could” have been for the Knights is nonsense and clickbait, because while we know he was always going to be a highly skilled player, we have no idea how Vegas might have chosen to develop, utilize or even retain him, and the truth is we will never know. What we do know: Nick Suzuki is shaping up to be the kind of franchise name for the Montreal Canadiens who in a few decades time will be utterly impossible to imagine playing anywhere else. He is exactly where he is supposed to be. Focus on that.

2) I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that the player who led the VGK in regular season goals, is currently tied for 2nd on the team in playoff goals and points (in 6 less playoff games than the #1 and T-2 players in both categories), leads the team in playoff GWG’s this year (again, in 6 less games than most of the roster), and has managed the most offensive production of any top-6 Vegas forward during this series (yeah that last one’s a low bar, but others are tripping over it), is PROBABLY not the guy who’s fucking them over right now in this series. Just a hunch.

[gatheringbones]

ivan coyote, from Many Little Miracles, from The Slow Fix, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008:

“But I was curious. I had never seen a queer auto worker before. Fags who built Fords. Transsexuals who assembled transmissions. Were they built tougher than big-city gay waiters were? Were they harder than the hairdressers, more calloused than a carpenter dyke’s hammer hand? Could they get me a discount on a Ford Focus station wagon? Did they get a union job on the assembly line right out of high school just like their dad and older brother did? Did they dream of this job, or did they drop out of college and into dark blue overalls? Did they ever lay awake in bed at night and wonder how many more brand new Trans Ams the future world will actually need, or did they sometimes wish they owned a Toyota or one of those hybrid things the yuppies like to feel good about driving, not for looks or reliability, but because of the price of gas these days?

The LGBT members of the CAW were there to organize, to strategize and fight for the right to work alongside their straight union brothers and sisters without fear or harassment. Together they imagined a workplace where they didn’t have to lie or leave out parts of their lives when the guy who worked beside them asked what they got up to over the long weekend. They dreamed of a day when the truth didn’t cost them a promotion, a day when they could walk all the way across the parking lot alone without needing to look over their shoulder to see if anyone was following too close behind, even after a graveyard shift.

They were there to fight for all of these things and I was there to entertain them. I wore my steelworkers T-shirt to show some solidarity, but then one of the organizers took me aside and told me to change because auto workers and steel workers had been in a longstanding feud over fundamental beliefs that were too complicated to get into, and it was a sore spot that I would be better off not bringing attention to.

I made a muscle-bound leather daddy who was the shop steward in a muffler factory cry like a baby when I told the one about my nephew the crossdresser. I sold a book to a man who leaned across the table to tell me a low whisper that he couldn’t read, and that his boyfriend had promised to read my stories aloud to him in bed before they fell asleep at night.

Later, in the bar, I met a sixty-year-old woman who had worked on an assembly line since just after her sixteenth birthday, and had been forced into early retirement by a twenty-eight-year old manager with a Master’s degree in squeezing blood from stones. When I asked her what she was going to do next, she pretended she hadn’t heard my question, then whipped out her gold Visa card and ordered another round of tequila shooters for everybody at the table.

There was a painfully shy transwoman sitting quietly alone in the corner of the bar, her shoulders slumped forward in an attempt to shrink some of her six-foot frame into the smaller body it looked to me like she wished she lived inside of instead. She mouthed the words to the tinny karoke songs, and sipped ginger ale through a thin pink straw. The leather daddy finished off his beer and strutted across the room and asked her to dance with him. When she looked up at him, I saw the lined that framed her lipsticked mouth stretch into a beautiful grin that revealed a face that seemed suddenly thirty years younger, when her life was simpler and less lonely. “How could I say no to you?” she purred, and covered her mouth with one palm.

I watched the two of them slow dance to “Stand By Your Man” by Tammy Wynette, and it was such a beautiful sight, him in his GWGs and her with a run up the back of one leg of one of her nylons, that I had to just thank providence that somehow I ended up being there to see it.”

[burkymakar]

here’s my rant about why Nathan MacKinnon should have won the hart trophy

(i don’t mean this in a way to diminish either Leon or Artemi but like... i wanted Nate to win)

so first off mackinnon got snubbed AGAIN. this is like his second time getting nominated for the Hart but not receiving it. So he’s consistently good.

But let’s focus on this season.

After a tumultuous four years and a WOW 2019 Stanley Cup Playoff appearance where NO ONE expected them to get far, the Avs were rolling at the start of the regular season with five straight wins. (thanks a LOT crosby)

While the Avs finally had depth with recently acquired players like Kadri, Burakovsky, and Bellemare, a lot of this was due to the amazing top line of Landeskog - MacKinnon - Rantanen, a line forged over several years with amazing goal scoring capabilities and chemistry. 

During that time, the depth is shining, and at least partially because of MacKinnon. After studying his stats, MacKinnon told Burakovsky to shoot the puck more and, taking that advice, Burakovsky went on to have his first 20-goal season, beating his previous high of 17 (and that’s with several massive injuries and the season being cut short).

But then in November, both Landeskog and Rantanen fall due to injury, and MacKinnon pulls the whole team to many great wins after a lot of people thought the Avs would crumble. But no, MacKinnon (with Johnson) lead the team well in his captain’s absence and ended up winning one of the stars of the month, without his iconic linemates. 

And those weren’t the only devastating injuries. Their biggest defenseman took a puck to the face in a Nashville game, and then a week later, Calvert got hit in the head with a puck during gameplay and went down on the ice bleeding. The refs didn’t blow it down and the Canucks scored a goal, forcing overtime. And less than fifteen seconds into that overtime, MacKinnon scored, ending the game.

But it was more than his GWG there. In the postgame, MacKinnon barely talked about his goal and was focused on Calvert. He said that while he understood the refs made the call they had to, he accused the league of being unsafe, defending his teammate and calling for more safe practices. 

In January, there’s an amazing article by Ryan S Clark where Calvert talked about MacKinnon inspired him to make better eating choices, and how he does that with all his teammates. This is a team that eats turkey burgers and sweet potato fries at the bar together, while Calvert was used to greasy beef. 

When he heard the Calvert credited him with his amazing season, MacKinnon said, “I think Calvy since last season has grown so much. He’s already got 10 goals and he’s such a good player and he’s such a huge part of our team in the locker room, on the ice and he’s such an effective player. I am not going to take credit for that. He’s doing that out there.”

Later on in February, more injuries plagued the Avalanche offense. Kadri, Rantanen, Burakovsky, Calvert, and more were out. But the Avs were doing amazing, both due to their defense pulling through and because of MacKinnon pushing his team.

And then, in one of the last games before the pause, MacKinnon got injured and was gonna be out. Another forward gone. But the Avs pulled through and won against the Rangers. 

Their season was amazing. Number 2 in the Western Conference, only getting shutout twice over 70 games, fourth most goals scored in the league. 

MacKinnon got 93 points, best on the team. Makar was second with 50. 

During return to play, with the Avs all healthy, the Avs dominated in the round robin and again in the their series against the Coyotes (who were awesome). Then the St*rs... 

In Round 2 against that southern green team, the Avs were down 3-1 and came back to force game 7. And that game 7 went to overtime WITHOUT key players: Landeskog, Johnson, Grubauer, Francouz, Calvert, Donskoi and Timmins. 

MacKinnon had the longest playoff point streak in Avs history. He beat a Gretzky record. And, unlike Draisaitl and Panarin, actually made the playoffs this year, not just the play-in.

the only game in return to play where MacKinnon didn’t score a point, and they lost it, losing the whole thing and sending them home. 

Even though I was devastated and righteously angry, I was so proud of the Avs, and MacKinnon. and i know they were sad but they’re gonna be so great next year. 

But when you asked MacKinnon, it was about the other players. When he’s asked about their offense, he highlights their blueline, and how much better it had gotten over the season. He celebrated Kadri’s buzzer beater in the first game back just as hard as he would for his own amazing goal (maybe harder). He fought for Cale to join him at the All-Star game. He compliments his teammates when they do well, and when he’s getting all the questions he asks the media to direct some to his teammates. And when asked about what changes he made, he said he wouldn’t change a thing. And when Yote went after his rookie, he threw that guy around like a fucking rag doll.

He could ask for over ten million dollars AAV (or 8 mil like Draisaitl) but no he gets 6.3mil a year, and said he’d take less if it would help the Avs. This guy cares about his team. This guy leads his team. This guy fights for his team. I really just don’t think u can say the same about Draisaitl or Panarin, no disrespect to either.

[frostbeees]

okay the gangbang fucks so hard and would not be mad about a sequel at all dude - like cole assisting josh on the OT gwg??? yeah they’re fucking in front of everyone as a treat. the teams reward for the win is to watch Josh absolutely blow out coles back and then josh gets to take him home to be nice and then tenderly fuck later and make him breakfast and oops he’s calling dibs on his lucky rookie

ohoooo you make an excellent addition to my idea of josh just taking cole home to fuck him

thank you <3 i’m glad you liked it tho and i at least want to write a short little sequel of them (and then maybe this cole/skinny/eric thing)

work is kinda kicking my ass today but hopefully my brain will hurt less this evening