something about how trades really do affect players. how it's not just us as fans being crazy or reading too much into it. it's real and it's painful. erik johnson has lacked the hutzpah he once had ever since leaving colorado, as if he could bear landeskog's injury but the second he was forced to leave it all came crashing down. sidney crosby has lost much of the joy he once carried and it's because he had the human, golden embodiment of that joy in jake guentzel torn away from him when he needed it most. dylan larkin shed genuine, heartfelt, distraught tears when tyler bertuzzi was traded away. the penguins still welcome marc-andre fleury to pittsburgh every time he plays there because, no matter where he is, that is his home. pk subban could never return to the same player he was after he was taken from price. trevor zegras is seemingly incomplete without drysdale at his side. brandon duhaime is lacking his connor dewar. bowen byram no longer has his alex newhook to lean on and laugh with. travis koneckny and nolan patrick may never even get the chance to play another game with or against one another. and who could imagine kuznetsov as anyone but a capital? do you really think of pavelski in the green of the stars or do you see him proud in teal beside thornton and marleau? did shea weber ever really stop being a nashville predator? and what about beauvillier, horvat, compher, dumolin, burakovsky, kadri, yamamoto, hornqvist, eberle, o'rielly, barrie, jost, gaudreau, karlsson, carter and richards, martin, and so many others? even wayne gretzky himself went to three teams post trade, searching for that spark he had in edmonton after they made him leave. jagr had eight after pittsburgh. you are not crazy for grieving, in some small way, a player you lost. and they aren't crazy for feeling distraught either. these teams are family. and family is everything, even if it gets ripped apart so easily.
sorry started thinking about dbh after so long. apologies guys. yes Connor is my favourite. He’s a combo of like all my favourite character tropes and I love a good (question mark) story about robots.
something something the end poem and being alive and playing the game. had this bad boy in the wips for so long.
cannot emphasize how sickening today was……it was like the reversal of all progress like the ultimate monkey’s paw…….stars wrest from the chains of suter for casey desmith to be thrust into their hands……jack campbell second chance’d via employment on the wings and yet so is patrick kane….guentzel to the lightning but stamkos to the preds…..oilers finally free of ken holland only to consider stan bowman
View of men and women listening to records with headphones at tables in the Audiovisual Department of Main Library, Detroit Public Library. Record players on tables. Handwritten on back: "Detroit Public Library."
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
broke: connor should've been able to deviate on the roof with hank when choosing hank over the mission
woke: connor should've been able to deviate after failing to find jericho with high enough software instability because he is audibly and visibly afraid to die there and realizing that he fears death could lead to him realizing his victims felt the same, thus motivating him to live for the people he hurt and those cyberlife is still hurting (and likely for hank) instead of just marching back to cyberlife for deactivation
Of course there's no stream tonight, the man has been working non stop while flying about the globe, signing AND streaming? Good on him for having his priorities in order
sooo BAFTAs ON THURSDAY GANG!!!! Who's watching?