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larsnicklas · 10 months ago

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WILLIAM NYLANDER ✧ 240108 It's nice that it's done and you know, uh, I'm gonna stay for the next eight years. So that's a, that's a very special feeling. I mean, this has been home for me. This is the longest I've stayed in one place in my entire life.

#william nylander #toronto maple leafs #maple leafs #leafs #nhl #hockey #meg.gif #meg.leafs #meg.all #loveliest boy. honestly speaking i can't even address the whole.#oh he grew up as a little nomad playing in locker rooms across the league...#let all those cities shape him bit by bit.#grew up. grew roots in the city that drafted him. decided he wasn't going to transplant himself somewhere else.#the little smile when he says he's going to stay for the next eight years. he wants to play in one jersey for his entire career.#something something sons and fathers that i'm not going to examine TOO too closely at this moment.

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