#in the playoffs no less

[cazluvsu]

terry rozier to the heat?&?(@??&,,!

[zetterbabe]

leon draisaitl for nhl.com/de

[mecachrome]

your post made me so emotional, bc you're so right! i'm just so amazed how good and consistent their season was. oscar finished every single lap and lando is only 7 laps behind and they literally both scored points in 23 of 24 GPs. and they are the youngest driver pairing to ever bring home the wcc! impressive stroke of luck they are both at the team at the same time.

🧡🧡🧡 oscar's record is so impressive considering how close it got at certain points... and each time they failed to score points they were running at the front before unfortunate timing/incidents (miami + austria LOL)

anyway i think........ again, a lot of people willfully misunderstand the dynamic landoscar have had since 2023 because it's not as narratively rich as other teams on the grid and now that mclaren have a fast car it stands to reason that they crave tension and artifice to cheapen the team's success. the thing with landoscar is that they're both very raw talents in different ways, and therefore not at all like red bull or mercedes, who coming into the season already had multi-wdc winning drivers, or even ferrari who had one driver marginally in a championship fight and another with plenty of experience across the grid, from tr to renault to mcl to fer... with george too there's a very specific kind of hunger to him because he was held back at williams as long as possible (which very well could have been oscar's fate in another timeline... 😫), and was promoted only to watch merc's development fall off a cliff — these are all well-established drivers, winning drivers, drivers who have bounced from team to team, drivers with meticulous images, etc. etc. that don't align with lando's experience in formula 1

lando meanwhile is someone who has always been and will continue to be underestimated and misunderstood, which is a fact of life, but coming into this season he was 1) winless and 2) didn't have the flashy resume to speak to his clear and obvious consistency. because of oscar's complicated history and the ambiguity (to the naked media eye, divorced from real data analysis or objectivity) of lando's success, the overarching notion was basically (as lando had previously done with dr) eat or be eaten — that oscar could only be immediately better or worse than lando, perpetually, and that cherrypicked results spoke to the totality of each driver's potential.

and really... the reality is that they work because while lando maybe wasn't a prodigious talent à la 17 y/o max, he IS vastly experienced for his young age, and he has proven himself against older drivers his whole life, and even if oscar isn't so experienced he's still adaptable and clear-headed and mature and not what was made of him at the onset of his career. and we can see that lando and charles are desperately loyal in very similar ways (whether that be to their detriment or not), yet none of their previous teammates have ever come in and managed to work with them with the same drive and hunger and level of cooperation that oscar has proven this season. like people will watch mcl through the lens of wanting one to be washed, wanting oscar to immediately show up lando, etc. but they held their heads down and even through the papaya rules of it all proved that they could communicate, that they were willing to give each other points and wins back without fanfare, and that most of all the team held more worth than any momentary, fleeting individual glory....... and that comes from a shared understanding few driver pairings are capable of maintaining. so idk 🧡 maybe sometimes a team literally just isn't toxic. sorry

[ratatatastic]

ESPN boston bruins @ florida panthers game 5 bumper | 5.14.24

[crow-talks-hockey]

surprisingly enough i'm actually not mad about that game. it could be because i was busy and didn't watch the first/second very closely but still. i liked the fight and i loveeeeee how even when we lose we play these fucked up little mind games with our opponents. kind of like game one in winnipeg. we get just close enough to unnerve the shit out of them. should have ultimately played our complete game, obviously, but still this goes to show how good the group we have is. we're also clean. so. fuck dallas and fuck j^mie b3nn; live laugh love the colorado avalanche instead

[wardensantoineandevka]

going from 0-1 to 5-1 top of the 8th 😌

[goldenmisfits]

[emeraldcitynerdfighter]

Ali Krieger getting the retirement sendoff from her club -- and advancing through the playoffs -- that Ash didn't and so desperately wanted is giving me L I F E

[baby-blue-bubbles]

CANUCKS ! YOU ARE ! INSANE !

[aberfaeth]

is that our fifth injury this game .

[taylorrepdetective]

Travis and Taylor in NYC last night - so that article was bogus?

it’s too early to say. He has a few days off because of his schedule, so they take advantage of those opportunities almost 100% of the time to be seen. If she is actually putting it out there that she’s shifting to Nash, I suspect it would be for a period of time that she’s not seen (except rarely and on game days.) Which might happen or it might not. I wouldn’t put any weight to this one outing. It’s possible it was a bit of a statement that this is NOT the case. It’s just too early to say. Come back in 3-6 months and we’ll know. Or we won’t.

[fannyyann]

im not that much of a fan of matthew sacrificing his body to play an almost nothing game in the middle of the season when they're top of the division...... feels like things like this should not be celebrated and allowed outside the playoffs :( i worry lmao

yeah 😔 with that said, Paul did say they wouldn’t let him back in if they didn’t know he’s be okay and last season when Matthew took that big hit from svechnikov, they kept him out the rest of that game and the next game, so while I know he wasn’t playing 100%, I don’t think it’s as serious as the knee injury barkov had early this season which all things considered could have been worse too.

And considering niko mikkola also was left tonight’s game but didn’t come back like verhaeghe, Matthew, and aj Greer did, and has already been ruled day to day with an upper body injury, I do tend to think Paul’s assessment that Matthew will be okay is less suspicious than I would have two seasons ago lol

[3416]

I personally love that you can’t stand domi. Like you’ve picked ur hill and honestly go you. Can’t say I share ur view to quite the same extent but it’s fun to see a ‘this guy straight up sucks’ post from someone who loves so many other players 😂🩷 (love all ur other posts too!)

HFKSNFJSKDBDND i appreciate that 😭😭😭 it's kinda funny to me that there's even any sort of love for that man in the first place that like fbndndfhdj being a hater is so easy tbh and ever since the debacle on here where i was harassed for NOT talking abt him like. damn i'll just lean into it, who gives a shit... that man's not a leaf for life, like hopefully we'll be free of him next yr lol. they should spend his cap hit on d upgrades since they have all these up and coming forwards in the marlies n ohl. it's been easy to complain esp lately since auston's been a scoring machine and elevating his linemates to greatness and i gotta hear 4473883 ppl talk abt how 593411 are apparently god's gift just bc auston is willing himself to 70 with the end in sight... like when your own linemates haven't even assisted on half your goals during that time period, you're creating the chances yourself atp 😭😭 it's auston fucking matthews. but i'll be glad when we're done with this one so we can stop pretending like domi's anything other than a team hopping mid liability of an nhler who is good at passing sometimes and that's about it. and i will forget about his existence in due time amen. and thank you for enjoying the content 🙏🫶

[sergeifyodorov]

wait hold on my hot takes instinct is winning against my shutting the fuck up better judgment. domi did well with matthews last night because he plays like a discount mitch. and he should play with him until mitch is back. bertuzzi is Decent on that line (good players do good things etc) but ideally you want like mcmann or smthg so auston doesn't have to be as high in the play bc he's defensively compensating for domi

[ratatatastic]

"Day one, you immediately said you don't believe in the thought of a hangover, you don't. What is—from that point, day one when you got back to now as you close in on that opener—makes you feel that that's true?" "I think it's a perspective. Well, a couple of things that I think would be important: had we not tested—so we'll test these guys hard—had they not put the effort into testing hard that would've been a red flag for me. So we're there physically. The question will be is: How do you perceive the adversity of the year? And that's where it changes. So I'll give an example. The last two seasons in November we've gotten into—on a road game—into a Western Conference team that wasn't very good and didn't make playoffs, and we lost. Then if it happens and we're in there in November again this year and if we lose: it'll be the hangover. That will be everybody's perception. It'll be exactly the same as the last two years. So how we perceive our adversity, and then how we act on our adversity will be how we define our team." "At what point do you—if at all—say 'Okay, that was last year, that was great. Trust me, we'll always embrace it but this is this year and we can't mingle the two.' Or do you embrace it? Kind-of mingling the fact that 'Hey, you're the Champs!' and what you just experienced?" "These men have earned to enjoy some of the things that come along with becoming a Champion and the Ring Ceremony on Monday night will be a really big part of that. We want to be fully able to enjoy it, it's been earned. What we don't want to do is feel that what we earned last year will have anything to do with the next night when we open against Boston. The puck gets dropped, the game demands certain things no matter whether you won or you lost last year. There's a certain number of things that you have to do to expect to win and we're gonna to have to be prepared to do that." "Did the fact that you are the hunted more so than the hunter—and obviously you're hunting for another title—but everywhere you go it's like, 'Hey, the Champs are coming to town,' 'Hey, the Panthers—that's the team we got to beat, they're the Champs.'" "It's an interesting thing that you say that because there was—I was reading an article today about the Top 5 Forward groups in the National Hockey League and our guys aren't part of it. So we're still, I think, lurking that—there is an expectation and that's where maybe the danger of why people will say it's so difficult to repeat. I don't believe that. It's exactly the same level of hard as we like to say, to win. It's just that your expectation—feel you won last year so somehow this should be easier and it won't be." "You talked so much last year about finally getting that taste of that all year. So now obviously you love the game, it keeps you going, you love being around the team but how much did winning last year change you—if at all—as you enter this new year? Do you sense anything? Do you feel anything as a coach that burden or pressure or cloud—whatever you want to call it?" "It's a great question and I've been looking for it, I'm trying to monitor. The driver for that to me is these guys works so hard, and in their effort they deliver this prize and you get to be a part of it. They did all the work, I get to be a Stanley Cu—I get my name on the Cup. I don't want to be the weak link here so at the same time because I'm aware of that, I got to also be mindful that I'm not a Berserker every day so that nobody thinks I'm being casual. So I got a job to do, I want to be the guy that prepares just like them, they work hard all summer I want to make sure that I'm driving as hard as I can, and they know that I'm not being casual about this."

Chasing the Cup (WPLG Local 10) | 10.6.24 (x)

[tobinsonny]

the dichotomy of feeling bad for spirit and not liking racing but also wanting gotham to keep their number 2 spot has me conflicted about who I want to win this game