#nz91

[rowdyluv]

Power Outage

Request: yes / no

Summary: a snow storm blows through Vancouver knocking out the power in your’s and Nikita’s shared home. A previous time before left a situation to be settled.

Warnings: use of y/n, pet name usage, (sunshine), friends w feelings, angst?, cursing like once, unedited (I had to rewrite this THREE times. I’ll edit eventually)

Word Count: 1.82k

It had been snowing all day and way into the evening. The sun was already setting over the house across the street making a pretty orange and pink sunset. The view of the snow outside from the front bay window looks just as beautiful as the sunset. The street lamps were already on and casting a soft glow over the solid white blanket on the front lawn. Your roommate, who is also your best friend, is supposed to be getting home any moment now. Nikita has been away in Edmonton with his team for a roadie. The team had arrived back at Rogers a little bit ago. Knowing he has to swap out his equipment and then drive in the mess that is Vancouver right now, you’re trying to keep a calm mind about what is taking so long.

Feeling your phone buzz in the pocket of the massively oversized sweatpants you’ve swiped from Za. “Hey Za, you on your way home?” You ask as soon as you answer. “Hey sunshine. Yes I’m on my way there now. I was calling to tell you to start a fire. The power is out over near the arena. It’s only a matter of time before the house loses it too. This snowstorm is a mess.” His voice was so soft yet each word held a distinct sense of strength, as if he was trying his best to not make it seem like a command. He had a habit of sounding like he was telling everyone to do something when he was only talking with just the tone of his voice. Something he tried to hone back on with you. You nodded your head as if he could see you through the phone. Quickly correcting yourself. You agreed to his suggestion and offered to heat up leftovers. Hanging up the phone you started fiddling with the fire as you told him you would, as well as starting with heating up some food for him. Watching the plate turn around in the microwave your thoughts started to over take you.

“Sunshine, your fingers are turning pink. I know you’re cold.” Nikita grabbed the hand closest to him. “Why are you trying to act like you are completely fine when clearly you are freezing?” He asked a bit tiffed that you were sitting silently with painstakingly cold joints. “What else is there to do Za? I have layers on. We have a fire going and I have my quilt.” You say pointing out each for emphasis. He ran his hands over his face before getting up off the floor and walking over to the entryway of the house. He returned with a pair of gloves. “Put these on (y/n).” You looked up at him, trying to read his face. His tone of voice didn’t match the story his eyes were telling. His voice was rough and forceful but his eyes were pleading. “Now.” He added as you hadn’t moved to take the gloves from him. As if he was in control of you suddenly, you jumped and were quickly shoving the gloves on. He returned to his position in the floor pulling you in to his body. “I can’t have you freezing to death next to me.” Your heart was pounding. He was only supposed to be your best friend, your roommate. A platonic relationship but when he did things like this your heart beat so fast it wanted to explode. “If you froze to death, the sunshine in my life would disappear forever.” “Nikita, you can’t say things like that to a girl.” You tried to swallow down the emotions dwelling inside you. The things he made you feel when he talked as if it was just the two of you and only the two you for each other. “I’m serious. If it wasn’t for you, I’d have no light in this crazy world I chose to live in. The dream I dreamt of for so long. I need you here (y/n).” “Za. Please don’t say things like this. It can confuse a girl when you have her in your arms as a friend to keep her warm because the power in their shared home is out. But when it comes back on there will nothing more behind it but their friendship.”

The beeping of the microwave ending its cycle pulled you back to reality, snapping you out of the memories that oh so often haunt you. The beeping of the microwave ending its cycle pulled you back to reality, snapping you out of the memories that oh so often haunt you. Just as luck would have it the power cut off, and the front door swung open with a thud.

“(Y/n)?” Nikita called from the entrance way. “It’s just me.” He adds. Another thud comes. Presumably his bag.

“You’ve got this, it’ll be okay.” You tell yourself under your breath.

You felt your way back to the main room where you would have a source of light from the fire place. “Hi Za. Welcome home.” You met him near the doorway and gave him a hug. Greeting your best friend just like you always do when he returns home from road trips. “You were right, the power just went out as you were coming in. It’s going to get cold in here fast even with the fire. I did heat you up some food though. It’s still in the microwave for you.” You told him pointing to the kitchen where his food still was and covering yourself up as a chill ran through you. ��How about I help you out and take your stuff up to your room, you eat before it gets cold and we can’t warm it back up, and then we can hang out down here?” You suggested. Desperate to get your blood pumping and away from the epicenter of your thoughts for a few moments. Grabbing his travel bags, doing your best to haul it up the stairs but failing in the end. “(Y/n/n) leave it there, I’ll eat and then grab it. I’ll need to change anyways. Go layer up so you don’t get too cold.” Humming in response you completely dropped his bag and headed up the stairs as fast as your legs would take you.

Conceding to your frustration of not being able to find a hoodie to fit comfortably over your long sleeve and t-shirt, you decided to ask Nikita. “Hey Za, can I come in?” You called from the hall giving a knock on the door. No answer. “Za?” You called out again pushing the door open. He wasn’t in his room. You popped right in and swiped one of his Canucks hoodies with 91 and Zadorov on the back. Heading back across the hall to grab your quilt and your pillows before heading down the stairs. “Remember (y/n) you can do this.” Telling yourself for reassurance as you bottom the stairs not seeing Nikita at the edge of the sofa. “You can do what?” Nikita asked slowly moving his eyes up and down your body, taking in that you are now dressed in his hoodie and his sweatpants. “Hyping myself up to not nearly freeze to death this time.” Tossing the blanket down then your pillows before settling down on them. Nikita had already pulled the blankets from the couch down to the floor sitting on the floor himself. “(Y/N) I think you and I both know you’ll end up freezing regardless of hyping yourself up. You get cold in the middle of summer.” He says with a chuckle almost as if it’s a joke to him. “Well just trying to avoid last time from repeating itself. We nearly ruined our friendship.” You pointed out before you could even stop yourself.

Nikita was holding eye contact with you after your words tumbled out of your lips. His face showed nothing but pure pain and shock. “Za I didn’t..” “No it’s fine.” He cut you off. “I was trying to put everything out there then, but someone wanted to think the worst of me.” He shrugged his shoulders while moving away from you, the furthest he could while still being near the fire. “Nikita. I really didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Now or then. I was protecting myself and I didn’t think there was any way possible you could’ve meant any of that beyond friendship.”

You never looked up from where your hands were fidgeting in your lap until you heard him scoff loudly. “Seriously? We were laying in this exact spot by a fire. You were lying on top of me I was holding you, running my hands up and down your back to help create heat out of friction. Plus I was telling you that if my sunshine froze to death the light in my life would disappear and you thought I didn’t mean it past a friendship?” He was shaking his head in disbelief. “That is why you kept saying I would confuse a girl?” He couldn’t believe that for the last four years he was the one who had been living in confusion, not technically you.

You knew what you wanted and you wanted him. He wanted you, but had spent the last four years thinking you thought he was some playboy. When in reality he had been pining for his best friend the entire time because of his own confusion. You were trying to calm your heart from its erratic pounding. “Nikita. Please I said I was sorry.” Closing your eyes to hold back the tears threatening to form and fall. He couldn’t believe any of this. He was elated to find out you felt the same way.

“(Y/N) open your eyes. Look at me.” He had moved so silently you had no idea he was now in front of you. Cupping the side of your face and looking directly at you with nothing but pure admiration in his eyes for a few moments before talking again. “Sunshine, put all of that out of your mind, please. Stop thinking about all. It’s over with. All that matters now is it’s cleared up we finally talked about it and I’m going to do everything in this fucking world to prove to you that you’re it for me. That it was you then and it’s going to be you fifty years from now. The light to my darkness..” He never dropped eye contact with you, he didn’t stumble over his words, yet they didn’t seem practiced. Each word came directly from deep with in his heart and held such strong emotion behind them. “Hey Za? I think you should kiss your girlfriend now.” You eventually choked out over the raw emotions swirling around. “Girlfriend? I didn’t ask.” He gave you his cheeky smile. “Shut up and kiss me Zadorov.”

[babygirlboeser]

“Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported on Wednesday that the Canucks and the Chicago Blackhawks have completed a trade that will send forward Ilya Mikheyev, the rights to Sam Lafferty and a second-round pick to Chicago in order to free up some money.”

they can actually get rid of literally everyone if it means resigning big Z

[frasermints]

I sort of have a weird question for you - if you had to remove one player from (any of your teams) & add any player you want back to them, who would you pick?

uhh so i'm gonna answer this as calmly as i can bc i'm literally shaking right now

fraser minten is not currently on the leafs roster and that has me really concerned as his number one fanboy so completely erasing every answer that i had in my mind fraser minten back to the leafs please immediately what the fuck

if we're talking actual, like. well thought out answers, i'm struggling to come up with anything because the leafs are a failure of a team that can't have a patch with just one person, yknow?

like. okay. let's kick mr44 and take hronek or zadorov. both are large players, both are capable of scoring and playmaking, both are capable of being physical. but both also take (respectfully) ridiculous penalties. the leafs have proven time and time again that they're incapable of putting together even a passable penalty kill and our special teams were fucking laughable during the playoffs. you can't say that replacing your top/two defensemen with one or two great players is going to fix the team.

and like, this could be broken down into two parts - mr44 is still out scoring and out assisting both of them. but he's also got a dogshit attitude that comes out at very (in)convenient times, and that concerns me. what is he saying when we can't hear him? what is he doing when we can't see him? that crosscheck and subsequent suspension seriously colored my opinion of him, and he's wearing a fucking A!!!

he's also slow as hell on the ice, he's fucking trash specifically on special teams, he can't analyze a play when he's by himself worth shit, he wastes full entire minutes standing behind the goaltender completely wasting power play opportunities and he has since fucking november. and he has no fucking excuse re: ice time because 222 have spent more time on the ice than he has during the 23/24 season. you're not being overworked, mo, you're just not good enough at your job.

and you could say a lot of nz91's success has specifically happened because he's on the canucks, he's supported by a very talented and a very healthy (vibes) team. sure, but like. the canucks have not always been that way and i really don't think you can flower power your way into creating a beast of a defenseman, much less a d core like the canucks have. tyler myers AND nikita zadorov AND carson soucy AND quinn hughes AND ian cole AND filip hronek like the math just isn't mathing. vibes are not sustaining this team alone like it is individual talent as well. it really has to be both. you have to have talent AND vibes. you have to have a healthy work environment AND incredibly talented people on the ice.

so like, in a perfect world, mr44 would have been gone like four years ago. replace him with someone from the canucks d, and we'd be golden. but there's a much deeper issue in toronto than just hockey players bad, so i don't think it would do anything constructive.

other options include:

replace ilya samsonov with pyotr kochetkov because we need Someone Else

replace john tavares with matty beniers, get mk23 back together with his olympics boyfriend for the lols

replace john tavares with seth jarvis, get me my personal babygirl for the lols

[eriecanal]

the ep40 school of canucks fashion vs the nz91 school of canucks fashion...

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[pensherosjourney]

interview with nikita zadorov on what chaos -- posted today, interviewed last week (26 min interview about 22 min into the show)

ETA: they later posted just his interview here

he talks about his style, fighting, boston, rivalries, and contracts. i get the impression that respect and disrespect are a big thing for him because he brings it up a lot in different contexts

some notes on the conversation:

says he doesn't have a stylist (and then says his wife is like his stylist and orders stuff and picks his clothes for him) but he does work closely with a tailor and they send things back and forth

loves boston <3

says he likes to keep himself on his toes with short contracts lol but also good to have stability with a family

has gotten caught up in the dramas of teams he was on (coaches getting fired, front office scandals etc, except colorado which was stable <3)

felt disrespected by calgary not offering him something earlier his free agency year + really wanted to have a good year because it was his contract year + knew the coach was leaving

gives a ton of credit to daryl sutter + also vancouver's staff (says tocchet was similar to sutter + honest)

wanted to stay in vancouver at the start of negotiations but a couple things didn't go the way he wanted (another mention of things being a little bit disrespectful lol) so he started talking to other teams

said covid and the non growth of the cap made it difficult for mid-level guys because after paying the big players big bucks teams needed to fill the rest out will 775-1mil guys -- had a lot to do with how many or how few offers he got (0 vs 20? maybe an exaggeration)

boston checked all his boxes right away and was one of the first teams talking to him

said before he and lindholm moved to boston they were spending a couple days in the city and talking about how it might be a nice place to sign, that they need a centerman and a left d

going through a list of all the shady things he's said and done -- no apologies doubled down

says he needs times to really get into the rivalry before becoming a world class toronto hater

says he doesn't ask people for recommendations of what to do in the city -- "I do my own research" -- likes the North End a lot (european vibes, old italian culture)

loves basketball, likes football, doesn't care for baseball

on the conversation with david ortiz "i didn't think he understood what i said" and "i don't think he knows who i am" -- says he's mayyybe a heat fan because he lives in miami during the summer

"there's no one bigger than me" -- love

says he feels bad for matt rempe for having to fight every game (after being asked if he was jealous of all the attention rempe was getting as a fellow big guy)

interesting comments about picking a time and a place for fighting -- says jamie benn is the best at it (calls it "the game inside the game") -- mostly like honor/respect/protection kind of stuff but also says he fought manson because he had a goal and an assist and wanted a gordie howe -- says he doesn't actually like fighting just does it because you need to

was getting cross checked by big Z on his first pk shift and was too afraid to cross check back against him because he was so big lmao

big respect for marchy -- at captain skates had young guys skate with the old guys (usually at captains skates they skate separately) and he really wants all the guys to get to know each other -- hosts say that's descended from chara

says he can be called z, zaddy, zads etc, there's not just one nickname

[babygirlboeser]

zaddy goal i miss u gorjus

[babygirlboeser]

i’m not ready for free agency i’m not ready to watch zadorov be taken away from me i’ve become so attached to him i’m not ready😭

[babygirlboeser]

dak is back now all they need to do is resign zaddy and i can die happy

[babygirlboeser]

is it toxic that i was hoping for another battle of the 91’s last night

[babygirlboeser]

i love u nikita zadorov