#tender for goalies

[grittystitties]

Did you guys know I’d die for Sam Ersson

[quicksiluers]

something bout tk and his goalie (x)

[ratatatastic]

do you know what its like to see bob yeet his stick (as hes prone to do akin to a lizard dropping their tail to escape high danger situations) and ekky being in the right place at the right time to catch the handle with his own stick and pass it back to him

what a gentleman! very chivalrous! a knight in shining armour if you will! what a polite cat!

Training Camp 24 | 10.1.24 (x)

[oensible]

Well i guess at least if the sharks didnt win. Warsos ice bath agenda very much is after. Gestures vaguely. Everything lol

[em-ptynet]

one last goalie hug to end the season 🥲🫂 | phi vs wsh 2024.04.16

[finnesse]

Bobby saves us again pt. nth | FLA @ EDM (December 16, 2024)

i would like to thank sergei bobrovsky for making the timely saves!! and then we also have bobby wobbling a litol bit (im not dat old but my knees are effed up already and this is me on a daily basis) and using benny as support. but can also be interpreted as asjkhfkjadf screams into the void what is this waist holding as a thank you for the help. idk what to do with this info honestly. all this tender bobby but we also get "verhaghae couldn't get a stick on it. bobrovsky said that's enough kids, playground's closed."

[frostbeees]

( x )

[stardustsea]

flyers stream loooooooves to cut away from goalie hugs before they get to tk 🔪

[ohpuckmeremus]

No one:

Me: I'm into tendies.

Me: chicken AND goal

No one:

Me: Similar vibes, no?

[starscelly]

tender goalie bonk...

wsh@dal 12.16.24

[grittystitties]

Sam Ersson, the sunshine of my life, has a shutout. Blessings blessings.

[significant-narratives]

feeling very normal about matthew and joe tonight :,)

i'll give you one fucking guess who he's looking at

the 2360 bond is so important to me... kniesy going up to joey when he first got called up to the team asking for Guidance and joey is like 'actually i just got here too :)' so they end up having to figure out what it means to be rookies in the nhl together. becoming such good friends they end up attached at the hip and you rarely see one without the other. sharing the same (ridiculous) nickname. coming up with silly little pregame rituals because i guess you need to spend time together before a game to feel settled. complimenting each other constantly. always standing up for one another. someone knocks into joey? kniesy is going to kill them and then loving help him to his feet. someone hurts kniesy? well okay, now no one is allowed to score. have fun getting shutout. planning to take cooking classes together. going to a bee exhibit because why not. figuring out what your future is going to look like together. being a solid support for the other to lean on. the most tender heartwrenching post game goalie hugs of all time. all very mundane things that we should all feel very normal about!

[ratatatastic]

bobsenko helmet kiss at 0:16 btw. if u even care at all. If u think ur team is more Lovingly Gay Married to each other than the florida kitties well think again !!!

https://x.com/Sportsnet/status/1801449713943908719

PEOPLE THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY KISS BOBBY LAY A FAT SMOOCH ON HIM CATS ARE ALL IN A BIG POLYCULE FILLED W LOVE AND KINDNESS

florida panthers @ edmonton oilers game 3 | 6.13.24 (x)(x)

[emphasisonthehomo]

The buddietommy hockey!au no one asked for~

Buck and Eddie are a d pair. Obviously. They've been a d pair for a good chunk of their careers. While they're not always always on ice together (sometimes Coach gets experimental with the lines) there is a very good bet that if the team is down, Diaz and Buckley are going over the boards at the same time.

Eddie is a little more forward minded. He's the defense that can put up points if the opportunity arises. There's been a few seasons where Eddie has somehow been the goal leader for the first few games, before the team gets their legs up under themselves. Buck blocks. He's throwing his body down to the ice to catch that fucking puck. He can and has taken a puck to the jaw to stop it from finding the back of the net.

They're also bros. Buddies, if you will. They roomed as rookies. They're neighbors that carpool. Multiple fans have posted selfies where they ran into Eddie and Buck at the same time at the grocery store or something. (Chris is very purposefully not in view, because Eddie is very strict about not putting his son in the lime light.)

They also. You know. Help each other out ;) like good bros do. It's casual. It's always been casual. Often on the road. Hand jobs or oral or rutting against each other. They don't fuck, that'd be gay. But they do... come in each other's mouths. Shut up. They're both straight. It's fine. It's casual. They don't do it when either of them has a girl. It's just when they're single. When they're bored. When they've had a good (or a bad) game and want to let off that extra energy.

And then Tommy.

Tommy was actually a rookie on their team, before either of them were drafted, and long since traded away to a different conference. He's getting close to retirement, one of those players where it's a shame he hasn't been on a Stanley Cup Winning Team yet. This season Tommy's signed back on as a veteran goaltender, in order to be a good influence to the 24 year old goalie that's on the roster.

And both of them are lowkey obsessed with Tommy.

It starts off as normal defensemen behavior. Don't touch my goalie. Don't look at my fucking goalie. You good babe? Great save out there, you're like a fucking wall. Beaut of a pad save. Standard run of the mill "I Love and Support My Goalie" behavior on both of their parts.

But then Tommy starts hanging out. He just moved back to the city and is renting a place near their neighborhood, so of course he's now in their carpool. He's terrible at video games, and Chris loves to destroy him. He grills on Eddie's back porch. He crashes on Buck's couch.

Tommy was brought on to mentor their rookie goalie, but oops. The rookie gets injured early in the season. Tommy becomes the starting goalie. He's a veteran on the game, it makes sense. And then somehow, on the tail end of his career, he really starts fucking cooking. His save percentage is fucking ridiculous. He's managing saves and shutouts and statistics that are normally reserved for goalies 5 years younger. He's never been an All Star Goalie, but this season he will be.

Buck comes up to Eddie at some point in mid December, and explains that he's seeing someone.

"Oh nice, what's her name?" Eddie asks with genuine curiosity.

"Well," Buck says, going a little pink, "It's not-it's different. I'm not seeing a girl."

And Eddie blinks and then stares, as Buck begins to stumble through an explanation that he's seeing Tommy. They're not gonna come out or anything, it won't be public, but they're together and it's serious.

It's not a big deal. Of course it's not a big deal. "I'm happy for you bro" Eddie says while his mind is reeling. Apparently Buck wasn't as straight as he thought.

Nothing changes. Everything changes. Tommy's still there. Still in Eddie's house, still playing video games with Eddie's kid. But now Tommy's fingertips are gently tracing patterns on Buck's upper arm. Now Buck is busy looking at Tommy with open tenderness. Now Eddie sees them kissing each other 'hello' and 'goodbye', soft and careful. Tommy's good for Buck. Better for Buck than any of the other people he's dated in the past.

Eddie's left watching their relationship start to grow, slow and gentle and sure. Like it was inevitable. Eddie's left wondering what it is about Tommy that made Buck want to be serious, when Eddie's been here the whole time. He's not jealous. He's not.

This might be their year though. They've gone from being a 'maybe' team for the playoffs to a 'definitely'. Eddie wants the cup. He wants it like an ache. Whatever is going on with Buck and Tommy is secondary to that. He shouldn't be thinking about it.

He thinks about it so much.

[mattpoitrass7thgoal]

Tender goalie moments

[jessethegoat]

god I miss this moment... :')

oh yeah..don't forget a sweet tattoo coming out of it! A fan showed it to Jesse during pre season in Australia!