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[nottodayjustin]

May 1st 2024 best hockey tweet(s) of the day

Pete Blackburn double feature today

[5bi5]

Favourite jerseys by pacific divison team

[wildaboutmnhockey]

i have no investment in this narrative

[frostbeees]

8.10.24

[goldenmisfits]

Penalty Cubicle

[tapedsleeves]

I got a name for each one of my headaches

can't let go by caught a ghost x nolan patrick

[vgkmarc]

champs. 💛

(via abbie parr/associated press)

[imagescuisantes]

VGK

[stereax]

why do people hate vegas so much?

Do you want the Stereanalysis version or the short one?

The short answer is basically this: The Vegas Golden Knights entered the league and were expected to be hot garbage. Despite this, they had what many assumed was a "miracle" run in the 2018 playoffs, making it all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals, and have since established themselves as a consistent contender. Many haters of the Knights claim that Vegas was "gifted" a championship team from the onset (revisionist history at best), that Vegas didn't "go through years of pain" like most expansion teams (which, it's not their fault they're good?), and that the refs and Bettman want Vegas to win (which is said about 32 out of 32 teams in this league). Additionally, it's believed that a lot of Vegas fans are "fair-weather" and that they'll abandon the team when it doesn't do well, which ties into the theory that the NHL is "rigging" it for Vegas. Winning the Cup last year, over the undercat Florida Panthers to boot, angered many, especially due to Vegas's owner's bold prediction of "Cup in six [years]" made before their first season.

Additionally, Vegas's front office has a history of big deals. From trading fan favorite Fleury with no prior warning, leaving him to find out online; to the story of Haula, who literally showed up to practice and his keycard didn't work and that's how he learned he got traded three days before his wedding (but we don't talk about that one because Fleury is Fleury); to every single Vegas trade and trade deadline where they seem to acquire every big free agent and give up fairly little in return (Hertl, Hanifin, Quick, Barbashev, Eichel, Stone, Pacioretty, the list goes on). Many people can't divorce the front office from the team itself and get very upset when Vegas "poaches" the players they want.

On top of this, you have the "cap circumvention" narrative, claiming that players such as Stone are "faking" injuries so Vegas can do cap magic and add more players than they should be "allowed" to. First of all, the idea that players like Stone are faking injury is bullshit, especially in a league where players like Stutzle and J Hughes have outright stated that they played injured for long stretches of the season. Fun fact, the NHL does have doctors that run checks on LTIRed players and verify that they're truly injured. (The Leafs got into some hot water last offseason when they were LTIRing Murray and then later with Klingberg as well, as the NHL was suspicious that they had moved Murray's surgery date and recovery time to allow themselves to "bury" Murray's contract on LTIR for the season.) If anything, Stone was probably still hurt in the playoffs. The man is seemingly incapable of playing an 82-game season and yet people are screaming that he's faking injuries when he does get hurt. (Also, on cap circumvention: Nobody remembers Kucherov anymore but that was so much more blatant. Additionally, the league has considered closing LTIR "loopholes" several times now and several times has decided against it. Your team doesn't do it? Okay. It doesn't give you a moral high ground, though, as it is patently legal in the NHL rules to do so.)

Plus, there's definitely some disdain for the glitz and glamor of Vegas. Sparkly gold uniforms, City of Sin, pink flamingos, shiny golden helmets, elaborate pre-game shows where knights slay dragons, slot machines, glitter, all of that. I'm not going to bring up my personal theories here, but I'd advance the question to Vegas haters why they dislike the spectacle of Vegas, and whether that dislike also may apply to other areas where men may be associated with glitter, pink, sin, sparkles, and all that, such as, y'know, drag queens, or gay men more generally.

But hey, that's just a theory... a stereax theory.

[skullsnsunbeams]

if that really is nolan patrick's burner, I have to laugh bc in our minds he's a queer icon baby girl when in reality he's a conservative douche bag chode who spends his time on twitter just like the rest of us

[sarcasmchandlerbing]

Brad Marchand as a blacksmith

Adin Hill as a duke

Marc-André Fleury as a ringmaster

Devon Levi as a jedi

Joseph Woll as a composer

Evgeni Malkin as a ice cream truck driver/seller

Part 1

Part 2

[national-hockey-gay]

jack eichel + to make a career out of wanting

—7/29

[juhollamago]

[frostbeees]

“Brendan Brisson: big ✨ tzatziki ✨ guy”

[goldenmisfits]

absolutely incredulous @ the penalty call

[tapedsleeves]

noah hanifin & the st seb tattoo

vgk vs min april 12 2024 pregame