#you'll always be a penguin jake <33

[readingbythestreetlights]

i've been trying to figure out a way to say just how much this guentzel trade will hurt, and i just... can't do it. there's SO MUCH THERE. i'm sitting here crying at my laptop because life simply moves on and hockey is ruthless and even if i want it to be 2017 again it won't ever be 2017 again. and even if i want jake to stay and continue being golden for us forever, that's not real. and i can cry and cry and cry as much as i want but that won't stop the inevitable. jakey you would've been the next captain. you would've. and you would've done a hell of a job at it, too. thanks for giving us so many good years and for being a huge part in getting us a CUP!! it's purely unsettling, imagining a pens team without you. it's not quite fleury but holy crap if it doesn't feel reminiscent of that because you've been with us here for 8 years now. eight fantastic years. tomorrow when the news will probably break i'll be too upset to even say anything, but thank you so so much. you've meant so much to us, and so much to me personally. and yeah hockey is just a sport and blah blah blah but also it's really not. you'll always have a home in pittsburgh.