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JACK DRURY Canadiens vs. Hurricanes - 12.28.2023

#he's so <3 #went to a pens v canes game like a month ago #was close to the ice #went w a friend #point jack out to her #right after he looked up #we literally just stared each other down for like 10 seconds #and my friend was freaking out on my behalf bc we were just staring at each other #anyways #i think ab that from time to time #that technically #hes aware of my existence #weird #love him tho <333 #jack drury #carolina hurricanes #canes #nhl #hockey

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Cassie's behind the scenes content is really the only thing holding the world together (Pt. 1)

#he's such a dork #i love him #lewis pullman #bob floyd

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he looks 3 apples tall

#sweet boy <3 #lewis pullman

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OSCAR ISAAC

The Brioni Spring/Summer 2024 Campaign

#who allowed this #<- fr!!#cuz i wanna thank whoever is responsible #hes him!!#oscar isaac

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my roman empire

#smth ab it...#idk why i just always liked my guys a little roughed up #brings out smth in me #also makes me wanna take care of them #which ig brings out the nursing side of me #either way #its peak!!!#sidney crosby #sc87 #pittsburgh penguins #hockey #nhl

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“you just turned… 35?” “🤨 you were gonna go 36 there… eh???”

no escape for him now… happy 36th 🏆

bonus: 2010 vs 2022

#hes so canadian i love it #like his accent is music to my ears #and his laugh!!#the full body laugh!!#and the eye crinkles!!!#im always such a sucker for it #i think it's one of the most beautiful features a human can have #reflects a joyful heart and joyful person in my mind #sidney crosby #pittsburgh penguins #sc87 #hockey #nhl

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Timbits of Wisdom

#sorry not sorry to all yall that are dealing w my reblogs #proudly born and raised in pitt #and hes been my captain since day one #so im gonna keep posting him even tho the pens are having a horrible season rn #also hes still the goat #love this man #sidney crosby #sc87 #pittsburgh penguins #hockey #nhl

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Sometimes I talk a lot and sometimes I don’t talk at all and somehow both are embarrassing

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“tumblr mutual” beloved friend I would pick up at the airport if y’all visited my home city

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PEOPLE CALLED US DELUSIONAL

SAID IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN

BUT WE PERSEVERE BEN MEARS NATION

#EVERYBODY CHEERED!!!#ben mears #lewis pullman #salem’s lot

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it's a fight night in pittsburgh - 10/3/24

#im sorry the way he just casually puts him in a headlock #brings him down #and then lays on him #is just so funny to me #yall im being so real i love this man so much #hes been my number one since day one #sidney crosby #pittsburgh penguins #sc87 #hockey #nhl

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omg okay there’s a point i wanna bring attention to re: sidney when he fights on the ice….

sid gif sources: rinkrats/suiheisen, hunterrrs

i would argue that sid’s the best fighter on the ice (therefore worst person to be targeted by) because he’s so effective at it, largely due to his incredibly strong base (lower half)

look at gifs of sid when he’s fighting vs any other nhl player against each other. other players are usually spinning around or skates slipping back and forth. they usually have one arm each out as a post, bracing against the other player. that means that other player can’t get closer to them. it also means that THEY can’t get closer either. if u wanna do damage, it’s pretty ineffective.

sidney crosby however, is INSANE, and i am actually terrified of him because he fights way too good for someone who realistically shouldn’t know how to fight like that even at an average level, and i’ll explain why:

first and foremost - he has a very specific, very effective way of fighting, a formula almost, that follows the fundamentals of a takedown (used in all grappling sports e.g wrestling, mma, jiujitsu, vale tudo)

firstly, he always catches them when they’re off balance and if they’re not, he shoves them until they’re more off balance. that just means movement of some sort because you’re most stable when you’re low and not moving.

then, he’ll break their base down from the top. he will either reach behind their head to grab the back of the neck and then pull down, almost like a snap down you would see in folkstyle wrestling, mma and brazillian jiujitsu.

if he doesn’t get the snap down immediately, he stays up top and basically shakes them left and right (again, breaking down their base and their stability) but it’s not like he grabs them by the shoulders and shakes them back and forth, he twists them left to right. a lot of takedowns in martial arts work well when you can destabilise the person’s base in several directions. i’ve literally done back take downs by getting a hold of them and just wobbling them back and forth because eventually they stumble and fall.

you can see what i mean in this example here:

shoves 19 until he’s off balance, first goes to reach for the behind the head to grab the jersey/neck, 19 ducks out of it, so then he grabs him by the shoulders and uses his hips and core to wring him side to side until he can get 19 on to the ground.

you can kinda see the similarities to olympic wrestling here in the scrambling, fighting for head control, and snapdown attempts (there aren’t very many wrestling gifs i could find so please bare with me)

the insane thing is, is that he does that while moving at ridiculous speeds too. same principles apply here when he’s in motion - catches them off balance, at least one hand controlling the head, keeps their base broken and lower than him, before using the power from his core to throw them

if he gets dragged into the fight as a 1-on-1 it goes 2 ways: he maintains control of the head and pushes it down into the ground, basically playing a pressure game so that his opponent cannot get back up without breaking out of his grip. your options are limited here because the floor doesn’t have enough friction for you to effectively move. the only thing you would do would be to rotate out of his grip, IF you knew how to grapple.

sidney leans all his weight down (what we call playing a pressure game) on the players head because that’s where his base is weakest. the other player is attempting to get his knees underneath him to post up and re-establish his base, but he can’t because of the ice.

it doesn’t get better for the opponent if they’re BOTH on the ice. the fundamentals of grappling and takedowns are still applicable, and he applies them with ease. compare sidney grappling with the other player, and grappling in a ufc match and no-gi at a jiujitsu gym.

sidney manages to be an insanely good wrestler/grappler, and he picked all that up without ever doing a martial arts class. i say this with the utmost admiration because i’ve been doing jiujitsu/mma/wrestling for almost a decade now, and the fact that he essentially learnt those fundamentals just through hockey, and then proceeds to become THE best at it on the ice? that’s terrifying.

tl;dr sidney crosby is the best fighter in the NHL, absolutely insane, and therefore the absolutely last person i would ever want to get in a fight with