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#auston matthews #Toronto Maple Leafs #stars and stripes atop the shoulder of a giant #wow he's hot #that bottom gif #team sub verse

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#auston matthews #stars and stripes atop the shoulder of a giant

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#OLD MARRIEDS #paul kariya #teemu selanne

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bde

#auston matthews #I LOVE HIM WITH EVERYTHING

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defence is a myth propagated by the baby boomer fans of the nhl… no games with less than 10 goals, we die like millenials

#WHAT A BIG MOOD

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closer

#oh fuck this is so gentle #I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THESE TWO WOW #auston matthews #mitch marner #auston x mitch

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Do you hear the footsteps? | Leafs @ Hawks | 10.07.2018

#LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL KING #auston matthews

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x

#erik karlsson #LOOK AT THIS GOOFBALL #san jose sharks #MINE NOW

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Behind the Glass: Taylor Hall

#taylor hall #redemption with some devil horns

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honestly the shit we say on here about 819 is like…maaaybe 15% more embarrassing than the shit caps commentators say about them, in public, professionally, on television, every single game

#the center of the universe is always you #this romantic bullshit #god bless hockey media #819 #washington capitals #Nicklas Bäckström #Alex Ovechkin

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They are, by this point, Washington’s athletic version of an old married couple. They share jokes during pre-practice skates, card games on overnight flights, frustration in each other’s games, exultation in each other’s achievements. Their personalities are drastically different. Their legacies are completely intertwined.

Hmm.

Ovechkin and Backstrom are joined in every way. They not only play on the same team, but they share the same responsibility: producing offense. More than that: since Dec. 8, 2007 — when then-coach Bruce Boudreau first moved the rookie Backstrom up to Ovechkin’s line — they have skated on the ice at the same time far more frequently than they haven’t. “Basically, when we have a conversation just once,” Ovechkin said, “and we start working and start clicking, it’s easy for us.”

HMM.

But this isn’t a story of two long-lost pals who were desperate for their own reunion. Like any relationship entering its second decade, it’s complicated. “Sometimes, you get mad at him,” Ovechkin said. “Sometimes, he get mad at me. When he is hard on me and I’m hard on him, it’s normal. There are moments in the game when I disagree with what he thinks and he disagrees with what I think. But it’s a normal process. We enjoy it.”

Okay, like.

When they first started playing together, Backstrom was 19, Ovechkin 21. They had young teammates in Alexander Semin and Mike Green and Brooks Laich. Now, both are married. Backstrom has two young kids. “He has dogs,” Backstrom said of Ovechkin.

Are we just gonna–

What Ovechkin and Backstrom have, they say, is a friendship, for sure. But to get the most out of each other, to get the most out of themselves, they occasionally must say things other co-workers could find unsettling. “I think they’re so comfortable with each other that they can pretty much tell each other anything and the other one will understand why and move on,” said winger T.J. Oshie, who has in the past been teamed with the two stars but now plays on the second line. “It kind of gets like that when you play with someone for a long time.”

SO ANYWAY–

They were away from each other at the start of the season, and they were away from each other for Christmas. They are back together again on their same old line, in their same old cubicle. It’s hard to think that’s not the best way for the Capitals’ two best players to play out the rest of the season, if not the rest of their careers.

…every single paragraph of this article windmill-dunked on the one that came before it when it came to emphasizing how married Backstrom and Ovechkin are. That is all.

#WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS #god bless hockey media #THIS IS BULLSHIT #THE WASHINGTONPOST DID THIS #I WANT TO CRY #the center of the universe is always you #819 #washington capitals

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Hockey Teams as Mythical & Legendary Creatures: (9/31)

Dallas Stars -> Witch | Status: Profession | Origin: Worldwide

A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft. Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of, and belief in, magical skills and abilities that are able to be exercised by individuals and certain social groups. Witchcraft is a complex concept that varies culturally and societally; therefore, it is difficult to define with precision and cross-cultural assumptions about the meaning or significance of the term should be applied with caution. Witchcraft often occupies a religious, divinatory or medicinal role, and is often present within societies and groups whose cultural framework includes a magical world view.

#dallas stars

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Hockey Teams as Mythical & Legendary Creatures: (14/31)

Toronto Maple Leafs -> Dryad | Status: Mythological Creature | Origin: Greek

A dryad is a tree nymph, or tree spirit, in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies “oak”. Thus, dryads are specifically the nymphs of oak trees, though the term has come to be used for all tree nymphs in general. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs. Dryads, like all nymphs, were supernaturally long-lived and tied to their homes, but some were a step beyond most nymphs. These were the hamadryads who were an integral part of their trees, such that if the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. For these reasons, dryads and the Greek gods punished any mortals who harmed trees without first propitiating the tree-nymphs.

#Toronto Maple Leafs #I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

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#THIS BEAUTIFUL MAN NOW BELONGS TO MY CITY #san jose sharks #king karl

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Just when I thought the Stars could not possibly disappoint me further:

#jesus fucking christ #NO #I'M SCREAMING IN RAGE #FOR FUCK SAKES DALLAS #Tyler Seguin

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RAIN OR SHINE… #DOWORK | Connor McDavid & Dylan Strome @ Biosteel #CAMP on August 27, 2018

#I'm fine I swear #mcstrome

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The camera in the dressing room showed you embracing Ovi, I guess when he came off after advancing. What did he say to you? What did you say to him? What was that moment like? 

#this romantic bullshit #the center of the universe is always you