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Danelle has discovered hockey Discourse™ and I am CACKLING.

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HELL YEAH BOYS WE GOT A FUCKIN' YARDSALE AFTER GAME 1!

#Norfolk Admirals #ECHL

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There was a fuckin' yardsale after the final whistle of Game 1 Round 1 of the Kelly Cup between the Norfolk Admirals (FUCK YEAH WE'RE GOIN' ON A RUN!) and Trois-Rivières Lions.

NOT BABIES.

*clears throat*

As many of us reach the end of our team’s NHL seasons, we may be (and should be!) looking towards the AHL playoffs/Calder Cup playoffs if applicable. Hell, we can even talk about the ECHL/Kelly Cup Playoffs if we like for the sake of this post.

I just want to say, to anyone who will listen: none of these players are “baby” [insert team name.] The Coachella Valley Firebirds and the Kansas City Mavericks are not the Baby Kraken. They are grown professionals, many of whom have grinded for MANY years of their career and will continue to grind just for the love of the game. While some are prospects in our pipeline, and the AHL especially is a development league, they are all professional hockey players. No one is a baby. They’re playing very good hockey, and—even above that—many of them in the AHL are playing a grittier, rougher, more physical game because it’s more allowed there.

To go even further, AHL players and better halves are often more involved with local community initiatives purely due to their more local schedules. I know in my own corner, my local AHL team has a TERRIBLE record, but they’re also SUPER active with hospitals and food kitchens around our community. Those aren’t babies.

They exist in a level of limbo that many career NHLers will never know. We joked over here on Krakenblr about the plight of Cale Fleury getting sent up and down again and again but that’s the reality for so many. Like you wanna work hard? Get to the NHL? Be ready to drop everything and present yourself to maybe play a game or maybe not. And do it again and again and again. Not a baby; and Fleury (among other repeat call-ups) was not even close to a rookie.

Let’s stop with the baby talk, please? Pretty please?

To finish, an excerpt from Sean Shapiro’s collection of essays “We Win Here,” a book about the Texas Stars.

Anyway: No more baby kraken or baby stars or baby penguins or baby whatevers pls (I will make case by case exceptions for rookies but ONLY THEM)

#in Nawfuck these hands are rated E for everyone #no fucks given #ECHL #anyway yes thank you for this #I too am weary of infantilizing/babygirlifying grown men #hockey

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#Ottawa Senators #Brady Tkachuk

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(NHL.com article)

#Detroit Red Wings #Shai Buium

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Still not over other Red Wings players wearing 37.

THAT IS EVGENY'S NUMBER AND YOU WILL RESPEK THAT.

One thing I love about pro sports -- and especially how we do it here on tumblr -- is the way fanbases treat any trade or retirement like the death of a beloved knight subject to a period of mourning. Someone leaves the team and we are all donning our black garbs, making edits, dabbing at our eyes, murmuring quietly about the good times we had

#Evgeny Svechnikov

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#Norfolk Admirals #ECHL

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OK so...some hockey thoughts.

*exhales* I'm not mad. I didn't think they'd make it from the beginning, because I have seen the painful mediocrity of this team for years now, so of course I was happy to be proven wrong.

It sucks to see the wild card spot go to Not Your Team despite Your Team doing their part and working on what they can control. But yes, that is a very Red Wings thing to happen. While I can empathize with that, I also can't help shake the "You did this to yourself" because fuck sake you guys blew a 12 point lead in the standings all through March like "oh no we can't do the hockey without this One Specific Guy."

Which leads me to a topic that's bothered me consistently and I'm tired of not saying it: This team relies too damn much on Dylan Larkin. Really? With Patrick Kane and DeBrincat? Y'all can't play hockey and win a game without a mid tier center? I've never seen Boston have that issue. This team utterly implodes anytime Larkin isn't playing for whatever reason and I do not understand how that continually is allowed to happen. The Red Wings practically gave their playoff spot away.

Anyway. It sucks, but it be like that sometimes. At least I have the Admirals.

#Detroit Red Wings

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I'm blaming the jersey ad.

#Detroit Red Wings #missed the playoffs...again

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(NHL.com article)

#Boston Bruins #Zdeno Chara

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#Detroit Red Wings #Lucas Raymond

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posting

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every day I'm clocking in for my shift at the not making sense factory . we don't know what we're making only that it's not sense.

#this...this is the Navy

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I'm so happy to have bae in my life. I can come home and rant about my command being extra af, and he just drinks his beer and tuts.

His Britishness dramatically improves my mood.

#Royal Navy greatcoat is bae

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my brain can't comprehend that there are people who don't listen to music every day, or at least often. what do you mean?? do you just walk somewhere and instead of listening to music... you think?

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HECK ONLINE TRAINING

#Navy

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Reblog and put in the tags if you know how to cook or not (at least basic foods), and if cooking was an encouraged skill or not where you grew up.

#do I know how to? yes #do I do it? rarely #I'm inexperienced at it #also lazy #my dad is the cook in the family and while he encouraged me to learn #his idea of teaching me was doing it for me and generally being impatient at my attempts #so I just abandoned any interest in pursuing it