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Oh GOD yes.

TOR vs. BOS: Oh no. Oh my poor Leafs. Oh STEVE. 😭 // I only like Marchand and your goalies, but GOALIE HUGS!

FLA vs. TBL: Eh whatever // GET ABSOLUTELY WRECKED YOU MOTHERFUCKERS GO TO HELL

NYR vs. WSH: Yeah okay fine // GET WRECKED BUT NOT AS WRECKED AS TAMPA

CAR vs. NYI: Sure // You DISAPPOINT Patrick Roy? You disappoint him like the coach who made him leave Montreal? Jail for Islanders! Jail for one thousand years!

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COL vs. WPG: NAAAAATE. CAAAAAALE. MIIIIIIKO. A BUNCH OF OTHER DUUUUUDES. // GET WRECKED LESS THAN TAMPA BUT WAY MORE THAN WASHINGTON

VGK vs. DAL: oh my god go the fuck away already // DO IT FOR JOE ROBO AND OTTER

VAN vs. NSH: GO TEAM PNW (except fuck Tyler Myers) // GET WRECKED BUT ONLY A LITTLE AND LAUZON

EDM vs. LAK: FUCKING RIGHTS FIVE ASSIST BOY AND RICH BOY AND PISSY BOY (ugh fuck the awful guys) // GET! ABSOLUTELY! WRECKED! ALMOST AS MUCH AS TAMPA! (where the hell did this come from do we have subconscious beef with these guys?)

It’s amazing how the playoffs show you how you really feel about teams. I like the panthers a lot, I love watching them win, I really enjoy so many of their guys. But hoooly shit I feel absolutely feral batshit insane about the oilers. I was not prepared for the emotional roller coaster watching the game last night.

I like the panthers, I LOVE the oilers

Playoffs amirite?

#hockeyblr #seriously though! what am I forgetting about the Kings? #davy jones locker room said we have lots of it? #all I remember is Martin Jones and the LAK goalies having the wheels fall off

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In US dollars to avoid any currency confusion. Do not include travel or accommodation, just the event ticket cost (do include the taxes and fees).

Do not include gifts, partial or full. Any level of sport or tournament is applicable!

If you want, include what event in the tags! Especially if over $2000!

#over $500 to take friends who couldn't afford tickets to a Kraken game

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oh

#a lost treasure!! #adam larsson #doo doo doo

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missing them

#long live the mountains we moved #how the kingdom lights shined just for me and you #erik johnson #gabriel landeskog

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oh my fucking god guys

#horse girl #phillip grubauer

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OWN! THEM!

#oilers lb

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ROGERS ARENA IS PLAYING U2

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGAHAHHA ICONS

#YES YES YES #lean in lean in!

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“And a penalty coming to Toronto…you have got to be kidding me”

“What is it?”

“I don’t know”

The Leafs radio announcers are going through it

#I wish I'd been able to watch the Danglecast! #but friendship bracelets with kid & parent friend trumped it this time #poor steve

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#GIVE ME CROSBY AND CANNER #also lots of others but still #ALSO NO INJURIES FOR THE LOVE OF ACLs

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the real question IS: how can we nancy kerrigan the boston goaltenders

#I vote we skip heat-inducing serum into ullmark's biosteel #then lock him and swayman in a room #they won't be able to come out for at least a week #best we can do for the leafs y'all #plus the goalies will be happy #can't make them sad while you take them out of the playoffs

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GAME 1 GOALIE HUG

#playoff goalie hug!!!! #swaymark #jeremy swayman #linus ullmark #nhl playoffs 2024 #please understand I am a leafs fan but also a bruins goalies and rat fan #do I contradict myself? #very well I contradict myself #I am vast I contain multitudes

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nothing thrills me like the stanley cup playoffs. seven games of big men growing to hate each other more and more every day? and then when it's done, the winners do it all again with a new batch of men? it's like love island but for hate. hate island. what could be better than this

#wow that is So Accurate #nhl playoffs 2024

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#all these horny comments and NO ONE said anything about how his abs are bruised #new york rangers #matt rempe

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too many fanfics have the guy be like "oh me and my wife are in an open relationship im totally allowed to have sex with other people." we need more fanfics with straight up infidelity ! adultery even !

#I would be into it! #...preferably not with RL WAGs but! #I would!

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"how many drinks would it take for you to kiss leon draisaitl?" (x)

#it was in the playoffs! #but I don't know if that actually matters! #leon draisaitl

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*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)

#as many have said #rookies are baby squid #but the firebirds are not the baby kraken #if you think about it #that would mean #fuego is a baby buoy #and that is clearly not a thing #nevertheless I reserve the right to yell #GO BABY SQUID GO #at shane wright #the line for me is apparently 25-ish games in the show #because ryker matty tye are not baby squid #but shane wints lomo remain baby squid #and ty nelson jagger firkus etc DEFINITELY baby squid #but potsy max cameron macker haydsey #not baby squid

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Dear simmyfrobby,

the Wild just announced a one year Flower extension. We are so fucking back!!!!

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#I LITERALLY GASPED #marc andre fleury #I AM SO HAPPY FOR HIM #don't get me wrong I'm SO happy I went to his game #but I'm also SO! SO GLAD! that he'll be here another year!!!!