#hockey town

[andreai04]

There are thousands of ways to die in Beartown. Especially on the inside.

#reading #books read in 2024 #bookblr #books #book photography #book blog #bibliophile #books reading #books and reading #beartown #beartown series #fredrik backman #hockey #hockey town #realistic fiction #fiction #coming of age #hard truths #tw rap3 #survivor story #loyalty #town v individual #club v individual #beautifully written #hard to read at times #but important #really loved this #review #four stars #january reads

[soulluvs2read]

beartown fanart 🤲🏻 I’ve been obsessed with the books and saw how there isn’t much out there in regards to the series so here is my gift to the fandom. Maya Andersson and soon to be Ana reference. shoutout the the artists who have put out fanart of anything beartown you are the real ones <3

#I attempted to give her a guitar pic necklace but have no idea what that’s supposed to look like #I guess I could have looked it up but here we are #be nice to me #i beg #i drew her how I see her #beartown #us against you #the winners #fredrik backman #maya andersson #andersson family #ana #books #book fanart #beartown fanart #ice hockey #hockey town

[pcktknife]

i need them back you dont understand

#kyonshi hat i miss you so bad #i used to pair up the hockey mask w a varsity jacket n boots and just go to town in ranked #and we have splatana now you so could be an actual slasher and not just a dude w a gun #kae.txt

[noose-lion]

Thinking about washout figure skater Dazai and up and coming rookie hockey player Chuuya again.

#and they find eachother at a local ice rink during night free skate hours when Chuuya moves into town and 'intrudes' on 'dazais' skate time #bsd #bsd au #my stuff #screaming into the void #and the void screams back #bungou stray dogs #bungou gay dogs #soukoku #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara #skk au #jester thinks #hockey player chuuya #figure skater dazai

[larsnicklas]

WILL SMITH ✧ 240104 We've played Sweden in two gold medal games the past two years, so I think that's a rivalry now and uh, it's 1-1 in that match... Obviously we have the semifinals coming up so both of us need to get there, but there's definitely a rivalry there.

#will smith #usa hockey #san jose sharks #world juniors #wjc 2024 #wjc #wjc24 #boston college #meg.wjc #meg.gif #meg.usah #meg.all #when the draft guides came out last year and ep's said 'shades of jt miller and trevor zegras' i was like....... #okay!! i'm listening!! #also he and leonard must pull like CRAZY like boston's a college town theirs for the taking lmaoooo #i shudder to imagine all the misadventures they'd get up to if they played all four years but i bet both do two TOPS #anyway HAPPY GOLD MEDAL DAY.......

[strollist]

hey i’ve made the jump from twitter/x to here! mainly because the content and the people were getting too toxic for me and i needed a change. the sports i mainly enjoy are hockey and formula one (i do like wrestling but ill keep that on my twitter). some of my favourite athletes consist of

lance stroll

logan sargeant

oscar piastri

charles leclerc

luke hughes

jak crawford

cole guttman

bayley

aj lee

+ more in the tags! i follow back! reblogs, likes, etc are highly appreciated!! have a wonderful day 🤍

#cm punk #jak crawford #lance stroll #luke hughes #nhl #hockey #aston martin #f1 #wwe #aj lee #bayley #bianca belair #oscar piastri #logan sargeant #charles leclerc #ferrari #vancouver canucks #connor bedard #cole guttman #grayson waller #a town down under #williams racing #sports #pwhl toronto

[juhollamago]

A 14-year-old showing off at U18 women’s. Love it!

#nela lopusanova #slovakia #women's hockey #slafkovsky who #there's new slovak wonder in town #the other hockey guys #hockey

[jessread-s]

*Thank you to the author for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review*

✩ 🏒⛸️Review:

Diviak’s sports romance balances deep, emotional topics with heart fluttering moments. 

“The Signature Move” follows Logan Beckett and Averie “Ava” Laurier, two athletes who are forced to share a rink. Both are determined to ignore each other, but Waybrook isn’t a big enough town to stop their paths from colliding. When the captain of the Waybrook Winter Wolves hockey team and the world champion skater clash, it’s only a matter of time before anger harbored over divvied rink time melts into passion. 

This book has everything I love in a romance: dual pov, rivals to lovers, small town, and slow romantic development. When I say this is a slow burn, it is a slowwww burn. The beginning took a little bit to pick up, but once Logan and Ava finally gave in to their attraction, I could not get enough of their dynamic as a couple. They are characterized so differently with Ava being the sweetest, sunshine girl and Logan being more guarded and stoic. Their opposite personalities compliment each other and make their rivals-to-lovers romance more satisfying. 

I really appreciated the emphasis on found family in this book. Both characters experience abuse at the hand of a parent that causes anxiety and in Ava’s case, an eating disorder. Throughout the novel, Logan and Ava build a family of their own with each other and the friends/coaches/teammates they forge meaningful connections with in their close knit town. One qualm I had with this book is that not all the side characters are fleshed out—therefore I wasn’t as invested in them and their own plot lines—but I did like the roles they played in Logan and Ava’s story. 

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#the signature move #logan beckett #ava laurier #contemporary romance #sports romance #hockey romance #forced proximity #dual pov #new adult romance #rivals to lovers #small town romance #book review #booklr #book blog #book blogger #romance books #romance novels #indie author

[hufflepuffhabs]

My small town hockey team 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 back-up goalies becoming stars

#connor we are sooo proud 🥲 #baby goalie generation #my small town hockey team #team switzerland #hockey

[toffoliravioli]

↳ welcome to the nhl | juraj slafkovsky

"I didnt even hear my name, I just heard Slovakia, then my mother looked at me and....the camera pointing at me so I realize "oh yeah....that's me"

#you've got a smile that can light up this whole town <3 #smiley boy!! #he's just having so much fun :") #juraj slafkovsky #juraj slafkovský #montreal canadiens #habs #nhl draft #hockey prospects #my gifs #winnies gifs

[msmargaretmurry]

made up fic title meme “your cool new friend” + mcstrome and/or mattdrai

my last one!! i had such grand plans for responding to this one last night but then instead i had an unfortunate kitchen accident with a mandoline and was rendered one-handed for the rest of the evening. now i have mostly recovered and am simply temporarily nine-fingered instead. anyway, thanks to everyone who sent prompts in for this, i've had a lot of fun responding to them and making up some little stories! i've been struggling with writing this year and it was nice to just spin up some no-pressure concepts and scenarios.

but anyway: i don't know if "your cool new friend" is meant to be a reference to the niki song with that lyric but i'm going with those vibes anyway, which means this is obviously mcstrome. (i mean, "you were all i'd ever known / and now i'm supposed to love you from a distance / like it's nothing, like it's instant" ??? come ON.) unfortunately it IS a breakup song but i don't want this to be a breakup story sooooo….. breakup/makeup.

so they were together in junior, but, you know, in a puppy love kind of way. they thought it was real true forever love, but, you know, they were kids. connor went off to edmonton; dylan went back to erie and then to arizona, and it was okay at first but then it got too hard. neither of them were good at long distance, but they were bad at it in different ways, which just made it harder. they didn't end things mad at each other, but they were both too wounded to stay close. and then it only took connor like a month after they officially broke up to start dating someone new. connor, dylan thought, after pretending to be happy for him, is bad at being alone.

anyway, fastforward to summer of 2026. connor's a free agent and he wants a fresh start, so he's leaving edmonton. a tough decision, but the one he thinks is right for him, and besides, leon left last summer, and it felt too weird playing last season without him. it was weirdly easy breaking up with his longterm boyfriend (not the one he started dating after dylan, but the one after that one) when he decided not to re-sign. connor feels a little bad about how easy it was, but he had known for a while the relationship was more about comfort than love anyway, and leon told him specifically he needed to get out of his comfort zone. he strongly considers seeing if he can literally just follow leon to his new team, but the capitals* do not have the cap space, so he settles on just following leon east. he signs in carolina.**

[*look, if leon goes ufa in 2025 and nicky backstrom retires at the end of his current contract, also in 2025 (do NOT speak to me about this), the capitals will have the cap space for this. and they clearly need another german. they haven't been good since gru left.]

[**i'm not figuring out the salary cap implications of this part. i just happened to know the draisaitl/backstrom thing off the top of my head, for reasons. once again, do not speak to me.]

everyone expected connor to sign in toronto, and maybe that would have made more sense, but connor isn't really trying to make sense. he's kind of just looking for the opposite of edmonton, and toronto is too much like edmonton in a lot of ways. so, carolina. a good team, willing to make some big moves to get him. he doesn't have to be the captain there. he didn't mind being captain, he thinks he grew into a pretty good leader, but he just wants to play hockey without all the bullshit for a while. maybe he'll eat some barbecue and get really into ncaa basketball.

anyway, the thing about leon playing in washington is that leon is playing with dylan. leon doesn't know about connor and dylan's past, he just knows they used to be close friends and they're not anymore, but leon thinks dylan is a good guy, and so he winds up in leon's stories when connor and leon talk. and connor starts missing him. there's a lot more room in his head for non-hockey things, in carolina, and he keeps finding himself reminiscing. he runs into dylan, briefly, when the caps come to raleigh and connor wanders over to the visitors' side to see leon. it's fine — kind of awkward. dylan looks like he's doing well. connor starts asking leon about him specifically, until by like halfway through the season, leon's like, buddy. just talk to him yourself.

connor's been in raleigh for months now, and it's also the longest he's been single since he was a teenager. he's really starting to feel the alone-ness. so, yeah, he reaches out, and they start talking again. just a little, at first, and then more, until before long they're texting every day like they used to. it feels so easy and right. connor thinks it shows a lot of growth, how he's handling rebuilding this relationship even though it's technically still long-distance. all of the reasons he loved dylan still feel so fresh in his mind, like it was last week instead of a decade ago. they go out for dinner before the third caps/canes game of them season, and when connor tries to kiss him, dylan recoils like connor slapped him instead.

connor's confused! he thought they were on the same page, working towards the same thing! dylan could always read his mind when they were younger; how did they get their wires crossed this time? dylan tells him in a frankly not very nice tone that he's happy to be connor's friend now but he's not going through all this again just because connor's bad at being alone. it's not dylan's job to take care of him anymore.

connor, feeling deeply shitty, retreats to leon's. has a beer and lies on the floor for a while. asks if leon thinks he's bad at being alone.

"yeah, definitely," leon says.

connor squints at him. "do you think i use people to take care of me?"

leon squints, tilts his head in that way where he knows he's about to be too frank but is gonna do it anyway. "yeah, kind of."

connor sighs deeply. "so why do you even like me?"

"because you're my friend," leon says. "i wouldn't put up with it if you were my boyfriend. but friend level is fine."

connor sighs deeply again. leon gets him another beer.

so connor goes back to carolina and does some soul-searching and some finding himself and goes with his teammates to some unc games and does some surprisingly fun canes community events and just thinks. a lot. about what he wants, what he came here for. how to build a life that someone could share with him, but would feel full even without a partner. he's not sure if he can every get 100% of the way there — he likes companionship too much — but he thinks he can see himself a little more clearly now. he texts dylan a long apology, and dylan calls him almost immediately.

they stay on the phone for a long time, talking about — everything. about the lingering wounds from their first breakup, about why it even happened, in a way they never did when they were younger. about where they are now, mentally and emotionally. about what's been going on in both of their heads this year as they've been reconnecting. dylan cries, of course, which makes connor cry a little, too. connor says, "dyl, i swear, it's not because i'm just lonely. it's because i think we deserve another chance."

the sun was up when they started talking and it's pitch black by the time they hang up. connor feels like he's been wrung out like a wet washcloth. but dylan agreed to get dinner again next time they play each other, so they do, and it's not perfect, but it's good. dylan kisses him afterward; they make out against the car a little bit, but nothing more.

they spend the rest of the season in this kind of "are we gonna do this" limbo, but when they both lose in the second round, connor gets into his car the moment cleanout is done and drives the 4.5 hours (if he's lucky and doesn't hit traffic) up 95 to dylan's place. dylan is exhausted in that post-playoffs way, but he smiles when he sees connor, lets connor wrap him in a hug, and connor immediately feels better than he has in days. they're very tender with each other — both are nursing some minor injuries — but of course wind up in the bedroom, having sex that is so different than their teenage fumbling was but somehow so familiar at the same time. yes, they're gonna do this.

#and then leon gets mad at him for not annoucing that he was coming to town so they could grab dinner before leon left for germany #sorry leon he was busy #is this a universe than connor pinged into in the bogosort fic? maybe #anyway #ask #writing meme #mcstrome #hockey for ts

[rask]

Portraits of Sean Kuraly for 614 Magazine

+bonus

#sean kuraly #columbus blue jackets #cbj #blue jackets #nhl #hockey #mine #everybody move!! #theres a new hot professor in town #no thoughts just ice spice and pink pantheress on his mind #he's an english and drama professor #or he could be a stockphoto model #for romance novel books #not the hockey ones #just plain full on alpha type #the cringey ones

[rillette]

what if we held hands in the burning town silent hill was based on(centralia)and there was fog everywhere 🌫️😳 and we kissed in that one haunted church thatdidn't burn down 😳

omg 😳we should do this i think it would be cool and epic and sexy of us. what if we saw a ghost and got it to take a picture of us instead 😳

#asks <3 #ty for the ask!! #vampire hockey (cool) (sexy) #i had no idea silence hill was based on a town in penn but u know what that makes sense

[rattkachuk]

I HOPE THEY MAKE IR NEXT YEAR JUST FOR U!!!!!

TYYYY MEE TOOO

#even tho....i might not even be here anymore 😭 #cant think ab not being in a hockey town for hockey season #too sad too sad!!!

[contagiousrhythminmybrain]

I spent two and half years holding on to the sliver of hope that Benji wouldn’t die trying to figure out how a certain bass player could see a dead boy on tv in ten years time only to finally put together that it would probably be through Maya’s songs exactly one page before I got to that part in The Winners. Still cried though.

#the winners #fredrik backman #beartown #670 pages of the most stressful reading experience of my life #but wow what a book #can’t believe i let myself wonder for even a moment if this was going to be explained #like fredrik ‘everything connects back to everything’ backman didn’t know exactly what he was doing with that line in book one #the tragic hockey town books

[elminsters]

my sister just saw me smoking outside and said i looked like i was in a movie and then proceeded to give me a 10 minute summary of the made up movie

#it was about the first womens hockey team in a small town and i was pondering my life outside the arena #it takes place in the 1970s but it was made in 2002 #i dont have a girlfriend in it but it's coded #the team is called the snow angels and the local men's league is shitting on them #and it ends with us winning the championship and using sponsorship money to fund women's sports #after she said all that she thanked herself for changing cinema