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#nhl playoffs 2021
marchment · 10 months
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I don't think anything will ever top Frank Vatrano getting into a full blown fight on my 30th birthday last year though. That was a TREAT
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goodsticklehky · 1 year
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hi, remember this?
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himbeaux-on-ice · 2 years
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debating putting together a "games i am looking for" (ie past nhl games i am seeking a full broadcast recording of but have not yet found) list, and linking it somewhere on the blog like people do with their amazon wishlists or w/e, just on the off chance someone stumbles across it who happens to go "oh yeah i have that one on my hard drive actually, here ya go" which feels like a fantasy but i mean. weirder things have happened on the internet lol
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Congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche for winning the Stanley cup!!!
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iwantahockeyhimbo · 2 years
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y’all a year ago yesterday the isles played their game 6 against tampa and i (technically) predicted chara’s trade to the team via one of my favorite posts ever
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hockeybutpensive · 2 years
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words from sheldon keefe in all or nothing: toronto maple leafs comic + text layout from a softer world
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mensuited · 2 years
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midnightsoldier187 · 2 years
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Auston Matthews first of many goals in these playoff that's right first of many
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And of course Mitch got the primary assist its a tale as old as time.
Captain Johnny T got in assist as well 🥰
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goatisbetheres · 3 months
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Lots of big things happened Wednesday in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 7-0 romp over the New York Islanders. There were records and milestones, especially for core players Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin. But not Sidney Crosby.
Amazingly, Crosby had no points in the game. But don’t think he felt anything but thrilled, especially for his longtime teammates. The relationship between Crosby, Malkin and Letang is as strong as ever.
“I don’t know. It feels like it did before Christmas,” Crosby cracked Thursday after practice at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex.
Yeah, they can joke like that. The three are in their mid-30s and in their 18th season together, a North American sports record for a trio of teammates with the same team. They passed the New York Yankees’ Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera, who spent 17 consecutive seasons together.
There have been times when it looked as if the Penguins’ three core players might be broken up, but Letang and Malkin re-signed after the 2021-22 season. Crosby has this and one more season left on his contract.
“It feels like it’s pretty good after this long,” Crosby said of the relationship among the three. “If it can get stronger, great, but I feel like it’s been pretty good. We’ve spent a lot of time together over the years, been through a lot, and it’s pretty strong at this point for what we’ve gone though.”
They have won three Stanley Cups together — the highs — and have had first-round playoff flameouts and, last season, a seat outside the playoffs – the lows. They have been there for each other during injury and medical challenges. They have been there for each other for major individual accomplishments.
All three got misty the night the Penguins held a pregame ceremony for Crosby’s 1,000th game.
Wednesday, Letang became the first defenseman in NHL history to record five assists in one period and tied a record for defensemen with six assists overall. Malkin scored twice to pass his childhood idol, Sergei Fedorov, for second place all-time in the league among Russian-born players with 484 goals.
Crosby was happy simply to be a part of the game and witness those things.
“It’s just cool,” he said of Letang’s record. “Whether you’ve played with someone for a long time or just to witness that … There’s a lot of years that have gone into the NHL, over 100. For that never to have been done and be part of that is cool.”
And on Malkin: “He probably doesn’t get the credit that he deserves for what he’s done over his career. Just to be able to be in that company now, and to pass Fedorov, someone he idolized growing up and we all loved watching, but especially being a Russian-born player … He’s a competitive guy. He’s shown that year after year. Happy to see him move up the list.”
Valtteri Puustinen also scored his first NHL goal Thursday. Crosby has always had a soft spot for those moments among his many teammates over the years. Plus Malkin and Letang’s moments that night. Crosby loves those.
“A game like that. A game where (goaltender Tristan Jarry last month) scores. Things like that are pretty cool,” he said.
There are bound to be more moments for Crosby, Malkin and Letang to celebrate together. And moments where they simply share a laugh. All those moments add up.
“We like to keep it pretty light and probably give each other a harder time, and we do more of that than we do compliments,” Crosby said. “That seems to be the way it works out, but obviously we care a lot about each other and like to see each other have success.
“Whether it’s Tanger having a big night like that or Geno moving up the list, you’re always proud to see your teammates accomplish those things like that, and especially guys that you’ve seen do things like that over the years.”
i love my core 🥹
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sergeifyodorov · 4 months
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hkyblr babygirl of the year tracker
2021-22: cale makar. conn smythe winner. norris winner. perfect rosy cheeked boy. this was when we all decided the avs were Great! and they had a really good cup run so everyone flocked to the standout (cale)
2022-23: matthew tkachuk. hart nominee. conn smythe failure. traded in the summer and basically drove the entirety of the panthers to their playoff spot (after which he and bobrovsky took em to the cup final). further accelerated by the inexplicable arrival of mainstream mattdrai (possibly due to the penguins' downfall and the lessening popularity of sidgeno).
2023-24: currently a very close race.
POTENTIAL CANDIDATES
connor mcdavid. currently in Girl Failure mode (although short trends suggest he might be So Back) as the oilers are burning down (or maybe So Back)
quinn hughes. currently in Beloved Child Of God mode (named captain. new girlfriend. unreasonably high on-ice shooting percentage)
marc-andre fleury. already beloved, but this kind of is his swan song year. used it to stand up to the nhl's bullshit
jeremy swayman (accusations of homosexuality + mustache)
mitch marner (always on this list let's be honest)
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marchment · 2 years
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Ya'll we straight up witnessed history last night, probably one of the best playoff goalie performances ever recorded since 2007-2008 is when they started recording these types of Stats in depth.
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He ended up making 60 saves on 63 shots, moving him to number 2 on this list for all Game 7s of all time.
Jake Oettinger deserves playoff MVP more than anyone.
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jules-in-deep · 10 months
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Indigenous in the NHL: 2022-23 players
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Please note: I am a white immigrant settler living on unceded Indigenous lands. I am learning and very likely don’t have all of the details correct. If you spot any errors, please don’t hesitate to let me know and I’ll make corrections!
No matter what, an Indigenous player will win the 2023 Stanley Cup – and take it home to their First Nation community. Brandon Montour, a defenseman for the Florida Panthers, is a Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River. Zach Whitecloud, a defensemen for the Vegas Golden Knights, is a member of Sioux Valley Dakota Nation. There’s a really great article from Indian Country Today that talks about the play styles of Montour and Whitecloud, as well as those of Minnesota Wild players Dewar and Addison, and some of the larger challenges and hopes ahead for Indigenous players in the NHL. Another article here talks about the history of Indigenous players vying for the Stanley Cup. 
There are nine* active Indigenous players in the NHL right now and nine more prospects (list here). I’ll update this primer in the fall since so many of these players are RFA and UFA right now and may move around - and some of the prospects may move up! Some of the sections are longer than others depending on how much information I found outside of the basics of their careers and stats (if you have more sources for your faves, hit me up!). 
You will see that some players are Métis and that this is different from being a member of a First Nation. Members of the Métis Nation are of mixed ancestry and one of three distinct Indigenous groups in Canada, the others being First Nations and Inuit. For more, visit the Métis Nation of Ontario here. 
*The 10th, Vancouver Canuck Micheal Ferland, is still listed as active but has indicated his plans to retire following injury.
Extended information below the fold:
Calen Addison is a Defenseman for the Minnesota Wild. He is Métis and grew up in Brandon, Manitoba. He was drafted in 2018 by the Pittsburgh Penguins but never played an NHL game with them before he was traded to the Minnesota Wild mid-season in 2020. Current status: RFA
Ethan Bear is a Defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks. He is a member of the Ochapowace Cree Nation and grew up on a reserve within the Cree First Nation in southern Saskatchewan. Ochapowace chief Margaret Bear is his direct relative. He was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in 2017. In 2021, he faced racist backlash from some Oilers fans after the Oilers went out in round 1 of the 2021 playoffs. His girlfriend (now fiance, who is also Indigenous) spoke out while his nation rallied behind him. If you have a subscription to The Athletic, this is a really great feature on him after that time in his own words; this one from Bleacher Report isn’t paywalled. He was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes, and they wrote a great feature on him too with a focus on his heritage. After a strong start with the Canes, he had a slow bounceback from COVID and didn’t see any NHL minutes at the start of 2022. This led into a trade to the Vancouver Canucks early in 2022 where he just finished a one year contract for the 2022-23 season. He runs a summer hockey skills camp for Indigenous youth in Saskatchewan, which was featured in the 2022 “Camp of Dreams” documentary. Current status: RFA.
Connor Dewar is a Left Wing and Center for the Minnesota Wild. He is Métis, specifically a descendent of the Red River Métis, and grew up in The Pas, Manitoba. He recorded a feature called “Growing Up Metis” that you can watch here. He was drafted by the Minnesota Wild in 2018 and has never played for another team. Current status: will become RFA at the end of the 2023-24 season.
Travis Hamonic is a Defenseman for the Ottawa Senators. He is Métis and grew up in Manitoba on his family’s farm and later in Winnipeg. He lost his father at age 10 and later received the NHL Foundation Player Award for his program supporting children who’ve lost a parent. He was drafted in 2008 by the New York Islanders and also played for the Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks before being traded to the Ottawa Senators late in the 2021-22 season. When he played in Calgary, he and his wife partnered with the Flames to run The Northern Project and host Indigenous kids from the Northern Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut in Calgary to get the chance to see hockey games. Current status: UFA
Brady Keeper is a Defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks, currently playing for the Abbotsford Canucks (#25). He is a member of the Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Manitoba, and the first from his nation to play in the NHL. Brady went undrafted and was signed by the Florida Panthers in 2019, with a strong debut. He became an UFA in 2021 and signed a two year contract with the Vancouver Canucks. He had to go on LTIR early in the 2021 season after breaking his leg in two places during drills; upon recovery a year later, he cleared waivers and started playing for their AHL affiliate at the start of the 2022-23 season. Current status: UFA
Brandon Montour is a Defenseman for the Florida Panthers. He is a Mohawk, and grew up in the named community of Ohsweken within the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve, the most populous First Nation in Canada. It is in Southern Ontario and includes the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Tuscarora Nations. You can learn some fun facts here. Brandon was drafted by the Anaheim Ducks in 2014, traded to the Buffalo Sabres mid-season in 2019, and to the Florida Panthers at the end of the 2021 season. He’s spoken about his pride in his heritage and works with the NHL Player’s Association’s Goals & Dreams fund to try to ensure kids have access to the same kinds of opportunities he did with two arenas within the reserve. In the off-season, he sometimes visits other reservations and works with kids. His family and community are watching and cheering - even though many were Leafs fans. Current status: will become UFA at the end of the 2023-24 season.
T.J. Oshie plays Right Wing for the Washington Capitals. He is a member of the Anishinaabe or Ojibwe Nation, and was born and raised in Washington State, north of Seattle. He later moved with his father back to his father’s hometown of Warroad, Minnesota, where he connected with his Indigenous roots including learning his name. He used the name Warroad for his own hockey apparel line, which includes textile innovations in skate cut resistance. T.J. was drafted by the St. Louis Blues in 2008 and played with them until 2017, when he signed with the Capitals, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2018. Current status: signed an 8 year contract with the Capitals in 2017 and has a modified no trade clause; will become UFA in 2025.
Carey Price is a Goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens. He is a member of the Ulkatcho First Nation, of which his mother is the chief. Some sources list him as Dakelh, and the Ulkatcho First Nation is considered a government within the larger Dakelh or Southern Carrier tribal nation in British Columbia. He was drafted by the Canadiens in 2007 and has never played anywhere else. In 2015, he won both the Hart (most valuable player) and Vezina (best goaltender) trophies. By the end of 2021, he’d become the goaltender with the most wins in Habs history. This is a wonderful article about his relationship with his nation, as well as visits he’s made to survivors of residential schools, a brutal history about which he’s openly spoken out. He’s been open about his struggles with alcoholism and the support he’s sought from the NHPLA Player Assistance program and a rehabilitation center, with the explicit goal of being an example for Indigenous youth on how it’s okay to ask for help. Current status: Long term injured reserve. Five years in to an eight year contract with a no-move clause. In 2026, he will be UFA.  
Zach Whitecloud is a defensemen for the Vegas Golden Knights, who signed him in 2018 after he went undrafted. He’s a member of and first NHL player from the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, a self-governing nation on the banks of the Assiniboine River in Southwestern Manitoba. It was a short distance from where he grew up in Brandon, Manitoba and his father serves as a band councilor. Zach says he considers both Brandon and the reservation, where he has extended family, home, and has talked about the incredible support he gets from his community and inspiration from Indigenous players who came before him. Late in the 2022 season, Zach spoke about his pride in his heritage following an incident in which an ESPN anchor made fun of his name on air. His grandparents and uncle are survivors of Canada’s residential school system, which he talked about in 2022 in a post related to reconciliation. You can read his Nation’s media statement celebrating his run in the 2023 playoffs here, and there’s a nice recent interview with him about how he got here and what the playoffs mean to him. Current status: signed a 6-year contract in 2021. Will become UFA in 2028.
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zackcollins · 2 years
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I will never understand the need for pressers for the losing team RIGHT after the trauma of an elimination playoff game. Can't it wait a day or two so the players feel more like functioning members of society and can more coherently answer the questions???
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himbeaux-on-ice · 1 year
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“so oli how do you feel about the jays playing the mariners in the wild card”
[small muffled scream] [grits teeth] ijusthopebothteamshavefun 😬
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thatintrovertedwriter · 4 months
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Overview, yours in red au (Jack x Vivian)
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A lil overview of the au bc I actually planned it out for once! (also sorry if this jumps a little I had so much i wanted to write down baha)
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Vivian Moore met the Hugheses in 2015 when they moved to Michigan and into a house only two doors from her own.
This meant she and Jack regularly took the school bus together, as he started at her high school as well.
They became friends and that quickly turned into a larger friend group with Caroline, Trevor, Cole, Alex and a few others. 
Around the beginning of their sophomore year in high school, Jack and Vivian started dating and continued so right up until the night of Jack's draft.
Here, Vivian overhears a conversation between Jack and Trevor, where Trevor asks him "When are you gonna dump her?".
Viv experiences a lot of emotions over that but decides to just leave the party.
This picture was taken just as Jack sees Viv leave without an explanation:
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After that night, Viv cut all contact with him, too mad and upset to even want to look at his name in her contacts.
She still has a good relationship with his family though, and he sometimes talks to her parents.
Not soon after she moves to New York, effectively distancing herself from Jack. Or so she thought.
While her parents and Ellen and Jim are really great friends and that’s part of the reason why she knows what Jack has been up to (through Caroline and her other friends as well), she also happens to end up running in the same circles as him in New York/ New Jersey.
Vivian refuses to watch any of the games Jack plays, only watching her other friends' games (Cole, Trevor, Alex, Quinn)
The only time she broke this rule was when Luke had his debut in the NHL and she snuck into a game to watch her "little brother".
She thought she got away with it, only Luke knowing, but somehow Jack saw a picture of her there on social media. He never told anyone that, though.
Anyway, as mentioned, their paths cross a few too many times for Viv's liking in New York, with them meeting at a party in 2021 where they end up hooking up and then go back to the whole no-speaking thing.
In 2022 one of their mutual friends hosts an engagement party that they both attend, only to end up in one of the worst fights they've had because Jack is drunk and Viv is there with a guy. She gets mad because he's basically fucking through the blonde part of the east coast population so why can't she?
Then, in 2023, right as the playoffs are about to start, Jack and Viv's managers conspire to have them fake dating to salvage both of their reputations. Read that little fic, here.
Jack sees this as an opportunity to win Viv back, seeing as he's still in love with her (pathetic, after almost four years apart, he knows) and only got into this mess with his reputation in his pursuit to forget her.
Viv though? She can't get through this arrangement fast enough.
Through a series of set-up dates, outings, social media posts and a whole off-season in Michigan, their acting skills, patience, and feelings are put to the test.
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yaoistri · 7 months
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tagged to do this by @kimissteeringwheel !!
pairing/ship list!
here’s the rules:
1. list your top 7 ships
2. put them in order of your love for them; 7 to 1, 1 being your favourite
3. name their fandom
4. supply photos for said people
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7. tyson jost & jt compher, hockey rpf
sadly there is very minimal interaction between these two anymore, but they came into the NHL as rookies in 2017 and immediately became BEST friends playing together on the worst team in the league. they lived together and did everything together until tyson was traded away from colorado in 2022. jt has also now been traded away just recently.
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6. erik johnson and gabe landeskog, hockey rpf
it’s 2011 and the youngest captain in nhl history gets drafted onto a team with a former number 1 prospect who has just been traded away from his initial team after injuring himself badly, and the two become tight instantly. LOTS of twitter banter occurs, and they play together for 11 years before winning a cup together! sadly, gabe has been out for a year after badly injuring himself during the 2022 playoffs, and ej just got traded away to buffalo, MEANING that the last game they ever played together was the game they won the cup….. sooo damn tragic and poetic
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5. darius garland and donovan mitchell (spidaland), basketball rpf
they’ve only had one season together on the cavs, and sadly fell short in the playoffs, but they’re one of the best guard pairings in the nba for a reason, because they literally have soooooo much chemistry. also they’re ALWAYS touching each other????? like my camera roll is so full of pictures of them hugging
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4. sebastian vettel and kimi räikkönen (simi), f1 rpf
they invented grumpy/sunshine. you can’t drive for ferrari and not get shipped with ur teammate i’m sorry it’s the rules! especially when you have a reputation for being as cold as ice but whenever you’re around him you start smiling… kimi ur not slick!
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3. alain prost and ayrton senna (prosenna), f1 rpf
these two were INSANE. i’m a sucker for a tragic rivalry and they are nothing if not that. the chemistry, the tension, the way alain still talks about ayrton to this day, it all kills me. there’s so much about them we will never know and it drives me up the wall
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2. nikola jokic and jamal murray, basketball rpf
these two oh my goddddd. might mansplain a bit here bc this is not a popular pairing at all — they were drafted to the denver nuggets in 2014 and 2016 respectively, nikola being a nobody from serbia who didn’t get picked until the second round, and jamal being a top 10 pick with all eyes on him. these two built this team on their backs, going from one of the worst teams in the league to finally winning the championship together in 2023 after facing a major setback when jamal tore his acl in 2021. the way they have so much trust in each other and have built a chemistry that has made them the best duo in the league is so dear to me :’) the dynamic is also spectacular - massive cynical european of little words and friendly but bratty short canadian who loves to have a laugh. i think the fact that i got to watch them grow together and that there’s like 5 other people in the world that ship them just make them sooo dear to me
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1. lewis hamilton and nico rosberg (brocedes), f1 rpf
i literally have no words for these two 😭 i feel like i don’t need to explain that much either, because their story is so tragic and so out of a book that everyone already knows it. the intricacies of the way they destroyed each other will haunt me forever.
ok, passing the trend on! tagging @queergrittys @unsolvedjarin @jrueships if any of u are interested :)
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