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He was a captain on the Wisconsin team

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Title: Agony! That Can Cut Like a Knife Summary: Tim Drake loves Gotham Sports, but Gotham Sports do not love Tim back (AO3) A/N: I put too many italics in this for a tumblr post smh. Apologies in advance to citizens of Newark, my only encounters with New Jersey have been on the Turnpike and a view of the skyline across the river from a rooftop bar in Manhattan. Kinda want to apologize to Devils fans but maybe not enough to actually Do It.

For anyone who cares I set a Gotham Sports Team Roster because same names are used for different sports in different universes and this is what I decided to go with:

Football: Knights Hockey: Bats Baseball: Colonials Basketball: Buzzards

There was a low, pained groan from a couch in the main living room. Pained enough Bruce stopped to check it out. Jason was sitting in an armchair, eyeing the couch’s occupant with a particular kind of disbelieving, annoyed distaste.

Bruce couldn’t see who it was because they were slumped down, laying on the cushions. He peeked over to find Tim, hands peeking out of the too-long sleeves of his black Gotham Bats jersey. They covered his face, but he was looking through his fingers to watch the TV intensely.

Bruce followed Tim’s gaze to see the score and winced. “Still early in the season,” he said bracingly.

“Early?” Jason snorted. “It’s December.”

Tim did not respond, still watching intensely. He dropped his hands at a particularly bad turn-over to shout, “Oh come on!”

“Pace yourself,” Jason said, giving him that look again. “Or you won’t last to April. And we’ll need you in April.”

“Jason,” Tim said, sounding calm and intense, even as the game breaks away for a commercial. “I have never been chill about this team a day in my life.”

Jason muttered something that sounded like “Clearly.”

Bruce had been busy the past couple of months and hadn’t had much time to keep up with Gotham’s sports teams. Not that there had been much to keep up with. The Knights had ended their season quietly, as they had for the past decade--no playoff games, no Super Bowl hopes. There had been a brawl between teammates during a late season practice, but the team had kept that mostly hush-hush.

Hockey was only two months in but--well, he could see the score on the TV to see how that was going. The Buzzards, he’d read in the paper just that morning, weren’t doing much better.

He hadn’t had much time to hang out with his kids, either. He settled down next to Tim on the couch to watch, just in time for the game to return to commercials and a fight to break out over the face-off circle.

The second period closed with Gotham on a PowerPlay for another 1:30. Bruce got up to get snacks (“Popcorn,” Jason said, “With M&Ms!” Tim added.)

“Bruce,” Tim said balefully, staring up at him with wide eyes as Gotham gave up a shorthanded goal and their goalie broke his stick against the crossbar. “Will you buy the me Bats, please?”

“I had a chat with Joseph Higgens last week, actually,” Bruce said casually.

Tim twisted around so suddenly he almost startled even Bruce. “Higgens?” Tim repeated in an incredulous hiss. “Higgens? The Devils, Bruce, really, have you no loyalty? You’re a traitor, this is treason!”

Jason turned his laugh into a cough,, and Bruce opened his mouth in defense of his Gotham pride, but Tim was working himself into a state. “You don’t just give up on your team because they keep losing! That’s your team, you can’t just choose any old other team in your state. You don’t get to choose, Bruce! You can’t just turn your back on Gotham!

“And Newark! Nobody wants to live in Newark. I’d rather die than live in Newark, jot that down Jason, I want that in my Advance Directives.”

“Fair,” Jason said, nodding. He had died, and he had been to Newark. He understood.

Tim steamrolled on, not even acknowledging he’d been validated. “Wait, are you sending me to Newark, a city I hate, to own the Devils, the team I hate? Why,” and Tim, to Bruce’s horror, sounded tearful, “do you hate me, B?”

“Tim,” Bruce said, a little helplessly. “Tim, honey, I was joking.”

He leaned over and lays a hand across Tim’s forehead. He felt a shade too warm, but not feverish enough to cause such a response. It was probably the jersey anyway.

“I’m not sick, Bruce,” Tim said mulishly. Then, suspiciously, “Did you call me honey? You don’t do that. You are sending me to Newark.”

He flopped over on the couch and buried his head into his arms. This was probably a good thing as Gotham was scored against again.

“Just put us out of our misery,” Tim mumbled.

“What’s wrong with Drake?” Damian had come in, Dick not far behind, juggling the leftover popcorn Bruce had left on the counter, and he stood, arms folded, lip curling as he examined Tim. “He looks more pathetic than usual.”

“Ah Timmy,” Dick said sympathetically, glancing at the screen. “A little early for the annual Gotham Sports-Induced emotional breakdown, isn’t it?”

“Fuck you and your seocnd rate Bludhaven ECHL team, Dick,” Tim snarled, words, but not his ire, muffled by the couch pillow and his own arms.

Dick blinked, unsure how to respond, and silence rang through the room, though Jason’s silence sounded suspiciously like silent laughter.

Tim turned over. “I’m sorry,” he said, meeting Dick’s eyes. “That was ugly.”

Then, balefully, “Bruce is sending me to Newark to live amongst filth. Please say your goodbyes now as I am not much longer for this world.”

“I am not sending you to Newark, Tim, for God’s sake,” Bruce snapped.

“I’ll miss you, buddy,” Dick said solemnly, patting Tim’s back as he sat down on the kid’s legs. He offered Tim some of the popcorn.

“You didn’t put M&M’s in,” Tim accused, but ate a handful anyway.

“If you care,” Bruce said, coming back on the other side of the couch and throwing himself into his recliner. A cat streaked away from where he’d been about to sit and Damian threw him a filthy look, “I tried to buy the Bats for your birthday last month, but the bastard Eliot cousin won’t sell.”

“Honestly, Bruce,” Jason said, leaning back, “How are you the richest man in Gotham and you don’t own a single team?”

“No one will sell to me,” Bruce said glumly. “I tried to get the Knights a few years back, when they were about to go bankrupt, but Stan Diner wouldn’t let me.”

“He’s a Cobblepot cousin,” Jason said, casually, turning back to his book.. “The Penguin funds him. It’s shady.”

Bruce frowned at him. “How did I not know that?”

“Mm,” Jason said, not looking up. “I know something you don’t. I have connections you don’t. And you said the mob wouldn’t pay,” he lowers his voice in a stern imitation, “Mob boss isn’t a career path, Jason, you said, but look who’s got the insider knowledge.”

Bruce closed his eyes and breathed in deeply.

Midway through his calming breath, Damian said, haughtily, “This sport is respectable.”

He opened his eyes to see a Gotham player dropping his glove and raining, admittedly admirable, rights on an opposing player.

“Have you never seen a hockey game?” Dick asked, frowning.

“God, I wish that were me,” Tim said, when Damian shook his head.

“Bruce,” Dick said, in that disappointed parent tone that always upset Bruce’s sense of order “You haven’t taken him to a game?”

“We haven’t had much time,” Bruce replied. Then, defensively, “I’ve taken him to many museums!”

“That’s barely culture!” Dick said.

“You take Dick to games?” Tim asked.

“He has box seats,” Jason put in.

Bruce wasn’t sure how this had turned on him.

“WE has box seats,” Bruce snapped. “Not me.”

“Bruce,” Tim said, looking at him with wide eyes that made him look sad and young. “You had box seats to the Bats and you never told me, the CEO of Wayne Enterprises?”

“He used to take me all the time,” Jason, the son whom he loved, said, betraying him, while Dick shook his head sadly.

“Me too,” Dick added. “He’s got seats at the Knights, Buzzards, Colonials, Tim, he never told you?”

“No,” Tim said miserably, peeking at Bruce from his forlorn place on the couch. “Never.”

“They go to a WE family in a lottery system!” Bruce insisted.

“I am a WE family!” Tim said back. Then, abruptly, roared at the TV, “Fucking refs, I swear!”

“I guess it has been a while since we’ve all had a family outing to a sports endeavor,” Bruce admitted.

“Well don’t make it sound like textbook disease, B,” Dick said, rolling his eyes.

“The Bats play the Monarchs next week and I’m fully expecting to lose and also Tim Winston to fight at least three players,” Tim said.

“At the same time,” Jason added.

“I hope he gets his ass kicked,” Tim said.

“He won’t,” Jason said. “But he might get suspended again.”

“Boys,” Bruce said absently, thinking.

“You’ll take us, won’t you, B?” Tim said, suddenly pleading.

“I’ll call HR and make sure they haven’t gone for lottery yet,” Bruce agreed.

“A box seat,” Tim sighed wistfully, flopping back against the arm rest. “This whole time. To think I used to take Steph on dates to the nosebleeds.”

“Invite her,” Bruce said. “Barbara too,” he added at Dick.

“And Jonathan?” Damian asked, stiffly.

“If you want a Monarchs fan tagging along, sure,” Tim said, disgust evident.

“Tim,” Bruce scolded. Then, “Of course Jonathan can come. I’ll call Clark tomorrow.”

He looked around at his family, suddenly feeling warm. A day at the box seats at a Gotham Bats game would be good, fun bonding for them all.

“Fuck you, ref!” Tim yelled suddenly at the TV.

Jason shouted after, “And the horse you rode in on!”

Well, Bruce could hope.

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ledenews · 4 years

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DJ Abisalih – Much More than Talking the Talk

When a person hears anything about the state of Maine, the first thought for many must involve lobster, right? If properly prepared, the succulent meat pops when bitten, and if buttered just right, there’s no better treat for fans of shellfish. But DJ Abisalih, born in Methuen, Maine and raised in Scarborough, wouldn’t know. If fact, the first time the “Voice of the Wheeling Nailers” ever tasted a Maine lobster was at Red Lobster in St. Clairsville. It was on a dare, and a trained EMT was present just in case he inherited a crustacean allergy from his mother. But see, Abisalih has long been a “gamer” when it’s come to challenges, and that is why he was the public address announcer for 10 different varsity sports teams during his high school career. Those experiences led him to the New England School of Broadcasting in Bangor, Maine, and to a position with the Portland Sea Dogs, the Double-A affiliate of his beloved Boston Red Sox. In 2009, however, much of life became about hockey. His first job was as a color guy in Lewiston, but then play-by-play guy Alex departed for Wheeling, and that opened an opportunity. Abisalih then arrived to Wesbanco Arena in 2012, and he’s made the Upper Ohio valley his home ever since. He, his fiancé Mindy, and her two daughters reside in Martins Ferry. DJ’s parents moved to Ohio County, too, a few years ago, so now, ironically enough, he calls home the place where he finally bit into that very first Maine lobster.

Former Nailers broadcaster Alex Reed paved the way for DJ to come to Wheeling eight years ago.

So, I understand you have become quite the Yahtzee player during this stay-at-home era.

The stay-at-home era has created opportunities for more activity time with my family. We do everything from outdoor activities such as volleyball, street hockey, and taking walks, to indoor games such as Yahtzee, Jumanji, and Pun Intended. One of our Yahtzee nights took a fun turn. We played two games. I won the first one running away, because I rolled two Yahtzees, which is an automatic 100 points. The second game came down to the final turn. If I got a Yahtzee, I won. If not, I lost. I rolled three sixes on my first roll and one more on my second roll. So, it came down to the final die, which luckily came up a six. Everyone in the family is competitive, which makes the games a lot of fun.

The Nailers’ season ended before the end of the regular season and the team was struggling at the time to qualify for the postseason. How do you think it would have ended for Wheeling’s hockey team?

It was challenging to watch the way the team performed down the stretch, especially after experiencing some of the great successes they had (sweeping the Rapid City trip in December, 4-0-0 and 4-1-1 homestands). Because of the hole that was dug during the last three weeks, I believe playoffs would have been a long shot, as 13 games isn’t a lot of time to make up a 11-point deficit. If that were the case, I still would have been intrigued to see the new players that would have come in after finishing their college and junior seasons. Historically, Wheeling has had a lot of success in that department (Chris Kushneriuk, Derek Army, Jarrett Burton, Cody Wydo), and it starts to give you a look at some players who will make an impact for your team the following season.

DJ began his professional broadcasting career with the Portland Sea Dogs.

The last Nailers’ coach to lead the Nailers to success was Clark Donatelli before he moved up in the organization. In your opinion, what did Clark do with that group of players that worked well?

Clark was very good at building a tight locker room, and he was able to do that by finding the right veterans around the league to lead, while absolutely crushing the recruiting game with college players. People forget that Clark struggled in his first full year here (missed the playoffs by six points). However, in the summer of 2013, he landed a couple of big free agents in Chaz Johnson and Mike Ratchuk, while getting help from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton to get Dustin Stevenson. That group, along with players like Zack Torquato and Christian Minella really helped to groom the players who were just starting in the ECHL – Shane Bakker, Paul Cianfrini, Derek Army. Fast forward to the finals year (2015-16), and those were some of the leaders helping to groom that year’s rookies – John McCarron, Brett Stern, Cody Wydo. Clark had teams that worked hard and were very invested in both each other and the city.

When a prospect is assigned to Wheeling, what usually is most important when it comes to their development so they can continue climbing the ladder within the Pittsburgh Penguins organization?

To me, there are two key parts to this. First, they can’t look at it as a demotion. It’s easy to sign an AHL contract and think you’re locked in there all season, then you get sent to the ECHL, and you realize where you are on the depth chart. However, I’ve always said that players need to play, and they’re going to grow more by playing 20 minutes a night here than they are sitting out 20 nights up there. The second part is without question the hardest to learn, and it really separates who makes it and who doesn’t. They must learn to become all around players. Scoring is great but look at the organization. Pittsburgh has Crosby, Malkin, Guentzel, Rust, and Hornqvist, not to mention a prospect in Poulin. They are set. They need role players – players who are going to kill penalties, block shots, play the body. My favorite success story that I love to use as an example is Tom Kuhnhackl. Tom was a Pittsburgh draft pick under NHL contract, who had a 39-goal year in juniors. He scored here, but his breakthrough moment for me was during a playoff game in Greenville. We were killing off a 6-on-3 in the closing minutes, and he had two huge shot blocks to help us preserve a one-goal win. The ability to grow his all-around game is exactly what led him to the NHL and to two Stanley Cups.

DJ and former Thunderbirds broadcaster Dave Goucher who is now with the Vegas Golden Knights.

What have been the best parts and worst parts for you during this pandemic?

This pandemic has been one of the most unique circumstances I’ve lived through, and it’s been a learning experience throughout it. Some of the best parts on a personal level have been more time with my family, and more of a chance to connect with friends from around the continent, whether by call, text, or video chat. It’s also been nice to have an extended time to reset from the season. I’ve had more time to lay out what I’ve liked and haven’t liked, and have been able to dive into more projects. On the other side of the coin, I miss the in-person social interaction with our fans. People see me out in public or at a community event, and they immediately want to talk shop – life, the team, the schedule. I love those conversations. You can feel their excitement and passion, and that puts a smile on my face. The other frustration, which I think everyone feels is the unknown. As the team’s PR guy, I know a lot of what goes on with the team, as I am the one who distributes the information. If I don’t know something, I can usually tell you who would know or when we can expect to know. However, in this situation, it’s the opposite. Like you, I’m not sure what the NHL does, if they finish this season or not, when they’ll play in front of fans. It’s a big mystery, but the good thing is, Wheeling and the hockey community are both filled with amazing people, so when we do get the go-ahead, we’re all going to share some fantastic times together! Read the full article

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mitchbeck · 4 years

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CANTLON: WOLF PACK ON THE ROAD FOR THREE

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings CROMWELL, CT - The Hartford Wolf Pack got home to get a change of clothes, recuperate, and practice before heading back out on the road, leaving Tuesday afternoon for Utica for two games with the Comets and then another in Hershey to play the Bears, completing a four-game road trip. The Wolf Pack are 7-3-0 in their last ten games while the Wolf Pack's overall record has been great 23-9-2-5 (53 points). They are in first place in the Atlantic Division, two points ahead of Hershey. In a stunning turnaround from last season, at home, the Wolf Pack are 16-1-0-2. On the road, it's been spotty. They're currently under .500 at 7-8-2-3. Head coach Kris Knoblauch would like to see that change. “We’ve been Jekyll and Hyde on this. We're a different team at home than on the road. We need to bring our home game to the road and play better, simple as that.” Last Saturday’s 3-0 loss in Wilkes Barre/Scranton to the Penguins came after a superb effort in a 6-3 win over the Charlotte Checkers. It was the polar opposite performance and Knoblauch did not mince words about it. “We didn’t play well enough. We were awful as a whole. We lacked quality scoring chances. Credit to them (the Penguins). They didn’t give up a whole lot of chances or space. We just didn’t fight hard enough to make chances.” Defenseman Mason Geersten admitted the Penguins were tough to play against. “We could have done better, but it was our first time playing them this year. They were very difficult to play against. We’re gonna have to do a better job this weekend getting on top of things early. We've got to bring our swagger with us on the road.” Goalie Tom McCollum, who wore #33 in his Wolf Pack debut, was not the problem. “I was very pleased with his play. He played very well, kept us close. We just didn’t generate enough offense to support him or have the defensive support at times. I really liked how he handled the puck for us. Clearly, he handles it differently from Igor (Shesterkin), but he did a very good job in the game.” The team travel bus saw another new face - Libor Hajak. As expected the past two weeks, the Rangers assigned him to the Wolf Pack as part of a conditioning assignment. "Libor is going to be playing a lot. He's gonna play 20-25 minutes a game and he's gonna be paired up with (Joey) Keane as one of our combinations. (Mason) Geersten (Keane's season defensive partner) will be moving up to wing (fourth line)," Knoblauch said. Hajak will wear number 25. There's no set number of games he'll play during his assignment. This is the first defensive corps change in about two months. It will be Geersten's second game at forward for the Wolf Pack. The other was in Providence. “He played very well for us in that one game, so let’s hope we get the same play for him. It's an adjustment,” said Knoblauch. Geersten joins a long list of Wolf Pack defenseman who have played the swing position of Playing forward. Others include Todd Hall, Craig Weller, and Dale Purinton. It’s a challenge he wants to take. “I had a good game there it was a lot of fun, sure it's very different, but whatever it takes to help the team,” remarked Geersten. Maybe if there is a shootout he might get a chance? “Hey, you never know what could happen,” Geersten laughing at the suggestion. One face heading due North is defenseman Jeff Taylor. He was reassigned to Maine to get some playing time with the Mariners. With the possibility of playing 30 games, he dressed for just eight and was a healthy scratch the other 22. The Nieves, Lettieri, and Gettinger line is expected to contribute. “The whole line has been solid for us and Vinni has been making some finishes. We’ve been getting good defense like winning draws and that really has helped their offense.” Knoblauch was still mulling over who he was going to put in the net. ”It’s not my call if they asked me, 'Do you want Igor back?' My answer would be, 'Yes' like any other coach,” Knoblauch said with a laugh. It's likely that during the NHL All-Star break that Shesterkin will be reassigned to Hartford. NOTES: Gettinger didn’t practice today and will be a game-time decision with a lower-body injury. Two former Wolf Pack players were among the NHL three stars for last week. Defenseman Tony D’Angelo was acknowledged for his sterling five-point effort against Colorado. The other is goalie, Cam Talbot, who is now on the other side of the Battle of Alberta. he helped Calgary in a 4-3 win Saturday for the Flames vaulting them into first place. Current Wolf Pack Phil Di Giuseppe was recalled Sunday. Pack captain, Steven Fogarty, reassigned to Hartford was scratched from last night’s 6-2 win over the Islanders. Philippe Hudon (Choate Prep) goes from Norfolk (ECHL) to Cincinnati (ECHL). Defenseman Jan Olenginski of Loomis Chaffe School (Windsor) commits to St. Lawrence University (ECACHL) for 2022-23. UCONN (7-10-4 overall, 4-7-2 HEA) has a critical Hockey East meeting tomorrow in Bridgeport against the University Maine Black Bears (10-8-4 overall, 4-6-2 HEA) at 7:00 pm at the Maine Black Bears. This UCONN’s third Hockey East game in the Park City losing to ND 6-1 back in 2015 and beating Maine 6-3 in 2017. The two teams are tied with New Hampshire for seventh place in the conference all three have 10 points The game will be carried on NESN Plus and the feed will be picked up by TSN in Canada. The two schools haven’t seen each other since October of last year. The Huskies lead the series 5-2-3, but are looking to end a four-game losing streak and are winless in five straight. The Huskies head to Boston for a date with the 12th ranked team in the nation Northeastern Saturday at Matthews Arena in another Hockey East matchup. UCONN return next week to Bridgeport for the inaugural CT Ice tournament featuring Sacred Heart University, Yale and Quinnipiac University, the other three state Division I college hockey programs. Read the full article

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Prompt: Dean punchs Sam for drunkenly kissing Cass and finding out only because there's a photo. He ignores Cass as well. In the end, he apologises and explains why he flipped out ;D

The hockey game had been Dean’s idea. Now he regrets even mentioning it.

“’Dollar Beer Night’, Sam,” Dean had said. “How can you say no to that? We all need a night out: you, me, Cas…”

Sam had agreed to go, as had Castiel (even though the intricacies of organized sports tended to escape him most of the time). They piled into the Impala and headed to the nearby arena to watch the local ECHL team while getting hammered on cheap beer.

That had been the plan at least.

Everything was going so well up until the end of the first period. Dean got up to drain the snake and get them all refills, leaving Cas and a visibly-tipsy Sam at their seats. He was standing in line at Concessions, watching the replays on the monitor above his head when the stadium began their “Kiss Cam” thing.

It was cute: a young couple clearly on a first date, and elderly man and woman decked head to toe in team colors, A man and a woman who don’t seem to know each other very well but play along with a peck on the cheek, a shaggy haired guy and… Wait, is that Sam and Castiel?

“What the…?” Dean mutters, watching in horror as Sam cups a hand around Castiel’s jaw, pulling him in for a sloppy kiss. Castiel looks surprised at first then relaxes. Dean’s veins seem to harden and fill with ice water. He barely aware of the cups of beer tipping out of his hand or the shouts of the other attendees around him.

Seconds pass like hours as Dean’s eyes remain glued to the screen. Dean has seen so much horror and awfulness in his life but it doesn’t compare with the image of his brother kissing his, uh, his…

“Fuck…” Dean hisses under his breath. Without thinking, he moves down the passage way, heading back to his seats.

“Hey Dean,” Sam says cheerily, his words a little slurred. “Castiel and I were on the-” He’s cut off by Dean’s fist connecting with his jaw. Sam lurches back for a moment and before lunging toward Dean, plowing his entire weight into his brother. Castiel calls out Dean’s name and attempts to pull them apart as Security scrambles up the steps toward them.

“What the fuck, Dean!” Sam shouts as they walk toward the Impala after being thrown out of the arena. “What the fuck is you fucking problem?” Dean stomps toward the car, any buzz from the beer now gone.

“I said I was sorry,” Dean says, not turning around. He was, too; He had no idea why he blew up that way at his brother. It was clear that the kiss had been a joke; just a drunken reaction to the Kiss Cam. Sam was laughing like an idiot the whole time he was doing it.

Castiel stays strangely quiet, trailing behind the two men. Dean can tell he’s pissed, at him in particular. That was all Dean seemed to do nowadays- piss off people who care about him and drive them farther away. Dean couldn’t even bring himself to look at Castiel.

“Why the hell did you punch me?” Sam asks again.

“It doesn’t matter,” Dean says. “Let’s just head back to the-”

“No, no!” Sam grabs Dean by the shoulder and spins him around to face him. “You’re going to tell me right now what-”

“Is it because Sam kissed me?” Castiel asks. Dean startles and looks toward him, his blue eyes cool and a little accusing.

“I… I uh… I,” Dean stammers. A denial hangs on his tongue, but he just can’t seem to get it out.

“Is that fucking why?!” Sam blurts out incredulously. He makes a disgusted noise and scrubs a hand over his face. “Godammit! As if I don’t have to deal with the two of you and your soap opera shenanigans enough. Christ, Dean, you could’ve said ‘hey, Cas is my boyfriend. Hands off, alright?’”

“Cas, isn’t my-”

“If you’re companionable to that idea, Dean, I think I can be persuaded-”Cas interjects.

“But instead,” Sam continues, “You decide to punch first and ask questions later. That is not how healthy relationships work!”

“Sam, it’s not like -” Dean frowns, noticing the disappointed pull to Castiel’s shoulders. “I mean, if you want it to be like that, we can Cas, but-” Sam grabs the car keys from Dean’s hand.

“I’m going to the car,” he says firmly, turning to leave, “You two get this sorted out. I don’t care what you do, just do it.” Sam’s grumbles echo through the parking lot as he walked away from them. Dean can’t lift his gaze to meet Cas’, too mortified and angry with himself. He starts to follow after Sam when Cas pipes up.

“Dean?” he asks. “Dean… Is that why you punched Sam? Because you were jealous and assumed him and I were in some sort of relationship?” Dean doesn’t answer, just continues to stare at the ground.

“I can assure you,” Castiel continues, “that my interest in Sam is purely platonic.” Dean nods, but he can’t seem to shake the image of the kiss from his brain. “Unlike my interest in you which is… deeper.” Castiel moves forward, and Dean barely has time to react before Cas’ lips are on his. The kiss isn’t as quick or messy as the ‘Kiss Cam’ kiss, but there’s a level of need and intensity that has Dean sinking into Castiel’s embrace touch, his mouth opening willingly as Castiel’s tongue runs over the seam of his lips.

Dean’s hands come up around Castiel’s middle, pulling his closer and earning a soft groan. Castiel’s hand close around Dean’s chin, his cool fingers a counterpart to the warmth of his mouth.

Dean pulls back first, catching his breath and resting his forehead against Cas’ temple.

“I’m sorry,” he mumbles. “I’m an idiot.”

“A little,” Castiel offers. “But you’re my idiot.” And then a little more hesitantly. “You are, aren’t you? Mine?” Dean leans his head on Cas’ shoulder.

“Yeah,” he says. “Yeah, I am.”

#Anonymous #Asks #Destiel #Ficlet #Brief Sastiel #Drunken Kissing #Happy Ending #Angst

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Hey, if it's alright can you give me a summary of what h*ckeycaptain did? I've never heard of her and when I searched about her all the stuff was kinda vague. I'm out of the loop.

ahh i just,, replied to this but i guess it was a lot so

ok i’ll do an off the top of my head Review (might not have everything and also in no particular order so bear with me)

was emotionally abusive towards people that they associated with (which i can personally attest to)

racist + lied about her ethnicity in order to avoid being called on it (notably lied about her mother being native, lied about her mother being ethiopian, and then her mother being from ‘the islands’)

pretended to date hockey players on a few occasions, notably johnny g*udreau

lied abt snapping/texting players, which even if it was true is just a serious invasion of privacy

catfished people in general, but most notably people that had already left her after being emotionally abused by her and tried to cut off all contact - basically she would conceal her identity in order to get close to them again, effectively stalking them in a way

sort of just lied about everything in general??? like minor things but enough white lies just builds up until you’re totally untrustworthy - lied about playing hockey, lied about being scouted by echl/ahl teams, etc.

and to top it all off when called on her emotional abuse her response was some tired ass “i’m sorry you got hurt” bullshit

#Anonymous

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Did you actually go to the Penguins parade? I'm so jealous. I just became a hockey fan this year and the Pens quickly became my favorite team. I wish I could see them live but I live far away and couldn't afford it anyway.

Yes, and the parade was so much fun! I’m glad hockey (and my hometown Pens) found another fan in you. Hockey is such a great sport and the Pens are a class act team. I’ve been a fan since I was little. I went to my first game before we even had Mario Lemieux and I fell in love the the sport that day. I am lucky enough that I’ve gotten to see Lemieux and Jagr play together live and just this year I attended the game where Crosby scored his 1000th point and another where he scored a hat trick!

If you aren’t close to and can’t afford a pro hockey game, I highly suggest finding the closest AHL, ECHL, NWHL, or college team near you. Tickets are usually available and some seats are as cheap as going to a movie. I am a season ticket holder to my local AHL team because I can see 20 games there for the price of 2 Penguins games. Hockey is a fantastic experience live so I do hope you can find a team to watch near you.

#hockey #Anonymous

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DGB Grab Bag: Players' Weekend for the NHL, Salty Blue Jackets, and Buckets

Three Stars of Comedy

The third star: The Columbus Blue Jackets – Somebody's feeling a little salty about going all the way from one game to two on NBC's new schedule. (More on the new schedule in a bit.) It's the eyeroll emoji that really sells it

The second star: I has a bucket – Not sure what was funnier, the original photo or the fact that literally everyone Twitter made the same joke about the bucket getting signed by the Oilers.

The first star: This SHL video about rule changes – I can't stop watching this. It's the fist pump that gets me every time. If Tom Wilson starts working in this move every time he blindsides somebody a half hour after they touched the puck I'll admit he's worth every penny.

Be It Resolved

We're closing in on one of the weirder moments on the MLB calendar, as the annual "Players' Weekend" is almost here. The event debuted last year, and its main highlight is that players get to wear their nicknames on their jerseys.

That's… different. You have to give MLB some credit here, as they're basically offering up an open invitation for players to cut loose and show a little personality. It's fun for the players, and everyone gets to sit back and try to figure out what some of the nicknames even mean.

If you've been reading this column all summer, and god bless you if you have, then you're probably figuring that this is the part where we play our weekly round of "the NHL should steal this cool idea from another sport." That's been kind of a theme all offseason, and this feels like a great time to break it out..

But here's the thing. Ultimately, we try to be realists around here. Sure, we'll propose things like radically changing the way powerplays work, or having a special draft where everyone picks Jaromir Jagr, or letting every champion legally kidnap somebody for their Cup parade. But those are things that could actually happen someday.

NHL players volunteering to put cool nicknames on their own jerseys? Never. Zero chance. There's no point even thinking about it. Every player would just use their regular name, while old-school types swooned about how winners don't have personalities. A few players would probably insist that they didn't have a name back there at all, because the team is the only thing that matters, dammit. It would be awful.

Besides, even if the NHL stole baseball's idea and forced the players to take part, the result would just be depressing. Can you imagine an entire weekend of guys skating around with names like "Smither" and "Jonesy" and "Other Jonesy" on their back? It would be embarrassing.

So here's my proposal: We steal MLB's good idea, but then we improve on it. Be it resolved that once a season, we have a player's weekend where every team gets to force one player from another team to wear a specific nickname on their back.

Which player? That would be up to them. They could take a vote on who the victim would be. And then they'd get to choose the nickname that the player had to wear. If I know hockey players, they'd probably spend more time figuring this out than they do on special teams.

Admittedly, we'd have to iron out a few kinks. For example, we'd need some sort of tie-breaking system for when 30 teams all submitted different insults for Matthew Tkachuk as their first choice. And there would probably be some team every year that would use their pick to say something nice about some veteran opponent because they wanted to be "classy" or whatever. We'd deal with that by immediately relegating that team to the ECHL.

Still, how much fun would it be to see who each team in the league decided to target with an embarrassing nickname? And how quickly would you line up to buy an officially licensed Bruins No. 63 jersey with "Rat Face" or whatever on the back?

Maybe we can't steal most of baseball's good ideas, like "not having a salary cap" or "interesting free agency" or "replay that mostly works" or "actually noticing when defensive strategies are out of control." But we can steal this one. After we're done improving it.

Obscure Former Player of the Week

This week's Obscure Player honors go to Swedish goaltender Tommy Soderstrom, for no other reason than reader Nate wrote in to suggest him. Thanks Nate.

If you're like me, the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Soderstrom is the brutal game-winning goal from center ice that sent Belarus to a stunning upset over Sweden in the 2002 Olympics. That's unfair, for a couple of reasons. First, even the best goaltenders gives up the occasional bad goal, and it's wrong to remember any athlete for their lowest moment. But more importantly, that wasn't Soderstrom—that was Tommy Salo. What can I say, Sweden produced too many 1990s goalies named Tommy S.

In addition to not being Tommy Salo, Soderstrom was picked way down in the 11th round of the 1990 draft by the Flyers. He played for Team Sweden at the 1991 Canada Cup, then made his NHL debut in 1992, splitting the Flyers' starting duties with Dominic Roussel. He played reasonably well, but struggled badly as a sophomore, winning just six times in 34 appearances while posting a GAA of 4.01. It didn't help his numbers that his own teammates occasionally scored on him.

Somehow, that made him worthy of being dealt to the Islanders straight up for Ron Hextall in a trade that probably happened mainly because nobody has any recollection of Hextall being an Islander in the first place. Soderstrom would spend two years as the Islanders' starter and wasn't bad, and to this day many fans probably remember his big white Jofa facemask. He once got into a fight with Corey Schwab.

As you can see, he didn't do all that well. But for the record, he didn't get destroyed by Dan Cloutier. That was also Tommy Salo.

Soderstrom would play a single game for the Islanders during the 1996-97 season—according to hockey-reference.com, his appearance lasted all of ten seconds—and that was it for his NHL career. He'd head to the IHL, and then back home to Sweden for several seasons.

According to his Wikipedia page, he apparently appeared on a Swedish reality show in 2014. I don't read Swedish so I don't know what the show is about, but I'm going to just assume it featured him and Tommy Salo living together while doing the Spiderman pointing meme and trying to figure out which one of them it was that Mike Milbury made cry during an arbitration hearing.

Outrage of the Week

The issue: NBC released their 2018-19 schedule. The outrage: Your team isn't on it enough. Is it justified: Kind of, in the sense that fans are fans, and you're supposed to want your team to get as much airtime as possible. Even if it doesn't really affect you—and let's face it, it doesn't, because you still have your local broadcast—it feels like a respect thing. Your team is great, or at least better than everyone thinks, and NBC should love them as much as you do.

Of course, in the real world it can't work that way. There are only so many games to go around. And while it would be nice if the games were handed out based on merit, ratings still matter and some teams do better than others. So sure, the Blackhawks are the most heavily featured team, as always, even though they missed the playoffs last year. And no, you won't see struggling Canadian teams like the Canucks or Senators at all. That's not fair, but life's not fair, and hockey fans know that better than anyone.

Still, the overall schedule is… not bad? I'm going to go with not bad. NBC made some smart moves, including the decision to scrap the Wednesday Night Rivalry that sounded great in theory but never really worked in reality because there hasn't been a good NHL rivalry since 2012. And while they're still giving you the Blackhawks out of a firehose, they've done a better job of spreading the love around. We've even got a game between two Canadian teams on the schedule, as the Leafs and Jets face off in October. That's the sort of matchup the league should want to see promoted, since it features two teams packed with young stars who should be good, and could even end up playing in a Stanley Cup final someday.

We're also getting more of fun teams like the Capitals, Predators, Golden Knights, and Lightning, and less of traditional teams like the Red Wings and Canadiens who figure to be iffy or worse. It doesn't all make sense, and nobody can quite figure out what's going on with the Kings, but it's a decent effort. So yeah, not bad.

Will "not bad" be enough to keep hockey fans from complaining? Of course not, because it's August and the only other things to talk about are Andrej Sekera's achilles tendon and Max Pacioretty's golf tournament. So we squabble about the TV schedule, if only to remind ourselves that meaningful hockey will return some day. That's as it should be. At least until the Senators and Canucks are playing in the Stanley Cup final and NBC can't figure out why the ratings are so low.

Classic YouTube Clip Breakdown

Hey, who wants to close things out with a bizarre short film about hockey, made by a Canadian celebrity, and aired at a late-night talk show hosts film festival? Why not. Let's get weird.

I'll be honest, I don't have a really strong grasp on what exactly this is or why it exists. Let's cover the basics. This is a short film that was produced by Michael J. Fox for David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival, which aired in 1986. The film is called The Ice Man Hummeth. And yeah, it's going to get strange.

Why yes, David Letterman apparently did have his own film festival, or at least a TV special that was presented that way. He had two, in fact. The first aired in 1985, and this one followed in 1986. You can watch the full thing here.

So on to the film. We start things off with Fox arriving at a rink, looking suitably badass given he's fresh off of Back To The Future and is pretty much one of the biggest movie stars in the world at this point. But that doesn't last long, because once he gets to the door he's suddenly a mild-mannered guy in a suit. But he's in a hockey dressing room. But he's not. We've got some sort of Westworld-style dueling timelines deal going here, with Fox as both a hockey tough guy and a classical musician. He's basically David Schultz with slightly more high-brow tastes.

We cut back and forth between the two scenes, including a shot of Hockey Fox's locker, complete with an autographed Letterman photo. That gets the first laugh from the audience, albeit a confused one, as they're clearly waiting for some of that Alex P. Keaton magic. Where's Uncle Ned and his maraschino cherries when you need him?

The next joke gets a better reaction, as Fox has to return a jock strap for something larger. Because the other didn't fit his oversized junk, you see. Look, it's his movie and Back To The Future made $210 million, he can write himself a big package if he wants to.

We get more juxtaposition, until we finally arrive at game time. That leads to a reasonably clever transition from pucks on ice into musical notes on paper as the orchestra warms up. Then it's back to the rink, where Fox's team has been joined by their opponent, who are very clearly wearing Winnipeg Jets uniforms with just enough strategically applied tape to prevent a lawsuit. Players from both teams are constantly threatening to kill each other in that way that happens in 100 percent of 1980s hockey movies, but only like 80 percent of actual 1980s hockey games. OK, fine, 95 percent if it was the Norris.

Also, a mid-80s goaltender makes a save, which is the least realistic part of this whole film.

One note about all of this that's kind of neat—in the comment section from the video, someone shows up who claims to have done the music for the film and explains that he actually had to compose a song that switched back and forth from classical to heavy metal and time it exactly to the final cut. That's kind of cool, and I'm going to assume it's true because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to lie on YouTube.

The referee, who is like eight inches taller than any of the players, drops the puck to start the game, and we instantly go full Rangers/Devils.

The benches empty because it's 1986, and at one point Fox seems to take a swing at the referee. More importantly, careful viewers will have noticed that we've now got a fully classical soundtrack, meaning the clean separation between timelines is starting to break down.

Sure enough, Hockey Fox looks up and realizes that Violin Fox and the rest of the orchestra is now in the stands. That somehow turns our bench-clearing brawl into an ice-dancing spectacle. There's a joke here about going from mid-80s hockey to the 2018 version, but I'm too mature to make it.

Meanwhile, Violin Fox is getting crowded by a fellow musician, and you can probably guess where that's headed. Soon enough, the orchestra is brawling while the hockey players tut-tut about unnecessary violence. Up is down, left is right, Harold Ballard does something nice, and we're done.

In the full version of the show, Fox gives a little more information about how this was all made. The entire project took four weeks, the shooting lasted just two nights, and it all cost less than $40,000. And best of all, he tells a great story about how the musicians couldn't wait to fight each other. It's well worth a watch.

And there you have it: Quite possibly the best artistic interpretation of the marriage between hockey and music every filmed that didn't involve Neil Sheehy.

Have a question, suggestion, old YouTube clip, or anything else you'd like to see included in this column? Email Sean at [email protected] .

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CANTLON: PACK PLAYERS NOT READY AFTER BREAK IN 5-1 DRUBBING BY SOUND TIGERS

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings BRIDGEPORT, CT - The Bridgeport Sound Tigers pulled away from the visiting Hartford Wolf Pack with three goals in the third period to take control of what was an otherwise tight battle between the intrastate and franchise rivals and won 5-1 at the Webster Bank Arena kicking off the post-holiday break on Friday night. Andrew Ladd had two goals while Otto Koivula added three assists to drive the engine for the Sound Tigers offense. The victory was Bridgeport’s first against the Wolf Pack in four games this season. The Sound Tigers are now 9-1-0-0 when leading after two periods and the Wolf Pack record when trailing after two drops to 2-7-0-1. “We did a good enough job in stretches, but we gave up way too many odd-man rushes and the chances we gave up were really good. (Goaltender) Adam (Huska) kept us in it, particularly in the second where he made some really big saves,” Pack head coach Kris Knoblauch stated. The Wolf Pack record slips to 17-8-2-5 (41 points) and they are second in the Atlantic Division. The team heads back to Hartford where they will prepare to play the first place Providence Bruins, 4-3 winners over the Springfield Thunderbirds, on Saturday night at 7pm at the XL Center. Igor Shesterkin is slated to be in net, but the Pack will be without team captain Steven Fogarty, who was recalled after the game by the New York Rangers as a result of the broken hand suffered by Brendan Lemieux. With Fogarty heading to the NHL, the Rangers promoted forward Dillan Fox to the Wolf Pack from their ECHL affiliate, the Maine Mariners, and signed him to a PTO deal. In Maine, Fox has 12 goals and 24 total points in 26 games. He is second in scoring behind only Terrance Wallin. Fox is a four-year minor league pro out of Division III SUNY-Plattsburgh (SUNYAC). This will be his first AHL action. Maine dropped a 5-0 game at home to the Reading Royals and will play in Worcester against the Railers on Saturday night. Bridgeport's record improves to 13-16-3-1 (30 points). They sit in seventh place in the Atlantic, just one point ahead of the last place Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The Tigers will host sixth-place Springfield on Saturday night. The Wolf Pack sought to battle back early in the third period and managed to score shorthanded. Fogarty was on the right-wing and waited as he and Boo Nieves broke in on a two-on-one. Nieves broke away from the checking of the Sound Tiger’s Travis St. Denis and got separation and took a cross-ice pass and whistled it for his third goal of the season to the short and stick-side of Jared Coreau at 2:55. The goal narrowed the Sound Tiger lead to one at 2-1. “I really thought we had a chance there scoring early. I really felt we were going to win it when we got to one goal. Then we hit a post and just after the power play ended, they scored and we didn’t recover and they quickly got another one on us,” said Knoblauch. Nieves, who has been snake-bitten in his shooting at times this season, wasn’t going do any victory laps while scoring a goal in a game his team lost. “It was good to get us back in the game at that point, and it gave us a chance. It's only a good feeling if you don’t get scored on a couple times (right after). Then it doesn’t feel so good.” 23-seconds later, Tim Gettinger snapped a shot from off the left-wing side that hit the post. That would be the closest the Wolf Pack would get again. The Sound Tigers pulled away with two goals in a 3:01 span, reestablishing a two goal lead. Ladd tallied his second of the game, and ninth of the season, when he finished off a strong passing sequence. It started with Koivula in the right wing corner hitting Josh Ho-Sang in front of the net. Ho-Sang made a sweet one-touch pass to Ladd, who then deftly put the puck into the back of the net at 6:03. “We can’t give up that much space. This is a good league and players like that are gonna score those. We gave up way too many open shots like that and we're gonna have to clean that up by tomorrow night,” said Nieves. For Bridgeport’s head coach, and former Wolf Pack, Brent Thompson, he had all of his big scoring eggs coming from one basket. Koivula, Ladd, and Ho Sang, who is in his second game after sitting out two months waiting on his trade request. It paid off in big dividends. “Otto had his feet moving tonight. Josh is a high-end caliber talent, and Ladd has that experience. Put all those pieces together, you have a powerful unit." Grant Huston followed with a 55-footer from the left point that found its way through traffic with Koivula starting the scoring play again for Bridgeport at 9:04. Kyle Burroughs put a 195-foot shot into an empty net off a clean defensive zone draw win with 33.4 seconds left to close out the game for the Sound Tigers. The games' first goal came in the second period. After gaining a clean entry, on the power play, the Sound Tigers set up shop. Matt Lorito came in off the right-point. The left-handed shot fired a bullet that Huska stopped, but for the Wolf Pack, the rebound went to the wrong guy. Kieffer Bellows of the Sound Tigers had a wide open net and deposited his team best tenth goal of the season at 10:34. For Bellows, it was his fifth straight game at home with a goal. He has nine goals in his last 12 games and is among the hottest players in the AHL. Thompson was eager to discuss his growth and development. “It's not only his play with the puck, but his play away from the play is better. He was having a tough time at the beginning of the year, but he is learning the systems. The biggest difference is he’s moving his feet and he is getting it now. It's about breaking old habits. You're in a league that is bigger and stronger, and you can’t do things you got away with like you did in college or juniors. The pace changes and I accept that it takes time. Some break it early. Some take a year. Some take two years. It’s a long road for him, but I couldn’t be happier for him right now his attitude and work ethic. Right now it's all about confidence. 100%, he’s got it. It’s a long year if you stay focused, good things can happen." It was the first time the Sound Tigers have scored the game’s first goal this season in the series between the two teams. “We got that first goal and refocused and got some momentum and started creating chances,” said Thompson. A power-play came a result of an instigator penalty called on Darren Raddysh. He came into the play when Bridgeport’s Robert “Bobo" Carpenter nailed his defensive partner, Vincent LoVerde, from behind. Neither coach could have been happy with the officiating or the linesman. Nieves was tackled in the offensive zone in the second period. No call was made on the play. Joey Keane dropped the puck on the power- play for the trailer and he gets dropped in neutral zone on a solid hit by Carpenter. “You're not trying to get me fined are you?” replied Knoblauch with a smile and a chuckle when he was asked about the officiating. “Sometimes the calls go your way and sometimes they don’t. That’s all I’m gonna say.” Nieves on ice frustration was noticeable, but he stickhandled his way around the question too. “That’s not my area of expertise. It's frustrating and it is what is, but you just can’t let it get in your way.” The Sound Tigers generated half of their 14 shots from the back-line over the first two periods. The Pack got a solid effort from Vitali Kravtsov who had a solid chance at 5:50 of the second period. He then made a tremendous recovery play diving to block a pass to Bellows at the end of his shift. The Sound Tigers staked out a two-goal lead in the last minute of regulation of the second period. Defenseman Tyler Wotherspoon made a strong lead pass to Koivula. He took the pass and went down the left-wing side, spreading out the Wolf Pack defense and then found Ladd, a former NHL first-round pick, open, backdoor.Ladd didn’t miss with 22.7 seconds left in the period. The Pack only managed to put nine shots on net in the second period. “Well, we did go through a long stretch without a shot on net, but I don’t think (we were too choosy). I think we tried to stick-handle too much on our entries rather than chip it deep and get behind their defense,” said Knoblauch. The first period was scoreless with both teams trying to find a rhythm after coming back from the holiday break. Bridgeport had a 5-2 shot advantage in the first ten minutes. Huska made two quality stops on the five denying Grant Huston and then Bellows. Over the final ten minutes though, the Wolf Pack found their stride and outshot their hosts 7-0 and generated some quality chances in the final five minutes. Raddysh, Phil DiGiuseppe, who was just returned from his Rangers recall earlier in the day, Kravtsov, Nick Ebert, and Vincent LoVerde were all denied on solid scoring chances. LoVerde's coming in the final ten seconds of the period. LINES: Nieves - Fogarty - Beleskey O’Regan - Kravtsov - Di Giuseppe Jones - Lettieri - Gettinger Zerter-Gossage - McBride - Gropp Raddysh - LoVerde Keane - Geersten Rykov - Ebert SCRATCHES: Patrick Newell (Upper-Body, day-to-day) Jeff Taylor (Healthy) Lias Andersson (Suspended) Gabriel Fontaine (Season Ending Shoulder Surgery) NOTES: Both teams come off shutouts in their last game before the break. The Wolf Pack white-washed the Providence Bruins, 4-0, with Igor Shesterkin recording 32 saves. Meanwhile, the Sound Tigers shut-out the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 3-0 off a 38-save performance from goalie, Jakub Skarek. It was his first AHL shutout. Bridgeport left the pre-game skate early. Seven Wolf Pack players remained as the clock hits zero. You are required to exit the ice or you can be penalized and fined by the AHL for the violation. There has been some strong goaltending so far this year in Hartford, but out West, Stockton beat San Jose 8-1 with the goaltenders only seeing 19 shots on goal. The G.A.A. for the goalies in that one is not going to look pretty. At the WJC, the US downed Germany 6-3 as a former member of the Avon Old Farms Winged Beavers, Trevor Zegras tallied four assists including a fantastic play off a turn and pass to Connor Hall, who put it in past a thoroughly surprised German goaltender. The Sound Tigers' Oliver Wahlstrom tallied his first goal of the tourney. It was the sixth of the game and came after he came off the left-wing half-wall in the German offensive zone. He cut to the middle and tucked his shot in along the ice. The US squad is off Saturday and will play the Russians on Sunday. Brooklyn Kalmikov, the son of former Sound Tiger, Konstantin Kalmikov, was traded at the QMJHL Trade Deadline from the Cape Breton Eagles to the Victoriaville Tigers. Read the full article

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After lengthy hockey odyssey, Evan Stoflet is returned with Utah Grizzlies for 3rd time

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After lengthy hockey odyssey, Evan Stoflet is returned with Utah Grizzlies for 3rd time

After lengthy hockey odyssey, Evan Stoflet is returned with Utah Grizzlies for 3rd time SALT LAKE city — they are saying you can’t move domestic again, as a minimum that’s what Thomas Wolfe’s iconic novel from the Forties claimed. That old adage doesn’t follow to Utah Grizzlies’ hockey player Evan Stoflet, who has come domestic no longer once, no longer twice, but three times because residing in Utah as a younger youngster.

The 32-yr Stoflet is on his third excursion of responsibility with the Grizzlies and playing gambling in the front of pals and own family — again — after gambling on contrary facets of the sector for a few years as well as towns in every area of the united states, from Montana to Iowa to California to ny to Texas. maximum currently, he played for 2 years in China, an experience he referred to as “nuts,” however one which he says he’ll usually cherish.

Stoflet is a defenseman for the Grizzlies, who stand 25-22-five and are creating a sturdy playoff push with 19 games left. because the oldest player on the crew, Stoflet is counted on for his leadership and has no hassle while teammates name him “old guy” or “grandpa.”

“Oh yeah, it’s coming complete circle,” he says of the razzing he receives from his more youthful teammates. “I did the equal aspect whilst i used to be first beginning playing. It’s a cycle of existence, I bet.” Utah coach Tim Branham can’t reward Stoflet sufficient, saying, “He brings suitable leadership to this institution and facilitates the more youthful guys. He facilitates them feel cozy, whether it’s structures or a way to be a professional, due to the fact he’s a true expert. He involves the rink the same each single day with the equal mindset, the equal preparation.”

an enticing younger man with an easy smile, Stoflet is honestly grateful for the possibility he has to nonetheless be gambling expert hockey and especially to be gambling in what he considers his native land.

“It’s such a completely unique enjoy with a purpose to play in an area in which I lived for see you later,” he stated. “It’s been segmented, however I’ve lived right here for so long. obviously being close to my mother and father after being away for goodbye is nice. i have legitimate friends here within the network that I didn’t get to peer for years. It’s high-quality … actual first-rate.”

Born in Wisconsin, Stoflet moved along with his family to Illinois as a youngster, however got here out to Utah in 1996 due to his father’s employment. Evan became just going into 7th grade, and he lived in West Jordan for a couple of years. a great athlete who played soccer, baseball and football, he determined hockey became the game he desired to pursue, so on the age of 14, he moved returned to live along with his grandparents in Wisconsin, in which hockey is a miles larger deal than Utah.

with the aid of his junior yr of high school, Stoflet turned into off gambling Junior Hockey, in which he had a condensed faculty schedule for 3 hours an afternoon, at the same time as working towards hockey several hours every day. He traveled round gambling in opposition, moving first to Bozeman Montana, followed by way of Des Moines, Iowa. Then it become off to university on the college of Vermont, in which he played for 4 years.

while his collegiate career ended, he turned expert, and his first stop become Texas, in which he performed for the Corpus Christi Rayz, in the primary Hockey League. the subsequent yr he made his first professional prevent in Utah as a member of the Grizzlies. “It changed into one of those matters wherein I wanted to play in this league, so a mutual buddy positioned me in touch with the teach here and it went from there,” he said. “You don’t frequently see that, where there’s a crew wherein you live. It labored out nicely.”

Jason Christie was the coach who signed him, but he left the team inside a month and Kevin Collie took over because the coach for the 2008-09 season. Stoflet had an amazing 12 months with more than one desires and 11 assists from his protection position in addition to a plus-21 for his time at the ice.

“It changed into bizarre due to the fact I hadn’t lived this close to my own family in six years or so,” he said. “however it turned into great because I had buddies here and i used to be pretty relaxed instead of coming to a team new. My mother and father have been really pumped because they got to look me extra when i used to be 24 than whilst i used to be 16.”

but, thirteen games into the next season, Stoflet changed into unexpectedly traded to the Bakersfield Condors inside the ECHL. After seasons with Bakersfield, Stoflet determined he desired to try playing in Europe and determined a professional group in Copenhagen.

“Copenhagen is one of these cities that everyone says you ought to visit and it’s miles an extremely good town,” he stated. “It became lots of amusing and i saw loads of cool stuff. i can’t say sufficient approximately how top notch Copenhagen was.”

The most effective problem became the team control wasn’t so terrific, and his paychecks were always past due. Then in the future, he and multiple different americans were told they couldn’t have enough money to be paid anymore, and after simply three months there, Stoflet headed back to the States with a promise that he would receives a commission. The team folded a yr later, but Stoflet by no means noticed his final paycheck. He completed off the 2012 season in the big apple with the Elmira Jackals, another ECHL team, in the jap conference.

Collie turned into nonetheless the educate of the Grizzlies and he contacted Stoflet’s agent after the season and asked if he might be inquisitive about returning to Salt Lake town. Stoflet stated “positive” and so he turned into lower back in Utah, for the 2012-thirteen season, in which he scored three dreams with eleven assists. After that season, Stoflet determined he wanted to give Denmark any other try, so he performed for a group on the other facet of the u . s ., in a smaller town on the west coast referred to as Esjberg had a much better experience.

“I had an amazing train and i was able to play with a few men I went to college with,” he stated. “It turned into a a laugh enjoy — and we got paid.”

through that time, he’d had enough of Europe and he located an uncommon opportunity to play in China, where hockey continues to be in its little one degrees.

“That was nuts,” he says of his experience in China. “I’d by no means had the lifestyle shock as once I landed in Beijing. countries have unique manner of doing matters and China became so much one-of-a-kind that whatever that I’d skilled before.”

Stoflet’s group performed in Qiqihar, way up north far from the huge metropolitan areas of China like Beijing and Shanghai. His membership changed into the handiest chinese group in the Asian Ice Hockey League, which covered four groups from Japan, three from South Korea and one from japanese Russia. He stated there was a translator at the staff, but he “manifestly couldn’t comply with you around everywhere.”

Stoflet’s teach became eastern, so he’d ought to explain crew drills in his language and the translator might need to supply the instructions to both the chinese and English-talking gamers.

“by the time it were given to us, it didn’t continually translate quite proper and was pretty comical,” he said, “So if we were getting chewed out, we had been getting yelled out in jap, chinese language and eventually English.”

Stoflet said he and his North American teammates might get loads of atypical appears from the chinese natives, who’d never seen many non-Asian oldsters in that part of the us of a.

“It became quite humorous how anyone could stare at you from 20 feet beforehand and also you’d walk past them and turn round they’d nevertheless be watching you,” he said. “Random people might need to take pics with you.”

As for the competition, Stoflet called it “quite suitable,” although “not as bodily as over here.” He said China is attempting to make a conscious attempt to reinforce hockey because the u . s . a . is getting the iciness Olympics (in 2022).

“So it changed into lot of journey — you sort of toss your self accessible and see what you return with — how lengthy it takes you to get there and lower back and what type of food you’re going to come to be consuming.”

but Stoflet preferred the stories although it became an awful lot extra challenging than Denmark where most everybody speaks English.

“It become clearly cool and i really liked that fish-out-of-water type feeling,” he stated. “I truely preferred to rub elbows with the locals – it’s the nice way to get a brand new attitude on matters.”

After two years residing in a distinctive culture, consuming atypical food and now not having many people to talk to, Stoflet headed again to the united states and was satisfied to land lower back in Utah.

It doesn’t problem Stoflet within the least that he’s the old man on the Grizzlies and one of the oldest gamers inside the league. He knows that hockey gamers play longer than athletes in most different sports activities, and he’s no longer planning to cling up the skates any time quickly. “It’s all around the map,” he says. “ years in the past I played with a goalie who changed into turning 38. It’s simply but long your body can preserve up and but a good deal you revel in it and nevertheless want to play.”

Branham doesn’t rely out Stoflet sticking round for awhile. “You never realize. He maintains himself in correct form, that’s for certain, he’s in actual good form, specially for his age,” Branham said. “whilst you’re in appropriate shape you may play a long time — observe Jaromir Jagr (nonetheless gambling in NHL at age forty five). Evan works hard to hold his body in true form.”

Stoflet jokes “I don’t have any concept what I need to do once I grow up,” but he hopes to stick around Utah for extra than a year this time.

“That’s the funny aspect about this game and particularly at this degree,” he stated. “you can by no means look too a long way beforehand in the destiny. You never know what is going to pop up what’s going to show up. This is a superb place for me now.”

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