#nyisles

[ivyglow]

I wonder how’s mat barzal doing…I hope he’s getting enough sleep

#i miss him sm #sudden urge to talk about him #istg #wheneve i think im over him: im not #i quickly discover i am not #nor i think i will be soon #anyways #mat barzal #mel rants #nyisles

[masoncarr2244]

#new york islanders #nyisles #islanders #isles #nhl #hockey #mascots #nhledit #hockeyedit #gif #gifs

[bitchinbarzal]

can we get a ig edit for mama b killing it during playoffs in her jacket 😊😘

-linkedin anon

I’m using Dallas ones because those girls give us the best content (and jackets)

mamabarz

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mamabarz that’s BARZAL to you 🧡💙 let’s go thirteen!

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mamahischier slay but it should be red 💔

lianabarzal ugh hottest sister ever

barzal97 you make me weak

mamabarz

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mamabarz LFGI 💙🧡

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barzal97 WIFE 💍

singer slay so hard

sydneyemartin 🫶🏼 ur on the right side for once

[lurlur]

Rating the NHL mascots - Part 2

Part 1 is here

Minnesota Wild

Nordy

What are you, Nordy? Officially, Nordy is a "wild animal" which is just SUPER helpful, Minnesota. Thanks. He's got a sweet face, though. I like the extra colouring that keeps him from being boring. I feel like he'd benefit from some sharp teeth though. Give the boy some ferocity. Assuming he's the kind of wild animal that can be ferocious? WHO FUCKIN' KNOWS???

Vibes: 7/10

Aesthetics: 9/10

Horror: 2/10

Fuckability: 6/10

Overall, 6/10. Could be better, but the inability to commit hurts Nordy's potential.

Buffalo Sabres

Sabretooth

I may not have much in this world, but one of the things that I do have is a degree in palaeontology. This goofy looking motherfucker is not an accurate sabretooth cat and I have decided to take that personally. This is a cartoon tiger with dental issues. This is Tony the Tiger's inbred cousin. He's not OK. At least he looks relatively kind, if a little concerned.

Vibes: 5/10

Aesthetics: 1/10

Horror: 1/10

Fuckability: 1/10

Overall, 2/10. Is it too much to ask for to have palaeontologically accurate mascots in 2023?

Nashville Predators

Gnash

Is this a joke? Am I a joke to you? ANOTHER sabre tooth cat? Jesus fucking christ. OK, this one isn't AS bad. It's not good, but it's not as bad as the last entry. Actual sabre teeth, a sculpted cat head, team colours can be forgiven for mascot purposes. The lower jaw is all wrong and the stripes are conjecture at best, but the overall effect doesn't fill me with the same blind rage as Buffalo's cat. Gnash is getting by on a loaded comparison. His name is pretty cool though.

Vibes: 6/10

Aesthetics: 4/10

Horror: 5/10

Fuckability: 3/10

Overall, 4.5/10. Literally skating through because Sabretooth is SO bad and SO fresh in my memory. Take the wins where you can, Gnash.

Florida Panthers

Stanley C. Panther

Florida somehow has two mascots? I'm going with Stanley, but please do be aware of, I assume, Matthew Tkachuk's best friend: Victor E. Rat.

Stanley, here, is a panther. Of course. And he's fine. Just fine. Another big cat, underwhelming design, pretty minimal costuming. He's got a reasonably characterful face. I feel like a good performer could make him work, but in still images he's lacklustre. Sorry, Stanley.

Vibes: 6/10

Aesthetics: 3/10

Horror: 3/10

Fuckability: 6/10

Overall, 4.5/10. Middling score for a middling mascot. Maybe I should have gone with Victor...

New York Islanders

Sparky the Dragon

Got myself tied in knots about this one because the Isles have made some attempts to move on from Sparky, it seems. There's an absolutely horrifying fisherman named Nyisles that I won't ever unsee. The NHL website says Sparky, though, so Sparky it is! He's a dragon! Look at his lil wings! Good teeth, bright colours, horns for holding. What's not to love? Literally nothing. Except the fact that he's mascot for the Isles... but that's not what we're doing here.

Vibes: 10/10

Aesthetics: 10/10

Horror: 4/10

Fuckability: 8/10

Overall, 8/10. He's a dragon! I love me a dragon! I don't care!

St Louis Blues

Louie

Louie, OK. Blue, OK. Wipe clean mouth? OK, I guess. Why a bear, though? And why such a pale blue? This thing must be a nightmare to keep clean. Good ear shape, kind face, not quite hitting the bear perfection that is Carlton but a decent effort. The muzzle really is throwing me as a weird design choice. Like, OK, it does make the face more visually interesting but it also just looks like Louie has a skin problem. Does he have mange? We simply don't know.

Vibes: 7/10

Aesthetics: 7/10

Horror: 3/10

Fuckability: 5/10

Overall, 5.5/10. Mostly because I'm concerned about his health. I don't want to catch mange.

Detroit Red Wings

Al the Octopus

Oh yeah, now we're talking. I actively hate this for a million reasons but it's so fucking insane that I also kind of love it! I do wish that Detroit fans would stop throwing octopuses onto the ice because that is no fate for a poor cephalopod. But look! It's a giant tentale monster! He looks MEAN! That's not just a guy in a bad fur suit! it's interesting and that's worth big points. I fully believe that Al would beat the shit out of me for no reason.

Vibes: 10/10

Aesthetics: 9/10

Horror: 9/10

Fuckability: 10/10

Overall, 9.5/10. Horrible, never stop.

Philidelphia Flyers

Gritty

Now, this is podracing! Gritty is how you do weird, undefined monster mascots properly. Gritty emerged following construction work at the Philidephia arena and is best described as a force for chaos. The eyes are wild, the energy is all over the place, the flow is spectacular, and the best part of Gritty's launch was the speed with which Philidelphia went from rejecting their new freak to declaring Gritty the new godking. Oh, you think Gritty is an ugly monster? Fuck you, we love them. Gritty is also undeniably a queer ally/icon/community leader? Hard to say exactly, but it's there. Immaculate vibes. Shame we can't say the same about everyone on the team...

Vibes: 10/10

Aesthetics: 10/10

Horror: 10/10

Fuckability: 10/10

Overall, 10/10. Gritty, hit me up. I have a short list of Flyers I need you to eat. Thanks, babe.

Ottawa Senators

Spartacat

Someone please get this lion a good haircare routine? Dear god, Spartacat. You leave the house looking like this? There's something almost endearing about how wet and pathetic this lion looks. He's just giving nothing. I want to nominate him for Queer Eye.

Vibes: 6/10

Aesthetics: 4/10

Horror: 2/10

Fuckability: 4/10

Overall, 4/10. Honestly, it's a pity fuck as well. Someone please help this lion.

Montreal Canadiens

Youppi!

What IS it? A man? Why is it so hairy? It might be a giant (lol) but that doesn't explain much at all. I HATE this. I think that's a fully body beard. You could shave that and maybe find just a normal man underneath. It's SO orange which just looks jarring with the Montreal colours. Bad. I would turn around and walk the other direction if I saw this on the street.

Vibes: 2/10

Aesthetic: 1/10

Horror: 8/10

Fuckability: 0/10

Overall, a generous 3/10. Please never make me look at Youppi! again.

Vancouver Canucks

Fin the Whale

They anthropomorphised a whale. That feels like it should be a crime. Certainly the way they've gone about it is. Fin loses points for having his dorsal fin on the back of his head and not, y'know, his actual back. He also appears to have no tail which is a real shame. Tails are a great design choice in almost every situation. I do like the sharp teeth and red tongue, though. Very suggestive. This feels like a missed opportunity. Fin could have been a lot better but they took the easy path instead of the interesting one. Boo you, Canucks design team.

Vibes: 7/10

Aesthetics: 4/10

Horror: 5/10

Fuckability: 6/10

Overall, 5.5/10. I really wanted to like this more. I'm going to think about Ethan Bear for a minute to cheer myself up.

San Jose Skarks

S J Sharkie

No points for originality on the name, but for literally everything I just said about Fin? Sharkie gets it right. His dorsal fin is in the right place, he has shark elements beyond his head with those little elbow fins. Clear evidence that it's possible to make a weird sea creature/man hybrid without being boring AF. The head is a weird shape, but I'm feeling too much goodwill towards Sharkie right now to really mind. Nice teeth, too. I would have loved to have seen rows of teeth, maybe with some missing for a real hockey feel.

Vibes: 8/10

Aesthetics: 8/10

Horror: 6/10

Fuckability: 8/10

Overall, 7.5/10. A good score for a very smooth boy. Smooth in every direction.

Arizona Coyotes

Howler the Coyote

Hims feets too big for hims gotdamn shoes! I haven't ever actually seen a coyote before, so I had to go looking for a comparison. Conclusion? Why is his face so wide? I do like the very pointy nose, though. We've seen too many soft faced predators, this boy has a SNOUT. Got some lil teefies too, I like that. And a tail. I keep coming back to the feet busting out of the shoes though, like some teen wolf knock off. I kinda love it.

Vibes: 9/10

Aesthetics: 8/10

Horror: 4/10

Fuckability: 8/10

Overall, 7/10. Very good showing for a pointy faced doggo who needs new shoes.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Stinger

Help. Serously, please help me. Look at this thing. It's a bug, meant to be a play on blue jackets/yellow jackets. But I don't know what a yellow jacket is so any cleverness is kind of lost on me. This is HORRIBLE. They really went all in on making this unpleasant and I can applaud that, even as I hate it viscerally. And I do. The eyes, the butt, the rictus grin, the colour... It is offensive to mine eyeballs. I love it. One note, they should have given it another set of limbs.

Vibes: 1/10

Aesthetics: 10/10

Horror: 8/10

Fuckability: 0/10

Overall, 5/10. Awful. I can't look away.

Honourable mention to Boomer, the other Blue Jackets mascot who is just an anthropomorphic cannon. Great moustache. I wonder if Johnny Gaudreau is afraid of it.

Anaheim Ducks

Wild Wing

I do not believe that Wild Wing's designer had ever seen a duck. I'm not sure that the person who described duck to the designer or Wild Wing had ever seen a duck either. I think the description of a duck may have passed through as many as 15 people who had never seen a duck before reaching Wild Wing's designer. Oh Holly, you're so harsh. It's a duck in a hockey mask. OK, so they hadn't seen a modern hockey mask either. I like the mean expression, somehow through a mask, the Donald Duck-esque nudity, and the feet design. Almost a horse-sized duck.

Vibes: 7/10

Aesthetics: 6/10

Horror: 5/10

Fuckability: 4/10

Overall, 5.5/10. You're no good, duck. You'll never be shit. You're just like your father.

Chicago Bad Team

Tommy Hawk

That's a turkey.

Vibes: 0/10

Aesthetics: 0/10

Horror: 0/10

Fuckability: 0/10

0/10. Boo.

#nhl mascots #nhl #hockey #lurlur rates mascots #please be nice to me #this took so much work

[barzal-mat]

what are some of your fave (newer) blogs now? would love some recs 🥰

my sense of time is majorly skewed, so there's that. but these are some of my favorites blogs 💕:

@leafsbabe @tkafuckit @comphersjost @dembenchboys @bqstqnbruin @powerblais @mondieumat @hotgirlhockey @nyisles @gabelandeskog @beauvilliers @raysofcrosby

#asks answered #nhl

[mojoswork]

The first seven portraits of NHL mascots, all 12x12″ acrylic on canvas. New York Islanders: Sparky, Nyisles Philadelphia Flyers: Gritty (The GOAT) Columbus Blue Jackets: Stinger (possible copyright infringement on TMNT or Bucky O’Hare Toad Commando) Washington Capitals: Slapshot New Jersey Devils: NJ Devil Buffalo Sabres: Sabretooth

#painting #art #mascots #nhl #hockey #new york #islanders #philadelphia #flyers #columbus #blue jackets #washington #capitals #new jersey #Daredevil #buffalo #sabres

[eightfourone]

thinking about the four fastest playoff goals in nhl history 2:18 nyisles babey

[theultimatefan]

New York Islanders To Host Third Annual Nickelodeon Night Saturday

The New York Islanders and Nickelodeon are teaming up again to give Isles Nation a slime filled multi platform experience on Saturday, March 25. The third annual event will build on the success of past collaborations and elevate the Islanders’ game experience with the integration of Nickelodeon’s beloved shows and characters, across social and digital channels and in arena.

Fans at UBS Arena and those following along on social platforms will receive Nickelodeon themed content throughout the game, which will feature characters from SpongeBob SquarePants, Transformers: EarthSpark, The Loud House, Rubble & Crew and more. SpongeBob SquarePants will also join Islanders mascots, Sparky and Nyisles, for a meet and greet with fans at the matchup against the Buffalo Sabres.

Nickelodeon themed activation spaces will be scattered throughout the concourses at UBS Arena for fans to enjoy, including: a DIY slime station where fans can assemble their own exclusive jar of slime, a Nick Jr. Kids’ Corner with themed giveaways, and a photo opportunity on Nickelodeon’s famed SNICK “Big Orange Couch,” where one lucky Season Ticket Member family will be able to watch the game. There will also be a Nickelodeon themed t-shirt toss, presented by Arctix.

Social media followers will also be able to sign up to win a one-of-a-kind Isles x Nickelodeon Happy Face painting.

“We are thrilled to team up with Nickelodeon again and offer Isles Nation a unique and unparalleled slime filled fan experience at UBS Arena and at home,” said Simone Perrin, the team’s Vice President of Marketing. On March 25th, content will be featured on NewYorkIslanders.com, Islanders Facebook (@NewYorkIslanders), Instagram (@NY_Islanders), Twitter (@NYIslanders) and in the UBS Arena app.

[nhlsorokin]

Sorokin giving his stick to a fan

he’s just simply the best goalie ever

#ilya sorokin #sorokin #soroking #New York Islanders #new york isles #NYI #nyisles #mathew barzal #Zdeno Chara

[iwantahockeyhimbo]

i feel the need to draw your attention to this. THE ENTIRE 3.5 HOURS ARE THESE 2 SONGS 😭😭

here’s the playlist link :)

#someone gave barzy and beau the official spotify login #ig the boys are back #new york isles #nyisles #mat barzal #anthony beauvillier #my baby beau #barzy 😌

[ivyglow]

ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀɪʀꜰʟɪᴘ ᴅᴏᴇꜱ ɪᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴍᴇ ɴᴊ ᴠꜱ ɴʏɪ 11 ᴍᴀʀᴄʜ 2021

#mat barzal #my gifs #mathew barzal #isles lb #melinda gifing games #nyisles #new york islanders #he looks good #i like this length #ugh so handsome #op: gifs

[masoncarr2244]

#new york islanders #nyisles #islanders #isles #ny islanders #mascots #nhl #hockey #nhledit #hockeyedit #gif #gifs

[bitchinbarzal]

wyatt’s first rodeo | life of ivy

mamabarz

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mamabarz my sweet wyatt, a year of knowing you and your sweet smile, laugh and heart 🤎

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sydneyemartin happy birthday wy!

njdevils happy first birthday wyatt!

titobeauvi_ 🩷🩷

alexaserowick happy birthday sweetness! 🍭

barzal97

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barzal97 one year of loving wyatt. one year of being a completed father, of loving you my sweet, amazing little ball of sunshine ☀️

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liannabarzal happy birthday wywy 🤍

ebear25 happy birthday little chick!

josty17 STOP GROWING

mamabarz our baby 😭😭

owahlstrom97 happy birthday lil one

mamabarz

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mamabarz wyatt’s first rodeo 🐮🤎 thanks to everyone who came to celebrate our sweet cowgirl!

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mamahischier thanks for having us Barzals! 🩷🤍🤎

lenasiabear you’ll be planning our parties from now on!

sydneyemartin the girls had a blast!

jackhughes i had so much fun

dawson1517 still not sure why me and Jack were sat at the kids table

#wyatt Barzal #life of ivy

[kolsmikaelson]

NYIslanders-😝

#mat barzal #mathew barzal #pretty boy barzy #new york islanders #ny isles #nyisles #isles vs sabres #isles win #5-2 #3/6/21 #mine**

[jacobmarkstrom]

ngl, the fact that there are companies that stop you from buying merch with your fav players names and numbers really makes me sad — WHATS THE POINT OF A JERSEY because is that not the same thing?

Anyways I’m super proud of these sweaters I made for @nyisles and I for our fav players. Thank you Emily for always being the first pancake and wearing the first of everything that I make 😭

#nyisles #frands #new york islanders #mat barzal #jacob markstrom #calgary flames #custom #idk if I would sell these but if you’re interested jusy reach out :)

[thirteenisles]

Back to back nights, back to back goals.

#derick brassard #new york islanders #nyi #nyisles #ok...listen...is he single im just asking for a friend #and by friend #i mean me