#two played hockey with him

[fannyyann]

asking since I feel like you’re the tkachuk expert (in my eyes anyways haha) but those guys in the family picture he posted are they his cousins?

No, they are his best friends he's known since he was a teen at least!

here's all but one of them ASG weekend

and this is all but one of them again in calgary in 2019

#matthew ask #two played hockey with him #another went to chaminade #and the other is one of a three (?) brothers who are family friends with the tkachuks

[larsnicklas]

[240316 fla vs. tbl] matthew tkachuk catches tampa bay's brayden point with an enormous reverse hit in the corner just moments after linemate sam bennett sent nikita kucherov flying in a hard-nosed physical shift typical of their line.

+ bonus: bennett hit on kucherov

#matthew tkachuk #sam bennett #florida panthers #nhl #nhledit #hockey #hockeyedit #meg.cats #meg.gif #meg.all #meg.request #playbook #hi i also included. samuel. because i love him #like he is so delightful to me bc he's not very big at all but he's a great hitter #and because the two of them were just hurling themselves around the ice during this shift #i LOVE them #also sorry i know the bennett hit gif is framed in a very unhinged way i just thought it was a little Funny the way they disappear #i hope this is the play you were wanting anon!!!

[ex0rin]

📸Jack Quaid's Instagram Stories | 01.04.24

#me saving these as: #arquaid #like i'm the funniest person in the whole world #ANYWAY #jack quaid #cara gifs #when those last two gifs match up right they make one entire quaido :chefskiss: etc #but when will he come to MY arcade??? #his stupid long legs i'm clawing my face off #i hate him but i hate more that he's playing a hockey game when there's probably a tmnt cabinet in there somewhere

[workingforitallthetime]

#my guy my guy my guy!!!! #i can’t believe it’s been almost two years since the last time i saw him play hockey! #and here he is! vgk sent him down just in time to meet me in palm desert! #he looks so scruffy and dumb and he still absolutely delights me! #i might have a bit of a brendan brisson problem

[catzy88]

i'm just saying, if this vgk vs. edm playoffs and the second draft pick beating the first draft pick doesn't revive the mceichel fandom (at least momentarily), we're beyond salvation 😭

#mceichel #hrpf #hockey rpf #i wish i had the time and energy to write at least the winner's room fic i was thinking about earlier #especially now that vgk (and jack) won #i've even thought about two different scenarios #one with a lot of dirty talk and almost hate sex #where jack finally gets to take all his frustrations of playing second fiddle all these years #out on the bane of his existence a.k.a. connor #but it ends with him realizing there's a fine line between love and hate #and another with connor having been in love with jack from the beginning #and while he's devastated he isn't going to win the cup this year either #he's also just so happy for jack #it could also be the same story from both of their povs #idk i'm probably never going to write anything anyway #but it's fun to throw these ideas out there #maybe i'll at least end up giving someone else inspiration 💖

[oetter]

god bless my professor i love that woman so much

#im fucking. shaken up by what happened earlier. it scared me more than i realized at the time #hockey is a dangerous fucking sport. i didnt even see the kid get hurt but watching them get him on a gurney and wheel him out #with a neck brace and an iv just. god. he’s 19 years old. he’s a teenager. he’s still in critical condition right now. #going back through the footage i got isnt really helping and i know i can’t do proper voiceover work right now or i’ll sound like a child #emailed my prof abt the sitch and she is. the kindest woman in the world and offered an extension despite the policy being 24 hours advance #and it’s due in two hours. yet she gave me another full day. im gonna cry #i need to go to bed. i just. i feel sick to my stomach about the poor kid and about this assignment. #it just didn’t hit me that it can happen to people i know and love and seeing the ambulance pull up to the rink i just about ran inside #trying to make sure it wasnt one of mine. but that didnt even matter. #god. why do people still play hockey. i dont think i could ever manage. #i might honestly need to take a break from even watching hockey for a little bit. ill see how i feel in the morning #right now i feel like crying though. gonna go do that. #oetteryaps

[himbeaux-on-ice]

i'm just sad bro.

#absolutely fucking hate this for him. christ #vegas golden knights #mark stone #all this guy wants to do in life is play hockey. and nearly the entire time he's had to fight his own body and just shit luck to do so #vgk #golden knights #you two don't have to be this fucking soulbonded you know that right (iykyk)

[erlichbachman]

im a swiftie!jacob custos girlie first and a person second

#it is what it is bitches #its the second headcanon i refuse to let go of #the first is him playing ice hockey #no one can convince me otherwise on these two facts #jacob custos #the quarry #i'm writing this in the v small break i've give myself to make a cuppa in between uni final project writing lmao

[contagiousrhythminmybrain]

“Because he doesn't know which feels worst, the threats or the love. The loathing or the expectations. The hate or the responsibility.” - Us Against You

Something something Benji becoming exactly the person everyone in town wanted him to be. Because then he knows what he has to do to be loved. Because the best way to keep people from noticing you’re different is to let them think they know everything about you. Because being violent gives him a purpose, even when he knows how other people view him, even when he’s the protector, even when the person he’s most willing to hurt is himself. Because his own greatest fear is the responsibility that comes with being anything else.

I’d say one of the main themes across the whole Beartown story is how the best and worst of a person or a town (or a hockey club) tend to stem from the same place and wow the constant conflict that is Benji Ovich.

#beartown #us against you #the winners #idk i’ve been trying to put together some benji thoughts #and just ended up with too many quotes to ever fit in a single post so uh… #it’s just… there’s so much i managed to read past my first time through the first two books #it’s the awareness that people fear him #it’s his own fear of responsibility #it’s playing the role until everything shatters completely #it’s not knowing who he is without hockey or beartown #just as much as he no longer knows who he is with those things either #and then coming back because this was always going to happen he’s been dead since the beginning there are no time machines #he’s the sort of person who runs towards fire he always has been #but you have to know us at our worst and you have to know us at our best and just alakslakjhshklakgh #anyway brain full too many thoughts #tumblr please adopt this boy and draw me all the fanarts kthanx

[larsnicklas]

TJ OSHIE ✧ 240117 I told Tom and Dowder when we got over the bench to just shoot it, just win the game and end it, but uh, it's cool to get that recognition... The fans here — really my whole career — here, St. Louis, college, and Warroad before that, have always been so generous and so supportive of me, so I appreciate them losing a couple of bucks and throwing some hats out there.

#tj oshie #capitals #washington capitals #nhl #hockey #meg.caps #meg.gif #meg.all #am i making sense when i say tj oshie is such a Hearth and Home kinda guy #just someone who is SO important to the team on and off the ice #they literally play differently when he's in the lineup lol i'm NOT kidding about this!! #just always striving to give that extra bit you don't think he even has left in him. always working. always grinding. #and he was FLYING today. you could just TELL he was feeling so good and confident. had the puck on a string. #and those two one-timers in the slot ??? hello?? #man that was a vintage tj oshie game. i love him so so bad.

[michiganmerchant]

please do not read the tags i am being insane at 10pm on a sunday night

#thinking. perhaps even thoughting. thunking. #<- new tag because i am Insane #anyways shipping disease is real etc etc but. i love luke hughes because i also love brandt clarke #and i want to put them together like two barbie dolls !!! #listen LISTEN luke/brandt is like me and two other people in the fucking boat but it's such a good one #it's also completely made up in my head but. well. look. #luke/brandt is the only appealing hughes ship to me! i dont know why! #quinn/elias does not do anything 2 me (quinn/elias/brock DOES but also not a. ccanucks fan) #no jack ship inspires me Enough but he and nico are kind of cute? #but luke and brandt bitch4bitch... oh that's good stuff right there mhmm 100% #it's just. it's the way luke is such a peculiar and funky little guy like of course #he had to go... not fall in love but something to the left and darker than that with the boy he used to beat up during ministicks #also hilarious how they're both dmen! opposite sides too! wow you could put them togeth-[gets shot] #i think soecifically the idea of examining luke and his little guy bitch vibes via brandt i #who is also little guy bitch and them being narrative foils 2 each other when they are Not the same person its like WOW!!! #i want to write (no i dont i want to read actually) about luke and his tenacity when confronted with a bite that's just as bad as his #luke and his youngest brother weight of expectations successful brother vs brandt being the best clarke at hockey in his family #they're around the same point imo in their development curve and its going to be SUCH a battle i know #because they play similar games #and i think brandt heightens luke's competitiveness! and his competitiveness is part of what makes him- HIM! #in conclusion i am going to watch lak vs njd even though i do not like any of these teams in the slightest!

[proteuus]

I thought everything was the worst but then I had my daily sugar drink with a splash of coffee and it turns out everything actually isnt the worst. so thats good news

#[insert here two stories in which smth nice that happened this morning made me feel better abt smth that stressed me out yesterday] #[you get the point. lol] #well i dont get to see my boyfriend who you all know i adore until friday which is sad. but im so brave luckily #we are going to the hockey game? Ive never been to a hockey game. he kept telling me we didnt have to go but he likes to be at hockey games #tonight i will see my rlly good friend and we will play pokemon and then tmrw i have to close at work which is annoying but w/e #and then on thursday I'm meeting up w one of my favorite business boys to study for our accounting exam !!! 💞💞💞 #he was my stats partner last semester and this semester we dont have classes together which is sad #but we're in different sections of the same accounting class so we can study together #one of my other fav business boys is in econ w me this semester I'm going to ask him to study w me for the econ exam soon

[archived-lehkonen]

,

#yue.txt #not to be absolutely batshit deranged but the way nate and arsi are foils of each other narratively makes me alittle bit unhinged #the more i think about it the more my fingers twitch and my mind escapes me and my soul leaves my body and oh...... #its the fact that nate has always been strong when it came to hockey and how his trajectory follows a pretty standard path: #become a star player and make a name for yourself and (post-crosby) get called the next crosby #and he could have gone a touch insane. he could have broken. he could have BEEN broken by the weight of it all #but he had a father who cared and loved him in a sensitive way. who told him it wasenough that he was himself #and for all intents and purposes hes been fine about it yknow? like he was well adjusted all things considered #and then u look across the world and arsi is 12 years old and he tells his dad he wants to play in the nhl #and his dad spits on his dreams and questions his skills and makes him doubt and doubt and doubt #and for years he does this. for 8 years he questions his own sons validity his own skills his own passions #and yes in the end arsi is a better player for it and theres no hard feelings betweenhim and his father #but you have to wonder if maybe there were times when he felt that this was the last time. this was it. #that his soul has been crushed and broken and there was no coming back from it #and idk. something very.. parallel. mirrored. weird. about the way their lives have unfurled. #nate the superstar . his father has always maintained that he was enough. #arsi the quiet one. his father tells him he might never be good enough #and now theyre on the same team and theyve won the cup and nate loves arsi. he /loves/ him. #and i wonder how that sort of love might change a person. how maybe if someone of nates caliber looks at arsi and theres pure joy and #adoration in his eyes and its too late to mend the person he was when he was 12 but maybe he can learn a thing or two abt being loved anyway #and maybe nate is keyed up and withdrawn and difficult now but arsi's weathered worse than that and loves him in spite of it #because nate is such a storm and oh arsi is a lighthouse #anyways. fic about this in the works i guess.\

[gyudons]

despicable

updates as of 22 oct

Travis Dermott knew that he would draw attention with his actions in the Coyotes’ home opener against the Anaheim Ducks at Mullett Arena on Saturday. The Arizona defenseman just hoped that the spotlight might shine on the issue that he was addressing, not on him.

“You don’t really want to go against rules that are put in place by your employer, but there’s some people who took some positive things from it,” Dermott said. “That’s kind of what I’m looking to impact.

“You want to have everyone feel included and that’s something that I have felt passionate about for a long time in my career. It’s not like I just just jumped on this train. It’s something that I’ve felt has been lacking in the hockey community for a while. I feel like we need supporters of a movement like this; to have everyone feel included and really to beat home the idea that hockey is for everyone.”

“I won’t lie,” said Dermott, who is playing on a one-year, two-way contract. “From the outside, it’s easy to see that I’m putting my career on the line for something. I definitely went through some emotional ups and downs that night, not regretting anything by any means, but I’d love to have maybe done a couple of steps a little different by making sure that everyone was aware of what was going on before I did it.

“I don’t want to put my teammates or my coaches or my GMs or the equipment managers in any kind of bad light when it’s their job to kind of look out for something like this happening. It was definitely something that I did just by myself and was prepared to kind of deal with whatever repercussions the league decides to push towards that. I’m not going to back off and say that this battle is won, but we’re going to find better ways to do it.”

As Dermott noted, LGBTQ+ inclusion is an issue that he has supported for a long time. Without getting into specifics, Dermott said the issue is personal for him because it impacts people close to him.

“I’d be lying if I said I haven’t shed tears about this on multiple occasions,” he said. “So yeah, it’s something I’m definitely very passionate about.

“I’ve met a lot of people that from the outside, it looks like they have everything going right in their life and they have a smile on their face every time they talk to you. But sometimes when we get closer to people and get comfortable enough for them to open up to you, you can see that there’s some pretty dark stuff happening to some good people. It doesn’t take too many times encountering something like that for it to really change someone.

“I’ve been blessed to have some of those opportunities put in front of me to really change my view of what being a good person means; what being a good father and a good example and role model means going forward. You really see how people are hurting and it’s because of a system that maybe no one’s intentionally trying to be malicious about, but until you’ve really had that first-person experience seeing people hurting from it right in front of you, it’s tough to kind of take steps.”

It would be a surprise if the league handed down any sort of punishment. The optics alone would add to the public relations damage that the original ban created. Even so, Dermott reiterated his desire to bring the entire franchise into the fold before he takes similar actions in the future, but he also made it clear that he will not be silenced on the topic.

“It’s not like I’m shutting up and going away,” he said. “I know more questions are going to be coming. We’re just going to be as prepared as we can be to just spread love. That’s the thing. It’s gay pride that we’re talking about, but it could be men’s health. It could be any war. It’s just wanting world peace. Everyone’s got to love each other a little bit more.

“Like my parents said growing up, ‘How awesome would it be to be the guy that people look up to?’ That’s what really hit home when I was a kid, especially from my mom. You want to grow up and be that guy. You want to be the guy that’s having the impact on kids like NHL players had on you. If they had been racist or bigoted, that’s going to have an effect on you.

“With how many eyes are on us, especially with the young kids coming up in the new generation, you want to put as much positive love into their brain as you can. You want them to see that it’s not just being taught or coming from maybe their parents at home. They need to see it in the public eye for it to really make an effect.”

#nhl #pride #lgbt #gay #queer #hockey

[exopelagic]

I wiped out so hard tonight my KNEES

#I fell over. so many times. including two of the worst falls I’ve had in a WHILE #god the first one literally like minute and a half on the ice i lose a foot under me and do the splits. crash into the barriers #I am notably Not flexible I cannot do the splits. I don’t know how I kept skating afterwards #the worst fall I have ever had however was right at the end and the thing that made me get off #we were playing a thing and both me and this other guy we’re trying to catch this girl who turned out to be Also going very fast #three way collision all falling forwards on top of each other #we SLID there were BLADES BY MY HEAD im lucky im short im amazed nobody got actually hurt #except like. my knees which are now staging a coup I rlly should ice them but I don’t have ice and I just wanna sleep #but GOD tonight was a mixed bag #i have acquired the instagram and will probably get him on committee if he sends me the thing #also slowly thinking hrm yeah he’s probably straight #anyway good news: i think we’re pretty solidly friends now. bad news: prooobably regrettably heterosexual #idk straight guys shouldn’t be allowed to be cute and funny and good at skating it’s not fair #aaaanyway. it’s my own fault bc I meet most new people through hockey now and this sport is pretty notoriously not queer #it’s a little different here but the people who end up Good are largely not yknow. and I am unfortunately into guys who can skate #also they end up being the people I actually get to talk to with what I do. dumb as hell. they should invent gay hockey players #anyway my assessment is still vibes based there’s time for me to be proven wrong but we will see. it’d be funny if he was queer after this #will think abt texting him on a day that isn’t tomorrow bc tomorrow’s gonna be too much and I would like to have some time to chill sometime #anyway this is my periodic reminder to myself that I’m literally just Allowed to have feelings. fucked up that it’s true #but like it’s just. allowed. and it’s not even that I’m dumb or have bad taste or smth like that and over like what. #almost two years? there have been 5 guys total. mr prick who WAS queer unfortunately. and while the other four did turn out to be straight #that was due to 1. guy literally had rainbow fucking stick tape and Everyone thought he was gay. also I was just kinda fucking around there #2. talked to him like three times before asking him out. agrees to dinner bc he thinks it’s funny. 3. many signals bc bunch of queer friends #still unconfirmed but be does have a girlfriend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. okay maybe I should know better by now but he’s cute okay I’m allowed to hope #it’s not even like I’ve DONE anything other than talk to him dude you’re fine you’re allowed to feel things #aaaanyway. bed now. eepy. will talk to him later. he complimented my hair okay I’m done now going to sleep #very sorry to anyone who reads these tags for just going on abt this guy but also no I’m not scroll down #luke.txt

[himbeaux-on-ice]

morning. still bummed about max.

#just one of those hockeys who you’re like my god. has he not been through enough already. can we not give the man one damn break #what a brutal two seasons it’s been. #man just wants to play hockey for the love of the game and spend time with his family would you just. let him play hockey. for gods sakes. #like it’s sad enough at a glance but when you know how much shit he’s dealt with in his career. god. #just depressing #one-man proof of concept on how people don’t always get what they deserve #max pacioretty #he really said ‘that was probably the most adversity I’ve ever faced’ (which for him is a HIGH bar) and the hockey gods said ‘bet’ ☹️