real & fake hockey-pilled

october, november, december, january, febuary, march, april, june

ngl i would LOVE for the sharks to continue this, just make mack write a monthly little diary for the fans, it would be so precious, i would be so curious how much he would mention will lol

i am also obsessed with his use of punctuation and specifically semi colons; as a semi colon warrior myself, i appreciate it

What's been established until now:

📹 - Video evidence

📷 - Pictures

👀 - BOTG visuals

❤️ - it's in our hearts

Will's in Vancouver - 📹📷👀

They're training together - 📹📷👀

Will's living with the Celebrinis - ❤️

Mack still loves to grab him by the waist - 📷👀

Will is busy training with all 3 Celebrini brothers RJ and Mack - 📹👀

Under the watchful eyes of Rick Celebrini - 👀

Misa decided to join them - 📹👀

They're still skating dick to ass 📹👀

Mack is back to being a passenger princess once again - 👀

They're out drinking coffee together - 👀

They're spotted at Lynn Canyon in Vancouver, swimming in a lake (artist rendition) - 👀

Aiden finally finally follows Will - 📷👀

like a lot of stuff that's heralded as canadian culture, the making of hockey comes from indigenous traditions. mi'kmaq people carved the first hockey sticks from ironwood. the lakota souix played shinny like 200 years before it was called hockey. thousands of years before skating was a sport or an artform, the iroquois attached blades to their shoes, made from elk and cariboo tibias, to aid them in moving across the ice.

during the playoffs, rogers (canadian telecom giant) came out with an ad campaign about how hockey is "our game" and it made my blood boil a little, how overwhelmingly white hockey is even though as an indigenous person, it feels kinda like my game in particular.

i've seen indigenous players like chris simon (nika-kakwê-wânaskân) and jordin tootoo be on relied as agitators and enforcers, heard about young players facing abuse from coaching staff, have racist comments made about them online and have their name mocked on espn.

i've never seen an indigenous player be raised up for his skill with such excitement by the hockey community until gavin mckenna, and i was so glad to see him go 1st oa. i was on facetime with my cousin on draft day. we watched gavin get called up, saw his beadwork, saw his clearly indigenous family on the screen. we cried about it a little together, finally feeling like maybe this is our game, a little bit more than it was before.