creature!

but point is I think theres a lot of fun to be had with the sharks like kinda exclusively highly drafting wolves for the past few years, and their current team being like an exact example of why GMs don't do that.

they've immediately formed a pack structure, they're all fooling around (their government assigned yaoi), the locker room smells so severely if you're a werewolf, Toff went from having his two werewolf boys with the Canadiens to like 7 in San Jose. Cat is more than happy to guide these pups through the next few years of their lives, but there's some real dynamic shit happening here that the coaches have to somewhat beat out of them.

You can't all jump someone for going after one of your packmates. There's some real territorialness going around in the locker room. Even to the non-wolves. Delly goes to a cafe and the werewolf couple next to him have to move tables he smells so strongly claimed by like 3 different Sharks pups.

The whole mack having his first fight for Will of it all. They can't separate the bonded pairs. Bad bad things would happen for their hockey.

Wennberg is getting bitten by Eky. Toff is getting bitten by Sam. Sam is covered head to toe in puppy-bites from Misa.

Other teams are watching the shark pups wrestle on the ice, and going, oh damn this is why we don't draft back-to-back wolves. (See SidGeno for a historical where they do draft back-to-back wolves and how seperating them or trying to turns out (( Sid immediately bonds with Mack goes oh yes I'm adopting you, and thinks that drafting wolves back-to-back works out just fine. they should do it more often. Look it gave Mack a boybestfriend just like it gave him his boymanbestfriend)) ).

They all get littermate syndrome I think.

They all get littermate syndrome!! I cheered. It's not a "real phenomenon" in the way that it's not a diagnosable syndrome, but there is something to be said about emotional dependency when young, influential pups aren't independently socialized.

I propose something of a buddy system where in each pair has to shuffle their guys around for lunch or an activity two to three times a week after practice. For pack bonding and healthy, neutral socialization. They draw names out of a hat. Toff is exempt 1- to tend to his most recent bite from Sam and 2- because he has to live with Misa (and Sam by extension)