Beyond the Ordinary

After Shane’s being playing for Ottawa about 2 years, a video gets published of the social media person asking the entire team various questions like “who has the worst locker?” and “who would you most want to be stranded on a deserted island with?” and one question that was Meant to have an easy answer of maybe Ilya or one of the younger players is “who is the funniest player?” And nearly unanimously, it’s Shane fucking Hollander.

cackling about a member of the team being mic'd up before a game and shane not knowing purely because i know that everyone who watches hockey knows what kind of language happens among the players, but i also feel like shane's image has been so carefully crafted over time that NO ONE is truly prepared for the way the majority of what he says during the game is "fuck you" "fuck me" "fuck this" "fuck that" "fuck off" "let's FUCKING go" "fuck fuck fuck"

Okay, this made me pause and literally write out every letter that 'fell' in order (‘oomngouuhhrsrtutpntnue’), then make sure they were all contained in 'turntomushuponthergroun'.

okay but with how much ilya loves being a little shit and splashing shane or shaking his hair out close enough to soak shane, i'm CACKLING imagining shane being so smug while sticking close to his mom one day when they're having a family lake day

post so nice had to

The local oldies station just played "All Star" by Smashmouth. Which was made in 1999 and popularized again in "Shrek" in 2001.

if we get an irina foundation hockey camp montage at any point in s2 i hope it includes a clip of a three year old dropping gloves on ilya and him fully committing to the bit. just straight up dramatics as the kid pummels his kneecaps, dropping to the ice, rolling around calling to the ref (shane) to intervene already (spoiler, he doesn't).