Bruins goon era 🐻

just gonna continue here, connecting myself to the previous ask (i hope it's the same person asking?)

to me classic f1 can be adapted more into hockey because we have lots of guys with much stronger personality (and a bit more gruff around the edges. we can discuss hockey stereotyping another time ok)

Schumacher goes to the habs straight up and he's one of those guys who wins a lot but also has a rep for being dirty as hell. He gets away with a lot of kneeing and crosschecks from the back. often his teammates take the penalty for him (can you tell i hate him? haha. you'd ask "but why don't you put him in the bruins since they're evil?" and will tell you that i love the bruins and that they're not a bunch of losers who don't take responsability for being dirty but instead embrace the reputation. and that's why schumi goes to the habs)

jacques villeneuve we have canonical evidence he knows how to play hockey. honestly i can see him on the habs or the leafs. to me the original 6 of f1 are ferrari, mclaren, williams. so it'd make sense for him to be on an old team with lots of history. but if we look at recent history i can see him also in a team like tampa who has long periods of struggling and then back to back cups. damon hill would be in the same team for longer than jv and the media is often on his ass because his father is a legend and damon cannot score as much (he's an assist guy) and ppl call him a draft bust

Mika Hakkinen is goofy as hell to be honest i can see him embracing a team like the ducks who was created by disney lol. in a more traditional market maybe something in the metro? he'd have like a pretty long overshadowed career and then wins cups back to back and fades back again. let's say rangers in the 90s? i can see him a bit as mark messier (the duality of being teammates with the great ones like senna vs gretzky). Mika Salo plays with Mika H. and hates it because they're often a package deal lol.

gilles villeneuve and nelson piquet were insane so honestly i'm putting them in the 70s bruins when they really started to embrace they goons era.

nigel mansell reminds me of bobby orr? not sure why i think he's the fun grandpa he has going these days. his style of driving (he was very good at defence more than at being an overtaker from what i remember) reminds me of bobby so. to the bruins? maybe the pens for his personality?

prost and senna are interesting because obviously there's the whole rivarly but in a team sport i feel like they'd really be unbeatable and they were a good duo when you think about their personalities. i feel like they could fit really well with the incredible run the red wings had in the 90s?? i could really see them as yzerman and fedorov (prost would be stevie to me lol)

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thank you!! i feel bad i've had you dug up all this stuff for me lol

the og anon definitely knows their stuff in f1 history (was that you?). there are some incredible galaxy brain takes in there wow. genuinely obsessed??

I agree with the 1988 take in the Williams, especially once you dig a bit more into the dynamic between Jacques and Damon.

mceichel competing in endurance and winning would be soo delicious. i'd even say dakar rally and they have to be together in the sand for days. both get incredibly sunburned too.