FreakTheFrogOut

all i know is that post-canon chris chow would be 8000% obsessed with aerin frankel. that's his deity. "father god?" no, its mother god. he prays to her before every nhl game he plays. he got really into chicken caesar salads because of her. he is the first to bring her up whenever media tries to make it seem like he's doing something extra special or rare, like, "oh well i mean yeah it's great getting two shutouts in a row but have you seen how many aerin frankel has?? i'm playing catch-up here!"

i'm not saying that gritty shouldn't be in season 2 but also, this is an alternate universe where the nhl doesn't exist, and the idea that in a whole different league with different teams and names gritty is completely 100% the same is really really good

ilya constantly jealousybaiting shane is one of my top five favorite things about him, especially before he finally cracks & tells shane that he loves him . he’s like a big fluffy cat showing you his belly like :) so soft :) i kiss you so gentle & tease you & look after you :) & then shane reaches for the belly with fascinated reluctance & ilya goes SCRATCH >:3 what if i greencard marry my old friend i used to fuck more often than you >:3 & shane’s eyes go so wet & shiny & his jaw is clenched . & some raw, young part of ilya heaves a big sigh of relief to know that even if he can’t make shane love him, at least he can affect him . & then as soon as he learns that shane has turned the precise, devoted attention that makes him a legendary hockey player onto ilya he has that flash of holy shit . he is going to love me forever in a way that no one but my mother has ever loved me & i am never going to be the same . & every ounce of tension in his body just evaporates & he melts into a puddle under shane’s hands .

I love shane jumping in to answer the question for ilya when the language barrier is too hard… love this because it’s so kind/considerate but also because he’s modeling for ilya the invaluable pro hockey player skill of talking to the media for a long time without conveying a single piece of information

“ilya is SMART shane is NOT” boring take. very dumb. “they are both soooooooooo stupid in their own special ways and the joy of episode six is witnessing two idiots work it out against all odds” real and so true we all know what we saw

it’s actually very important to me that ilya flirts outrageously with the refs while they pretend to be annoyed with him. I think shane doesn’t even know most of the refs’ names and his interactions with them are intensely formal and professional. he’s at work why would he be pestering his esteemed if somewhat loathed colleagues. ilya meanwhile has given them all affectionate hockey nicknames and tells them they’ll have to take him out for dinner to make up for bad calls and signs stuff for their kids after games. this does not earn him any fewer penalties as he is utterly shameless about tripping and slashing and hooking, but it does get him a lot of fond eyerolls as the refs herd him over to the box

david hollander is the true winner of the idgaf war. he doesn’t know what youtube is. he doesn’t care about shane’s sponsorships. he understands why shane doesn’t wanna go to wimbledon and is just happy to go with his wife. he sees his son making out with his supposed arch enemy and turns 180 degrees, gets in his car, and doesn’t tell a soul. he pulls out the vodka when his newly out gay son is having a freak out at the dinner table. if shane had even 1% of his idgaf powers he would be unstoppable. unfortunately that boy inherited his mom’s gaf-ability, which is constantly set to 150%.

Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute

I KNOW Yuna shot up in bed that night like “DAVID THE ELEVATOR. HE WAS IN THE FUCKING ELEVATOR.”