marchy is my favorite in-the-know guy ever. he tells sid once in like 2012 that he tells everyone he's bisexual its just that no one believes him. how many times does he have to lick segs abs for everyone to get the hint. but its not about that.
i do have to say everyone referring to both sid and nates houses respectively as "sid and nates" place is so fucking precious its perfect. theres love stored in the colorado avalanche for all those with rpf-tinted glasses to see.
anyways todays thought is sid working nate into his ocd-isms and tendencies. nate sometimes shuts these down really quick, but most of the time he lets sid have his 'superstitions' cough compulsions cough.
Sids pacing the halls of his house in pittsburgh because nate is 6 minutes late to their normal wednesday night phone call and if he's any more late sids going to start looking up nathan mackinnon car crash because why else isn't he calling. and he's going to have to talk for such a short time because sid still has to fall asleep at 10:30pm every night.
Sid's biting at his nails because Nate hasn't texted "good luck" yet and it's 10 minutes before he has to warm up and it's like nate doesn't want him to win.
On principle Nate is the one guy who can throw his shit all around the house. He's neat by nature, which helps him and Sid get along so well, but it is also his house. His book is on his nightstand, his laptop left on the couch, a shirt discarded across the back of a chair — but he can't leave anything in the bed. And sometimes Sid will ask him not to move certain things. Nate was gone, during the season obviously, and Sid was on a point streak and he put his shoes on the right of Nates running shoes he leaves in Pittsburgh. Several areas of the shoes have to be touching in just the right places. Nate comes home during a road game, and Sid asks him like three seperate times not to wear or use his running shoes.
not many other people have ever been worked into sids routines, maybe geno. maybe tanger. back in the day fluery was in a few. but once again. nathan mackinnon is sids one and only exception.
wait, now i’m picturing sid with a nate google alert and denver news apps downloaded. just in case! old man making yet another exception for nate !! he figured out how to set up the google alert all by himself, thank you very much 🙂↕️
also thinking about that one interview where nate talked about some of sid’s uh idiosyncrasies and how he couldn’t move certain receipts. but nate gets it, always has. sid doesn’t have to explain or defend himself to nate. just like nate’s never too much for sid. they truly accept and complement each other so well
and that’s another magical thing about their summers. like, yeah sid’s team is used to his routines and they love him of course, but no one gets him like nate does. there’s just such a special sense of freedom for both of them in the summer
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