my puck now

actually sports are awesome because if i told you there was a piece of fiction with a sports veteran who everyone is constantly comparing to his prime and wondering if he's about to retire and if we're all just watching a swan song and that by the way his nickname starting up was 'the kid' you would tell me it was too on the nose. and yet.

if i told you about a guy having to hide in an airport and then hunker down in a foreign country waiting for a visa after his former team tried to steal his passport to keep him from going to play in another league you would say what is this a spy movie. happened to my good friend evgeni malkin though.

I’m giving people until June to get these heated rivalry guys off my phone screen

if nobody invented hockey the same people yuo see on the ice today would be out killing people theyd just be out killing people. the skates keep them elevated so their heavy souls wont crack the ice these are not good people

saving this for the day after the finals cause i didnt want to harsh my own buzz but. sometimes it bums me out how much people take the queerness of the pwhl for granted and forget how recent and fragile all this progress is. these players, especially the high-profile ones, were shoehorned into the closet for *so* long, the needle has only begun to move so recently, and its not as though there’s any pda between partnered players, there’s no kissing on center ice, everything has to be ruthlessly professional cause these women know what will be said about them if it isn’t.