love my hockey mutuals. occasionally poetry snippets or kafka quotes will cross my dash tagged "san jose sharks" and i have to think well i didn't watch it so who am i to judge. maybe franz kafka did write that about the san jose sharks

obsessed with the habs top line winning awards for Most Responsible and Best Good Boy meanwhile their rookie goalie is biting people

it’s not gay if your girlfriends are watching

what is the edmonton polycule

people in my notes making me think about hr AGAIN but honestly the biggest sign that the habs metros would close ranks around shane is that THIS year in THIS political environment the montreal canadiens org was perfectly aware that the ONLY correct answer to all the questions ABOUT heated rivalry was: of course a gay player would be welcome here

and i say the org on purpose. idk exactly how coached guhle and jevans were before they were asked but nick on tout le monde en parle was definitely absolutely 100% prepared to give exactly the answer he did on an outlet that hits the quebec market specifically, and the answer was: emphatically, without reservation, yes. that speaks to the player (i can think of several nhl captains who would never have gone on local market tv to give that answer), that speaks to the team's culture (if it wasn't at least a little bit true, communications would probably have figured out another way to pay lip service--see the ottawa senators), but above all else it speaks to montreal: at the end of the day, the habs captain is on local, french language tv saying that the team would be welcoming to and supportive of a gay player because that is what the city wants to hear.

people write sports rpf because ultimately sports are heartbreaking. it does not care for the narratives it itself has set up. and one writes rpf because they try to say that, well, there was love. love will always be there. maybe the team failed, and maybe they’ll never see each other again but there was love in the meantime