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starting the season off strong with luke's first interview since re-signing, we have 8:18 worth of fillers to count! i've triple checked these, but i am open to correction!!

he said "uhm" 74 times

he said some variation of "y'know" 73 times

he said "obviously" 12 times

he said "uhh" 10 times

he said "i mean" 8 times

so, to summarise, i mean obviously you know, uhm, he takes the, uhh, crown for yapping? i think.... additionally, special mentions to him "acclimating" himself and "staying even keel" - such a wordsmith (obviously)

thank you for all the love on the tracker!! for anyone who hasn’t seen, ivy @wineauntie has a very cool tracker for his goals/assists for this season, so we can all keep our eye on every minute detail of this man’s 25/26 movements!!! if anyone else has anything to keep count of I’d love to see it lmao!!

a much shorter interview today (as expected) but he didn’t hold back on his fillers god bless him

he said "uhm" 24 times

he said some variation of "y'know" 12 times

he said "obviously" 3 times

he said "uhh" 1 time

he said "i mean" 3 times

he’s slacking on his “uhh”s this week but it IS only a 2:38 interview so maybe I’m expecting too much of him… team “uhm” has taken a not-so-surprising lead for the season and team “y’know” needs to pick up the slack!!

favourite part of this interview is the way he says “intereSHting” very cute very precious

i quite honestly forgot i counted these the other day and needed to update this, i'm a slacker by nature unfortunately and that's just something we all have to deal with

FINALLY A LUKEY GOOOOOOOAL!!! we (me and my dog) rejoiced in this household fr!!!

he said "uhm" 16 times

he said some variation of "y'know" 33 times

he said "obviously" 3 times

he said "uhh" 5 times

he said "i mean" 3 times

what if i told you y'know might be THE filler to beat?? what if i told you i think he's working on his uhms in his spare time??? what if i told you y'know has officially overtaken uhm as the most spoken luke hughes filler in lukehughes' luke hughes filler tracker??? would your mind boggle???

honestly i think my favourite part of this interview was sal complimenting him on his character after checking on bratter instead of celebrating his (long-awaited) first goal of the season, and luke does a bashful little thank you 😌

and when he's listing the cursed injured defence and he just keeps going and makes himself laugh a little with just how many big guys are down 😀 it's so funny isn't it luke haha😀

this was such a great interview i can't stop watching it lmao, he's so expressive and so lowkey funny in it 😭 his little evasive answers to quinn's whereabouts like he's trying to maintain some air of mystery and he doesn't quite know what to say about it hahaha i love him so much!!! he gives the longest uhm....... when asked if quinn was with them when he heard about the trade and then ".... no he was not" .... why are you so shifty about it luke lmao anyways

he said "uhm" 29 times

he said some variation of "y'know" 28 times

he said "obviously" 3 time

he said "uhh" 5 times

he said "i mean" 2 times

my favourite part of this interview was honestly his faces hahaha it was so fun to go through to try and pick the pictures for the graphic!! there was this one blurry shot right at the start of this interview where he looked so angelic so cherubic so cute!!!

also just how many times he said "it's sports" and "it's part of the business" like it's his personal motto!! and how he was talking about how much quinn is excited for this trade ugh so cute!! and how he calls him "top 2 d in the league" 😭 can't even give his brother the number one spot lmao

after however many of these i've done i've only just realised that uhm and y'know are always going to be level because he says them together most times, like "uhm y'know".... but still interested to see who comes out on top!!!

it's been too long, has luke been silent or has he been silenced??? i'm being deprived either way!! he played almost 29 minutes on the ice tonight after we lost dougie against the habs, he's carrying the d on those massive shoulders of his god bless!!

he said "uhm" 15 times

he said some variation of "y'know" 21 times

he said "obviously" 1 time

he said "uhh" 1 time

he said "i mean" 1 time

y'knowers are clawing this back fr, i think he said y'know every other word at one point, i wonder if rachel did know.... do any of us know? who knows.

many favourite parts of this interview, which defeats the purpose of having a favourite part but let me live. first of all his neck. nothing more to say on that. then him calling himself flexible, iconic if you ask me. and then his little chuckle when he says "just keep the puck out of our net" he's truly a master of the game who knew? he did. y'know. and then "don't jinx us" he says with the most nervous laugh he's such a NERD!!!! the way he hovers off to the side at the end trying not to cut off rachel's shot and she's trying not to laugh at him hahaha

luke was interviewed fresh off the ice after the second period for matt and chico's devil's hockey network show, which was very kindly posted and transcribed here!! (audio only, devastating news no one contact me for 3 business days because he sounds so....... and i so would have loved the visual to accompany the way he sounds..... if you listen, you'll understand)

he said "uhm" 7 times

he said some variation of "y'know" 9 times

he said "obviously" 3 times

he said "uhh" 3 times

he said "i mean" 1 time

things are finally becoming obvious to him, again!! what a relief!! but the real question is, does he mean anything, anymore? ugh the up and down of emotions when it comes to this guy is crazy, i can't keep up

favourite part of this interview (besides the way he sounds) is matt saying that luke and nemo have "youthful exuberance" 😭 so full of life, this one... not at all drained to his bare bones with all that TOI hahaha - but i like hearing him talk about nemo!! such a dynamic duo!! i want a personal broadcast of his every thought and insight!!! especially when pesce returns please 😌

also this isn't singular to luke but obviously this is lukehughes' luke hughes filler tracker, so i'll speak on him haha - sometimes when i'm in the middle of a shift, and i'm up to my eyeballs in work (whatever field you work in, you knowwwww a bad/busy day is its own dragged out, exhausting OT game in itself) if anyone even speaks or looks at me, i internally combust and i need a good 3 hours of silence and self isolation before i can process thought, and you wouldn't catch me tossing out analysis/reflection of my own performance lmao!! not that this was a bad game but you know what i mean, luke is being put to work these days!! it's like they say at the beginning, he's just off the ice after the second period (for which he was on the last shift) and he's giving more thought out responses than when they catch him in the locker room all ~relaxed for a pre-game or post-practice interview hahaha - got to give them credit for keeping their brains working because mine would be (and quite regularly is) mush

welcome to the bdilly 1000th game edition of the lukehughes' luke hughes filler tracker!!

he said "uhm" 30 times

he said some variation of "y'know" 35 times

he said "obviously" 1 time

he said "uhh" 9 times

he said "i mean" 6 times

finally things have meaning again!! he legitimately said the sentence, "uhm, y'know, it sucks in the moment but at the end of the day, y'know, everyone has their job to do and uhm... y'know, it happens, y'know" - and again, i'm sat here wondering, did anybody know? that's a lot of y'knows in one go, every time i do this count i'm so glad i didn't just count his uhms because we have a real filler battle on our hands with these two

favourite part of this is the fact that they chose luke to interview before dilly's 1000th game, i love my bonded pair who keep losing all their fellow d-men 😭 luke saying dilly is "one of my really good friends" despite the difference in age 😌😌 and that he feels really excited and lucky to be a part of such a milestone 😭 and seeing this in contrast to seeing brenden speak about the milestone, you can tell how much it means to him and how much luke knows how much it means to him, very precious very cute!! i've been flying the luke/dilly flag so hard this season and it was so sweet to hear him talking about him!!

also the really awkward way he says "yeah yeah, it is.... so....." when he's asked if the cut on his chin is from the missed high stick on saturday 😭 he's so endearing in such painful but beautiful ways, what a perfect polished media trained answer lmao it's okay i'll call the refs blind in your honour, luke, we all know what they are