#ilay rozanov

Shane cuts the tags off all of his clothes, he has sense he was a young kid, before that his mom would. He famously wouldn't where clothes when he was a toddler if the tag was still on.

*Ilya Rookie Season - Training 7 am*

Marly: I have a bad feeling about this...

Ilya: What do you mean?

Marly: Don't you ever get that small voice inside your head telling you something is gonna get you in a lot of trouble?

Ilya: No?

St-Simon: That... that explains

At least that’s what I see happening in the niche of fanfics (imagines) and on Twitter. They always use the fallacy of “it’s fiction,” as if that had the power of Jason’s punch in Friday the 13th Part VIII against the criticism raised by, guess who… LGBT+ people! Funny how that only happens when there are criticisms, because if it’s praise, suddenly fanfics are no longer trivial! Spare us.

Do you know about the upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights? One of the protagonists is described as having dark skin in the book, and do you know who they cast to play him? Jacob Elordi. And people commented. And, guess what… it’s fiction!

You can obviously write whatever you want, but if it’s public, people are going to talk about it.

THE CELLY

The celly, or the celebration, happens when a player scores and is so deeply overwhelmed by being a good good boy at hockey that they have to physically show their excitement.

This can manifest in something as simple as a fist pump, or as complex as the heart breaker. Sometimes a player just falls to their knees and screams. Sometimes they just lift their hands to the heavens and wait for their teammates to mob them in a hug. Sometimes it’s a preplanned joke and sometimes it’s just a spur of the moment release of emotions

But it can be kind of a coin toss, depending on the player and the game and the era, if the celly will be seen as cool or showboating. Because the worst thing you can do in hockey is stand out, and players have been criticized in the past for their over the top, silly celebrations. Sometimes a player gets criticized for over celebrating a goal, and the other team takes it as an insult. And sometimes a celly that is once criticized turns into something all the kids want to do and it becomes cool.

The celly is something that’s so interesting to me because it’s a rare release of emotion and personality on the ice in a culture that is so determined to squash personality and emotion on the ice. A celly can be legendary or it can be corny. Depending on who’s talking about it, it can be seen as a statement, positive or negative.

And I believe in my heart and soul that Ilya Rozanov would hav the most obnoxious cellys in the league. Not just cause of who he’s inspired by, but I do also think he’d get the Ovechkin treatment of being accused of an obnoxious showboater as a rookie and then being celebrated for his personality in his later years like people hadn’t previously turned their nose up at him.