#mcbrini

But boy, do I feel for him because what must it be like to be the best player on basically every team you’ve ever played on, to get all the individual recognition and awards (Hobey Baker, Olympic All Star Team, Ted Lindsay finalist, half a dozen Player of the Game awards at Worlds… the list goes on) and yet you’ve never been able to win with your team.

You can want it sooo much, give it your all, push yourself to the very limits and it is still never enough because in the end hockey is a team sport.

How must that feel? To see guys around you, guys who (no offense) aren’t half as good as you, get what you’ve always wanted? Is it worth it? Would he trade an award, being considered generational, for a gold medal? His name atop the leaderboards for a footnote under the victory?

In the end it doesn’t matter. Because when the time comes it will be his name lit up in the sky, his legacy etched in the history books. Players win all the time, good players and players whose names will soon be forgotten. But when Macklin Celebrini finally wins? Oh you can be sure the world will remember it!

yeah, we’re all really (understandably) sad right now, but mack is such an incredible player and is on one of the best up-and-coming teams in the league, so he’ll have a gazillion chances at the top

i think the curse narrative hurts more now because of how connor mcdavid loved mack and took him under his wing pretty much from the moment he met him, probably saw himself in mack, the bright-eyed, hockey-loving young kid under so much pressure, better than all his peers but weighed down by poor rosters, bad luck, and crippling expectations. the sharks won’t follow the oilers’ trajectory and i don’t actually believe in curses either, but the parallels in how davo and mack both hurt just make it even more painful, because they deserve so much more than they’ve gotten, and you just know they’d trade all their individual medals and awards and accolades if they could just help their teams win

i cant let this happen to my babygoat and my beautiful cmd. they will win a cup and they will win a gold medal they deserve so many good things

(It could be that the loss was so bad that I want to comfort myself and I just want them to also comfort each other)

thank you sm!! also you are just like me i genuinely haven't gotten over that silver medal. i am still thinking about everything all the time. specifically this image:

awww thank youuu <3 to reconcile is one of my favorites :( i was so unbelievably heartbroken after the olympics, i wrote that in such a state of despair and i wanted it to feel like a warm hug. i have another WIP that i started around that time that is lowk almost done, which is (platonic) mcbrini focused hurt/comfort following the gold medal game loss + them bonding up until the game w/ some other team canada member cameos.