Honestly I'm not surprised. He had an injury severe enough he couldn't get out of bed unaided, couldn't dress himself unaided, and the coaches and doctors still signed off on him playing a fucking playoff game.

Honestly if he carries on like this he sadly won't have a very long career, and part of me wonders if its tied up in his self esteem issues? (idk maybe I'm projecting but he does give that vibe of 'if I can't play then I have no value')

Don't like what I post? Baby blorbo, you do not need to follow me! Like most of the things I post but not posts about one specific person, you can block that tag meow meow, if does not need to be shown to you. Want to see only one specific type of post from me, nonnie you can just follow that tag instead of following my whole blog. Nonnie this is what my BEST FRIEND does so said friend does not have to see dirty dirty blackhawks content...

NONNIE THIS IS TOO BROAD.

Disney owns everything.

My favourite disney characters are... Paul Kariya and Teemu Selane

Disney started the anaheim ducks, and they still owned it when those boys played for them sooooo it's that.

From my understanding sapiosexuality would be someone who only feels attracted to people with whom they have an intellectual bond (in this case, if Leon would ONLY feel sexually attracted to people he played hockey well with/against, he would be sapiosexual)

While sapiophilia is more general term about being attracted to intelligent people or whatever. Its more about intelectual attraction than sexual attraction

But rat-sexual is just terrible. So is hockey-greatness-sexual

So when I was in my late teens and early twenties I thought the most cringe thing ever was fat women in their 30s wearing disney merch. Or like, owning disney merch. Honestly, just PEAK CRINGE why the fuck would they. Obviously, like, I liked the disney merch because it was soooo cute, but the fat women in their thirties, why the fuck were they wearing it, when it's obviously so cringe for someone not young/cool/skinny to wear/own.

And then I got older.

And healthier (note, I don't say fatter here, because whilst strictly speaking it would be true, we should also acknowledge the triumphs I have made over my ED)

And you know what? THE DISNEY STUFF HASN'T BEEN MADE LESS CUTE IN THAT TIME. If anything it's been made MORE FUCKING CUTE. Also I didn't notice turning thirty. I was gonna have a big party, but then um, panorama? And I forgot that little voice I'd had in the back of my head that was like "when I'm in my thirties I'm not going to own disney merch because that's so fucking cringe" because honestly, fuck you teenaged tilly, you were a DICK. I mean, we still are a dick, but we're growing and heading hopefully towards less dickishness.

with all the different types of game jerseys do you think if the pens had a losing streak while wearing a certain one sid would be like “…….yeah we’re retiring that one” and then he has enough influence that they actually do?

I mean, I honestly wouldn't put it past him. Did I talk about that time he made someone never wear a really expensive suit again? Like, I think I shared that on my tumblr somewhere and I have a brain like a sieve, but it deffo happened. Sidby Crosby (This is what my child calls him and honestly, I love it. She has a Sidby Crosby jersey and he's her fave NHL player). Back on track brain. SIDBY CROSBY YOU ABSOLUTE DIVA.

Like, this is what I want to see more of in fic, and I know everyone says Sid is a lovely guy and I'm sure he is, but I would like to see a few superstition related Diva Tantrums. And maybe like, Geno is the only one who can calm him down, because SOMEONE BOUGHT HIM THE WRONG KIND OF PEANUT BUTTER OK??? Just Sid being all "You have to scratch me, I'm not going out on the ice" "We can't scratch you sid, don't be ridiculous" "I'm not walking out there. I'll die." "Sid" "IT WAS SMOOTH"

Side note, and I say this as someone with clinically diagnosed OCD who has spent time in institutions to deal with her OCD... where do we think the line is between like, ha ha quirky athlete superstitions and "You can't come and see me at my games, every time you watch a playoff game in person someone gets hurt"... because to me... that sings of OCD (And yes, that is why Sid's family don't come and watch ANY playoff games in person, because he has asked them not to, because people got hurt when they were there).

Anyway, back to happier thoughts, someone write me some DIVA sid. OR someone write me some actual angst sid really struggling with his OCD.

Fuck. I'm kind of really well placed to write that aren't I? But it probably would involve a level of introspection that I don't really wanna do because I have a habit of kicking myself into worse mental states by doing stuff like this. Someone else write it is probably best :D

Nonnie, you sent this in in advance of the FIRST playoff game

AND LET ME TELL YOU. IF I SURVIVE EMOTIONALLY THE NEXT TWO GAMES IT WILL BE A MIRACLE.

So, let me tell you about playoff games in MY HOUSE, because IDK if y'all remember this, but I live in ENGLAND, that means that in general (apart from that one sunday afternoon game) playoff games are at 1am for me.

SO, I go to bed like a good lil tilly, and set an alarm for 1am. At which point I wake up. I'm waaay too tired to WATCH and/or have light on, so I've been listening on the radio, but also, I share a room with my small one (we have bunk beds, bunk beds are cool) so I have to keep the radio turned down SUPER LOW so it doesn't wake the smallo. And then I drift in and out of consciousness, usually waking up at goals. IT IS VERY SURREAL and probably destroying my sanity BUT OH MY GOD I NEED THESE BOYS TO DO WELL.

Last night I tried wearing headphones, and then the boys lost (game 4 v tampa, this is gonna get queued so I'm putting that in for reference) SO, tomorrow night is NO HEADPHONES because clearly headphones jinx them. Also watching the games jinxes them because they lost the only game that was at an hour at which I could watch it.

Basically playoffs are emotionally draining AND I WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY

"FEEL FREE TO IGNORE" DARLING NONNIE YOU HAVE TO KNOW I WOULD NEVER IGNORE YOU. YOU ARE MY ONE TRUE LOVE <3 <3 <3

SO, in answer to your question yes, and at the same time, no...

(I get lengthy on this one so I'm gonna put a cut in)