if someone would write a genuine hockey au for ntbts, here are objective truths:
Matt is a goalie and he gives Ilya Bryzgalov style interviews
Jay is a skill player who can't fight for shit and needs to be protected, he's either a winger or center and constantly gets injured
Matt gets into fights for Jay which confuses everyone since goalies do not fight
Matt is in a Dougie Hamilton situation where he's the only person who has read a book on his team which makes him the weirdo
Jay can't read
They play for their childhood team (the Leafs) and dream of winning the cup. They never win the cup.
Matt is a horrible trash talker but a likeable person
Jay is quiet and seemingly controlled during games but a psycho behind your back and mean off the ice which makes all his teammates for Team Canada hate him. He dives and plays dirty.
They move in together as rookies and never move out, it's not really acknowledged why (remember when Claude Giroux straight up started co-parenting with Danny Briere and no one cared? Like that)
