#yues.asks

how come no one talks about them. HOW COME NO ONE FUCKING TALKS ABOUT THEM!!!!!!!!11 like what could you ever, ever ask for out of a pair.

you have ej, former 1oa pick who goes down with injury, comes back, gets hurt, comes back, always playing catch up, never the same. theres murmurs that surround him, that follow him like a raincloud wherever he goes, not yet raining but dark and grey and foreboding all the same.  when he finally gets back to form, he gets dished off to the avalanche and has to come to terms with the fact that hes never going to be The One, he’s never going to be what everyone thought he was, he’s probably going to be relegated to a third line d pair and his name will be lost to time the way so many players are. 

then you have gabe, who goes to a struggling avalanche team (you dont get to pick 2oa by being good, after all) , named the youngest captain in both franchise history and (at the time) nhl history. hes got the world on his shoulders and hes determined to prove his worth. 

you wuold think there would be , i dunno, something, some anger or jealousy or something between them when they first get together, right?  you have a shadow of a 1oa pick and a 2oa pick that has a whole life and future ahead of him , you expect there to be like a “welll, fuck you, i guess” sort of feel to these two.