"Well...Damn"-Me, 24/7

thinking about how matvei's father was his first coach. thinking about how a year and a half after his death,he played his rookie season under a coach who disliked him and didn't hide it. who constantly benched him for every mistake, every mishap, every blind spot, refused to play the first round young star. and the next season, just over two years after his father died, rick tocchet (who doesn't look terribly dissimilar) became coach of the flyers and publicly criticised matvei to the media, benched him, scratched him, insulted him, made passive agressive comments about him to the press, loudly disliked him. how after his death he said he dreamt of winning a stanley cup for his father. how whatever achievements michkov makes, whatever he does, his first two years with his team that he went first round to will always be marked by coached who hated him. how his father was his first coach and now he's made it to the show, the final dream, and his coaches have never, ever given him grace. matvei you're going to get six stanley cups and win them all without a coach who drags you down #manifest

publishing a book through random house with the main plot point basically being seguin lockgate. wasn’t the whole point of lockgate , aka the reason it’s called lockGATE - a suffix used to indicate a major event that causes changes in a community - is because everyone in fandom was so horrified he found those fics it led to more diligent locking and maintaining the fourth wall.. and so now to use it as the plot of a book for a major publisher that is also being promoted on tumblr and referencing ao3 by name .. LOL. it’s just wacky. people are allowed to get their bag and chase success, but that also opens up a larger floor for criticism and boy am i criticizing !

i dont know what pensblr looks like beyond the posts that make it onto my dash. but theres just no way theyre doing it quite like this is how we can give trevor postpartum depression. flyers in 4

your generational talent just fucking bit me

"was danny b unethical to get in a 10-yr age gap relationship with a 19 year old rookie while divorcing his wife" wrong question. the right question is "claude, how epic is it that you were able to pull that cougar?"

you’re jerking off and suddenly my leitmotif starts playing

If Travis konecny got divorced and then next year he invited porter martone to live with him and then he let porter coparent his kids and he made a Christmas card featuring all of them that said "merry Christmas from the konectones" I would genuinely call in a wellness check on him. But my good friend Danny b did that. He did that

biggest trap sports rpf tumblr users fall into is believing 1. all athletes are millionaires, 2. because they are millionaires athletes don't deserve the revenue they are generating

Woke King?: This NHL Player is Dating a Brunette Woman

i feel like we moved on from the fact that alex turcotte was at the flyers ducks (in anaheim) game in march. like what? did he drive up for trevor??????????

there's something kind of you-can't-go-home-again about being a hockey fan in terms of, like, your "first" roster is always going to be "your" roster, no matter how long ago it was or how many people have been swapped around, how many trades, how many retirements, how many free agencies you live through. it'll never be exactly like that again. it probably wasn't even exactly like that for a full season. i know there's a lot of jokes about "how do athletes deal with trades. what about their friends?" but it's also, like, what about us? what about our friends? to me, the penguins are always going to be, like, brian boyle and jason zucker and brian dumoulin and evan rodrigues and john marino, but for other people, the penguins go back even further than that. hags and horny and nealer and flower. you don't have to go too far down on reddit to find people who think about mario and jagr. i was a fairweather bandwagon fan for the avs when they won the cup and that exact lineup holds its shape in my mind perfectly, but talk to someone who follows the team for real and they have a tyson jost-shaped hole in their picture of the cup team that's still not healed over. i just love that. the inherent melancholia of being a sports fan is not knowing you're in the good ol' days when you're in them and then trade deadline comes. and the trade deadline comes every year.

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