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actually sports are awesome because if i told you there was a piece of fiction with a sports veteran who everyone is constantly comparing to his prime and wondering if he's about to retire and if we're all just watching a swan song and that by the way his nickname starting up was 'the kid' you would tell me it was too on the nose. and yet.

if i told you about a guy having to hide in an airport and then hunker down in a foreign country waiting for a visa after his former team tried to steal his passport to keep him from going to play in another league you would say what is this a spy movie. happened to my good friend evgeni malkin though.

And, never forget their defenseman who rode a chronic illness and paternal abandonment into being a third round draft pick the Penguins gambled on. Hopping between the big league, minors, and junior for a while until he finally got a spot on the active roster, the same year he lost his best friend. Then, he's survived two strokes and a heart defect to get where he is. And teammates call him Bang Bang Kris Letang.

this nhl draft is funny bc it has the potential to make everyone fucking miserable. leafs jump up to number one (everybody hates that) but the consensus guy gives massive primmadona vibes and has the same high skill low effort knocks as the toronto superstars incumbent. the sharks jump up to two by some funny twist of fate when the most they could have hoped for was a good dman falling to 9 or whatever but now if they take a risky dman at 2 they are potentially letting another franchise altering two way forward slip through their fingers. suffering from success. vancouver missed winning the lottery which they tanked for and deserved but getting 3 means probably drafting your new head coach's son which is awkward, and chicago really needed another star forward at 4 to play with bedard but instead they will probably be picking a defensemen that they dont want or need after taking levshunov at 2 a few years ago instead of sennecke or demidov or helenius etc. a certified everyone stomps and pouts ass draft