mark stone in a big floppy sun hat

now an ice hockey blog. vgk (more specifically, the vgk defense), jets, flyers. any pronouns.

[jonasiegenthaler]

Flyers Mic’d Up: Joel Farabee

[himbeaux-on-ice]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - MARCH 06: Robin Lehner #90 of the Vegas Golden Knights celebrates after a goal by Jack Eichel #9 during the third period against the Ottawa Senators at T-Mobile Arena on March 06, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Zak Krill/NHLI via Getty Images)

[gowoalies]

[Image description: Robin Lehner standing in front of the net. He excitedly lifts up his arms, before lowering them slightly and looking up. End ID.]

[brandoncarlo]

Hockey players have weird af ankles

[csykora]

Unnecessary answer hour returns! 

This is in fact true. 

There are two bones in your lower leg. One’s big and buff and one’s pretty wimpy. When you walk, that big tibia takes ~80% of your weight of impact, and the fibula only has to take the remaining 20%. 

But skaters place their weight differently over their feet. In principle a hockey player has 100% of their weight shifted forward onto their tibia. 

You can actually see the implications of this in practice. If you break your fibula, 20% of the weight-bearing is gone, and you won’t really be able to walk. But a hockey player who cracks their fibula can and will keep skating almost without noticing something’s wrong. This happens pretty damn often when they block shots. You’ll see them skate easily over to get checked out, step up onto the hallway floor, and then suddenly slump over, with medical staff helping them limp off down the hallway.

 I hear people saying, “oh, guess he’s fine!” when hockey players get up and appear to be skating okay: nah. And when a player wants to return to the ice: they may genuinely feel better skating but be too injured to walk. 

And over time, if you’re in the weight-bearing position for skating more often than walking, and are skating from a young age, yes, that affects the shape of your weight-bearing bones and external appearance of your legs and feet. I don’t have a survey on hockey players’ shapely ankles compared to the normal population in front of me at the moment, but every single skater I see could be identified by their ankles

[diamantcowboy]

[tapedsleeves]

[himbeaux-on-ice]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 26: Shea Theodore #27 of the Vegas Golden Knights arrives prior to a game against the Colorado Avalanche at T-Mobile Arena on February 26, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images)

[teex]

really drives me insane that jamie and trevor play different positions and shouldn't end up right next to each other on the ice so often just logically and YET somehow they always find each other in cellys it hurts me

rip to f/f and d/d duos but they're different!!!

[himbeaux-on-ice]

Your daytime friends are no help in the dark.

[himbeaux-on-ice]

SJS@VGK 02.10.22 | D. Becker via NHLI/Getty

[himbeaux-on-ice]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 26: Nicolas Hague #14 of the Vegas Golden Knights arrives prior to a game against the Colorado Avalanche at T-Mobile Arena on February 26, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images)

[mapsontheweb]

How Major Sport Leagues Divide the United States

[himbeaux-on-ice]

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 26: Brayden McNabb #3 of the Vegas Golden Knights arrives prior to a game against the Colorado Avalanche at T-Mobile Arena on February 26, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images)

[symphony7inamajor]

“they’re talking head hair not chest hair so you can’t pick me” (via nhljets on twitter)

[kirillmarchenko]

march 1, 2022 | cbj vs njd

[st-louis]

tor @ mtl 2/21/22 | the official broadcast vs. sofi krasovskaya’s instagram.

[hadestownism]

national broadcast commentators should have to take entrance exams before they can call a game for a team. if they fail they can retake the test next time they’re slated to call for that team. if none of the commentators pass, the game gets thrown back to the home broadcast teams

[lovethygoalie]

whats the fucking hockey player who tried to start a book club. i cannot find this and its driving me insane i need this information immediately

[lovethygoalie]

@birdcage​ unfortunately for everyone involved in this exchange i asked this question in regards to the “hockeys as normal people who met at kink munches“ verse that i have found myself constructing

[lovethygoalie]

im SORRY !!!!!!!

(genuinely thank you @swish-swish-nyoom-nyoom​ sdkjfjlkfsd)

[pavelzacha]

HE LOOKED LIKE THIS AND YOU DIDN’T THINK HE WOULD SCORE?