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Lane | sideblog; harry & hockey ... i just like boys ¯\_(ツ)_/| follows from thegracelane

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they need to stop making hockey romance tv shows theres already a hockey romance tv show its been going for 74 years and its called the national hockey league its really bad dont watch it

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simon benoit welcome back

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jarvy and his boys 🫶

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sports will have you saying insane things like i <3 the lesser of two evils

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laky.royal | 06.05.25

[washedupswammer]

owen tippett with impeccable timing

[etheltempest]

this might be the worst quiz i’ve ever taken (affectionate/derogatory)

what it says on the tin

[urie]

iyo what are claude giroux’s best qualities?

genuinely funny in a very dry deadpan sort of way

extremely competitive and basically good at everything as confirmed by literally every player who has ever played with him

he goes all out for halloween. loves a couples costume

he is an actual sappy romantic. ryanne asking him "why do you like facetime so much" and him saying "i like seeing your face," his proposal was done by flashlight in the house he was having built for them to raise a family in, "i can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you" in his handwriting so you know he didnt pay a florist to write the card, also this list (in his and her handwriting) of all the things he enjoys to do with ryanne... i think about this one all the time:

did i mention he is FUNNY. for an all star game he had "G-BABY" stitched in orange onto his cufflinks

surprisingly very good at a convincing pigeon coo? this one i also think about

beer pong in double wrist casts. nothing else to say about that

what i really think is very special about him is the intense loyalty he inspires in everyone. like have you seen the things his teammates have said about him. they would walk backwards into hell if claude told them to. and the fans like... i am not an outlier when it comes to him, he kind of just inspires that devotion in people

again. funny. his old tweets were classics

he is an advocate for grilled cheese and even though i dont agree with his propensity for ketchup on the side i will defend his right to do so to the death if i must

big heart bigger boobs. obsessed with his mitties (man titties) forever

he loved philly as much as we loved him. he still wears his phillies hat. he spent almost the entire olympic break in philadelphia this year. couldve gone anywhere and he spent it here. i dont have words for it

there is literally so much i could say about him i dont even know how to continue like we will be here for hours. but he is everything to me. literally everything. i know you asked for qualities and i mostly gave you reasons i love him but they are one and the same #tome

PLEASE OGDB #BRINGHIMHOME

[emillians]

“There are several stories in which teammates would text Malkin to go out to dinner and his responses would be “Da” or “$”. The teammates had no idea what those responses meant, but when Malkin replied with “$” he would be at dinner and when he replied “Da” he would not show up.”

— Malkin’s Wiki (via omaatta)

[martypantone]

When John Tortorella invariably fucks up again and needs his image rehabilitated, I am going to pitch him my new feature film, Horse Hockey, a heartwarming coming of age story about Torts rescuing an an orphaned foal and teaching it to play hockey, Air Bud style.

And obviously the horse is a beast on the ice, even more so under Tortorella’s rigorous coaching. I mean, can you imagine this thing on a breakaway?? Except he’s not the hard-hitting, physical brute that everyone in the league assumes he is. He’s sensitive. He’s patient. He’s got high hockey IQ and beautiful edge work. But the refs only see his size and his (ahem) pedigree, and the horse just keeps racking up the penalty minutes. Teams are starting to get worried he’s a liability, and Tortorella’s ever growing presence as the horse’s coach/agent/father is NOT helping.

In a pivotal game against their divisional rival, the horse gets a five minute major for boarding, and Torts is on the ice before he even registers his body moving, screaming at the refs that “it was clean hit! It’s not his fault he’s 17 hands high!!” But then he feels something on his waist. A hoof, somehow fitted with a hockey skate blade, pulls him back into the penalty box, and the horse whinnies softly until Torts stops his tirade and sits down, pacified. The entire arena looks on, dead silent, as Torts starts reflexively smoothing his fingers through the horse’s beautiful mane, the way he used to every night when the horse was still too young and afraid to leave his side.

And as his horse son looks at him with his big, wet horse eyes and places his big, warm horse head onto his shoulder, John has a realization. He may have taught the horse about stick handling and face offs, but the horse taught him something even more important. The horse taught John Tortorella how to be a little bit more human.

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PHI @ BOS 01.16.23

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it's #EvilCoach season. fwiw the provided reason is one but really you're gauging how they cope with doing something they feel to be pointless and insulting and being watched by figures of authority while they do it. how do they process, express or suppress embarrassment, confusion, shame, frustration? obviously a lot of hockey is having the ability to focus on a task before quitting but it's usually a task they believe in. what happens if they dont believe in the task. probably this specific test reveals nothing very much but it's fun for everyone involved to pretend it does, and the willingness to engage in the shared delusion that it's a meaningful activity is actually itself an important little bit of data.

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uh huh pal | CCM Instagram Story [7.27.22]

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46 > 43

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"Princess Diana!"

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I’m dying 

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