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[gentle-puck]

mia. 1993. european (vague). url is quoting midsummer nights dream

✩ stars fan 🤠🏒💫 but first and foremost just a casual nhl hockey enjoyer. atm observing the flyers - habs - oilers - sharks from varying distances?

✩ first got into hockey in 2015 because of check please ngl and also, unrelated, because I too have lost my front teeth so felt a sense of kinmanship re the toothlessness

**edit 2026-05-01: please note that minnesota have spiritually been demoted to die on the above tier list

[minecraft]

psychoanalyzing the gender/identity dichotomy between ice skating and ice hockey and coming to the more objectively correct conclusion that ice hockey is rooted in motherly feminine behavior of protecting the nest and that ice skating is about masculine peacocking of one's own physical prowess in seeking a mate

[antspaul]

like part of humanizing these women is understanding that WAGs have agency and are neither the hapless passive victims of self-serving famous male athletes nor empowered feminist women who have total control over their lives and images. when it comes to the athlete-wag relationship, i have one million more critiques of the athlete even confined to conduct within that relationship than of his partner who carries far less influence and power.

but still these women play active roles in creating and upkeeping their own positions as WAGs. they quit their jobs to influence full time. they open their platforms to the public. they go to extreme lengths to perform femininity and uphold dangerous beauty standards. they enter into dubious brand partnerships. they call photographers to take “candid” photos of them and their famous partners. they overlook public and private bad behavior from their partners and stay with them for public reasons, implicitly (and knowingly) endorsing their partner’s behavior.

to be a WAG is to construct an identity of being Secondary, what Steven Ortiz calls “a ‘wife of’ identity”. they put it on themselves and go to great lengths to upkeep it. to humanize these women is to acknowledge their ability to cause harm, to society and to themselves.

[mightbethesun]

this is my favorite hypecam of all time

[hey-brandy]

Patrick Sharp, Jamie Benn, & Tyler Seguin

Dallas Stars Training Camp 2015

[anzekopistar]

I heard you guys wanted the line brawl but with romantic music

[gentle-puck]

it’s pissing me off that the SCF games have been good because I really cannot bring myself to watch vegas play

[crosbyism]

"but then again this is the guy who’s publically known for loving to eat ass so"

I'm sorry, I thought Nate eating ass was fanon. Are you telling me this is an actual canon fact??

god i love when people don’t realise how much “fanon” around sid and nate is actually canon. it’s like heroin to me. also bc it’s like. 90% of the stuff in fics (which is probably why people assume it’s fanon but. oh boy it’s not. there’s shockingly little fanon around these two, mostly because canon is so abundant).

yes, nathan mackinnon is a known ass-eater. let me direct you to this post, anon. you’re welcome.

other nate (and sid) facts you might not have realised are canon:

nate is a known advocate for therapy. he’s been seeing a sports therapist since 2017

they wear matching clothing all the fucking time, sid has said publicly that he started wearing white sneakers and updated his wardrobe due to nate’s influence (iirc nate might’ve even bought him his first pair of white sneakers? either that or it was a “he told me i need to so i did” situation). they share a tailor. unfortunately i now have to bring your attention to the fact that since they have an alarming amount of matching clothes that they’ve bought for each other, that means that they in fact have to know each other’s clothing sizes off by heart. they also low-key share clothing btw

their families celebrate canada day together and their dads are best friends. in-law behaviour goes crazy

nate did in fact stalk his way into sid’s heart (got the same personal trainer and agent at age 13; built his house next door in 2017; they’ve been spending every day in the summers together since at least 2015. sid cooks for them daily, or at least did pre-pandemic. sid refuses to use nate’s gym tho so they always use sid’s).

nate used to have a fan twitter account more or less where he rooted for the pens. it was active until 2017.

sid and nate regularly go to summer weddings together as each other’s dates. they have done this since, once again, at least 2015

nate has confirmed that he used to have a poster of sid on his wall as a teenager (he didn’t confirm he used to jerk off to it but frankly. i think that’d be saying the quiet part out loud)

when sid won the cup in 2009 and held the parade in cole harbour, nate stood by the side of the road watching it. he was about to turn 14, he was already working with sid’s trainer and agent, and he was about to start attending shattuck (sid’s junior high). due to old pics we also know that this was RIGHT before nate had his first growth spurt and hit puberty. i’m not saying seeing sid with the cup kickstarted nate’s puberty and gave him his first boner but i’m not NOT saying it

nate dated vanessa morgan of riverdale fame in his rookie year. she’s now good friends with elias petersson from the vancouver canucks (this means nothing but i do think it’s a very funny coincidence).

nate schmidt, formerly of the VGK, once failed a drug test (it turned out to be a testing-fuck-up); when nhl players were asked about it natemack iconically said “i don’t think he was sticking a needle up his ass” (i just like this one)

when he was a kid, the one other thing sid wanted to be was a hairdresser. nate, on the other hand, “didn’t have a plan B”

nate is canonically possessive of sid (see: the asg 2024) and sid is canonically delighted by this and into it

they go on so many lunch dates in the summer my dude. they go grocery shopping together. like there’s so many pics of them in grocery stores or out having coffee or weird green shakes

oh i almost forgot, they went on a roadtrip through ireland last year. they’ve been on holiday together multiple times over the years though. done some eurotripping together and stuff. in 2015 they spent three months together, three weeks of which were spent living in sid’s santa monica condo together just the two of them

sid has put up a picture of every stanley cup winning captain in his basement since 2008, when the pens lost in the scf to DET. apparently this serves as motivation for him to win the cup. he notoriously does not watch the playoffs after the pens are out

however, he partied so hard at nate’s cup party he actually closed down the party with his dad. nate is the only non-teammate sid’s ever been seen supporting for a cup run (he’s also never been to his teammates’ cup parties afaik so. there’s that)

also they talked on the phone daily and between periods during nate’s cup run. they also canonically have almost weekly phone dates that can run multiple hours. quote nate “i can’t talk to anyone else the way i can talk to him”

they each have pictures of the two of them together framed in each other’s houses

there’s rumours they’re building adjoining houses on neighbouring properties in cape breton next to a golf course bc apparently being neighbours in halifax isn’t enough or something. this one is as yet unconfirmed by reputable sources though

[linskywords]

Don't forget: Nate wasn't captain when the Avs won. But his is the picture Sid has up for that year anyway.

[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.

[cynids]

happy aapi month!

[teex]

PHI vs WSH 01.14.23

[raddocanu]

FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME

Suffers a fall while trying to hit a volley during his quarter-final match against Flavio Cobolli at the 2026 French Open. Felix still ended up winning that point

[channelslam]

again, these high performance competitive athletes don't get to where they are without some level of ruthlessness, arrogance, and self-belief. it may be ugly or extreme to you, but we can't cherry pick what traits these athletes do and do not have in the name of overcorrection.

[channelslam]

all the pearl clutching is so funny because honestly athletes right now are TAME!!! if you go through pre-social media press and content, athletes before were way worse like genuinely running their mouth type of shit 😭

[starscelly]

robo! and hi stank also!

col@dal 05.07.24 | round 2 game 1

[moncuries]

in hrpf (and sports rpf more broadly) i love that you must make the body that you see naked every day in the locker room into something thrilling. so many people do this differently, so many characterizations demand unique things. genuinely i notice this in every fic i read

[antrea]

[26.04.13] vs. carolina hurricanes

[moon-honey-31]

what if i was a goalie and i never got drafted and my first team had a coach who hated me so much that im still blacklisted from any team he puts together and i finally said i don't want to do this anymore and they sent me here, and at every stage of my career it always felt like no one wanted me, but here for the first time they say i'm their mvp, that i'm their wall, so maybe it could be different here, maybe it is different. and what if every night i saw you in front of me, guarding me and trusting me to guard the net, giving me a chance to prove myself. and what if somehow we pulled something off that no one thought was possible, and we made history, and we blew everyone’s expectations out of the water, and we did it together, you protecting me and me watching your backs. and what if any of us could be traded at a moment’s noticed, or injured, or sent down, but even so, even though this is temporary i still want everyone to know who you belong to, who i belong to, because you’re my defensemen and im your goalie, so i wear your numbers, right above the number i chose because i was the last one picked and no one else wanted it, here in washington, where you chose me even though no one else wanted me. and what if we were all boys.

and what if—

[moon-honey-31]

GUESS WHAT BABY UR A BIG GAME GOALIE NOW