unforgivable

this is a hockey blog, unfortunately follows from @klobrc

[toffcake]

you’re gonna go far - noah kahan

[junkfoodcinemas]

JASON X (2001) dir. James Isaac

[groake]

only 16 days left of hockey

[groake]

only 15 days left of hockey

[groake]

ONLY 14 days left of hockey

[gyudons]

a sequence of Events. not crosby. not mcdavid. just one nhl player with no “reputation” and everything to lose.

[flaticeball]

hey! as the first season of connor bedard gets underway i, your local indigenous hockey fan, have a request of you: please don't let this kid's sure to be marvellous and jaw-dropping rookie season make you complacent with the racism of the blackhawks as an organization. it is beyond heinous that they were able to secure the first overall pick this year for a number of reasons i'm sure we're all familiar with, but i am pleading with the hockey community not to let the racism of this org fall through the cracks.

they drafted connor bedard and handed him a jersey with a giant racist caricature on the front. their mascot is named tommy hawk. they continuously fail to curtail their fans' egregious displays of anti-indigenous racism at games.

i'm not going to ask anyone not to post about bedard. i know he's huge news and i'm bummed as all hell that i won't be able to enjoy the beginning of what is sure to be an incredible career myself. but i am asking, given that his presence on the team is likely to increase the prevalence of people making and reblogging posts about the blackhawks, that you please care, loudly and actively, about the racism of this organization and how much it hurts indigenous fans to see that go unquestioned so often.

consider mentioning it in posts. consider amplifying the voices of indigenous fans and community members about the issues of these types of sports organizations. consider reading up on the history of the person they claim to 'honour' with their hideous effigy of a logo. consider censoring the logo in your posts if you are able to (please do this if you are able to). consider tagging posts so that indigenous fans are at the very least able to blacklist that team and not have to see it.

above all, please just. don't forget about it. don't forget about us. we belong here too.

[suburbanbonfire]

this is not your loss this is your offering

(drawing of St. Patrice - you will be honored, you will be missed)

[doubleminor]

jakub vrana min v det ; mar. 10, 2022

[loserdudes]

Thank you, Tuukka.

[bigbrotherlouis]

legends and curses are kind of the same thing, right?

(text ID under the cut)

A CURSE BREAKER LISTENS TO CLAUDE GIROUX

i feel like i have been destined to repeat history

over and over again. i follow the curse laid out

for me and find it looping all over my past mistakes

like i haven’t made them yet. i’d like to think

that i can do better. i’d like to think that the promises

i made day after day after day don’t render me a liar.

i didn’t count on the curving back and the recycling

and the way the steady plod onward feels endless

when you can't stop looking behind. i wanted to be

great. i could've settled for good, even, as long

as i was given the space to stretch out. if

this is my punishment for wanting, then forgive

me for begging for something good from the universe,

over and over again. but i will still give

everything i have to this time right here.

i don’t know how else i can live with myself.

[bigbrotherlouis]

HEY WHAT THE FUCK

[roopehintz]

A lot of different vibes happening here 😂 @ijustlovehockey @nikolajehlers

[ijustlovehockey]

4 notes each

[livingfornhl]

V talking about holding hands with bowey & nicky and that he still didn't find his new hand holder on wings.

[himbeaux-on-ice]

rough thoughts on today’s Pride Game and “empty symbolism”

what really matters most I think about the Pride Game, and the way the teams are openly and aggressively promoting it, posting flags, etc, is twofold:

it is a decisive and visible move to very openly tell every bigoted or uncomfortable fan would would say “just stick to hockey” that no, they are committed to this, without plausible deniability or room to weasel out and call it something else. it is a way of saying that those who will threaten to burn their jerseys or stop watching games because of this can go right ahead, because the teams are fully and openly committed to doing this and allowing bigots to feel alienated by this simple gesture it if necessary. like I said, there’s no plausible deniability here. it is an open, highly visible commitment to say “we’re willing to associate with this without shame” which cannot be selectively hidden today. it goes beyond just Pride tape. they have taken it beyond just pasting out a blanket rainbow flag and calling it a day. that is important. that emphatic emblematic statement amongst the toxic masculinity and macho culture of hockey does mean something.

even more importantly: queer kids are going to see this. kids who play hockey, who want to play hockey, or who just love to watch the game, are going to see this and see the message that their team is not hostile to them. that they don’t have to hide who they are to be here. that the team they love (in that way that kids love stuff, so reverently and with such a pedestal to put it on) doesn’t consider them too dirty or shameful to be visibly associated with. I know that we as more politically educated (jaded) queer adults can look at the issue in greater depth and say “well this is just an optics show” or “we don’t know how the players really feel” if we want to. but the truth is that this kind of simple visible thing means so much to kids and teenagers who are struggling to feel out their place in the world, and I will not discount it as “empty” when it accomplishes that, regardless of the difficult-to-judge sincerity of some people involved (impact, not intent, right?)

is there still a lot of work to do? yes. are there more concrete actions that individual players can take to make constructive progress on changing hockey culture and show that their caring is authentic? yes. is optics-based action always a inarguable sign of a sound personal politic or ethos? not always, no. is there more to be done beyond just visibility stuff? always, ALWAYS

but we can acknowledge that these things are true, while also acknowledging that steps like these DO mean something. those truths don’t have to oppose each other. every action taken doesn’t have to be “changes everything instantly and irreversibly by leaps and bounds” OR otherwise “empty and pointless” with no middle ground.

small steps are important and do have a place in change, and it’s okay to appreciate that value and find it meaningful, while also continuing to ask for more concrete steps forward to follow next 💜

[hockeycrimes]

the saga continues...

[acheronist]

For my beloved fil n fil

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

stevie y 🤝 kyle dubas

committing actual highway robbery

[hockeycrimes]

friendship ended with the washington capitals now the detroit red wings are my best friend

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

lets talk about the 2021 trade deadline

things have Happened, and its been very exciting, if only in a lowkey way. heres all the trades that have happened so far, as of 5:46pm on sunday april 11th.

travis zajac and kyle palmieri to the ny isles from the devils for the isles' 2021 first round pick, a conditional 4th rounder, aj greer, and mason jobst

tampa acquired david savard from the cbj but it went like this: savard to detroit for brian lashoff with 50% of savard's salary salary retained, making his cap hit $2.125mil. detroit then sent savard to tampa for a fourth rounder and ALSO retained half, making savard's final cap hit for tampa $1.0625mil. the jackets then sent lashoff to tampa for tampa's 2021 first rounder and a 2022 third rounder

eric staal to the habs; 2021 third and fifth round picks going to buffalo

avs acquire devan dubnyk from the sharks for greg pateryn and a 2021 fifth round pick

florida panthers acquire lucas carlsson and lucas wallmark from chicago in exchange for brett connolly, riley stillman, the rfa rights to henrik borgstrom, and a 2021 seventh rounder. this was largely a cap dump in order to do this:

florida panthers acquire brandon montour from the buffalo sabres in exchange for a 2021 third rounder

in a three team trade, the leafs have just acquired nick foligno but it went like this: the jackets traded foligno to the sharks and retained 50% of his salary, and then the sharks traded foligno to the leafs and retained 25% of foligno's salary, making foligno's cap hit for the leafs under $1.5 million. in the end, the leafs acquired foligno and noesen, the jackets got toronto's 2021 first and fourth round picks, and the sharks got another fourth rounder from toronto. will update with details when i have them.

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

the leafs acquire david rittich from the flames for a 2021 third round pick

the pittsburgh penguines acquire jeff carter from the la kings for some conditional picks.

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

the bruins have acquired taylor hall and curtis lazar from the sabres for two second rounders and anders bjork

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

victor mete claimed on waivers by the ottawa senators

sami vatanen claimed on waivers by the dallas stars

vancouver sent adam gaudette to chicago for matthew highmore

new jersey sent dmitri kulikov to the oilers for an unspecified draft pick

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

scott laughton signed a deal with philadelphia for five years, $3 million per

chicago traded carl soderberg to colorado for josh dickinson and ryder rolston

tampa bay sent goalie prospect magnus chrona (thats the dopest name ive ever seen in my life) to san jose for dman frederik claesson

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

barabanov to san jose, antti suomela to toronto

gustafsson to montreal, a seventh round pick to philadedelphia

ben hutton from anaheim to toronto for a fifth round pick

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

gudbranson to nashville, brandon fortunato and a seventh in 2023 to ottawa

michael raffl to washington for a fifth round pick

haydn fleury to anaheim for jani hakanapaa and a pick

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

jordie benn to winnipeg for a sixth round pick

[jamesvanriemsdyk]

madison bowie and a 2021 fifth round to chicago for a 2021 fourth