Keri's Hockey RPF Recommendations

Fic recs by KeriArentikai Hockey tumblr at kerilikeshockeyboys I don't include tags or summaries for fics locked to AO3, but please let me know if you're uncomfortable having something shared here and I'll take it down. Tags: sidgeno kazer bennguin shawbollig other ships alpha beta omega animal transformation angst arranged marriage AU bdsm fic bodyswap broning college AU fake boyfriends fics i want to marry fluff fusion or crossover future fic high school AU humourous fic kidfic longfic magic fic outsider pov pining podfic available porny puppies and or kittens

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin Additional Tags: Kid Fic Summary:

Geno’s been running away for years, from the scandal in Magnitogorsk, from any chance of getting his heart broken again. He’s working as a bouncer in Pittsburgh when he meets Sidney Crosby—hockey phenom, single dad, looking for someone to handle personal security for his little girl.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Alexander Ovechkin Additional Tags: Caught, POV Outsider, Crack Summary:

Alex Ovechkin talks dirty to Sidney Crosby, and then gives Zhenya some much-needed advice. Because he’s a nice guy like that.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin, Paul Martin/James Neal Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Colby Armstrong, Hilary Knight, Marc-Andre Fleury, James Neal, Paul Martin, Kris Letang, Mario Lemieux, Austin Lemieux, Alexa Lemieux, Original Animal Character(s) Additional Tags: Fluff, Firefighter Sidney, Veterinarian Geno, Alternate Universe, Dogs, Prompt Fic Summary:

Life in a sleepy small town is a welcome change of pace for Sidney. Eager to leave his old city life behind, he's ready to settle into a quiet routine where the stress of his job peaks at planning a tour of the fire station for the local elementary school. He isn't looking for romantic entanglements, or anything else that might pull his focus away from his work. When he finds an abandoned, injured puppy by the side of a country road, though, Sidney can't do less than anything in his power to make sure it gets the care it needs.

He hadn't been counting on Dr. Evgeni Malkin. With his careful hands and warm smile, it's not long before Geno has the puppy patched up and happy again. And while Sidney never intends to foster the puppy himself, if it means occasional house calls from the local veterinarian, he can't quite bring himself to regret it.

Will Sidney be able to work past the memory of a previous loss and find a way to open his life to someone else again? Or will Geno have to work like a dog to bring this beauty's stubborn heart to heel?

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Paul Martin, Marc-Andre Fleury, Kris Letang, Olli Maatta, Pascal Dupuis, Chris Kunitz Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, getting found out Summary:

Sid gets a cold.

Everyone else gets a (hilarious) surprise.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin Characters: Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, Jordie Benn Additional Tags: Crack, Shapeshifters - Freeform, Love Confessions, Pining, Hand-feeding Series: Part 2 of Spin-O-Robin Summary:

There's a moose in the Benns' apartment.

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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin Characters: Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin, Jordie Benn, Tyler Brown, Dallas Stars Ensemble, Original Character Series: Part 2 of condition of existence Summary:

Sometimes people forget that Jamie Benn exists.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins Ensemble Additional Tags: Pining, obliviousness, Failboats In Love, romance novels, Ridiculousness Summary:

Honestly, the first one is an accident.

Or, how Sidney Crosby finds love through message boards, heaving bosoms, boat rides and a lot of grand gestures.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins Ensemble Additional Tags: Magical Realism, Were-Creatures, violence against animals and things that look like animals on the explicit side Summary:

Sidney's life has always been different, but when he's hired in the middle of the school-year to replace the missing kindergarten teacher of a small town, things take a turn for the weird, even for him. There's a friendly bear. There's something wicked out in the woods. It's up to Sidney to figure everything out while trying to get settled in his new home.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jeff Skinner/Eric Staal Characters: Eric Staal, Jeff Skinner, Jordan Staal, Jared Staal Additional Tags: talking it out, team party, Community: kink_bingo, Vanilla, Domestic, Eric has hearts in his eyes Summary:

"Yeah," he said. "This sucked." There were some ironic cheers. "So let's end it the best we can," Eric continued. "The Annual Hurricanes Summer Barbecue. My place. Tuesday. Be there. Bring beer. Bring your kids. Don't bring the season with you."

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Mario Lemieux, Taylor Crosby Additional Tags: Families of Choice, Injury, Trust, Coming Out, Community: kink_bingo, washing/cleaning Summary:

"You're on Puck Daddy," Taylor said, instead of a greeting.

Sidney sank back into the pillows. "So? What's new?"

"The headline is 'Best Hockey Player in the World Sidney Crosby Taken Out by Eight Year Old, Breaks Arm in Mite Hockey Game.'"

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Brandon Bollig/Andrew Shaw Characters: Andrew Shaw, Brandon Bollig Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University Series: Part 2 of hockey college bros Summary:

Andrew’s pretty sure he’s wiped most of the blood away now. He’s feeling a little tender, the throbbing promise of bruising, but nothing too bad. Nothing lasting. “Not bad?” He pulls a face, tentatively working the muscles. “It’s okay.”

“Yeah.” The guy’s eyes rake over him, and Andrew gets the sense — hopes, at least, maybe — that he’s not just talking about the state of Andrew’s face when he says, “Yeah, it looks okay to me. Uh, I’m Brandon, by the way.”

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin Characters: Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin, Hilary Knight, Jenny Benn, Jordie Benn, Jason Demers Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Neighbors Summary:

"Hey," Jamie says, pounding on the door. "Hey, open up!"

The dogs shut up.

"Hi, shit, sorry," says the stupidly fucking gorgeous man who opens the door in a tank top and boxers. "Shit, were the dogs loud? They get really excited when I come home."

"It’s three in the morning," Jamie says. On cue, a dog pokes its head around the corner to the entryway and bounces over to the — to this guy. It’s followed by another, browner dog, and Jamie has a moment of surrealist sleep-deprived horror where he imagines an infinite string of dogs forever bounding gleefully towards —

"I work two jobs. I’m Tyler," Tyler says, extending his hand. "Do you want to come in?"

Well, he’s not doing anything illegal, Jamie thinks, shaking it, because no criminal in the history of crime has ever willingly invited a cop into their house, and there is no one in the city of Dallas who hasn’t pegged Jamie as a cop in six seconds of meeting him.

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Hello!

So, for Reasons (yes, Heated Rivalry) I clicked on this blog again and I had 20 complete posts in my drafts. I'm gonna just post all the ones that are ships I could still reread, because it feels silly to not if they're there. Incoming!

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Posted 2015-01-01

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin Characters: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Sergei Gonchar, Jack Johnson, Colby Armstrong, Maxime Talbot, Marc-Andre Fleury, Mario Lemieux, Alexander Ovechkin, Shea Weber, Patrice Bergeron, Ryan Getzlaf, Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, Crosby Family, Lemieux Family (Hockey RPF) Additional Tags: Alternate History, First Time, Epistolary, Jealousy, Pining, Possessive Behavior, Voyeurism, Underage Drinking Summary:

Sid didn’t introduce himself in the hallway, and he certainly doesn’t assume that people know who he is. So it would only be polite to thank Malkin again, this time more personally.

He could write him a letter. An email? No, a letter.

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I read this fic as it updated (which I NEVER do with WIPs) and I've read each chapter probably ten times. I have no words to express my love of this fic. It's kind of pointless to post this because I'm sure everyone's read it, but it would be an incomplete blog if I didn't include it as well.

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Posted 2013-12-11

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Erik Johnson/Gabriel Landeskog Characters: Haley Fowler, Erik Johnson, Gabriel Landeskog, Paul Stastny, Matt Duchene Additional Tags: [deleted because the fic is locked] Summary:

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This fic just killed me.  I reread it like three times immediately, even though it was a totally gutting fic.  Very heavy themes of religion and homophobia - it was upsetting at some moments for even me to read, and I've lived a pretty homophobia-free life.  

There's so much I like about it, but it boils down to this: it's a very powerful and compelling piece of writing.  Probably one of the best (if not necessarily the most enjoyable per se, given the angst-level) hockey fics I've read.

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A Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin rec list

(dated Sept. 17, 2014)

Romantic Motherfucking Best by lightgetsin.  (13k) God, I freaking love this fic.  What’s so cool and unique about it, to me, is that it’s feels like the end of a long, slow-burn pining fic, which the reader can observe even if the POV character can’t.  It’s sweet and it’s sexy and it packs a lot of punch for its length.  I’ve reread it three times at least already.

back to yours by Rest (6k) stripper!Tyler.  This fic is sweet and kind of chill, which makes it pretty realistic.

something worth bleeding out by dastardlywords (15k) This is one of my favourite post-trade Tyler-finding-himself-in-Dallas-and-also-finding-Jamie canon fics.  The development between them is so sweet (especially the Skype scene).  There is some Tyler/OFC if that kind of thing bugs you, but I like this one a lot.

There’s Nothing That I Wouldn’t Do, Save Lay My Rifle Down by titaniumsporkery (6k) Trans!Jamie. This isn’t quite what I usually like, but this fic is really memorable and has a lot of emotional impact.

God, You Two Are So Married by popfly (4k) Super fluffy fluff, so sweet and satisfying.

untitled seguin/benn a/b/o ficlet by Rest (2k) I’m so obsessed with this story. It’s short - it could have been done in a much longer way - but it almost doesn’t matter.  It’s a unique universe and there’s something just so charming about it.

The Constellations We Make by Hananobira (23k) Another classic canon post-trade fic.  Great slow burn.  Also there is terrific podfic!

we’re gonna rattle this ghost town by toewses (6k) Third in the canon post-trade trifecta.  Understated and awesome.

Big Hats, Big Hearts by LadyJanelly (1k) Short and interesting AU in which sexual activity is an open part of team bonding.

gonna have to ask about by ferrassie (7k) Tyler mysteriously wakes up in the future and is married to Jamie.  I’m not always a huge fan of the trope, but this fic does it well.  The writing and characterization are fantastic.

Bonus:

with a little help from my friends by melitaea (5k) This is Tyler/Jamie/Tyler Brown.  This fic is so freaking hot I can’t handle it.  Your kink may not be my kink etc. etc. but it’s well-written and so up my alley.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hockey RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews Characters: Brandon Saad, Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Nick Leddy, Andrew Shaw Additional Tags: 2012-2013 Season, Misunderstandings Summary:

“Have you noticed anything weird about Kaner and Tazer?” Brandon asks Shawzy and Leds over lunch one day.

“Define weird,” Leds says around a mouthful of salad.