sophie jaques is the love of my life

pwhl fanblog | peregrin | they/xe/he | white | aro | autistic | over 25 | main blog @chaoticpanenergy | avatar picrew by bumblie/tarlic_goast

[jophiesaques]

FAQ

q: who are u?

a: hello welcome to my PWHL blog! i am peregrin! they/xe/he pronouns. my main is @chaoticpanenergy and i have a variety of other sideblogs as well. i'm in my mid 20s and located in the usa, where i live in a cute lil apartment in a big city and am saving up to hopefully have kids soon! i am white, aromantic, and autistic. i am totally down to be pals but, fair warning, often bad at responding to messages. i have historically not been into sports at all but recently have gotten into hockey (by which i do mostly mean just the pwhl. i don't care about the men) (except for sidney crosby who is my extremely parasocial mortal enemy).

q: which teams do u like?

a: san jose!!!!!!!!!! and i also like the frost bc before san jose was added, my baby brother and sister (who are actually both teenagers lol) and i had picked out that team to root for based on liking the color scheme. i also have lots of favorite individual players across pretty much every team in the league. chief among these obviously being sophie jaques <3

q: how did you get into hockey?

a: i actually cannot even slightly disclose the answer to this question without doxxing myself. i will simply say that certain events in my life created a lasting emotional need for me to see hockey players regularly, despite not knowing anything about hockey before this happened. so here i am.

q: wym sidney crosby is your mortal enemy?

a: funnily enough, i Also cannot disclose This information without doxxing myself. i will say it is not for exactly the Same reason as why i got into hockey, but these two things are very connected nevertheless. suffice to say my reasons for disliking him are entirely petty and parasocial and unserious, and i know nothing much about the man in reality. i'm sure hes very nice or whatever. also it's funny to say he's my enemy and i do everything For The Bit.

q: wym sophie jaques is the love of ur life?

a: have u seen her???? this is extremely self explanatory smh

q: why do u like the frost?

a: when i first got into the pwhl at the beginning of the 24–25 season, i had no nearby teams, so i picked my two favorite color schemes amongst the o6 teams (frost and sirens) and let my baby sister (who is not, as previously established, an actual baby) pick between those two to decide which team we would root for. purple is her favorite color, so here we are.

disclaimer: transphobia is bad, consequently i'm not a fan of That One Player and don't intend to waste my energy on giving her any attention past the end of this sentence. now everyone go love and uplift the trans women and transfem ppl in ur life. and give them money. much better use of ur time.

q: do u have a favorite player?

a: yep, i have two, nicole hensley, chosen exclusively bc her jersey number is my favorite number, and sophie jaques, chosen bc as my blog title may clue you in she is in fact perfect in every way. hope this helps.

other players i like very much include but are not limited to: křížová, pannek, barnes, phillips, petrie, hymlárová, cava, roque, flaherty, channell-watkins, vanišová, poulin, boyd, dubois, nurse, cj, knight, carpenter, thompson, fillier, campbell, maschmeyer, edwards, tejralová, pejšová, mrázová, gosling (younger), zumwinkle (elder), and heise. also i think heise should dump her stupid awful loser fiance bc he's pretty clearly a horrible person and i'm extremely worried he's either already abusive to her or will quickly become so after they get married. did you all SEE that tweet he made abt her liking to eat eggs. i am so for real that shit was scary and a very clear indicator that he is not safe for her or probably any woman.

q: do u have opinions on the nhl?

a: as we established, crosby is my mortal enemy. aside from that, i have a whole actual powerpoint presentation locked and loaded consisting of humorous roasts for every single team's (excluding the racism team, which doesn't deserve my time or attention) logo designs. also as you may have noticed from the last sentence, i severely don't care for the racism team. (psst, while ur here, consider donating to the american indian center of chicago.) i have been to one (1) game for the team nearest me and own a jacket and tote bag in their colors. i also adore gritty. that is roughly the totality of my nhl opinions; otherwise i really don't care about them. sorry lol.

[more faqs to be added as i think of other funny and/or relevant things to put here]

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[furst-in-the-atmosphere]

I can tell you the exact moment I knew I would be rooting for the Frost until they no longer exist. It was in game four of the championship finals at the Xcel center, 2024. You may be confused at that because if you remember, the frost lost that game. But the energy in that arena was insane. It was Hensley vs. Frankel 0-0 and 3 OT in. And yes, we lost, but my seat was looking over the corner at the ice and I watched Nicole Hensley make save after save after save, holding onto victory with her fingernails with Alina Müller and Hillary Knight never giving her a second to breathe. And I watched her and admired her and knew I was seeing something amazing. Then they lost the game, and I watched her go up to the bench with her head held high, and I just KNEW they were still going to win game five, because there was no world where Nicole Hensley would let them beat her again.

I'm really sad she's leaving. But I'm SO GRATEFUL for getting to watch her play these last three years.

[isilee]

hockey ocs a new york sirens team that's actually good at hcoeky and a boston fleet team that doesn't do emotional damage in last games of the season

my team… the yew nork sirens… your team… the foston bleet… they make it to the finals with little to no emotional damage… the famous captain of the bleet, kilary hnight will stay on the team forever and never retire… the yew nork sirens have enough veterans to actually play a full season instead of overworking the babies… they make it to the finals… maybe… yew nork even wins it all…

[hearteyesilya]

nicole gosling's message to fans 💗

[vancouver-lord-goldeneyes]

Hold up does Ozzy have Clarky as “Emily Clak” in her phone 😭

[hockeyyuri]

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[easyaro]

If it were up to me, here's how the PWHL draft order would go:

Gold plan order, followed by expansion teams, followed by playoff order.

But that's just me.

[snoopysvictoire]

MPP and her honorary doctorate is something that can be so personal. that’s dr captain clutch to you

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

the cool thing about being into women's hockey is that there's so so many player names as tumblr urls that aren't taken. there's so many awesome players and you can just get their first and last name with or without a hyphen as a url and no one's taken it, you don't even have to misspell it (other than not being able to do accent markers)

[whitecherrylavender]

Sister and I made the monopoly meme.

[strawberryblondebutch]

i feel for knight, honestly, and all the older players. she's 36. at that point i think you've earned some agency over where you play out the end of your career. this expansion is just terribly timed for that "pioneer" class to have that agency. i guess it's a necessary evil, but :((

She pushed through a bad foot injury so that she could play in the inaugural season because she knew her name would be a big draw. I think she’s earned a bit of selfishness, and I think there’s a deeper conversation to be had (not at 1am) about how Knight (and Kendall, who’s still a free agent) doesn’t really have a “hometown team” where she can settle down, and how that’s affected her approach to the end of her career. If Utah got a team, I bet that would have been her first choice so she could be closer to Britt. Instead, she has to just find where she’ll be the most comfortable. In that regard, Detroit is a much easier sell than Vegas, which still doesn’t have a head coach.

I think a lot of the outrage also comes from people who got into sports recently and don’t understand how important player agency has been to labor relations as a whole. I would encourage everyone who says something along the lines of, “this team picked you, so shut up and deal with it” to read about Curt Flood and why free agency is only a recent victory for labor.

[chirpingfromthebox]

[sirensdotcom]

[sirensdotcom]

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[furst-in-the-atmosphere]

In order from left to right:

Guardrail bear: montreal, on a journey, is considering its next move after a few major losses

Picnic table bear: Ottawa, traumatized, angry, not chatty.

Bear in the sea: seattle, sad, depressed, a little lost

Bear on the rocks: vancouver, having a chill one

True neutral bear: mark walter

Kiddie pool bear: minnesota, can't bring us down after offloading curl

Picnic table bear 2: toronto, trying not to think about it but at least free of troy ryan

Ocean void bear: new york, paddling into the sea, rudderless without ozzy

Log bear: boston, grumpy after losing a coach and Müller

[devilspenguins]

I'm gonna need an Expansion Wrapped when this is all over...

You had to say goodbye to 14 of your favourite players.

You crashed out over your team's GM's decisions 27 times.

You spent 4 hours reading the Expansion Rules and still only understood 70% of them.

Your heart shattered into 417 pieces.

You refreshed the pwhl news page 189982 times.

You lost 56 hours of sleep over this expansion.

25% of the news you read turned out to be fake. Your dislike of Ian Kennedy increased by 63%.

You are in the top 10% of fans most affected by this expansion. But look on the bright side, at least you're not a Seattle Torrent fan.