Lavender_SaysHi

tired uni student (they/them) that yaps about all things hockey mainly (pens + habs + victoire) sideblog for the rest of my fandoms @lavendersaysbye

[lavendersayshi]

finally did the (mildly controversial ) thing

[discontinuedcat]

25-26 victoire i will talk about you forever

[twilightbuckley]

Society if the pens win one more stanley cup before sidtangeno retire

[annieqattheperipheral]

rookie nate🥺 -> olympian nate🥹

[twilightbuckley]

what nobody understands is that I’ll keep advocating for the penguins to extend Geno for ‘one more year’ until he’s pushing fifty. sixty even. idgaf.

[wickedthing]

on remembering your own myth

(Ozymandias by Percy Shelley)

[wickedthing]

But the cheetah has an exceptional acceleration, from 0 to 97 km/h (0 to 60 mph) in less than 3 seconds.

(Cheetah, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

[wickedthing]

Still, this skeptic had fanaticism. This fanaticism was not for an idea, nor a dogma, nor an art, nor a science; it was for a man […] Instinctively, he admired his opposite.

(Les Miserables Vol. III Marius 4:1, Victor Hugo)

[xoxominks]

"Rhéaume" by Richard Harrison, 1994.

Manon Rhéaume is the first woman to have played in the National Hockey League. In 1992, she signed a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and played in two pre-season games: one against the St. Louis Blues and one against the Boston Bruins.

[sockenpuppe]

[crabanarchy]

I love handing out amulets to all the junior evil mages and watching them act all corrupted. Staggering around going "ooough I can feel it changing me... what is this dark power?" Idk it's from temu so probably heavy metal poisoning man

[punksalmons]

sid and geno wearing each other's jerseys

from their respective 1000th game nights (sid's: february 20 2021; geno's: november 23 2022)

[timbitshockey]

now don’t quote me on this in a few years when it’s my guys who start retiring but it’s interesting to me to see all the retirements of these legends and longtime players being met with fear and stress about “our” own future because i think there’s something really, like, beautiful about it. it’s sad of course but it’s also, like, really special to see an ending? as much as we joke about it, none of these guys are actually old men, and now they get a whole world to do what they want in, and be as involved or not in the world they left behind as they want to be. maybe they’ll disappear off the public map or maybe they’ll park next to pk or gretzky on the panels or maybe they’ll be behind the bench for the next generation of superstars but time is coming for us all and they leaned into the hit. maybe i’m just sentimental about the human condition but it’s the winnie the pooh how lucky we are to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard of it all for me. it’ll be a whole new world for all of us! how scary and exciting and great and terrible! etc!

i think a lot about how my mom, when she was young, had such a ridiculously huge crush on bruce boudreau. she would drive hours into the city and wait outside rinks after leafs games and practices just to get a glimpse of him leaving ‘cause she couldn’t afford actual tickets and one time she managed to meet him and got him to autograph a card for her. when she tells me about it even now her whole face lights up with excitement. and to me, you know, my mental image of bruce boudreau is a little different than hers, so it’s a little silly, and i tease her about it, “there’s your boyfriend!” while pointing behind the canucks bench, that kind of thing. but i know when she hears me tell some story about sidney crosby all heart-eyes she’s thinking about her and bruce boudreau. and i really do look forward to the years when i’ll tell some kid i loved brian dumoulin and she’ll go “that old guy behind the bench?” and tease me about it and i’ll smile knowingly while she tells me about her favourite player because someday she’ll be me and a new kid will be her and on and on and on. i love that in a little melancholy way.

anyway this is way too sentimental by miles but you can’t get mad at me because this is MY blog and i can do what i want. siri play “walking in the wind” by one direction

[fauxtasm]

they should invent a term for shipping were I don't think they should be in a romantic relationship however I believe they are each others parasite and separating them is not an option

[timbitshockey]

the difference to me, by the way, when it comes to sidney crosby’s acts of goodness and kindness versus nico hischier’s, is that i believe sid is aware that he is choosing to do good or kind things because deep in the recesses of his mind exists an abacus on which he is tallying the worth of his soul and he is always fighting in the spiritual trenches to keep that thing in the green. there’s a sort of self-awareness to sid’s kindness and generosity, like a gently smug kind of layer deep down underneath it where he knows he’s just bought himself one more opportunity to grab an opposing player by the knees and spin-launch them into the boards like mario does to bowser. every time he screeches at someone on the ice with a cracking voice that they’re being a pussy or steamrolls into an early-twenties player for no reason but the crime of being gen z he knows he has to go out into the world and perform a miracle. this has nothing to do with his public perception btw he does not care what the world thinks of him. it’s all for his private and meticulously kept internal abacus.

nico, however, does good and is kind because the concept of behaving another way does not seem to ever register in his mind. he is being the best nico he can be. he believes everyone around him, even jack hughes, is both trying their best and also proud of everything they try. even jack hughes! if nico wasn’t a hockey player his chosen career would be like a guy who listens to 911 calls and dispatches himself to them. he’d be a guy who holds the nose of the plane steady during turbulence. he’d be a professional guy who squeezes your hand once and tells you how brave you’re being at the dentists or the doctors. and he’d mean it. he does think you’re being brave. he thinks everyone is being brave. even jack hughes

[yabagofmilfs]

imagine it’s 2009 and obama is the president and the radio is playing party in the usa and kings of leon and your team is the pittsburgh penguins and they have sidney crosby and evgeni malkin and kris letang and marc andre fleury and maxime talbot and they win the cup. wow. i wish the mid aughts were real, that sounds amazing.

[heartbeatline]

i sometimes cannot believe they made him wear that