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happy best friends day (x)

macklin celebrini is perhaps the epitome of a man who should be a dishwasher for a restaurant…

let him put his headphones on and listen to his trashy music and be in his own little world while he sprays plates with hot water, while will smith hockey is working his ass off serving customers and making sure everything is perfect for an egregiously high number of tips

let will bitch about his needy tables while he scrapes uneaten leftovers into the trash can and mack stares at him with his jaw dropped over the fact that he’s being acknowledged by the cute waiter who’s section everyone requests

let mack look like a drowned rat at the end of the night, but still leave his little corner of the kitchen to tell will that he can take the trash cans out to the dumpster in the dark alley behind the restaurant instead of will doing it

allchellies

giggly boy (ft. porter martone)

overthebluelines

ok

goaliekisses

SCREAM

goaliekisses

HE GOT DUNKED

suiheisen

this is it. this is how we grow the game.

badangle

sure your hockey team might be "losing" but with post-game interview shots like this do we really lose

badangle

wiping his face with his grotty little bukkake towel

hunterrrs

grinning away when asked about breaking mario's record twice. grinning away after being chirped by bunting. world's happiest boy.

rinkrats

the quarantine-era reality tv show we deserve

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rinkrats

Q: And something to me that is so cool was that you were around when Sid, Geno, Kris Letang first came into the league. Can you just tell us about what that was like? Because I remember you telling a funny story one time about how you had to teach Tanger how to go through a tollbooth? (laughter) And how Geno learned English.

This is the stuff that Jen does behind the scenes. Not only does she help coordinate interviews, but she just has such great relationships with them and they trust her so much and she helps them so much in so many ways I think that’s a really cool part of your job that people might not know that much about.

A: Yeah, I mean, those three especially, I always say that I’m not sure my career would be as successful if I didn’t stay with this team this long. Because I’ve really grown up with those three. I was 22 when I was an intern, I was 23 when I started full-time, and I grew up with them. They were young. (laughter) We were all going through growing pains together.

I think Geno’s two English words were pizza and hotdog. (laughter) And no. He knew the word no. It was very obvious to me right from the beginning that Geno knew what I was saying but he did not say anything back.

Q: He pretended not to say anything back...

A: He pretended. Geno is extremely smart. So smart that it makes him nervous when he does interviews because he is intelligent to know that his English sounds bad. You know, like, when you guys all wear t-shirts that say ‘I’m score’, it’s funny, but it’s not funny to him because he knows that it’s a joke because his English is bad. That’s a true story about Geno.

Tanger was like, oh my god, he’s like my son. I love him. Tanger one day came to me and said that he was driving and ‘I went through the drive-through and I didn’t have any money, so I just went through’ and I’m like, ‘What did you get?’. And he’s like, ‘I think I get a ticket’. I’m like, ‘What do you mean you think you got a ticket? What are you talking- Tell me this again.’

We had just called him from Wilkes-Barre. He’s like, ‘I’m driving in my car. You know, you drive for a while and you go through a drive through’. And I’m like, ‘A tollbooth…” And he’s like ‘Oh, yeah, a tollbooth.’ He tells me he doesn’t remember this story by the way. And he’s like, ‘I got a ticket in the mail’. And I’m like ‘Okay, well, bring me the ticket’. So we had to overnight it because it was due, and then we had to teach him how to write a cheque. So, well, some fun stuff.

Sid, he’s been pretty perfect from the day I met him. Seriously. He was that guy that you don’t have to sit there and hold your breath that he’s going to say the wrong thing. Instead it’s like, I can’t wait to hear what he says because it’s going to be the right thing at the right time. There’s not a lot of grey area with him. He’s black and white. His answers are always well-thought, well-conveyed.

If anything, I learned a lot of respect for him right off the bat because he was getting pulled in a million directions then. People say he’s the face of the NHL. He literally was the face of the NHL that year. There was nobody else that remotely… and the stuff he did for the league is stuff that I mean, I don’t think anyone could ever go back and mimic because it was just incredible. The way he was on the ice. The way he was off the ice. He was literally the perfect package and he’s a great person too.

-The Scoop with Jen Bullano, 28 Mar 2019

intheupside

hockey boys having a locker room picnic in their half gear 🥹

Ending with a fun memory from the past couple years: P.O Joseph and Kris Letang would generally speak to each other in French in the locker room when it was just the two of them having a conversation. But when they would bicker like brothers over fun stuff --Joseph not wanting to dress as Barbie for Halloween so Letang could be Ken, Letang not wanting to let Joseph borrow his car, etc. they'd switch to English so everyone else in the vicinity could get caught up on the drama.

Fine, one more fun story: There was a road practice last season where the Penguins had Chipotle catering afterward. Drew O'Connor, not wanting to wait until he was showered and ready to grab his food, just took his jersey off and made himself a bowl and started eating it there in his stall. His next-stall-neighbor Crosby said, "oh, we're doing half-gear lunch?" and followed suit. Crosby then personally went up to a few teammates and invited them to "join the boys for half-gear lunch," and soon enough he, O'Connor and a number of others were sitting in a circle on the locker room floor having a little picnic.

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