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jostbusters

Another Hockey Night In Canada™️

#SHDHJDJSJFJD THAT LITTLE BLONDE BITCH AND HIS HUSBAND

mitchmarner

me: i don’t care about the winnipeg jets at all who even watches their games

adam lowry and brandon tanev: *invent gay rights*

me:

dumouwin

nhl divisions are OUTDATED. i sort my teams into 4 categories: sluts, dumbasses, memes, and yawns

hockeyfromtheblock

Who goes in which category though?

dumouwin

for me, personally, it’s:

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Alex Ovechkin and TJ Oshie at Tony & Joe’s Seafood Place

#god #washington capitals

uefas

being a fan of a team who does so well and another team who’s not doing good is like being a mom and having a son in MED SCHOOL and another one who can barely finish high school - like how am i supposed to not love the latter HE’S MY SON TOO

#me being a caps fan but also having to put up with the oilers’ useless ass

thornescratch

Nicklas Backstrom: *gasp* ME, do something ILLEGAL?

Nicklas Backstrom: *shifty eyes*

#nicklas bäckström

erikjohnsons

i won’t be taking constructive criticism at this time

#im screaming

thornescratch

LET!! EVGENZY!! KUZNETSOV!!! SWEAR!!!!

csykora

Telling him he “can’t do that” only makes him stronger

thornescratch

#evgeny kuznetsov #he did not learn 5000 languages for this #HE IS MY FAVORITE

@weaglerock’s tags reminded me of this little nugget of Kuzy info:

The Capitals’ locker room is a mini-United Nations. English is the common language, but you are just as likely to hear roaring conversations in Russian or Swedish. Such is life on the NHL’s most diverse roster. The Capitals have players born in eight different countries. Only one NHL team, the Columbus Blue Jackets, has more. They have nine. The variety of backgrounds can make team bonding a little more challenging…

But Kuznetsov is far from closed off with teammates. He claims fluency in French, studied some German in school and has been to that country seven times for vacation or medical procedures. He and Grubauer will sometimes go back and forth in German, which is a plus for the goalie because there are no other Germans on the team and only eight in the NHL….

“It’s awesome here, though,” Grubauer said. “The Swedes chirp the Russians and the other way around. It’s pretty hilarious how [Kuznetsov] speaks German. But he actually knows a lot of languages. Once in a while we’ll chat in [German] – just not on the ice.”

From Capitals locker room filled with international flavor. (Locked article. You need a Sports Capitol subscription to view it in full. It’s a fantastic piece, though.)

thornescratch

Oh hell. I can’t resist posting some more from the article.

Vrana, 22, is the youngest player on the team and, until Jerabek and Kempny were added via separate trades the last week of February, he was the only Czech for most of the season. But he might navigate the different nationalities best. Vrana started playing hockey in Sweden at age 15. His English is flawless. Czech has enough similarities to Russian that Vrana gets the gist of whatever Ovechkin, Kuznetsov and Orlov are laughing about.

“I’m kind of all over the locker room,” Vrana joked.

That’s drawn suspicion from teammates.

“[Vrana] is sneaky. He knows what everyone’s saying,” Oshie said. “That’s the one guy that if you needed to know what was going on you could go to him, which for a young guy is pretty surprising. He’s got a lot of us fooled, but I think we’re catching on to him.”

Ironically, the one player who could chat with Vrana in his own language before the other Czechs arrived was Walker, the Australian who moved to the Czech Republic at age 13 and played six seasons of junior and professional hockey there.

“If you weren’t born in Czech or spend a long time there, good luck with it,” Vrana said. “If they want me to speak Swedish I can do that. Maybe sometimes they just too lazy to speak English. I’m lazy to speak English too sometimes. Then I just speak Czech to myself.”

Kuznetsov is convinced Trotz actually knows what the Russians are saying at all times – possibly because the coach’s oldest son, Tyson, lives and teaches in Russia. They’ve also taught Burakovsky, among others, some “not so nice words.” Beagle and Oshie both described Kuznetsov’s laugh as “weird” – a high-pitched giggle that becomes infectious even when they have no idea what he’s talking about.

#this is my absolute favourite thing in the world #kings of knowing languages #washington capitals

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2019 Caps Canine Calendar Photoshoot

swamphockey

captainmorganrielly

i choked

buyerns

Thank you for everything dear Basti, thank you for amazing 500 matches. it was a pleasure to watch you as our player. best of luck in the future! you’ll be missed!

backiesand8

dumouwin

in the 2018-19 season i want nhl pr teams to stop fighting the fact that all of their players are fuckboys and start EMBRACING IT. fucking ask your team what their best tinder hookup line is. let them take over the team snapchat for a day. do thinly-veiled drinking games (flippy cup, pong, ring of fire) with like gatorade or some shit. make the younger guys explain memes and vines to the vets. do a series of your players going shopping and making disastrous fashion choices. YOUR PR IS BORING BC YOU’RE TRYING TO MAKE YOUR PLAYERS LOOK RESPECTABLE. LISTEN TO ME: LET THEM BE DUMB AND HORRIBLE, IT’S HILARIOUS AND LOVABLE.