Lydia, 26 (and fucking exhausted), she/they. Predominately Dallas Stars, and New Jersey Devils (and assorted other teams) yapping. (Any team in the “i love you please ask me about this team”, “I love you a little less” tiers are teams I tangentially follow.
Frequent/regular tags:
#robo honey 🥺 - it’s all Jason Robertson. He’s basically my favorite player from the ‘17 draft (save for his draft mates Jake and Miro)
#jakey baby - this is otter’s tag. I love Jake dearly 😭
#go crazy go stupid jack - Jack Hughes, 86 for New Jersey, menace to society and wonderful
#Quinny Bear 🐻- Quinn Hughes, D-man of the Vancouver Canucks (and my heart), Jack’s older brother
#golden boy turned phoenix - my Jack Eichel tag 🥺 yes, I do have a fat soft spot for him. No, I can’t promise I won’t be annoying about him. [No longer in use]
#mama i love him - favorite players/players I enjoy thoroughly 🥺
I read and write fanfic - hrpf soon so tread carefully. All liveblogs can be blacklisted at #stars lb, #[team lb]
Poulin was 18 at her first olympics. Team canada wanted her to stay with a host family during training because she had never lived on her own before. So caroline ouellette, charline labonté, and kim st-pierre took in this teenage prodigy so she'd have exactly the mentors she needed, and 20 years later poulin is a five-time olympic medalist, captain of team canada, and captain of a champion team in a women's professional hockey league bigger than anything her mentors had. And caroline is on the ice to celebrate with her and be part of the future she worked for.
I love women supporting and uplifting and mentoring and creating the next generation of groundbreaking women in sports, and I love it when they're lesbians.
high level ice hockey leagues that stream free on youtube
wanted to compile a list into a post for people to reference.
PWHL - Professional Women's Hockey League, top pro women's league in USA/Canada, streams free everywhere outside Canada (sorry, Canada) (Proton VPN is a great free option), 12 teams, November - May, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
SDHL - Swedish Women's Hockey League, top pro women's league, lotta players going back and forth between here and the PWHL, 10 teams, September - March, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
EWHL/AWHL* - European Women's Hockey League & Austrian Women's Hockey League, this is sorta two leagues intertwined. i need to research more to understand, but they both stream on this channel, don't ask me how many teams, MANY countries which is pretty cool,September - March, website (shared) - eliteprospects (EWHL / AWHL) - wikipedia (shared)
*for some reason it's not letting me link the channel, but going on youtube and searching either ewhl or awhl will get you there
AWIHL - Australian Women's Ice Hockey League, top Australian women's league, 6 teams, November - March, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
NZWIHL - New Zealand Women's Ice Hockey League, top women's Aotearoa hockey league, 4 teams, May - August, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
NZIHL - New Zealand Men's Ice Hockey League, top men's Aotearoa hockey league, 5 teams, May - August, website - eliteprospects - wikipedia
Special Mention: the ЖХЛ/ZhHL, the Russian Women's Hockey League, used to stream free on youtube but hasn't the past couple years due to a youtube ban. You can still find their old game streams on the channel.
Note that some leagues are going to have streaming services outside youtube that they use, which may or may not be free and/or require a VPN, but in this post I wanted to focus on youtube since that's what most people are going to default to.
Also note that there are lots of other ways to watch hockey on youtube. There's country-specific youtube channels that stream multiple leagues and/or international matchups (Ukraine as an example), there are individual teams that host their own channels (multiple Federal Prospects Hockey League teams stream their own games), there's some random beer leagues that stream their own games (there's an Australian 4v4 league called the Kondos Ice Hockey League), FloHockey youtube channel has random free game streams from their collection of leagues, and lots of channels post whatever games from various leagues, including full NHL games. None of these are what I was focusing on in this post. Perhaps I can create a follow-up with further links to all of that, idk.
Let me know if there's any you've found that I can add here!
Also, it's hilarious to me that MPP might only get a championship because of Abby Roque. Like, they hated each other with a passion for two seasons, and then it's like, "I'm your third, now, and also will win you the only trophy you're missing."
"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years
