until midnight — then a new day starts

in lane we trust

[sainthutson]

__ kami * 18 * any * desi

__ habs sun * victoire moon * rocket rising

__ rpf in a cool and nuanced way

__ dni: general * if you involve heated rivalry in irl hockey discussions * if you yaoi-fy players without watching them play

[dilftanger]

can i say something

[dilftanger]

many people give the nfl a lot of shit for the injury and concussion rates but like. the nhl has a very comparable rate of injury and concussion and doesn’t acknowledge it + has a much worse culture around it. the nfl is by no means perfect but they are working to improve the gear to help players (see the guardian helmets for example, as well as helmet designs per position) meanwhile the nhl doesn’t seem to give a fuck about it’s players’ safety at all as we’ve seen time and again.

now think very carefully about why the nfl may be viewed as more violent and injurious as a sport..

[gayshowpig]

I fully agree 1000% with this message, but the NFL deserves absolutely no credit for caring about players safety. They very publicly denied the existence of CTE for over a decade and did a lot of work to discredit/silence Dr. Omalu, the doctor who discovered CTE in the early 2000s. It wasn’t until the movie where will smith played him came out in 2015, when it became a mainstream news discussion, that the NFL acknowledged the existence of CTE for the first time publicly. And this was only after Goodell was forced to testify in front of congress.

They don’t care about players they were just forced into a corner and had to do something. Without a doubt in my mind they would’ve continued to ignore it if it hadn’t become a hot topic. If anything the players union deserves the credit.

[userfish]

Aanya specifically said "the NFL is by no means perfect". so what's all this for then?

and the NFL absolutely deserves SOME credit for caring about player safety. you're being disingenuous when you say they deserve none. yes, you're correct that they didn't do anything about CTE and concussions until ~2015 but there's so much more to player safety than concussions. and EVEN SO, wrt concussions, they've invested money and research into better helmet designs (as Aanya stated), have restructured their concussion protocol, have independent neurologists at every game. they've banned helmet to helmet hits and punish players harsher now for them. this isn't NOTHING, this is work done by the NFL. every season there's some new research about injuries and player safety. it's not NOTHING.

[croszukis]

nick & cole — 06.14.21

[croszukis]

not how i’d interpret this situation at all but okay toecutter

[croszukis]

[jakedotchin]

[croszukis]

another nick bobrov masterclass

[habitant]

kevin raphaël asks luke about wearing the c for the prospect showdown game and flo helpfully demonstrates

[croszukis]

what…

[croszukis]

someone needs to bite that

[vingtcoeurs]

[hab-a-nice-day]

—Sean Durzi congratulates his buddy, MVP Nick Suzuki, after the Guelph Storm wins the OHL's J. Ross Robertson Cup in 2019

[playoffsides]

it’s the way that shane hollander does matter as representation in fiction but somehow, nick suzuki doesn’t matter as representation in real life. because real life hockey is just some stupid sportsball that only stupid jocks are into, not like our 7/10 6-episode romance show on crave which Impacts Real People And Breaks Barriers And Triumphs Over Expectations 😤😤😤 which OBVIIOUSLT Real Life Hockey Player Nick Suz-I Mean “Straight Shane Hollander” Can’t Do 🤪🤪🤪

[croszukis]

doby thanking marty for leaving him in the net and he battled back

the team is built on trust!

[playoffsides]

they latch onto doby being too emotional because they think its his biggest weakness when in reality its his biggest strength—but this wouldn’t be the case if his overt emotion was just anger. if doby was just angry, they wouldn’t see it as such a flaw. it’s the fact that he cries. when he loses, when he wins. so openly he looks up at the 21000 people cheering for him and blushes, cries and laughs helplessly, moved by the love he receives, unable to hide the love he feels. he is a man incapable of stoicism, and to them, that is a sin against masculinity, a crime against the sport, an immaturity to straighten out and mature out of. but anyone who really watches jakub dobeš play knows, certainly, that the heart on his sleeve is exactly what wins us games.

[croszukis]

this is our mouse. fear him

[croszukis]

also arpon calling nick the “most even keeled player i’ve ever covered” and telling a story about nick being used to dudes hitting him after whistles in the OHL playoffs while he played ~30 mins a night but he learned to not react bc it just makes them get angry, which apparently cernak was doing all the first 3 games vs tampa before he stopped bc nick wasn’t reacting ???

[croszukis]

nick suzuki being impossible to rage bait

[croszukis]

let's check on minas panagiotakis' muse (nick suzuki @ the face off dot)

[croszukis]

he’s so happy to be held