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fletcher | 30s, he/him | wild/twins and no one else | hawks fans dni

[stanleyoff7th]

okay well new blog good opportunity to finally make a pinned post. i am:

-too old for this shit

-only here for my minnesota boys

-queer wifeguy

-available on discord if i know you

that's it. formerly @stanleyoffseventh before i accidentally locked myself out of both that account and the email that was attached to it. i'm also not that bright.

[goalplz]

fyi for the next games we know wally is a talented goalie. you don’t need to prove it by putting him in the torture nexus every time

[bsaka7]

"In Conversation with Bill Guerin" by Steve Marsh for Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine (transcript under cut)

Before we get into the political moment, can I just ask you how you become homies with Kash Patel?

We have a mutual friend, and he connected me with him last year. Kash is a huge hockey fan.

Is he from the Northeast?

Long Island. I connected with Kash last year because 4 Nations was going on. President Trump wanted to wish us luck.

So you met him for the first time at 4 Nations?

The first time I met him face-to-face was at the Olympics. We had talked on the phone and texted and missed each other at a couple of different places. 

The Athletic’s Michael Russo reported that you’re the guy who invited him into the locker room. Do you regret that now?

No.

I subscribe to George Orwell’s take that sport at the international level mimics warfare. But were you surprised by all the strong political feelings in the immediate aftermath?

Yeah, I actually was. Look, I’m not a politician. I’m a hockey guy. And Kash is a hockey guy too, and he was there doing stuff, but taking the game in, and that’s all I thought. I respect everybody’s opinion, and I wasn’t trying to do anything but celebrate. Sometimes you just give people the inside look, you know? I’m a pretty inviting guy, so I didn’t think anything of it, and I don’t regret it because I didn’t mean anything political by it. I can’t do anything about people analyzing it and overanalyzing it and thinking we made this political statement. It was not a political statement.

But maybe Team USA was being used to make the president’s political statement. Walter Mondale was in the locker room in 1980. I don’t know what Herb Brooks’s politics were—probably leaned autocratic—but when Mondale put President Carter on the phone with Coach Brooks, I imagine he knew the president wasn’t going to make a joke about women athletes to own the libs.

Well, it’s a different world now, too.

So, would you do things differently next time?

I can’t control what people say.

But you can control the forum.

No, I can’t control that. Listen, the joke was unfortunate. But at the time, we’re just celebrating. That’s it. He says the president wants to call in. I’m not saying no.

One of the reasons people made a big deal out of it is because Team USA is massively involved with developing women athletes at the grassroots level, like all the way down to organizing camps for teenaged girls.

Yeah. That’s great. I have three daughters that played high-level sports all the way through.

Did you talk to Quinn Hughes and Matt Boldy and Brock Faber about how to speak to this political moment?

No. The guys knew how to handle it because all their answers were genuine. When the Hughes brothers went on Saturday Night Live with the women’s team, they made a joke about it. That’s what Saturday Night Live is. And if they can do it, then why can’t everybody else? The bond between the men’s and the women’s teams is very strong. They’re playing for the same thing. Like, you know, it’s crazy. And I don’t mean to shun people’s feelings or whatever. You can think whatever you want, but so can I. And it was a hockey celebration. And you know what? It took a little twist, but it’s also not the end of the world. We respect the women’s team. We respect what they did. We love it. And you know what? I think one way in life; other people think a different way. And that’s great.

Politically?

Yeah. Politically, religiously, emotionally, sexually, whatever. We’re all different. And that’s great. Like, maybe I’m just a simple guy and it was just a celebration and that was really it. People just want to make a shitstorm out of everything.

I think the guy at the top is making a shitstorm out of everything. He made a joke that no president before him would’ve made in that forum.

Yeah. Totally true. It was not the greatest joke ever told. And the timing was not great, but you know what, I’m not letting it ruin a great achievement. I’m just not. People can say what they want. We won the fucking gold medal. And it was a celebration of a hockey victory for our country. That’s it. If you want to make it political, be my guest. I can’t stop you. 

People who are very successful in professional sports are insulated from politics. They don’t have to think about politics because it doesn’t affect them in the same way.

Well, I wouldn’t necessarily say that. I think politics always affects everybody. 

Did ICE’s Metro Surge affect your life in any way?

[Thinks.] No. But there’s always two sides to the story. And if you don’t listen to people that don’t see things like you, then you’re not doing yourself any favors. And I know where people are coming from, but there’s a point in time where I have to live my life, too. Look, I get it. You know, my mom is from Nicaragua. 

Wow.

So half my heritage is Hispanic. And you see a lot of this stuff going on, but you also see how people can make it in this country. My mom came from Nicaragua, she went to Ole Miss, she graduated from there, she met my dad, she got a master’s at UMass, she became a teacher. And then she ran the language department at Springfield College for 10 years. 

Actually, I read on NHL.com that you were the first Hispanic player in NHL history.

Yeah. 

Were you aware of that when you were still playing?

Not early on. But well into my career, when somebody first mentioned it, I was like, “Wow, I never would’ve thought that.” Because it was the early ’90s, so I was surprised. I remember Scott Gomez came into the league in 2001—he’s of Mexican heritage. And we always joked back and forth that he had the last name to support it while I didn’t.

Do you identify as Nicaraguan?

Absolutely. I’m Irish and Nicaraguan. I don’t “identify,” that’s what I am. You know, as a little kid, we used to have hockey jackets with your hat trick patches and your playmaker patches on it. And my dad always made me put a Nicaragua patch on my jacket. He was really proud of my mom and her heritage, and he was very supportive of Nicaragua. 

So your mom was a refugee fleeing the Somoza dictatorship in the ’60s?

Yeah. I don’t know what status she had back then. 

We’re kind of talking past it, but when you said you see how people can make it in this country, you’re talking about immigration.

Well, not necessarily immigration. Because I don’t want to make it something that’s a bigger thing than it is. Coming from a third-world country, my mom made it here. That’s what’s great. She got educated, she got married, she got a higher degree. She’s a great story. And that’s all because of the opportunity in this country. 

The things happening here during Metro Surge weren’t too different than what was going on in the South in the civil rights era.

She was at Ole Miss while it was being integrated. 

Wow.

And my dad didn’t meet my mom at Ole Miss—he was down in Mississippi as a volunteer for a Catholic Church mission that was organizing the Black community to vote.

And ICE was randomly stopping Hispanic people on the street and asking for their papers. Is that what you were thinking about when you brought up that your mom is Nicaraguan?

You can see it that way. But you can see it other ways too, I think. 

And this gets back to why Kash Patel’s partying in the locker room while Trump cracked that joke was such a bummer: It was like this big unifying achievement was instantly sundered. Like, Damn, is this gold medal going to be remembered for that?

I don’t think so. The win was for our country. It wasn’t just for a specific group; it was for everybody. Like, all we wanted to do was to deliver for the United States. Not just certain parts or certain people. Everybody as a whole. 

I think you were put in a terrible situation. The president’s joke wasn’t in the Olympic spirit. And now you’re in a position where you’re being asked to critique the president.

Which I don’t want to do either. Because he actually did take the time to call. 

[stanleyoff7th]

i think someone needs to throw bill guerin down a fucking well. just #myopinion.

[stanleyoff7th]

went to the zoo today in full wild gear and like three people said some variation of "go wild!" to me. shades of the time i went to disneyland in a minnesota twins jake odorizzi jersey during playoffs and people kept telling me they hoped we'd beat the yankees

[starrynet]

I just found out about the zammoth

[loverboyilya]

[bonesbeetle]

they let the fucking skull wraith on the mound again. this is such bullshit i hate this league.

[albertserra]

Men don’t go heyyyybatterbatterswingbatterbatterswing like they used to anymore

[albertserra]

We can’t have anything in this fucking world

[eye-5]

love this person knowing enough about baseball to know about the pitch clock and not enough to even approximate the league’s acronym

[pucktyreshannism]

Jonas and Brock at Whiskey and Wine with the Wild | Mar 23, 2026

[krissywendell]

theyre hyping bedard up like crazy on this broadcast like okay thats so cool man. personally i hope he falls into a hole and dies

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

[babygirlspurgeon]

FOLIGNOS!!!!!!!!!!!

[stanleyoff7th]

2 Folignos!!!

2 folignos... Imagine

[top-cheese]

How many of these guys can you name?

I have never seen these men before in my life

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

All nine players easy

Voting ended onMar 6

(saw nhl polls & @chirp-chirp-hockey do this so im bandwagoning)

[top-cheese]

toddlercore

[stanleyoff7th]

alright well my hope is that quinn/bolds/fabes can take this experience of Actually Winning Something forward with them into the playoffs. so that maybe i can see them win something i gaf about within my lifetime.