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hi, i'm stereax! an intro

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I'm Stereax, you can call me whatever you want though really. Any pronouns. New Jersey native, half Polish half American. Was studying International Relations in Geneva, Switzerland, living in Fr*nce because the rent is cheaper... I got around, I guess LOL. Back stateside now, though, studying law!

I see everyone who interacts with me on a regular basis and I love you all <3

I'm primarily a Devils fan (obviously, from NJ so). If you don't know the Devils yet, here's my 24-25 primer! (and here's my 23-24 primer, and here's their 2023 playoff run primer!) Oh, also here's the Kingdom series of poetry I wrote about those 22-23 Devils and set to pictures.

Secondary teams are the Knights and Panthers. I'm not accepting criticism at this time, sorry :)

I follow quite a few other NHL teams with varying degrees of care - not going to list who I like and who I don't, but if you name an NHL team chances are I can talk at length about them. Yes, even the Rangers.

On top of that, I'm getting into major junior and college hockey, so that's fun! Always down to chat about those. Also keeping eyes on European leagues too. I just... really like hockey, haha.

I'm also fairly decent at talking puck on the more technical side of things (cap stuff, trades, team compositions, discourse, etcetera etcetera) - a lot of my asks, and my Cap-Sized work, revolve around this and I enjoy taking the time out to parse these things out for those who may be confused about them!

My inbox is ALWAYS OPEN. Send me whatever you want. Questions about hockey, the Devils or any other team, my life, comments, posts, WHATEVER. I'm not kidding, please talk to me, I love answering asks, getting recommendations, or whatever else have you. Hell, drop into my DMs if you want!

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#sterechats :)

softpovver

sean avery re: playoffs toradol

crawsley

Okay hold the phone. I looked it up to make sure I remembered correctly, but Sean Avery is so full of shit. Toradol, also known as ketorolac, is an NSAID very similar to ibuprofen (but 800x more potent than aspirin by weight) that’s only indicated for acute pain (<5 days). It is not a narcotic. It is not habit-forming. Toradol is actually what they use post-op with patients with a history of opioid use disorder. It does not make you feel high.

It does have a variety of side effects (increased risk of internal bleeding, kidney failure, increased risk of GI complications, and a dubious claim about increased risk of cardiovascular events). There is a risk of hepatotoxicity, as Sean mentioned, and that risk increases the longer you take it, but it isn’t some kind of afternoon special about fentanyl.

Not saying Toradol overuse isn’t a problem, but the way he describes its effects is disingenuous at best, and distracting from his point at worst. This paper notes that “…Because of the route of administration in that many players felt that “getting a shot” was an “intrinsic sign” that they were getting a more powerful medicine.” I suspect this accounts for some of the euphoria he mentions.

coachspet

this commentary is like… not wrong but i’m not sure why it’s levelled here. he does not say that it’s a narcotic or that it is habit-forming at any point in this text. i can understand the narcotic thing because of his high comment, but i don’t even know where the habit-forming thing came from, because it’s not relevant to this excerpt. at all.

reading this it seemed pretty clear to me that avery is describing his personal experience as a hockey player being given a strong painkiller. of course he feels euphoric, he just got given a shot that allows him to play more hockey despite injury, likely inbetween periods when he’s amped up. calling him “full of shit” for a personal account of how he feels taking medication is like… okay, but why

crawsley

Hi! I actually made that post partially in response to a quote the person above posted. It’s an excerpt from an article about Jimmy Hayes’ death and struggles with addiction to the pain meds he was prescribed during his playing career. Speaking about a similar case a decade ago, the author Rick Westhead, puts the sentences “During his final two years in the NHL, doctors with seven teams gave him 13 Toradol injections,” and “During the 2008-09 season alone, he was prescribed 1,021 pills from roughly a dozen different doctors, according to his medical records” next to each other. In the context of the article, this implies that the two facts (13 Toradol shots and 1,021 pills) were both contributing factors to (Derek Boogaard)’s addiction and subsequent death. That’s categorically false, but if you don’t work in the medical field or have experience with Toradol, you might get the impression that it is in some way addictive or habit forming. And then later I saw this post reblogged and thought I’d cite some sources for why we shouldn’t take what Sean Avery says as gospel. Crazy that I have to say that, but this is 2026 I guess.

The point of the post was supposed to be “Think about your source” not “Screw Sean Avery.” Even though he is factually wrong about IM Toradol being worse for your liver than PO (neither of which are particularly bad for your liver anyway). Who knows, maybe he is the one person in the world who feels like he’s having a continuous orgasm when he takes Toradol. But treating that as in any way an indication of typical effects is disingenuous, and like I said previously, undermines the point I think this quote is trying to make. To me that point is: there’s a culture of poorly regulated prescription abuse in the NHL that athletes and those who care for them justify for the sake of the sport. Reading the articles I just linked to, that can have a real impact on people’s lives. It is a problem! But the problem isn’t Toradol, and I know enough about that drug to correct some of the underlying assumptions I was seeing about it. I deal with a lot of medical misinformation at work that I can’t do much about there, so I thought I’d throw in my two cents here. If that didn’t land, apologies?

#saw the og post #went 'am i really gonna have to agree with The Most Ignorant Person Alive?'#glad to see the answer is no

the fun thing where you're of the opinion that the evil side in the scf isn't the knights

#this is a vgk fan blog!

daily-nhl-polls

Which Great Lake would be the best hockey player?

Michigan

Ontario

Erie

Huron

Superior

Voting ended onMay 17

#erie and huron are the dmen #huron is stay at home erie is flashy rover type #ontario is a reliable center and michigan and superior are the superstar wingers #so. yeah :)

#banana ball lb

18minutemajor

ex-sharkcuda player side quest of all time

#they're truly never having a normal one after they leave the org #they're in shanghai they're in kazakhstan they're on set as a stunt double #<- sharkudas like living dangerously what can they say #vincent iorio

anyone have that tumblr famous video where the - well, it's a stitched video, and there's a white guy in a suit lip syncing to a rap song, pretty sure. that rap song uses the n word liberally, so the white guy doesn't lip sync to that. it's stitched with a black guy, also in a suit i think, and the black guys "helps" by saying the n word every time the white guy pauses.

you know the one?

#sterechats :)