I really wanna write a hurt/comfort rpf where Mitch is just cuddled by VGK players. Can you give us an updated primer once all the players are signed etc.
Hello!!! Thank you for your ask 🥺🥺🥺
Kelly McCrimmon is a sorcerer AND a witch and there's no predicting which moves he will be making. However I suspect that it will be pretty quiet from here on out. As much as GMKM likes to make a splash, it's generally just the big one and some smaller ones and he's already done a couple of those (Hague, re-signing Coghlan & some others) so. Maybe some small FA acquisitions meant for Henderson, but I'm not expecting all that much change.
BUT! I could be wrong! GMKM is! As previously stated! A witch and a sorcerer! Unpredictable!
As such, I'm in the process of making a primer of the guys we have now that might help answer this question. I do have a preliminary answer:
if Alex Pietrangelohadn't been put on IR I would have said him. he's team dad. Snarky but still very sweet and dependable.
Tomas Hertl looks very cuddly. I think he'd be GREAT at it.
Keegan Kolesar is smiley and cuddly and fun, but with an edge - he fights and he's one of our shutdown guys on the 3/4th line. Adorable dimples. He brings his mom on the dad's trip bc his step-dad died during covid and its *really* sweet.
Brayden McNabb is quiet and solid and has extreme capybara vibes. They put all the new d-guys with him to get them settled in the system. He's just, a lovely, dependable, solid guy! Who occasionally commits crimes and is surprised when he scores sick goals.
We know Mitch and Mark (Stone) talked at 4N! Enough for him to call him "stoney" instead of "Theodore" (Shea Theodore) or "Hill" (Adin Hill). And Mark seems awkward in front of cameras, but by all accounts, everyone loves him. He has a... Mark has a way of leading by example? A quiet voice that cuts through the noise because people *want* to listen to him. I think he'd be a good choice to help someone who needs some encouragement.
When the primer comes out later when I get home, if you have any questions about other guys, please please do not hesitate to ask. The only guys I don't know stuff about are the guys we just got. ♥️♥️
Hi there! I’m J, the anon that made the request. Thank you so so so much! I absolutely loved the fic, it was sooo sweet. I mean- the part with the detergent and karly keeping his house key! 🤭 I was giggling + kicking my feet throughout. Your writing is just so amazing! 💕💕💕
I'm so glad that you enjoyed! this comment made me giddy!!!! Reilly looking for just a little bit of home and Karly looking for connection!!! they are sooo important to me as people🥺🥺
a++++ I answered this one before, but it does merit additional explanation for how much i love it. it's just. They don't have to go so hard in the pretending right? they could just SAY they were dating! but no, they have to PRACTICE. THEY HAVE TO MAKE IT BELIEVABLE, THEY THINK. (it's already believable, babes.)
I just love it i just love it.
Give me a fanfiction trope and I’ll grade it:
A: Love it. Spend my time combing AO3 for it.
B: Like it. Not one of my bigger cravings, but it can scratch a certain itch if I’m in the right mood.
C: Neutral. A good author might be able to sell it, but a bad one will kill it deader than dead.
D: Not my favorite. I avoid it if I can, but it won’t necessarily put me off reading something.
F: Hate it. Will immediately make me nope out of a fic.
(primer anon) Thank you so much!! <3 <3 I write at a snail's pace so no clue when I'll actually output anything but I loved reading your post 😭 if it's not too much trouble I'd love to hear a little more on
keegs and adin since they're on your ships list and I don't know much about them (also maybe nic roy since I just found out he's quebecois?? For some reason I thought marchy was the only frenchy)
Or if you can point me in a direction I can go do my own digging and give your inbox a break 😭 I'd love to know if there's any go-to articles/video series/beat reporter or something, or a good blog/tag to dig through. the official social accounts post so much it's hard to find anything when idk what to search for
I always forget that Nic Roy is quebecois until he talks! There's actually another French guy, who probably will sign somewhere else this summer, William Carrier. Nic Roy is very very quiet. But he's got a cat and put that cat in the cup. Nic is is very chill and low key. Lots of guys on VGK are. Not a lot of them are like. Super flashy guys.
Will Carrier, also french, is SO SO SO square. He helped build his own house and while they were in the montreal series in 20-21, someone peed on his front door. He watched it on the security camera.
He often helps people fix things - he's very handy. But otherwise, he's very chill and low key.
Keegan Kolesar:
Danced with Mat Barzal at Ethan Bear's wedding. butt slaps and handshakes with Jack eichel.
keegan is just. A really laid back, funny, sweet guy. His biological is absent, and his step (orr adopted) dad died of COVID complications in september of 2020, so he takes his mom on the dad's trips. It's VERY sweet that he does, and everyone makes her feel really really welcome.
Annabelle is our Make A Wish signing and they had quite the fight :))
Here's his POV about it.
Actually if there's kids, he's going. He goes to all the charity hockey / ball tournaments and ball hockey events that VGK does in the community. Every one has Keegan in there.
did post game press with a chicken ceasar wrap (misattributed to a burrito)
why i ship him wiht Jack: after Keegan's goal against the Jets on 4/22/23, Jack did this, which looked like engagement photos to me
also very important to me: him holding the drunkest karly on stage at the parade. he was SO grabby. it was LOVELY.
I think they kissed on the mouth
Here he is kissing teddy blueger
Keegan kissing Nic Hague.
I'm pretty sure he's an affectionate drunk.
Adin Hill
Adin Hill is just very sweet and loves coffee. He makes his own.
Here he is laughing at Karly saying that his hamstring was "not chillin"
he was very drunk at the parade and referenced talladega nights
they did marchy SO dirty. They sent hilly & nic hague. the two tallest guys.
wore a UNLV basketball jersey to the parade, inspiring love from vegas
also took it off
gets fighty here's another shot
absolutely beautiful ok?
His kicky feets
HE'S SO FUNNY
why i ship him with paul cotter
it has less to do with adin and more to do with Paul himself. He's a goalie appreciator.
adin and tommy are REALLY CUTE tho
despite having the same listed height, adin is taller
their hugs are soo so so so tender. I love goalie.
As far as beat reporters: Gary Lawless is our insider guy, Jesse Granger is our beat reporter for the athletic, and Ashali Vise is one of our on-air broadcasters. All of them are pretty good sources of info. All of them I've referenced for stuff. But really I know most of this just because I like. Have been around. I pay attention. You'll note that some of this is sourced from my own blog, so like. Go nuts there too if you want. If you want older stuff, @himbeaux-on-ice has a bunch of good stuff. @vgkmarc also has some really good stuff, along with @golden-knights-of-the-realm , @at-empty-tables & @sevennone . @reneserseya is really good for Jack Eichel content with some Alec Martinez thrown in for fun & @goldenmisfits is as well. @lovethygoalie knows a lot about Nic Roy iirc.
Also I will say, Dave Goucher & Shane Hnidy are a fun follow, even if they're not exactly reporters - they're super involved and also very cute.
I love your VGK primers and I was wondering if it would be okay to take a screenshot of your collage of VGK players to use as my computer’s wallpaper? I’ve been trying to find a good VGK players wallpaper for a while and I loved the collage you made for your primer!
sure! here's the most recent ones as big as i can make them:
it hated that I tried to answer your question with a bunch of links, so a new post it is!
so I can answer some of these!
if you're looking for a prankster, that's Jonathan Marchessault.
He and Fleury were close, but also Marchy is just. A funny, joke-y guy. He once stole/hid guys sticks during practice. He makes weird noises, he is friends with everyone. He never stops talking. if anyone is chirping anyone, it's Marchy. He yapped at ryan lomberg for being short last year during the playoff run. Ryan Lomberg is 5'9" and Marchy is LISTED as 5'9" but if he is that tall i'll eat my fucking hat. He's not that tall. He's short.
I also think that this video from the quest for the cup series last year is very indicative of some of the dynamics between Marchy & Jack, and several other guys! Jack comes in looking very nice in a suit, and several guys go "oh jacky!!" Known Marchessault associate Keegan Kolesar snaps his fingers at Jack, while everyone else just laughs. Marchy says that "they want to see your boxers too" and then does the meanest little laugh i love him so much.
the mic'd up linked above is really good, even though it's a couple of years old - most of those guys are still here (except smitty & max) and smitty was. absolutely essential to Marchy's development in Vegas. But the part I'm referencing is "I blew it" / "you blew it." Marchy & Keegan often have this hilarious back and forth, they're so witty together, i love them.
If there's a dad of the group it's Mark stone (everyone thought he had kids before he had kids) Petro (alex pietrangelo), and Martini (alec martinez). They have the MOST dad energy.
Martini has this like, really dry kind of cutting sense of humor. This interaction between petro and martini where they talk about sitting next to each other is like. Martini is being SO cutting but with the warmest voice you've ever heard in your entire life. And Petro is saying the nicest things but you KNOW they're sarcastic. the same but coming in from exact opposite approaches.
This video with about half the guys answering the question of "who would you trust to guide you in NYC" is VERY good. Petro says Howie (brett howden) or Martini, but ultimately chooses martini. You can see a lot of things at play here, some of which I'll get to later (i'm lookin at you paul cotter), but you can see: a lot of guys trust Martinez to get them around, because he's just got that. Competent Dad Vibe. Like it might be rocky, but you're gonna get through it. Petro is less "it's gonna get rocky" but still "you're gonna get through it" vibes.
Now Mark: I have to tell you a couple of facts about Mark Stone:
he loves golf. He has no concept of what a "weird" story is. Everyone, to a man, loves him so much. Mark cannot smile on command - he just shows all his teeth. Mark is SO weird. He changes his gloves every period bc he doesn't like his hands to get wet. He tapes his stick into such an abomination (bc he loves golf, seriously, compare his stick handle to a golf club. they are the same). He meowed right before the cup picture to make everyone smile and it worked.
Mark Stone is the weirdest dad you've ever met, and he's still somehow really cool. Part of the appeal is that he has No Fucking Clue how or why people love him so much. He gets so hype on the ice, but he is insanely chill off of it. He cringed when they dumped too much beer on him in the cup celebrations. He named his child scarlett. That's right. Scarlett Stone. Red Rocks. He named his kid Red Rocks. The ultimate dad joke.
He tells a story about Robin Lehner at a party in his back yard for the end of the year, where Ryan Reaves said that he didn't like snakes. So Robin goes outside to try to bring one up and then Mark had 5 snakes in his pool. Witness a man realize he's telling a story he didn't realize before he was telling it is weird in real time. This is the essence of Mark. I LOVE him.
Ok ok ok so. There's KIND OF a butt to the joke guy? but he's also like. SO beloved? VGK is an incredibly inclusive and accepting group. There's not really like. a clique-ish culture at all - they were so new a couple of years ago that the culture they built is "you're here, welcome, come on in" and never looked back. Everyone who's been traded there has said so.
That being said: it's Paul fucking Cotter.
They love to make fun of him, but in a way where if anyone else made fun of him, they'd beat them up. Paul is. Special. He has a trainer dump water all down his back so he gets the zoomies. In the quest for the cup episode, since he wasn't playing in the final, he told a story before video review about his hole in one with everyone egging / cheering him on. As seen in the above video, nobody trusts paul to find his way out of a paper bag.
He stole his HSK captain (brayden Pachal, traded to the flames)'s car keys. Pachal took his car in return. He put boulders in front of the doors of Jack's car so he couldn't get in them. I know both of these facts are in the primer but they're ESSENTIAL to Paul. He's a prankster. He's a doofus. He loves goalies SO MUCH. He's friends with LT, they went on a supervised date. They were in HSK around the same time, and Paul loved doing the shootout, and LT loved doing the shootout so they did extra shootout practice together.
Re: get togethers: i am pretty sure that they all do it at random. Mark will host a big party (referenced above) but since they didn't have a captain for so long, it's just. a shared responsibility. Mark loves feeding people tho. So i wouldn't be surprised if he just. does that.
Re: outings uh. I got no clue. sorry.
Re: Newbies I can answer!! For Noah Hanifin, Mark and a bunch of other guys went to pick him up from the airport, but when Jack was traded to VGK, he was met at the hotel with just the Viva Girls. Mark was met at the airport with the Viva Girls. The Viva girls are the official welcoming party, btw. Everything else is probably who's available / by committee. Hanifin & Hertl got mark bc he was on LTIR. Petro picked up Barbashev i'm pretty sure bc they knew each other from St Louis. Robin took Jack out to eat bc a) he was on LTIR and b) they knew each other from buffalo.
Wild Bill is Marchy's best friend and that's not a joke. Marchy, Karly, Shea (along with Alex Tuch, now in Buffalo and Deryk Engelland, retired) owned a restaurant together. Karly seems quiet, but he's just as funny as Marchy. He loves Star Wars & his dog's name is Obi-Wan.
he danced to abba with his mom
I feel like there's a lot of info about Jack out there, but he really did become uh. More fun in VGK? Now that he's not the guY THE GUY that buffalo expected him to be (connor mcdavid). he proposed the idea of the wig + glasses during the end of the season & post season last year. Jack is SO funny. He loves memes. Idk. I feel like Jack is probably the one Golden Knight that everyone knows the most about and I'm not gonna tread any new ground here.
Shea is just a guy and i love him so much for it. I'm not the best person to ask about it, sorry. He always looks like he's being punished / upset about something except when he's smiling. It's soo cute. When shea took the cup to his house in vancouver, he took pictures of it with his neighbor. VERY sweet guy, very cute.
Logan is VERY CUTE. here he is holding a stick pretending to interview tomas hertl
i LOVE LT. He's got really sick tattoos. He loves shootouts. he and Paul are really good friends.
Chandler Stephenson once said that they had to "just grab our nuts and work." He's very down to earth, very funny. There's a reason why he's my profile pic. I love him so much it's hard to articulate why. Low key. Reasonable. sneaky hilarious.
SO YOU WANT SHIPS ? I can do you some ships:
just a list of ships that i've personally written or considered writing
Alex Pietrangelo / Alec Martinez
Paul Cotter / Logan Thompson
Jonathan Marchessault / William Karlsson / Reilly Smith
Chandler Stephenson / Mark Stone
Jack Eichel / Shea Theodore
Shea Theodore / Alec Martinez (talk to zimmboniandbitty about this one, i promise)
Jack Eichel / Jonathan Marchesault
Jack Eichel / Keegan Kolesar
Jack Eichel / Mark Stone
Logan THompson / Adin Hill
Adin Hill / Logan Thompson / Paul Cotter
Literally any combo. If you propose it, i've probably thought about it at least once.
Music! Inspired by a short I saw that says they changed the alphabet song, how about any (or all!) of L, M, N, O, or P?
L - song with something you'd change about it
ok ok so. ok so. I love cheesy 80's songs. I hate hungry like the wolf by duran duran. But i want someone to do to it what Seether did to Careless Whisper. This version. Does not do that. They take ALL the cheesy elements out of it and you just. You can't do that. You gotta keep them, but you gotta twist them so that they're cool. they're dark. they're edgy. So this song is pretending to be dark and cool adn edgy and it's just. it sucks. it's terrible. the singer needs to have a creepier voice. The musicality is okay but needs to be deeper, maybe moved down an octave. maybe layered a little more. it's just a little bit thin. The drums are fucking piddly, okay? where's the goddamned guitar? where's the fucking bass? do better. The original of this, before the remaster was called the "epic trailer version." let me tell you, friend. It wasn't epic enough for me.
M - a song you associate with a vivid memory
the first time i heard this song, i was about to go to my sophomore year of college. My freshman roommate and best friend had just dropped out and was living with out other best friend. I was in her room at their house and she says "you HAVE to listen to this" while her fuckin. Huge ass great dane/bull mastiff puppy pushed against us. and she fuckin. torrents this album and makes me take it with me to college. And yeah. She was right. This album got me through so much of college.
N - song from the first artist you ever saw in concert (or the first artist you hope to see, if you've never been to one)
I saw Toby Keith at a rodeo when I was four years old. This song wasn't out then, but that's okay, it's his best one.
O - song that you don't listen to because it makes you too sad
P - song by an artist that someone you love really likes
"i know how joey feels about the kisses" did he say something i missed 👀👀
It's from this interview! It's actually really interesting and I recommend, at least, the interview with Joey, which starts around 23:40 and ends at 59:05
The part specifically I'm referencing starts around 34:05 and runs through about 34:40.
context: the interviewers asked Joey how it felt to have players be called up form the Charlotte Checkers to either the Florida Panthers or the Seattle Kraken. His answer is that it's part of the business, but it's fun & nice to see your friends play in the NHL (they specifically talk about Cale Fleury & Kole Lind before, making the transition in to talking about Kole a fluid one.)
Int 1: Do you miss having Kole Lind kissing you on the mask after a victory, though?
Joey: Uhm.. yes. Because that means we won. (Int 1 laughs) Which is always good. (Int 2 laughs) Always good.
Int 1 & 2: (laugh)
Int 1: But the kiss itself, you don't care about then ( Int 2 laughs) .
Joey: Eh. It's not the worst, not the worst.
Ints: (laugh)
Int 2: Nobody stood up? Nobody's stood up and taken his spot?
Joey: No. Uh, no that's a Lindy only thing. I don't think I've seen that before.
Int 1: No, and I appreciate his moxy, because he came right up to the NHL and he's- he's kissing Grubauer right on the mask like.
Joey: Yeah! I couldn't believe that. That takes some stones.
Int 1: Impressive! Yeah Impressive. (Cross talk)
Joey: That takes some stones, for sure.
(All laugh)
It just seems really cute!!! I'm really interested in the way that they describe it, because as a fan I'm like "no every goalie deserves a little kiss on the forehead." but they talk about it like it would be intimidating to approach Philipp with it.
I just really want to know what Grubi & Driegs think about it!
