do you have any hcs about the centaurs, like the vets relationships with the rooks? :>
Icl most of my headcannons revolve around the rookies but i do have a couple general cens ones too 😋
Smt specific is that each rookie has at least one vet player that also plays their position they're close with
- closest with Dykstra and Chouinard because despite them being a defined duo for quite a few seasons during LP's first season (the 20-21 season) he was flipped between the two of them often esp in early exhibition matches so he could get some practice and training in w Ottawas best dmen
- LP and Chouinard exclusively talk to eachother in french on and off the ice, they bitch, share recipies, tell stories whole nine yards,
- LP is Chouinards main babysitter, whenever he and selena want a night out they call in Lapointe and because of that their oldest now knows a truly ridiculous amount of baking recipied and always begs to make brownies and their middle child has a large pokemon card collection going and she also wants to learn boxing
- Dykstra and Lapointe bicker about music all the time, and LP is always accusing him of line dancing instead of watching the puck
- when LP turned 21 during the 20-21 season the next time they were in Dallas Dykstra took him to a country bar and now theres a video of a near blackout Lapointe falling off a mechanical bull before it could even start
- Dykstra is from Utah, was drafted to Las Vegas but traded to Ottawa 3 seasons in
- Chouinard is french and went undrafted but after an insane performance in worlds at 21 got signed w Ottawa and has been a staple in the defence since
- Lapointe is besties with the WAGs he will sit and hold court with them and discuss recipies (Cassie made him a custom recipie book she called "Let's Dine with the Centaurs" and it was full of WAG and family recipies she'd collected over the years)(it wad hand written)(he cried happy tears)
- he also gets along great with Bood but they’re currently jokingly competing over who can bring the better dish to the potluck, LP pulled ahead for a bit but Bood is not going down without a fight
- as Wyatt's backup goalie they get eachothers weirdness in a way that is concerning to the general public, given they both go to training and have to deal w getting shot on by Ilya and Shane they need to be crazy and they are, people have looked over during practice and seen the two of them just sat in net playing slapsies
- my Wyatt is mixed Brazillian and his fav super is spidey and as such he wears spiderman themed skins under his gear, he also has batman ones but swears they're cursed
- holmberg really, really loves music and spends his free time playing the drums, the only vet to know this hobby is wyatt who supplies him with new sticks and sound proofing material
- Wyatt and Holmberg go on hikes together all the time, they'll just disspear for hours on a random day and the only sign they're alive is just a picture of a random creek on Holmberg’s story
- Holmberg and Wyatt have dueted "am i a man or a muppet" together at team karaoke. They got far too into it
- Holmberg has beef with the centaurs mascot, they once got into a competition of who was better at gymnastics (mascot did a backflip, holmberg did the splits, who won is still hotly contested)
- holmberg is also pretty close to the dmen but thats just because their warmup ritual involves messing w the goalie
- when shane was w the metros wyatt kept threatening holmberg w putting him in net against them,
- bergy does yoga in his free time, luca joins him occasionally and when shane joins the cens he always joins holmberg
- he played as a winger for Boyle his rookie and sophmore season and began to look up to boyle as a confidant and uncle/older family member like figure (hes who luca confides in about the expectations as the "star rookie" and how stressed he is)
- boyle is an irish american from new york who moved to vancouver as a tween and so he has the craziest fucking accent, hes also a ginger
- boyle was the first vet to know about Luca and Young, he is long suffering. He also keeps getting tackled by Luca whenever one of them scores
- boyle was the one who remembered to grab Luca’s first goal puck
- Luca has nailed Boyle in the face with a snowball and he will do it again
- Luca hero worships tf out of Ilya, like he tries to keep it on the downlow but his drunken admission about the poster means everyone knows
- during the dev camp that got luca onto the centaurs team Ilya kept visitng the rink to keep an eye on him because he was a promising prospect, Luca was not chill abt this but then again none of the prospects were because ilya fucking rozanov is watching them all practice like they're ants in a tank
- when luca mentions hes gay ilya says "oh i already knew"
- ilya and luca commonly commiserate how much they miss european clubs + music (and also how much free pouring goes on in the afformentioned clubs)
- luca drew anya for ilya once and the next time he visited Ilya's place it was stuck on the fridge w a magnet
- luca admires ilya so much he kinda internalised a desire for a rivalry like shane and ilyas because he wants to be pushed to play better like they were
- the wags all love luca because he accidentally interupted wine night to ask about something and rhen stayed on the phone to gossip w them for 3 hours (he sends whoevers hosting the night a wine basket for it) (he uses this as an in to get chirp material)
- harris loves putting the mic on luca because he actually internalised the media training (he refuses to translate what is muttered in swiss german for the sake of his own sanity) he also just loves luca because luca draws graphics for his social posts all the time without being asked
- kept insisting to wyatt that the dcu was better than the mcu just to annoy him despite actually preferring the mcu
- lowkey did not like troy when he was first traded to ottawa, he'd heard all the rumours around what troy was like and immediately said "bad fucking vibes man"
- played a scrimmage with troy and realised he actually quite likes playing with him, their sense of humours align quite well
- chirped troy once and got chirped back just as hard and decided 'maybe i should give this guy a chance' and begins practicing with him
- played on the 3rd line w troy when he was dropped to that one and luca was brought up to 1st, barrett teaches him how to be more physical in his playstyle
- young clocks troys crush on harris and gossips about it w luca
- troy is who young choses to come out to and asks for advice abt moving into the relationship phase
- when shane joins the team young is hardcore freaking out abt it but in an excited way (he's crushing on shane. Hard)
- young pokes fun at shane and says its his rookie year all the time during the 21-22 season and shane responds by training the ever loving hell out of him
- young lowkey begins taking after shane when it comes to the performance diet and shane does his best to help him keep it healthy mentally
- young admits to feeling inferior to the rest of his line given its Luca Haas and The Shane Hollander and they discuss ways to boost his confidence and his play making
- young gets shane into scrapbooking
- the only version of hazing the centaurs have is a knock off version of hot wings where a new player has to go through eating boods cooking as it gets spicier and spicier whilst answering questions until they tap out, shane is the only player to ever get through it fully
- on the topic of their discount hot wings shane laughed so hard he cried when he was shown pictures of ilya dying on the floor from spice overload
- the rookies constantly have sleepovers on the road, Boyle once posted a picture to his story of all four of them layed across eachother like jenga peices
- if they're ever at the pool together Ilya will pick up the rookies and throw them in the deep end
- troy and ilya are the worlds deadliest water chicken duo
- they've played lazer tag together many a times and shane once sniped a centaur who was on an opposing team and they screamed like they had actually just been shot
- for his birthday wyatt made everyone dress up as mario characters and they went go-karting
Thats all i have currently as long as i dont get on my soap box abt the rookies dynamics w eachother because then we'll be here allllllll day
