#mattkenna

[bluecanvastotebag]

ok in honor of draft weekend, I am taking this off anon...

GONNA BE BETTER | 7k, mattkenna, complete

Summary: Every first overall goes through the Initiation Room the night before the draft, where past years' first overalls welcome them to the league. Gavin knows that.

Blurb: under cut

Every single other first overall before him did it, every single one. He’s heard the stories. 

Some picks try to fight it, a little, once they’re in the room. Apparently Dahlin had been a handful during his year. Celebrini was reportedly difficult, too, but Jumbo had found his attitude so endearing he’d taken Celebrini under his wing and let the kid live with him for his first two seasons, so it couldn’t have been that bad. 

Other guys think it’s easier if you just accept that this is part of your journey and go with it - McDavid was said to have taken that approach. Crosby has famously advocated to the NHLPA that it was a privilege to be in that situation. 

And everyone else probably falls somewhere in between, probably feels some combination of the natural instinct to fight it and the resignation that it’s going to happen, regardless, and that it’s going to be worth it. Some of the stories he hears really aren’t that bad. Like, he’d heard Jack Hughes had it kind of easy because Hischier had gone first only a couple years before and was watching out for him - Hischier knew they were about to be teammates right after, and had wanted to start everything off on “good terms” or whatever.

[intovertebral]

interesting...

[digitalnapkin]

Mattkenna sounds juicy. Overcoming a divorce with a new young lover who is also loyal to a point of wearing a golden maple leaf (AM must've been hard as rock at that)

WELLLLLLLLLLL YES. auston probably thinks about fucking 18 year old mitch when he sticks his dick in gavin. having this intense need to hear "i wont leave im never gonna leave youre it" and ameliorating it by taking something from gavin that he can never get back. pulled between finally having an outlet for mitch by imagining how he could've treated him back then and having a rookie that he can shape and mold into what he wants. these are my thoughts about them

[shadowboxr]

i fear the only thing that will fix me is gavin mckenna having a good rookie season and also many, many ill-advised hookups with am34

[sleepycremebrulee]

I see a vision

(x, x)

[intovertebral]

okay! (x)

[shadowboxr]

what a nice young man. Surely his captain would not do something uncouth like feel him up in the chanel dressing room

[intovertebral]

from marner and matthews to mckenna and matthews