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[thebestoftimes]

Jess | she/her

This blog has no particular theme or pointed interest. It is anything and everything I happen to like at a particular time.

Yes, I was a Skam blog from 2016-2021

On occasion I live blog my current read under #jess reads

Book reviews under #jess reviews

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on bulking, will smith hockey, and jack hughes' game

from the photos recently posted it looks like will is a bit leaner than he was at the beginning of the offseason. we'll see if that's just an eye thing or angles or clothing choices or what when the season starts. but for the sake of my pondering let's assume he is back to being around 170-175.

the most typical critique of his game / #1 area to improve as listed by scouts tends to be to "get bigger" I wonder if there ever comes a point when the media will just give up on it. should they? should that continue to be his goal? I ask because when he was drafted Will said he models his game after Jack Hughes. Jack was like. 5-10lb lighter than Will at the start of the season. His stats are updated now but on my life Jack was 165 in December. Now I won't say that the NJ media doesn't give Jack shit for it, because I'm pretty sure there is a clip of him snapping at them to quit asking about his plans to change up his summer training following his shoulder injury. But ☝️ having Jack gain weight does no longer seems to be the focus around his game anymore especially since the Olympics.

I remember reading that Jack is actually incentivized not to pack on the pounds or he risk sacrificing his coveted speed. Jack is one of the fastest skaters in the NHL and that is really important to how he plays the game. I will say that is a significant difference from Will- whose maximum speed is Jack's average. But does adding that 5lb of muscle even make that much of a difference?? Are JHughes defenders exaggerating the effect it would have on his skating? Girl idk!!

It makes me wonder if Will really should continue to focus on his physique to improve his game or if he'll only enjoy marginal improvements to it. I don't watch Jack Hughes skate enough to confidently say that they play the same game and therefore advice to Jack or lackthereof should apply to Will or vice versa.

That being said, Jack Hughes, at 175lb, is injured like, all the time. And literature DOES suggest that packing on muscle can help mitigate injury, which of course is everything in hockey. I think about Sidney Crosby, who has crazy strong legs- legs that make him near impossible to knock off a puck.

All of this to say is 1) I think it's interesting that Will is constantly told to pack on muscle, when the person he models his game after is the same weight, if not lighter than him and 2) i wonder if the scouts are right and he truly cannot hit his ceiling if he doesn't gain that extra 5lb of muscle and 3) I wonder if the reason that Jack Hughes doesn't get shit for it is because he's now Golden Goal boy or if his game genuinely doesn't call for him to be stronger/bigger.

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[thebestoftimes]

took a long scroll through the san jose sharks general tag after touching grass and (touches the ground) something happened here

[thebestoftimes]

every day we are reminded that the word mack's teammates, coaches, friends, family, general managers, and himself would use to describe him is "competitive"

[thebestoftimes]

sometimes I wonder if I use school as an excuse to not focus on and form romantic attachments because I'm terrified of the emotional intimacy it requires and then I go back to reading my textbook

[aquilotti]

via _willsmith2 on insta

[keelpay]

Hi Kelly, do you or any of your followers know what the flashing light post things are in this video? I’ve seen them before but haven’t been able to figure out why they’re there.

https://www.tumblr.com/keelpay/822840303300100096

according to the kaivo video about it, linked by @thebestoftimes in the comments, it's their specific training tool where the colors essentially indicate to the player what type of moves they should be making

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i don't know the actual answer. my friend mentioned to me that kaivo is known for using training equipment in unique ways and then i found some infomercial-type websites trying to sell various light-based training equipment claiming that it's some type of multi-sensory thing for the athletes to be taking in dynamic surroundings?

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[calicotisane]

Let's all be annoying as fuck today

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[loveridden1999]

the fetishization of the glorification of romanticism of generalized of sexualization of the normalised of the glamorization of the idealized of the

[titsay]

[poast-bot]

its not reccomended amd probably not legal but in a pinch a coyote can be your plus one to most events

[etheltempest]

them: “you better not be mackles elbruni when i get home”

me:

[thebestoftimes]

really awesome that aiden is somewhere relaxing with his hot girlfriend, macklin is training so hard he throws up, and RJ is in the backseat of macklin's car that will smith hockey is driving