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hi.

lauren, queer, she/her, 18+

this is a minnesota wild space with a brock faber focus and loser minnycule/core four preference.

sometimes enjoy the whimsy of the sharks. no other teams are tolerated nor cared about. in fact, many are actively hated.

asks are open to nice folks, happy to chat about whatever. rude asks are not answered.

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the idea of the nhl world moving and shaking on the whims of a group chat comprised entirely of team usa shitposters DOES seem like a concern.

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what is the beauty league? 👀

at first i thought it was a joke about him showing off his face card on insta and then i looked it up and I understand it's kind of a mini july league thing, but usually what kind of players show up? is he a regular there?

Let’s say it’s both in reality.

But real talk, yes it’s a charity league that happens here in Minnesota. A few of NHLers (and PWHLers) play some games and raise money, it’s usually the Minnesota based ones so all the Brocks, Otter, etc. This year is the last year they’re doing it apparently. Brock was a regular and presumably will be there for the last year. I haven’t been but I’m contemplating going this time but just don’t know my life schedule.

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I know it’s very selfish but I’m definitely going into this trading season with so much less anxiety because I know our Core Four will be together. Like I love all our boys and will be devastated if we lose pieces outside the Core but overall I’d feel so much worse if I felt like they’d be separating Matt and Brock or Kirill and Quinn or insert minnycule pairing here. Like we are really lucky that our Core is set up and we can sort of just watch everyone argue about other people. Not a lot of teams fans get that. Some teams are dealing with anxiety over signing a franchise player or rebuilding or front offices getting blown to shit. We are in a pretty good spot.

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I miss brock faber playing hockey 😞

I really hope we get some content when he starts training with matt in august(??) or whenever the wild training camp starts!! can't believe we have to go like 3½ more months without wild hockey, it has me rewatching highlights of the dallas series

I know I’m sad. I miss seeing his stupid face all the time but I also love that he’s not a big social media guy. He kind of just pops up now and again like Matt. I hope they’re having fun WITHOUT ME 😭 I think he will be at the Beauty League in July possibly? So we might see him there.

I just am spending my days digging through pictures, obsessively reading news, and rewatching games. Like a very normal person.

A pic for you in these dark times.

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Baby Brock. Such a teddy bear of a guy.

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32 Thoughts Tidbits (6/10)

The three teams debate, aka who are they exactly cause there’s a slight difference in reporting, but for our purposes the constant is Minnesota. The key thing is it’s likely a ready to win team. Larkin and Quinn share the same agent. He mentions that his agent (and Quinn!) never thought Quinn would be going to be Minnesota but they got talked into it. So he’s basically saying anything could happen, people can be talked into things.

He thinks Guerin has already submitted their best offer and Florida likely has as well. (This has been my theory, that the offers are in, possibly have been for a while.) Possibly some other teams have made some offers. But he thinks they’re already in. So it’s just about the decision.

Team USA has a group chat and it’s impactful. (Not sure if he was joking but I think the point is, all those guys are actively talking to each other all the time.)

Big Sexy: they love the contract. He took less AAV for more term so that they could keep the cap hit down so they can do other things.

He thinks Quinn is signing for 3 more years and this contract is about the next 3 years. Time is now. It’s not about 4-5 years, who cares (this is his words). They’re in their window and it’s what they care about NOW. Aka stop giving a shit about the length, it’s really not gonna matter past 3 years (which anyone with a brain can tell you).

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He will be in Nashville training for a bit longer with some guys, go to Michigan for a couple weeks (he mentions it’s near Quinn)

wait him knowing it's near quinn, does that mean that the team were invited to the lakehouse and we may potentially get an mnwild meet up there?! all I'm hearing is that fabes and boldy will definitely show up 😁

Well for clarity he said his gym where he trains was near Quinn’s gym! I don’t know if that’s by the infamous lake house.

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Listened to Big Sexy’s press availability from today (6/9). Not too much of note just a couple tidbits.

It was an good decision for him because he believes in the team and what BG is building. Felt it gave him a great chance to win. Loves The Core (Bolds, Fabes, Quinn, Kirill), they’re still really young and hungry and they make it easy to follow them, jump on their backs. The team goes through walls for each other.

He acknowledged that he could have gotten more but why would he move when he has a team that believes in him and loves the guys, loves being with them.

He mentioned the wives/partners were awesome to his wife (🥹). He will be in Nashville training for a bit longer with some guys, go to Michigan for a couple weeks (he mentions it’s near Quinn) and then be in Minnesota early/mid-August (think that timeline is similar for a lot of the non Minnesota based guys) (he’ll be Minnesota based after this!)

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03.06.26 - Minnesota Wild at Vegas Golden Knights

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What essay would you be most interested in?

History of the Wild locker room and why it was so terrible + what changed

Deep dive into Brock and Matt’s iconic friendship

Brock Faber as a Captain - the lore and the future

My favorite Wild dynamics and friendships - a ranking

Quinn Hughes and why he works on the Wild (post extension only)

Other

Voting ended on4h

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I can’t believe so many of you have voted in this. OMG thank you for being interested in my ramblings!!!

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wildlings are up and happy

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i love that “mean” is one of his attributes. he’s only mean to people who are not our boys ☺️ and therefore i don’t care if he’s mean ☺️ he should be meaner tbh ☺️ bully those losers ☺️

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not prev anon but that is such an interesting look, because ironically imho team usa should have felt more pressure because us is not an established country in hockey, all these players wouldn't just have been playing for the team's success but their country's also to a greater extent than TC. with canada, it is more of a personal failing if they don't win, that it was the team that's the problem instead of canada's ability to churn out hockey players. but maybe because of the team bonding or whatever, it ended up being the opposite, TC took all the pressure too personally

Yeah to all of that generally for sure that’s my theory as well and I think they were just very focused on the task as a goal and an end point and so were tuning everything out a bit. They had their families there and stuff but they didn’t kind of feel any thing else. But we should take into consideration that Brock Faber is also a lunatic who loves big lights moments and we probably shouldn’t take his word for it.

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i was rewatching games from the olympics and it's kinda funny how team usa won on power of friendship and shit, like canada was the much better team, atleast on paper, but usa was way more cohesive, and seemed like a "team".

it helps that most of them have grown up with each other, unlike all the other teams mostly due to NCAA. and them choosing to stay in the village and focusing on integrating themselves with each other was a big plus over other teams (cough canada).

sometimes I wonder how 4N would have played out if quinn & mccavoy was a part of the lineup, like despite canada having the lineup advantage they were pretty well matched, and our d-core + goalies are so much better. but it was entertaining enough on its own, especially the media of that time, and the groupchat drama lmaoo. I don't like him but it was pretty funny of tkachuk to be saying things like oh so you don't have a groupchat you must not like each other, proper high school shit [but surely they must have a groupchat?! if not that would be crazy]. the best part was canada winning in OT and then just celebrating by having a beer like omfg lighten up folks!! where is the spirit and whimsy, you cannot be losing to the fucking usa of all teams in terms of aura points despite having all the biggest names in the roster

The thing that I noticed most about TC in the Olympics was just that they looked consistently miserable. They were not having a good time, there was so much pressure on them. I remember Brock saying looking back he probably should have felt MORE pressure but he didn’t at the time. They were just very focused but also they all got along so well and hung out constantly and were having fun playing together. I do think the development system helped with that but also the college system, Brock was LaCombe’s captain on the Gophers, as just one example. The interconnections ran really really deep among everyone in all combinations. You had the three Wild players, Gophers, two sets of brothers, development system players, previous combinations from 4N etc.

It felt like TC was just a bit more disconnected although I’m sure they all love each other and like their company and play. It just wasn’t as deep as the USA’s. It does help because it’s less a dispersed band of super stars playing and more a fully functioning team that knows each other really well. You can say well it was puck luck in that final but you know you get chances and you get luck because you’re doing what you need to do.

It’ll be interesting to see if the national team has continued success when they’re back and fully functioning in future tourneys. Theoretically they should be good for a long time.

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Big Sexy is staying with us!

6 years, $19.8M. $3.3 AAV

Reasonable cap hit and he decided to not go into the market and wanted to stay with us. Welcome home, babe!

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Also if you don’t know him well please watch his Wild on 7th. He talks a lot about his journey, what it was like joining our room, how Brock is the funniest person, and he’s just a very sweet guy.