(Fun fact; I’m pretty small myself so sometimes my coworkers do this to me too 😅 what can I say, I’m pretty huggable 🥰)
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"There have been seven coach firings during the 2023-2024 season alone, and that’s not even counting the one that took place before training camp began! With the regular season coming to a close this week, let’s take some time to reflect on these fallen divas and how entertaining it was to watch them lose their jobs."
Read more here.
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Takeaways from the Nico Hischier Spittin Chiclets Interview:
“Not a big country guy” - Nico Hischier (wonder how this squares with Jack being a big country guy)
Nico always looks like he just woke up.
Kinda love that Nico called Luca his “idol” even now when Nico’s the captain of one of the best teams in the NHL. Wholesome.
“You think I’m small” - Nico Hischier (when the podcast men asked what happened to him while talking about how tall Nico’s mother is)
Nico’s a Liverpool fan. Favorite player growing up was Steven Gerrard.
He speaks English, Swiss German, and French (can get by a little with Italian - ordering food and beer etc)
Nico talked to Timo about Halifax before he ended up going there.
“He’s Jack, I like that about him….he’s just Jack. “ - Nico Hischier.
In their rookie year, Nico and Bratter had apartments in the same building.
Nico says “obviously” or “obvious” so many times during this interview.
“Everything is bigger here” - Nico on North America
“He’s been whatever we needed” - Nico on the Vitek
Nico trying to say “rivalry” 🥺
Nico goes to his siblings when he needs to get things off his chest or talk things out
Still talks to Greener from time to time and catches up with him or goes to him for questions.
Confirmed that Nico’s triangle tattoo on his lower leg is a matching tattoo with Luca.
When asked who is the jester is in the locker? Not Woody, he’s quiet… “Bastian and McLeod are definitely a funny couple together” (Nico ships it) “If you’re around them it’s always a good time”
Nico goes to Zurich in August to skate/train with Siegs
Nico used to ski, now snowboards
Nico doesn’t really snap in the locker room, but it has happened during the losing times of years past
Said he tries to ignore the noise especially about the first overall expectations because it’s big shoes to fill.
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tw: hockey culture, homophobia, sa mention (hockey canada)
Bless Brock for bringing up this important point
Click thru and ofc you will see the inevitable horrendous homophobic replies on this tweet.
Now let's switch over to man's man hockeyman ryan whitney on masculine man podcast spittin chiclets
This screencap was posted here, initially on reddit, and ofc the replies are along the lines of:
"oh yea i didn't even think of that until whit pointed it out"
Once more further evidence of why pride jerseys are important. Why straight athletes showing allyship by wearing them and talking about pride is IMPORTANT.
But this goes deeper into the older gen's (the gatekeepers) hockey culture of not understanding the implications of standing up for these rights when they don't affect you personally but they do affect other ppl around you. This other part:
he = biz
biz may have accidentally stumbled into a win here and i fully commend him for sticking it out on the babcock issue. But he is still unaware of why this was a good course of action beyond 'my friends are hurt and I'm standing up for them.' He is still very much hockey culture.
He believes jarmo giving a second chance to someone who did zero work and showed zero evidence of having worked towards fixing his issues is totally fine bc he accepts it as part of hockey culture.
I remember i listened to their podcast after the provorov pride jersey game (bc yes sometimes i just want to hurt myself). Ofc they're modern men w openly gay friends, they shit-talked provorov as a typical asshole who knows nothing but hockey and should've been sat out for not warming up (which yay, felt great to hear). but beyond that, kinda it. (RA didn't get it which no big surprise.) Didn't fully talk about the big picture of what this kind of action leads to (which ta-da led to entire teams foregoing their pride jerseys, and the inevitable chickenshit bettman decision to nix all special jerseys). They have the ear of the entire manly man masculine hockeymen demographic but didn't take that opportunity.
So now i wonder if this is just how it/life/the world goes. As one of their own gets attacked, they take a stand. Empathy only applicable to their own and no one else.
Which reminds me of how all those old men who only stand up for women's rights only when they realize oh shit wait "i have a daughter, mother, sister" but y'all fuck your daughter, mother, sister.
Maybe progress will only happen by accident when idiots like biz are suddenly faced with the problems we've been harping on over and over and over are . oh shit. right at his own doorstep.
Hey btw London police, still waiting on that hockey canada 2018 wjc report and them 5 charges (should be 8 but ugh...) Let's hear it. Let's charge em and fire them from their jobs too.
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yeah biz can be annoying and full of bluster sometimes, but it's clear that players feel comfortable coming to him or the chiclets guys when they don't even feel like they can go to their captain or the NHL PA with this type of stuff, and that says a lot
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