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bedsyandco · 6 months

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exposed | gretzky!daughter x c. mcdavid

note: THIS IS PURELY FICTION. I was bored, took this idea and sprinted with it. Idk what this is😭 but hopefully you can get some enjoyment out of it. I couldn't find good quality clips of wayne on the tnt panel so...excuse the bad quality <3

summary: in which Wayne Gretzky accidentally confirms rumours and exposes his own daughter's relationship.

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hockey.news.daily: Wayne Gretzky's daughter, Winter, and Connor McDavid spotted together after the game last night. Credit to the fan who sent these in.

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user21: they look cozy👀

user28: we're just taking photos of hockey players without them knowing now?

user22: its been happening a while now. I mean he is the best hockey player in the world, that comes with a lot of attention

user28: still not okay. he's not some A-list celebrity, they're normal people.

user90: this was news worthy because?

user11: greatest player of all time's daugther and Connor McDavid dating? big news in the hockey community

user77: there's no proof that they're dating, people are just speculating based on nothing

oilersfan9729: she has a name, let's use it. she's more than just Wayne Gretzky's daughter. Winter is a valueable member of the Oilers organization and whether or not she's dating Connor is none of our business.

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oilersfan97: leon is just out here liking comments💀

user20: the fact that he's proabably laughing at all these comments because he 100% knows whether it's true or not

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hockey.news.daily: On the TNT broadcast tuesday night, Wayne Gretzky was on the panel, and they were discussing players' set ups at home. He was asked if he's ever been in Connor's shooting room and how it compared to his own. Swipe to see what he had to say.

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user47: what part did he "out" their relationship?

user33: the part where he said "Winnie and Connor's house" as in they live together. share a house.

user47: doesn't mean they're dating though. they could be roomates. saving money by not living alone

user33: i don't think either of them are short on cash😭

user40: they probably shower together too, yk to save water and all that💀

waynegretzky: oops.

user00: LMAO 😭

hockeyfan22: people still didn't know about this? I thought it was well known after Leon practically confirmed it by liking a thousand comments on that other post.

oilerfan: anyone else wanna see McDavid's shooting room now?

user11: can you imagine they have a kid? Gretzky-McDavid? Insane.

user88: poor kid. would never be able to live up to the expectations that come with a last name like that.

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connormcdavid: guess the cat's out of the bag🤍❤️

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leondraisaitl: finally. only took you 4 years to make it public

user44: they've been dating for 4 years??!

user55: if they've been dating since 2019, it's absolutely insane that it stayed hidden that long

wintergretzky: 🤍

connormcdavid: ❤️

tysonbarrie: congratualations guys 🩷

mitchmarner: hardest secret I ever had to keep

user55: there's no way mitch knew. he is incapable of keeping his mouth shut. and for 4 years? there's no way

user22: he definitely ran to tell Auston the second he found out

user13: how'd he even know?

user90: him and Winter follow each other and I think they're pretty good friends. she's proabably been posting pictures of her and Connor together this whole time since her account is private

user31: happiest I've ever seen Connor

user11: right? they're super cute

#connor mcdavid x reader #connor mcdavid fic #hockey blurb #nhl blurb #hockey fic #nhl fic #hockey imagine

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lurlur · 3 months

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If you ask me (no one did), the skills competition was exactly what we should have expected. Letting Connor McDavid design/influence/dictate/whatever the structure of the competition was always going to result in a pretty sterile, whimsy-less experience. I mean, we've all seen his house, right?

I'm sure that he thinks this was a great move and that everyone has enjoyed it as much as he did. And he clearly did enjoy it. If he likes it, it must be good and everyone agrees.

But this is not how you grow the game.

I don't want to watch GIFs of Leon failing at the accuracy shootout or Kucherov just gritting his teeth against each new embarrassment. I want to see the players having fun, showing personality, messing around in between events.

This is only my third all star weekend. But do you know what I really missed? Seeing the players hanging out, letting their kids on the ice, laughing with each other. I want them to be visibly enjoying themselves rather than sitting in their designated seats, waiting for the next round of McDavid's Trials.

So. Here's what I think they should do, in no particular order:

Split the competition into "cumulative" and "solo" events. Let Connor keep his Trials but interspersed with more fun events.

Half the players do the Trials and half the players do the more gimmicky events. This gives both groups a chance to recover more between events.

Involve all the players who are at the weekend. Last night was a wash of blue jerseys and Pastrňák.

Pare down the Trials. That was too many dry events.

Let the goalies compete in something they don't usually do. Hell, let them compete in events usually reserved for skaters! Get them involved rather than just using them as props.

Don't bow to the desires of one man who is afraid of fun.

Mandatory dunk tank event.

Undoubtedly, there are people who really enjoyed just seeing a straight skills comp. I just think we can have it both ways. The Florida and Vegas events competitions had character and joy in them. We deserve joy. We deserve giffable moments. We deserve Mikko Rantanen in a sopping wet t-shirt.

#nhl asg 2024 #nhl all star 2024 #my reach on hockeyblr is very limited so I don't expect this to get any attention #i just wanted to expel the demon of discontent within me

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fannyyann · 1 year

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Matthew Tkachuk, the Panthers’ goalie-goading throwback, delivers hits — and wins — when it counts

by Hailey Salvian and Jeremy Rutherford

Matthew Tkachuk put his father in “timeout.”

That’s why Keith Tkachuk, an 18-year veteran of the NHL and one of the league’s best American-born players, wasn’t available to talk about his son’s remarkable run that has taken the Panthers from “biggest disappointment” to one win from the Eastern Conference finals.

On a Toronto radio station in March, the elder Tkachuk called the Panthers “soft.” By many accounts, that assessment was accurate at the time, and the words seemed to light a fire under the team — as did Paul Maurice’s tirade on the bench the same day during a game against the Maple Leafs.

Florida won its next six games and went 6-1-1 down the stretch to qualify for the playoffs.

Now, there’s no time for distractions, and Matthew wants to keep a lid on his pops, who informed The Athletic of his “timeout” via text.

After upsetting the 65-win Bruins in the first round, the Panthers are the betting favorites to win the Stanley Cup, leading 3-0 in their second-round series against Toronto with a chance at a sweep Wednesday at FLA Live Arena.

And the 25-year-old Tkachuk — in the midst of another career year that would have been MVP-worthy had it not been for Connor McDavid’s otherworldly season — has led the way, from scoring game-winning goals and delivering rousing speeches in the room, to delivering cross checks and goading goaltenders into fights.

He’s the player people love to hate, and he’s building a following of haters as he pushes the Panthers along in the postseason.

And even though the person who’s been most influential in Matthew’s career isn’t talking, others are. The Athletic spoke with a dozen people who for years have tracked Tkachuk’s brand of hockey — he’s a highly skilled agitator (a modest 6-2, 201 pounds) who opponents hate to play against.

Keith — known as ‘Walt,’ a nickname given to him by Winnipeg Jets teammate Eddie Olczyk because his surname was so similar to former Ranger Walter Tkaczuk — was traded to the Blues in 2001. Matthew, only 3 years old at the time, would start playing hockey with a youth program in St. Louis. Let’s just say he wasn’t a phenom.

Chantal Tkachuk, Matthew’s mom: They thought they were getting this ringer of a kid. We went to his first game and he was terrible. He was by far the worst player on the ice.

But that wouldn’t last long. Tkachuk improved steadily, adding a diverse skillset, and working through minor hockey, the U.S. national team program and the Ontario Hockey League.

Jimmy O’Brien, longtime family friend, owns OB Clark’s bar in St. Louis: They had a goal in their backyard, and 50 pucks would be lying in the driveway. Anytime you pulled up to the back of the house, you had to watch from running over the pucks because the driveway was littered with them.

Jon Benne, longtime family friend and strength trainer: I used to take wrist shots at him, and he’d knock them into the net. So when I see him tip a goal in now, I’ve seen that a million times.

Jordan Janes, St. Louis Junior Blues coach (2009-10): Matthew would do some of these between-the-legs (moves) before anybody was doing that. I would always look over at Keith and smile because in my mind I’m thinking, “Holy s— ,” like this is incredible that a 14-year-old is doing this. But you could tell that Keith, who was a “go to the net hard” type of guy, it drove him crazy.

O’Brien: His father told him, “If you ever do that stuff in a game and it doesn’t work, you won’t get off the bench.”

Taryn Tkachuk, sister: He’s not going to do that stuff just to do it. The through-the-legs goal against Nashville, he was like, “There was no way I could’ve shot that regularly.” He practiced that all growing up, so he knows he’s going to be able to do it.

Rob Simpson, assistant general manager of the London Knights: He would try new things all the time. It speaks to how smart a player he is. He was always trying to be creative in different ways to produce or make plays based on what he is seeing against defenders or what they’ve done against him before. He’s always been a creative, out-of-the-box thinker.

There are elements of Tkachuk’s game that can be traced back to the fact that he is Keith Tkachuk’s son.

Don Granato, Tkachuk’s coach with the U.S. National Team Development Program (2013-15): I think you can give some credit to — if not genetics, then just being around his father over the years.

Chantal Tkachuk: When Keith was still playing, they got to go down to the rink, skate after practice. Some of the players would play around with them.

O’Brien: He was a rink rat. He was always hanging around his dad, always going to his practices.

Barret Jackman, Blues defenseman (2002-15): I remember the coaches would have to come by and say, “Hey Walt, practice was supposed to start 10 minutes ago. Can you get Matthew off the ice?”

Benne: Matthew would be sitting on the bench the whole practice, and Keith would come over and say, “Watch T.J. Oshie. Watch how he goes into that corner and comes out.” Matthew would just be sitting there with a helmet on, just absorbing it all.

O’Brien: It’s hard to get a better education in the hockey world than sitting there with professionals and watching them at a young age.

Chantal Tkachuk: Every night, we always watched hockey. The boys would get up before school and the first thing they would do is turn on NHL Network.

Taryn Tkachuk: That was the only thing we really watched on TV. We never really watched other shows on Disney channel.

Chantal Tkachuk: Keith retired in 2010 and stepped away from his career and took almost five years off. In that time, he totally devoted all his time to youth hockey. That happened to align with the most important developmental years of the boys’ lives.

Janes: Keith knew what it took to get there. He demanded a work ethic out of his boys. Goals or not, assists or not, he just wanted to see you work. If you worked, Keith was happy. He knew if you did that, everything else would come.

O’Brien: One of Walt’s favorite things to say is, “Hey, you didn’t win? Play better!”

Taryn Tkachuk: Oh, he says it all the time. If someone didn’t play as well and maybe they’re complaining, like, “The ref did this or that,” or, “The other team wasn’t letting me do this,” my dad is just like, “Play better!” Nothing else. It’s just “Play better!”

Janes: That quote is the most Keith quote I’ve ever heard.

Growing up, Matthew was always competing with his brother Brady (23), and sister Taryn (20). Whether it was roller hockey, basketball or a made-up game they called “trampoline football.”

Benne: Matthew, Brady and Taryn would be on the trampoline, which was enclosed, and I would throw the football in the air as high as I could into the trampoline. It became an MMA wrestling match to see who got the football.

Taryn Tkachuk: I don’t even know how the game got made up. I just remember it being very physical. Literally whoever had the ball, you were about to get decked.

O’Brien: We were playing a two-on-two basketball game, and there were some of the most violent fouls you’ll ever see in your life. I had a bloody nose when we were done.

Taryn Tkachuk: If we were playing basketball, Matthew would never let me just go in for an easy layup. Of course he was going to foul me.

Jackman: I remember during one of the lockouts, Matthew was 15 at the time, and he skated with some of the NHL guys. I went into the corner with him, thinking I was going to play him hard. He tried to reverse hit me, and then he came out of the corner with the puck on his stick. He didn’t back down, even at 15, and I was in my early 30s.

Chantal Tkachuk: The most somebody hates to lose, that would be him.

Tkachuk committed to play at the USA Hockey National Team Development Program a few years before his first season there. But, at 16 years old, there was a learning curve playing with the national team and in the USHL, an under-20 league. In his first USHL season, he scored only 17 points in 33 games. He would double that production one year later in fewer games.

Granato: We knew of his talent, but in his first year, his production wasn’t there.

Nick Fohr, U.S. NTDP associate coach (2013-15): He wouldn’t shoot it. He literally wanted to show off those hands all the time.

Granato: I would tease him a bit. I’d say, “Hey Matthew, do you like to score?” And he’d say, “Yeah.” And I’d say, “No, you like to stickhandle.” He was so good at it, but I needed him to see that he wasn’t going to be that up-and-down-the-rink player.

Fohr: He wanted to have that agitator piece to him because it was kind of ingrained into him at that point, but he wasn’t big enough or strong enough to do any of that stuff at 16 years old.

Chantal Tkachuk: It was the second year in the program. That was the point where we thought he could make it.

Fohr: He played most of his second year with Auston Matthews and Jack Roslovic, which was an unreal line. Auston was the marked man, and Matthew — after being around his dad — was like, well, “Auston is my center, nobody is touching him.” And he started to become that guy. Any little scrum, he was right in the middle of it to make sure that his teammates were taken care of.

Granato: By the midpoint of the second year, he was playing just like he plays in the NHL right now. He was great in the same areas of the ice, great in the same ways.

In the 2016 Memorial Cup Final, the London Knights were in overtime against the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies. Tkachuk, in his first (and only) season in the OHL, took the puck up the left side, toe-dragged around a defender and scored the game-winning goal.

Aaron Berisha, London Knights teammate: At first, it looked like he was on a harmless rush.

Simpson: Matthew could always elevate at the right times.

Robert Thomas, Knights teammate (2015-16), and family friend: We always joked that Christian Dvorak actually tipped it, but obviously Matthew got all the credit for it. Just a big-time player making a big-time play.

Simpson: It’s not just by coincidence that he’s big in the right moments. He puts in the work.

Fohr: He’s in those moments because it’s just who he is. You saw it on the overtime goal against Boston. He knows somebody’s got to go in there and get the puck, somebody’s got to go screen the goalie.

Simpson: He wasn’t the one who shot it in the net, but if he didn’t have the sense and savvy to pop out and screen the goalie, it doesn’t go in.

Fohr: It’s no surprise that you see him do it in overtime in Game 7 because he does it every shift, every game.

Janes: The way Matthew was (growing up) and the way he is today, he will do what it takes for his team to win a hockey game. Period.

Because of his ability to stir up drama on the ice and (at times) cross the line, Tkachuk is one of the most polarizing players in the league.

Fohr: He’s that guy that everybody hates unless he’s on your team.

Benne: I don’t think Matthew came into the league fearing anybody. He just played with that edge, like, “I’m here, I’ve arrived, and look out!”

Granato: He could stoke a situation and get it stoked and get everybody’s emotions running on overdrive. And then, even in a highly emotional state that he stirred up, he will execute where many, many skilled players cannot.

Fohr: If he’s agitated somebody somehow, now a little bit of their focus is on Matthew and it takes just a little bit of focus off what they’re good at and impacts so much of the game.

Granato: It’s like a diversionary tactic, and a highly effective skill that he brings. He’s always ready to score the goal after he disrupts the situation, where other guys just want to take his head off. He never loses sight of, OK, while you’re trying to do that, I’m going to be scoring a goal.

Benne: He’s just going to play hard. He’s going to hit you, and he expects to get hit himself. If you watch that game against Toronto, he hammered two guys, and then he got hammered. Not whining, that’s the way the game goes. That’s the way he plays. He’s pretty fearless out there, but I think he plays right on the line. That’s where he wants to be.

Thomas: It was in full force in London. He’d always find himself mixing it up. He’s feisty and he’s got all the skill in the world. Some people just have it, and he definitely has it.

Berisha: It’s funny when people play against him and say, “Man, I hate playing against him, he seems terrible.” He’s actually one of the best guys ever.

Taryn Tkachuk: Matthew has this switch. Off the ice, he’s a completely different person: super nice, super fun. Once he steps on the ice, the switch just goes off and he puts on these different goggles and just has this compete level that you don’t even know how to explain.

The most common ways to describe Tkachuk: He’s a throwback. He’s a unicorn. He’s just like Keith … and maybe better.

Eddie Olczyk, TNT analyst, former teammate of Keith (1991-96): You see (Matthew) and it’s like turning back the clock 25, 30 years to when we played with each other in Winnipeg.

O’Brien: Walt played in an extremely physical era, and the way Matthew plays is refreshing because it’s a throwback to how it was all the time.

Janes: One thing Keith taught these boys at a young age was, if you want to score, you’ve got to be around the net. They got that right from Keith. They just took it a step further as far as their skillset goes.

Fohr: It’s just a place he’s not afraid to go to. Some players are. They don’t want to go there because it’s a hard area to play in because the D are big and strong. There’s an art to getting there and doing it the right way and Matthew has mastered it.

O’Brien: When Walt was playing, you’d see a big guy out there and you wouldn’t think a guy like that has deft hands. But Walt had sick hands, especially tipping pucks. And that’s one of Matthew’s strengths, too.

Olczyk: Matthew will make a play and you go, “Well, there’s Walt.” It’s eerie, but it’s not surprising that the boys are a chip off the old block.

Chantal Tkachuk: To this day, they tease me because skating has always been Matthew’s deficiency, so they make fun of the fact that I taught him how to skate. Keith will take credit for everything else.

Granato: Matthew plays the same kind of style as his dad. He just does it with more talent.

Fohr: To be a thorn in the side of the opponents and then have that elite ability on top of it, that’s pretty special.

Simpson: It’s very hard to find hockey sense that is that elite but also comes with the poise to make the play when it matters most.

Taryn Tkachuk: He’s literally doing every single aspect of what different players bring in a hockey game. It just makes him so unique.

Benne: Matthew doesn’t care what the media writes about him. Matthew doesn’t care if the fans boo him. Boston is going to hate him now, and Toronto is going to hate him after this series. But that’s what drives him. He wants to perform. He wants to put on a show. But more important than anything, he just wants to win.

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squidsquadlove · 2 months

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Sometimes I look at NHL players' indulgences and realize my own perception of them is a wee bit skewed.

Wine cellars, for instance.

This one is Nathan MacKinnon's. As we all know, he had his house built next to Sid's, and it has almost as little personality as Connor McDavid's, except for the gym. I'm pretty sure he just said "sure, fine, whatever" to everything the builders asked him. As such, this is his wine cellar:

Totally for show. Where do you put stuff you're storing? And he's just not using it. (They would not have made him clear out his wine cellar for real estate listings.)

On the other hand, Brian Dumoulin is really well-known for being a wine guy. I hope he's enjoying being in Seattle, because our wine in Washington is spectacular. Here's his extremely cute baby and a good view of his very respectable wine cellar:

Technically it looks smaller, but the wall racks on the left are three deep and this whole thing is full. Plus there's tons of great storage at the bottom, including for magnums (double-size bottles) and boxes from your wine clubs.

Now here's why I say my perspective is skewed. My husband and I do not have an NHL budget. What we do have is about 15 years of being into wine. (And we're about 10 years older than even the older Penguins.)

Here's our wine cellar:

The racks in the middle (and across the bottom) are two deep, the ones on the left are six deep, and the table is cutting off the view of the storage we have for wine club boxes.

Most of our collection is Washington, since we live within a 20-minute drive of over 110 tasting rooms (not exaggerating!). ("Have you been to all of them?" I ask my husband; "Um... at some point in the last 14 years? Probably?")

We remodeled our kitchen about five years back, and a wine cellar was a priority. The builders came up with this, and it's spectacular.

ANYWAY if you're ever writing a character who plays for Seattle and is seriously into wine, hit me up, I'm your girl. I am ignorant on Napa and Oregon and shit, but Washington wines (and for that matter, fancy Washington restaurants) are very much my jam.

#wine cellars #brian dumoulin #question for pensblr!#who did you pair dumo with if anyone?#because out here it is 100% dumomoto and I am SO IN FAVOR #it has been called babygirl4babygirl and I adore that #is there a dumo primer?#can someone link me if there is?

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swissboyhisch · 8 months

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Canada vs Europe

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ivylemieux: One last training before game time. Hiya boys 🙋🏻‍♀️ tagged: crosby87, jackhughes, colecaufield and anzekopitar

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crosby87: Hi, I'd like to ask you not to post more pictures of me

ivylemieux: No.

crosby87: okay, well I tried 🤷🏻‍♂️

taycrosby: Look how smiley Sid is. We've all missed you so much! Liked by ivylemieux

user: I can't wait to see these games!

colecaufield: bestieeeee 🫶🏻

jackhughes: 🫶🏻

ivylemieux: my favourite bromance

user: We know you have the goods. Please post them.

anzekopitar: good seeing you kiddo

tkachuk19: why didn't you post a picture of me :(

ivylemieux: Matty the Ratty you don't need to have your ego inflated more

tkachuk19: but bub 🥺

mcdavid97: suck it up Tkachuk

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laurenmatts: First time seeing an ice hockey game. Thankfully, I have a coach to help me understand icing 🤭 tagged: ivylemieux

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user: even I don't fully understand what is or isn't icing

ivylemieux: Thanks for coming with me on this little trip around the country ❤️

user: Around the country?!

laurenmatts: Always willing to spend time with you 🫶🏻

friend2: you two are stunning! Liked by laurenmatts and ivylemieux

user: imagine never seeing a hockey game 😭

macematts: why didn't you take me 😡

laurenmatts: girls' weekend obvs

macematts: says the girl currently hanging out with a ton of guys

ivylemieux: there is wives and girlfriends too

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hockeycanada: Our favourite captain is in the house cheering on our boys 🇨🇦 tagged: ivylemieux

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user: this is such a great photo

user: 🫡🫡🫡

taycrosby: couldn't just pose normally?

lemieux66: You expect her to be normal?

crosby87: you'd be crazy for that

user: this family is great

user: 🥰🥵

ivylemieux: gotta support the best 🫡

usahockey: so us?

euroallstarhockey: No it's us 💁🏻‍♀️

hockeycanada: who does she play for? oh that's right us. It's us.

user: She’s so cute!

timhortons: We love her 😍

ivylemieux: stahppppp 🤭

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mcdavid97: What a way to kick off the Hockey Exhibition tour. tagged: leondrais

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user: love that he also used a picture of Leon

user: What a game! As someone who has never seen a hockey game before... Wow you're a great player

leondrais: we'll get you in the next city

mcdavid97: just win against the US tomorrow?

anzekopitar: yeah we will, don't mind Leo

user: They're besties your honour

ivylemieux: Canadaaaaaa baby

tkachuk19: United States baby

mcdavid97: CANADAAAA

jackhughes: USAAAAAA

nylander29: EUROPEEEEEEEE

user: Guys.... did you see Matt and Ivy watching the game together? Matt even came to support Connor!

ivylemieux: Hate to tell you but I made him come

edmontonoilers: Our favourites playing against each other?! NOoOoo

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tkachuk19: The three stooges are back together 😈 tagged: ivylemieux and mcdavid97

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user: I honestly forgot these three were best friends

user: right? it's so weird that Mcdavid and Tkachuk don't constantly fight

taryntkachuk: Bring her home will you?

tkachuk19: 🫡

bradytkachuk: your wish is our command 🫡

user: One of my favourite things about these three is the fact the boys go with Ivy to the other's games. Even though they're rivals. Just super sweet.

tkachuk07: oh no, watch out Australia 🫣

lemieux66: Wouldn't want to be there

user: Best friend goals

user: The chaos 😂

ivylemieux: missed you two knuckleheads 💕

mcdavid97: are you sure?

tkachuk19: Yeah, you hitting us doesn't say 'I Miss You'

ivylemieux: and the tackles that took you both to the ground? What did they say?

laurenmatts: Those tackles said "You better win'

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@penny4yourthoughts @mp0625 @hischierhaze @11zegras @lvrzegras @francesfarhadi

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oeldeservesthenorris · 3 months

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Me, trying to explain to my friends in painful detail that based on my non-scientific, random observations, all NHLers only orbit in the same select places:

1.) Mexico (preferably Tullum, Cabo)

2.) University of Michigan football home games

3.) Turks & Caicos

4.) Any True Food Kitchen

5.) Taylor Swift concerts

6.) Connor McDavid's juvenille detention center I mean house

7.) Coeur d'alene Idaho

8.) John Varvatos store in Toronto

9.) Calgary Stampede

10.) Elbo Room in Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Edit: Honorable mention - Atlantis Resorts in the Bahamas

I will not be taking questions at this time.

#nhl #nhl hockey #nhl players #vancouver canucks #quinn hughes #short king #nhl2023 2024 #ASG break #captainquinton #captain quinn hughes #captain quinn #thats my captain

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msmargaretmurry · 3 months

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I am loving all this haw lore! I'm wondering, at this point in the hawniverse, how many people know that Matthew is 1) in a relationship 2) with a man 3) who is Leon Draisaitl? And also when do they tell people/people start figuring it out? (At the end, McDavid and Hyman have some idea, right?) Thank you for sharing all of these details :D

hi anon, thank you, i'm glad you're enjoying it! ❤

by "at this point" i'm going to assume you mean up the the latest point that i've written, which is the one-year-later timestamp (which on the calendar would be summer 2023 but not the REAL summer 2023, y'know? the hawniverse summer 2023) so here is a brief timeline from the end of haw up to that point:

mcdavid and hyman know pretty much from the end of the fic, connor more than hyman, because connor kind of knew before anyway and leon REALLY needs someone to talk to after the events of the last chapter and connor is his sounding board for most things. hyman gets a more brief explanation because leon feels like he is owed one after the matthew encounter at leon's house, not a lot of details but enough that he knows there's a relationship there.

obviously matthew tells brady and taryn he has a boyfriend at the very end of the fic, but they don't know that it's leon until later.

matthew comes out to his parents over the summer and does tell them he's seeing someone, but doesn't tell them who yet. (leon does the same with his family, except he does explain the whole "it's another guy in the league and i'm not telling you who because i want to respect his privacy until he's ready to tell people" thing)

at the beginning of the next season matthew tells his close friends on the flames that he's seeing a guy, but not who it is yet.

matthew does the big identity reveal to his fam at christmas, because he and leon are planning a post-asg vacation together and he doesn't want to have to be all secretive about it. leon tells his parents shortly after, before the next oilers/flames game when he and matthew can facetime them together.

matthew tells his close teammates on the flames that it's leon after the asg, when he has plenty of vacation pictures for proof lmao

after that is it kind of a slow trickle of sharing the information on a need-to-know/it-feels-right basis. matthew's uncle-agent and grandparents also know at this point, his close friends like rob thomas and auston know (he wasn't kidding that it would be hard to keep a secret, lol); leon's sister and brother-in-law know, and a handful of his close friends and teammates. it's a small but not SUPER small group, which means they definitely have some spaces where they can just exist as a couple together, which is initially kind of anxiety-inducing for matthew but eventually really nice ❤

#ask #ratnovel #hockey for ts

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tapedsleeves · 3 months

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get rec'd: 3 asg drift

not asg weekend themed bc I didn't think that far ahead :(

what happens in the room stays in the room - by @irrelevanttous

Leon Draisaitl / Matthew Tkachuk, E, 7, 407 words

a winner's room fic from a different perspective - Sasha just wants to look out for Matthew, make sure he's safe in the room. So when they play the Oilers, he wants to make sure make sure. I really liked this twist on winner's room fic!

Like an Angel to Me - by @angry-geno-is-score

Vince Dunn / Adam Larsson, T, 2,979 words

Vince shows up dynamically compromised at Adam's house and Adam takes care of him, like he always does. This fic is just *sooo* sweet. As a pining fic that's unresolved, it still feels sooo satisfying to read, because Adam is just. So devoted to taking care of Vince. It's just so lovely

So Hey, Let's Be Friends by @linskywords

Quinn Hughes / Brady Tkachuk & Quinn Hughes/OFC, M, 4055 words

A soulmark AU where Quinn and Brady have different soulmarks. This is just SO lovely. I love the premise of this whole series - that sometimes, soulmarks aren't everything in our hearts, and I just Love Brady's steadfast loyalty in this fic.

let go lightly by @three-quarts

Connor McDavid / Matthew Tkachuk, E, 7153

Connor ask for a trade, gets a PR makeover from Matthew Tkachuk, among other things. I LOVE the use of social media in this fic to reform Connor's image, as well the honesty with which Connor and Matthew talk about their respective lives and trades.

#hrpf #get rec'd #hrpf recs

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Sometimes I just think about how insanely different the lives of all the 2015 draft class players are now and it makes me feel ridiculous. Like, Mitch is a hometown kid on the leafs and they either love him or hate him at all times, he’s doing good personally, is getting married, but professionally he’s in so much limbo. Connor is the most talented player in the world according to most people but he cannot win and the weight of the world is on his shoulders and he’s in a big black and white house in Edmonton. Jack was pretty much held hostage by the team that never wanted him, his bodily autonomy completely denied, and then he finally gets traded to the nhl villain team and he beats the guy who was always better than him. And Dylan isn’t exceptional as a player, he’s decent on an aging team full of dads and he has a wife and a daughter and another on the way and he just seems happy. I wonder if they ever think about each other.

I KNOW RIGHT like each of their stories has just gotten so much More interesting over the course of the past ... coming up on eight years now. Hockey is a fantastic soap opera, you know? The story just keeps on going.

And the crazy part is we're not even halfway through. A hockey player with a shelf life -- Mitch and Connor both seem pretty durable, and Jack seems a lot healthier now after his neck trouble has been resolved -- can last fifteen, twenty years if they're lucky. Who knows where the story will go from here? Dylan's contract extends further into the future than any other Capital -- he'll be a UFA in the summer of 2028, which ironically gives him more job security than any of the other three in the class. Good, for a boy who just wanted to be wanted somewhere. I wonder what the Capitals will look like after Ovi's done. (Assuming Ovi ever retires, although I have a sneaking suspicion he and Sid will go out in the same summer. They have always been entwined, after all.)

I desperately want to know if we'll see any of them on any other teams, too! Hockey is unlike a lot of other sports in that its biggest and brightest superstars tend to stay as put as possible: of what I consider to be the six "generational talents," (Howe, Gretzky, Lemieux, Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid)(IF U HAVE OPINIONS ON THIS SEND THEM TO MEEEEE), only one of them so far has played for more than one NHL team (Howe era Whalers don't count!!!). Mitch isn't generational by any means, but he's far and away enough of a superstar to go just about anywhere he wants, which for my own feeble sanity I beg means #leafsforever. I just hope if they go anywhere else then they keep to the colour scheme! Dylan's three teams have all been red and Jack's have both been yellow/gold. If Connor McDavid becomes a Dallas Star it'll mess with the damn symbolism (plus his TA of mathematics ass could never match the vibe that silly little group of rapscallions has).

And... the eternal question: the Cup. Eichs is obviously still in the hunt right now, but i do dearly want to know who of the four of them wins it and when. Fun fact: both Dylan's and Jack's only playoff appearances to date have involved eliminating Connor. Mitch actually made the playoffs first out of all four of them, but by one measly game Connor has more wins.

In summary: Urgrghghuhuhsgdhkgjhfdghhfgkdjfhjkd the lore... the drama... etc etc

#saw someone ask a blog i follow 'whats the deal with the class of 2015'. COME OVER HERE I WILL GIVE YOU THE *NOVEL*#asks #i do find it achingly sweet how dylan seems to be the Okayest out of all of them. like he has settled into an agreement with the Universe.#the universe said. your team will kinda suck but you will be centring a great player.#and he said. okay that's cool im a nerd #and the universe said. and you will have two daughters #and he said. slay!#dylan strome #connor mcdavid #jack eichel #mitch marner #narrativeposting

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