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jamesbranwen · 11 months

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Pliroy 55 for the Write a Kiss prompt, if you feel like it 💙

55 -- Out of Spite

Pairing: Pliroy

Rating: T

X-posted to AO3 here 😊

Kitten, I am so, so sorry.

That was the first text message Yuri had woken up to. He blinked at his iPhone screen bewilderedly, the backlight too bright for him this early in the morning.

Yuri swiped back to his notifications and his heart dropped. Overnight he had received thousands of messages, pings, and mentions. He couldn't even swipe them away faster than they loaded in.

He had a long chain of very angry messages from Yakov. He skimmed it but his eyes nearly glazed over at the rant, only picking up on the colorful words sprinkled throughout. Gripping his phone tighter, Yuri bit his cheek and opened Twitter. The first thing on his timeline was exactly the source of his nearly overheating iPhone. At first it was hard to make out what the blurry photo was depticting, but he realized pretty quickly.

It was last night. After dinner and going back to their separate hotel rooms because it was the night before competition and they needed their rest. The top floors had been fully booked out, reserved for the skaters and their coaches for their own privacy. So fucking much for that.

There was nobody around (or so they thought). It was the most chaste, modest, biblical kiss. It had lasted seconds before Yuri was back in his room, alone. And yet here it was, on camera and posted for the world to pick apart: Yuri Plisetsky, the Russian Ice Tiger, kissing his rival, Canada's Sweetheart, King JJ, at SkateCanada International.

Another text message popped up on his screen, this one from Viktor. Yuri threw his phone across the room.

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Jean was pacing. He had been pacing back and forth for so long, it was surprising he hadn't worn a hole through the hotel room floor. He didn't know how he had been so careless. He didn't know how he was supposed to show his face today, let alone put on a smile and skate his free.

It wasn't that he was ashamed of Yuri. Quite the opposite. Jean felt so lucky to be in a relationship with Yuri, to be able to spend time with him, with both of their guardwalls let down. If he could shout their love to the world, mention Yuri in every conversation, plaster his Instagram with mushy couple photos, he would. But the last time he had done that, it ended up with paparazzi trailing his divorce proceedings.

Jean tapped his fingers rhythmically as he continued his assault of the hotel carpet with his footsteps. There was of course the other issue to worry about, that being that he wasn't out to anyone. Besides Yuri himself, nobody knew Jean was bisexual. Not only that, Yuri wasn't out either. Jean didn't know the full extent of what things were like in Russia, but what he had gathered had not exactly been positive.

Jean stopped in his tracks, chest heaving. He would make a statement, claiming it was all a misunderstanding. He and Yuri had nothing to do with each other. Yuri is straight and everything is his fault and he apologizes. He would have to.

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Yuri marched towards the doors of the event center indignantly, hood up and scowling face trained onto the floor. This was the private entrance for athletes and yet there were probably a hundred cameras pointed at his face. Yakov tried to block them with his body but the effort proved futile. Yuri was starting to wonder if these executives understood the word "privacy" at all.

Between the camera shutters and shouts of Yuri's name, each reporter vying for his attention, questions came at him from every direction.

Are you dating Jean-Jacques Leroy?

Are you gay?

Is your relationship even legal?

Yuri grit his teeth. He wasn't an explosively angry, hormonal teenager anymore. He was a top skater with a reputation to uphold. He knew he couldn't snap at them. But he so desperately wanted to.

So fucking what if I'm dating him. It's nobody's goddamn business who I like or what I do.

As the doors shut behind Yuri, cutting him off from the shouting and the camera flashes, he looked ahead, vision sharpening. It was time for the free skate. He would give them something to write about.

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It was only a few minutes until Jean was expected on the ice. He had had the entire day to clear his head. As he stretched, he did his best to expell the anxiety from his body.

Jean was in his home country, with his own fans in the crowd. He was sure he still had fans. He had the best free program of his career lined up. He was skating to an original composition, a song expressing his grief after a long breakup, picking up the pieces, then becoming stronger for it. Connecting with others. Connecting with Yuri.

Jean steeled himself as he stepped towards the rink. He would be stronger for this, too. He would perform at his best. He would skate for Yuri.

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The lights were almost blinding. Neither Jean nor Yuri could even make out the roaring crowd surrounding them as they stood atop the podium, Yuri on top and Jean just below. They were almost the same height this way. Yuri was too preoccupied to scowl at that fact.

Yuri flashed the audience his pre-packaged, perfect smiles, posing with his gold. Jean bit down on his silver, winking. They posed under the fanfare for a few seconds more before Yuri let go of his medal, letting it drop to his chest. He tucked his bouquet under his arm and turned to face Jean. There was no going back now.

Yuri reached out and pulled a shocked Jean towards him. Squeezing his eyes shut, he smashed their lips together. He didn't even register the camera flashes and exclamations from the crowd (and probably their respective teams, too) as he melted into Jean. Jean's racing pulse could be felt through his lips.

Yuri felt Jean grab his free hand and lift it above their heads. He broke away from the kiss, looking nowhere but Yuri's green eyes.

"But— everyone—?"

"Don't care," Yuri affirmed.

The pair broke apart, the pandemonium of the audience fading back in. The state anthem of Russia began to play, and Yuri took his victory lap, the smile on his face this time entirely genuine.

#pliroy #jean jacques leroy #yuri plisetsky #yuri on ice #fanfiction #ask game #answered #lou-is-lurking

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rikeijo · 1 year

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Today's translation #110

Figure Skating Life vol. 9, The choreographer Miyamoto Kenji's commentary on all programs in Yuri!!! on ICE

Yuri Plisetsky (15) Russia

Ambitious Russian delinquent aiming for gold at the Grand Prix Final in his senior debut

A 15-years-old, who last season conquered both Junior Grand Prix Final and Junior Worlds, now faces his long-awaited senior debut. He trains under a famous Russian coach, Yakov, and to Victor he's a junior rinkmate. His charm is in his jump skills thanks to which he was able to master quads while still in juniors, and in his spins and spirals, in which he makes use of his flexibility. He has a delinquent nature, but that is hard to imagine if you look at his androgynous and beautiful appearance. Yurio falling in love at first sight in that sweatshirt with a tiger face print on it he found on a shopping street in Japan is a testament to the fact that he possesses a very striking fashion sense. However, to his very enthusiastic fans, who call themselves "Yuri's Angels", he is a fashion guru. Since he was a child, as a main provider for his family, his only goal has always been to achieve success in figure skating, that's why he has a mindset of a hungry person, but his grandfather is the only person he shows his childlike and cute side to. His nickname is "Yurio".

SP: On love ~Agape~

This program was to be skated by Kawanishi Honoka-chan, so I kept that in mind to create a program that would show to advantage her skating. To showcase in the program flexibility characteristic for girls, together with beautiful, ballet-inspired free leg, and to make the way your hair moves and the way you use your arms and back look even prettier. For example, even if it's fine to bend your back just about this much, you bend it even more anyway - this kind of thing. At that time, the image I had in mind was that of crosses and white birds. And things like holiness and prayers. In addition, I created the program in such a way that the lines of the body, the whole silhouette would look very slim.

FS: Piano concerto in B-minor: Allegro appasionato

The most important thing was the sense of speed and to try my best to not kill the music. It isn't really a synergistic effect, but I had that in mind to create an even greater sense of speed by letting the quick tempo of the music carry you, and also to include very rapid sequences of steps. You can feel the genius in those steps, or should I say - the sense of speed, like raging billows. It's also true in today's figure skating world, but the skaters who just came from juniors are so full of energy, they jump like crazy, and their spins also have a lot of verve. I made sure not to kill that energy in this program.

[Notes: This time I think you can really feel it's "a comment written by an artist". It's more like a stream of consciousness than any sort of analysis, with just a few full sentences~

I didn't know that Yurio is a fashion guru to his fans 😂 ]

#yuri on ice #yoi translations #yuri on ice translation

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chenqing9 · 1 year

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Ooooo! Tell me about I Don't Even Know Myself, please!

!! Yay! It’s new so naturally I’m very excited. I think it’s going to be short… Famous last words… But I basically want to write something within canon skating world for once. So far, we’re talking the whole thing being Yuri’s experience on the back of Otabek’s bike. He’s basically realizing that he’s never been a person outside of being the Ice Tiger of Russia first time he’s not really satisfied with that. And he’s listening to The Who and feeling deep teenage dissatisfaction feels haha and deep barely-restrained horniness for the guy who just pulled him onto his bike in the backstreets of Barcelona.

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tigersandheroes · 1 year

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Last Sentence Tag Game

Last Sentence Tag Game: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line you want. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

I cheated a little and just provided a bit of amusing dialogue from each of my WIPs.

Tagged by @bdeblueyes

Consider yourself tagged if you want to join in!

My mass of WIPs below the cut.

Burn This House Down (I swear I’m going to finish this some time!)

“I am not adorable! I’m intimidating as hell! I’m the fucking Ice Tiger of Russia!”

Butt Crack (Don’t fucking ask)

“Where’s your sense of fun?”

“Have you checked your asshole? Maybe it’s up there.”

I Have Been Made New (Omegaverse)

"Yura, can you bring me an extra blanket?”

“Aren’t you going to get too hot?”

“That’s a misnomer. Omegas don’t increase in temperature during their heat.”

“Then why’s it called a heat?”

“Because otherwise we’d have to call it a horny.”

Kitty Cornered (5 times Yuri wore thigh high kitty stockings +1 time Otabek couldn’t take it anymore)

“You’ve been wearing those damn stockings nonstop for months. You’re not taking them off now.”

Mysterious as the Dark Side of the Moon (from the soon-to-be-released Chapter 3)

“What the fuck, Beka? Did you get a PhD in sucking dick after you retired?”

We Used to Be Friends (Veronica Mars AU)

“Thank you for volunteering to discuss The Once and Future King. What do you think T.H. White is trying to say with his depiction of the romance between Lancelot and Guenever in The Ill-Made Knight?”

“Don’t shit where you eat.”

When the first star you see may not be a star (😈)

“Coffee Mug to E5.”

“What are you a rookie? Salt Shaker to E5. Salt Shaker takes Coffee Mug.”

“Fuck you. Fork to A3.”

“Illegal move. Forks can’t move diagonally.”

“The hell they can’t! Judge!”

“Judge rules Fork to A3 is illegal. Tough luck.”

“I hate Breakfast Chess, and I hate you.”

YOU DID NOT SEE THAT (a companion to BDEblueyes’ if you saw that, no you didn’t)

“Goddamnit, Mila! Give me my phone back!”

“Not a chance, Yura.”

“What if Otabek thinks I sent him that on purpose?!”

“Then maybe you two will finally quit pussyfooting around and fuck it out like civilized men.”

#tag game

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vityapukh · 1 year

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Can you tell us about your biggest fear? I love u <3

Biggest fear? Did you forget that I'm the ~*~ original ~*~ ICE TIGER of RUSSIA? I am not afraid of anything!

W-wait. That's not.

That doesn't count.

#vityaanswers #asks #NOTHING IS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN TO COACH #NOTHING EVER

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wuxiaphoenix · 2 years

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Worldbuilding: Points of Divergence

All right, Russia. For the sake of a good alternate history, your Empire is going down.

Er. Let me explain.

I don’t know how most writers do alternate histories, though I get the impression that people usually pick a point in history and make one momentous decision based on a coin flip go the other way.

So I may be doing this all wrong: I’m deciding on the setting and working backwards to what the alterations had to be.

The story setting is an alternate 1618 Korea; mostly peaceful (outside of monsters and magic), but with war and the Little Ice Age looming near. That’s where I want the story to start, before it potentially ranges across the globe and at least two worlds.

With that in mind, I’m looking at the timeline between when the story is set, and when the actual alternate-historical divergence happens to see what needs to be shifted. Said divergence being about 350 years before, when the Great Comet of 1264 did not slide ominously past in the night sky, but instead slammed into Earth, bringing along an influence totally out of this world. Locals call it magic. Good enough for most practical purposes. (Though Jason will have a vested interest in finding out exactly what it is, why it happens to people, and why you have to keep it under control if possible.)

Why a divergence so far in the past of the story? Two main reasons. One, the comet is an awesome image, and 1618 had three of them. So in-setting characters would already be holding their breaths, so to speak, ‘cause the last time that heavenly phenomenon occurred times got dangerously interesting. And second - honestly, I’ve run across too many badly-written “modern world gets magic and people figure it out in hours!” stories.

No. Just no. A working reality-warping system should take time to figure out, even if you have a scientific method established. Time, and likely a lot of experimenters who didn’t survive. See, for example, the real-world history of organic chemistry, its pages red-spattered with the deaths of people who went around tasting arsenic, isolated chlorine and fluorine in the same air they were breathing, or accidentally created nerve gases. That’s not even considering the formerly-normal plants and animals affected. Yao, anyone? Lots of them.

(Oh, and vampires. Yep.)

Skilled, cultivation-level magic users would take decades, if not centuries. So the setting’s going to get those centuries.

Which has the added benefit of, if I note things that got destroyed in the real timeline, I can see if there’s a way they might survive in the fantasy one. I am not immune to pretty. And the Goryeo kingdom of Korea (918-1392) had beautiful blue-green celadon pottery... that was lost in the Mongol invasions of 1231-1270. (Apparently fairly recently recreated by a modern Korean potter, awesome.) When it was lost, exactly, is not nailed down in the sources I have.

Meaning I have wiggle room to say there were still a few celadon potters around after 1264, and when the Mongols came calling, oops! A tiger yao ate enough of the invaders that the tradition survived....

The tigers that haunted Korea up until fairly recently were, genetically, Siberian. Siberian tigers, even today with their limited ranges, will travel over 600 miles in search of mates or prey. A magical one might travel even farther. And Siberia has a lot of space really empty of people, meaning it’s an excellent place for a comet to come down without directly wrecking too much of history. See the Tunguska Blast.

...This would also let me shove some historical problems a little west and out of the story start area, because now it would be a matter of “area X is a demon-haunted wasteland that humans have been slowly, carefully reclaiming” and even the Jurchens might not all want to be there....

On top of all that it gives the Korean kingdom major reasons to seize and control as much of the natural ginseng-growing areas as possible, because ginseng as an adaptogen is one of the best ways to keep mages stable and sane. (It’s far from the only herb that can be used that way. But it is one of the most effective.)

Which further means that while a bunch of history might change Japan and Ming China would still have about the same reasons to clash that they did in the historical Imjin War, meaning the timeline gets dragged a bit back toward “real” history. (And keeps all my reference books useful.)

But it does kind of take out eastern Russia from the Tsardom of Russia and the Khanate of Sibir. Oops?

(And there are Things in Lake Baikal. Eep....)

#creative writing #worldbuilding #original fiction #korean history #ancient history #research #comets

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yoificfinder · 2 years

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I'm hoping you or one of your follows will be able to help me find a this fic, please! Its centered around Yurio when he's in college but I think it's mostly/entirely written from his dormmate's POV. The dormmate thinks Yuuri and Victor are his dads because Yurio say something like "okay dad" on the phone, I think. I believe the dornmate has a conversation with Yurio about Katsuki meaning victorious. Also there's a conversation about Yuri and Yuuri being pronounced differently. It might be part of a series of fics? Not sure if its a one shot or multi-chapter fic. I'm pretty sure I found it while down a Skygem Retirement AU rabbit hole if that helps! Thank you so much!

I hope my lovely followers can help!

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Update: It's Idio(ma)tic by BertholdvonMoosburg / @myyoitrashblog [T 16K]

Yuri Plisetsky has been dragged off to America to live in humble obscurity as a common undergraduate student in an everyday dorm. He even has a roommate. Maybe it'll be a while before his Angels track him down. If he's lucky, anyway.

Combining the life of Russia's Ice Tiger with his new academic life isn't easy to handle on his own.

Tysm for the prompt help, @adrianners! ❤️

#yoi #yuri on ice #yoi fanfic #yoi fic search

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mitchbeck · 8 months

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HARTFORD WOLF PACK REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

By: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - For the Hartford Wolf Pack and their parent organization, the New York Rangers, the lazy, hazy summer days are winding down. The teams are two weeks away from training camp opening in Tarrytown, NY and then the Wolf Pack training camp at the XL Center starts a couple of weeks later. There are still moves being made in the hockey world. The Rangers have hired Angela Ruggiero (Choate Rosemary Hall-Wallingford) to join Peter Laviolette’s coaching staff as a Hockey Operations Adviser. No clear reporting on what her responsibilities will be. Rangers President Chris Drury (Trumbull) and she were both selected and entered the US Hockey Hall of Fame together with the Class of 2015. Ruggerio played for several US Women's Olympic teams and won a gold, two silvers, and a bronze medal. She earned four gold medals and six silvers in international World Championship action. In 1999, the Harvard grad with an MBA degree won a national title with the Crimson, and the defenseman won the Patty Kazmier Award as the top college female hockey athlete in 2004. She played for two women’s professional leagues in her active playing days. She was part of the CWHL (Canadian Women’s Hockey League) and the WWHL (Western Women’s Hockey League) during her 11-year career. Ruggerio retired in 2011. She has been involved in the business side of hockey since then. Hiring Ruggerio is part of the overall revamping of the Rangers coaching staff. HARTFORD CONNECTED ATHLETES MAKING MOVES Casey Torres, an ex-Pack assistant coach for one year and who was out of hockey last year, is back in. was named the assistant coach for the Windsor Spitfires (OHL). After a year off from hockey, ex-Pack Peter Holland signs with the Colorado Avalanche organization and will likely be skating with the Colorado Eagles next season. Holland last played in Sweden two years ago. Holland was traded from the Wolf Pack in 2018-19, a week after then-captain Cole Schneider. The belief is that Schneider was dealt because of the manner in which he tried to motivate then rookie, and now an unsigned ex-Pack, Libor Hájek. Apparently, Schneider's actions angered former Wolf Pack head coach Keith McCambridge, who is now an assistant coach with the Bakersfield Condors. Ex-Pack Jake Elmer dissolves his contract with Odense in Denmark and signs with the Dundee Stars (Scotland-EIHL) for next season. Jeff Heil was a backup goaltender for 11 games during the Wolf Pack's first season. His son Caleb, also a goalie, is involved in the game. He played for the Sioux City (SD) U-16 AAA (T1EHL) team and nine games for the Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) last season and has verbally committed to play in two years at the University of North Dakota (NCHC). Jabez Seymour, a Newfoundland native from the Selects Academy program at South Kent Prep-SKP U-15 team last year, signed with the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, who drafted him in the first-round 18th overall in the June QMJHL Draft. After six years as a head coach for Kootenay/Winnipeg Ice (WHL), ex-Whaler/Ranger James Patrick signed to be the new Director of Player Development for the Victoria Royals (WHL). The team in Winnipeg was sold to a group of the Wenatchee (WA) Wild, who moved up from the Junior A level BCHL to the major junior WHL. One of the players to start the year there will be Easton Armstrong, who is the youngest son of ex-Pack legend Derek Armstrong. He'll play his overage year to start with Wild. After four years as the Northern Ontario Scout for Kingston Frontenacs (OHL), ex-Sound Tiger Brent Gauvreau returns to his hometown as an assistant coach with the Sudbury Wolves (OHL). AHL signings to Europe now stand at 76. The latest, Alex Galchenyuk, leaves the Colorado Eagles (AHL) for SKA St. Petersburg (Russia-KHL). Sweden leads in the signees department with 30. Maxim Barbashev, who was in the Wolf Pack house late last season when his junior season ended but never played a game, was involved in a pre-season QMJHL trade as he was moved from the Moncton Wildcats and will play his third season with the Shawinigan Cataractes. Ex-Pack Josh Nicholls leaves Kunlun Red Star (China-KHL) for a second time and signs with the Sheffield Steelers (England-EIHL). SIGNINGS/TRANSFERS The college to pro signings North America/Europe, and the transfer in-school and graduate continues. North America first, Hockey East leads all conferences with 38, and the NCHC conference has 37. The Big Ten and the CCHA each have 34, the ECACHL 25, and the AHA 21. Division III is at 32, and attending Canadian colleges four and undergrads departing early is 39. Independent Division I schools now have 14, signed in Europe is 62, and returning to American junior hockey is two. Surprisingly, none have yet to come from Canadian major juniors. The total number stands at 301. The transfers collegiately have exploded in-school is 102 and graduate 68. UCONN UCONN finally announced its official incoming class for the college hockey season. Ethan Haider is a post-grad goaltender from Clarkson. He is expected to split time with the returning Arsenii Sergeev (Calgary). Another grad transfer will be Ryan Mashie of RPI (ECACHL). Incoming freshmen will feature Oliver Flynn (Wolcott/CT Chiefs (AYHL)/Loomis Chafee Prep-Windsor). Forward Joey Muldowney, D Owen Simpson, and Bauer Swift (West Hartford/Choate Rosemary Hall-Wallingford). Swift has an older brother (Cooper) and younger brother (Easton) involved in hockey and are both named after a hockey equipment brand. Rayen Petrovický, the son of former Hartford Whaler and Ranger Róbert Petrovický, elects to sign with VHK Vestin (Czechia (Czech Republic-Division-II) for 2023-24. It took just two days for ex-Yale Bulldog Ken Agostino’s one-year deal with Skellefteå AIK (Sweden-SHL) to be terminated. The team said it received backlash for signing someone who played in Russia for the last two years with the ongoing war in Ukraine. He played on the 2022 US Olympic squad at the Beijing Games. Howlings previously reported on the strange anomaly of current and ex-North American players signing deals with KHL clubs despite the war and public declaration that the NHL wanted nothing to do with Russia, where no transfer agreement exists. A long line of players behind Agostino have all done the same thing. Per Elite Prospects.com, as of last week, 53 North Americans are in the KHL, 39 Canadians, 15 Americans, and 22 players from EU nations are listed in the KHL. Russian and European training camps are about to end as their regular season starts next month. Will other EU clubs announce their rescinding any dealings with any of these players or others? Wolcott native Nick DiNicola, who played youth hockey for the CT Jr. Wolves (AYHL), CT Clippers (AYHL), Hartford Jr. Wolf Pack (ATJHL), CT (Stamford) Yankees (USPHL-Premier) then under the direction of ex-Wolf Pack/Sound Tiger Jeff Hamilton (Yale University & AOF) and had five games with the Danbury Hat Tricks (FPHL) leaves Como (Italy Division-2) for Chiavenna (Italy Division-3) for next season. By the way, Hamilton has owned the CT Jr. Rangers (NCDC) for the last two years and is out as owner. He was involved with the Mid-Fairfield Rangers U-14 team as head coach last year. Five ex-Whalers were at the golf club at Avon Country Club last weekend for a charity event. They included Ron Francis, Ulf Samuelsson, Mike Liut, Dave Tippett, and Joel Quenneville. The tournament was named, honoring Quinneville's late nephew Connor Scott Zieky. None of them made it to the Yard Goats Whaler Day last month. The Yard Goats official assistant GM, Dean Zappolorti, said Francis informed him he would come next year and help him recruit other players to attend. If that happens and Pat Boutette gets Mike Rogers and Blaine Stoughton to return, it will be a home run (pun intended) next year. Ex-Pack Domenic Moore is playing in the Over-40 Senior Canadian Tennis Championships. During the hockey season, he works as an Analyst for ESPN. An NHL source regarding the Phoenix situation. “It’s a mess. We hear that they're looking to secure land now, but they have to get something soon. It’s become an embarrassment…a sore point for the league, a black eye. The player’s association is unhappy, they’re losing money and owners are getting tired of spending money to keep them going. Sooner or later, something has to give, soon, it just can’t keep going on like this. When a kid like (Logan) Cooley, a next generation likely NHL star, signs reluctantly, leaving a larger arena he had in college (Minnesota) for a smaller one in Arizona, that they’re not even selling out, things have to get done in short order. They’re gonna have to move them most likely if they don’t nail things down soon.” HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

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xtruss · 1 year

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‘Before A Game I Down A Nice Vodka To Tone My Muscles’: How The Russian ‘Black Spider’ Took Football To New Heights

Lev Yashin remains revered as a benchmark of goalkeeping excellence

— March 19, 2023 |RT

The World of Football was cast into mourning last December with the passing of Pele, one of the undisputed greats of the game. The death of the Brazilian legend led to tributes from far and wide, as fans reflected on the impact of a man who changed the face of his sport.

Russia was no exception, and the men’s national team paid its respects by sharing a poignant image of a smiling Pele. But alongside the legendary forward was another man who earned revered status as part of the same generation – the late, great Lev Yashin.

While Pele made his name scoring goals, Yashin forged his reputation by preventing them. A shot-stopper unlike any who had come before him, the Russian remains a benchmark for goalkeeping brilliance, more than 50 years after he played his last game and over three decades after his death.

If Pele would be selected to spearhead the attack in many football fans’ all-time fantasy eleven, the name widely picked in goal would surely be Yashin.

Nicknamed ‘The Black Spider’, ‘The Black Octopus’, and ‘The Black Panther’ because of his feats of acrobatics and the color of his on-pitch attire – topped off with a trademark flat cap – Yashin was a pioneer as an imposing Soviet shot-stopper who enjoyed a storied 20-year career.

Such was his renown, Yashin gives his name to the title annually bestowed on the world’s best goalkeeper by the respected France Football magazine.

Monday, March 20, marks 33 years since Yashin’s passing at the age of 60, and will be a day when many reflect on the remarkable life and times of Russia’s greatest football idol.

The Russian national team paid tribute to Pele alongside a legend of their own. © Twitter/Russian National Football Team

Working Class Hero

Born in Moscow on October 22, 1929, into a family of industrial workers, Yashin did not seem destined for footballing immortality. He was not yet a teenager when he started his own factory labors, helping the Russian effort during World War II. Yashin continued his factory work after the war, but suffered what was described as a “nervous breakdown” at age 18 as the experience took its toll.

“Was it depression? I don’t know,” Yashin wrote in his autobiography. “The fatigue accumulated over the years began to make itself felt and something in me suddenly broke. At that time I felt nothing except emptiness.”

Sport, however, was to be a vital outlet and would open up new opportunities for the young Yashin. Already a keen football and ice hockey player, he was advised by a teammate to volunteer for military service, something which he described as his “salvation” as he combined football with his new duties.

After being scouted in 1949, Yashin was invited to join the youth ranks of Dynamo Moscow – one of the Russian capital’s powerhouse football clubs, which had caused a stir with a groundbreaking tour of the UK in 1945 during which the team impressively went unbeaten in four games against supposedly superior home opposition.

Yashin, however, was not to enjoy an auspicious start when he made his debut for Dynamo in 1950, letting in a soft goal that partly contributed to him only playing two league games that year. Also in his way was Alexei ‘Tiger’ Khomich, a revered figure who would keep Yashin out of the team during the early part of his career.

Rather than seek a pathway to regular first-team football elsewhere, Yashin became hellbent on making it to the top at Dynamo. He even played as a goaltender for Dynamo’s ice hockey team, winning the Soviet Cup in 1953, showing his versatility as an all-round athlete.

“I ran, did the high jump, shot put, discus, took fencing lessons, had a go at boxing, diving, wrestling, skating, tried basketball, played ice hockey, water polo, and football. I spent my winters on skis and skates. I’m not sure what I was best at,” Yashin later recalled.

Hitting The Big Time

Biding his time with his football career, Yashin finally managed to oust Khomich from the Dynamo starting eleven when the latter was injured in 1953. Yashin was to make the position his own, embarking on a glittering era for Dynamo which would ultimately yield five Soviet league titles – four of which came between 1954-59 – and three Soviet Cups.

Yashin’s initial success at Dynamo meant the Soviet national team soon came calling. He received his first international call-up in 1954 in a 7-0 win against Sweden, with the next four years truly providing his breakthrough to the big time with glory at Dynamo and gold with the USSR at the 1956 Olympics.

In 1958, an even bigger football audience took note of Yashin at the World Cup in Sweden. His ‘sweepers-keeper’ approach – since popularized again by the likes of Manuel Neuer, Alisson, and Marc-Andre ter Stegen – came to the forefront, as did his ability to read the game.

Yashin crossed paths with a 17-year-old Pele and eventual champions Brazil in the group stage. Though the Selecao won 2-0, Yashin limited the South Americans’ account from growing through a string of top saves.

The USSR crashed out in the quarterfinals against the hosts, but Yashin was voted goalkeeper of the tournament, with journalists worldwide hailing him as the best in the game.

Two years later, he made up for heartache in Scandinavia by leading the Soviets to the title at the inaugural European Championships in France. The tournament in 1960 was then known as the European Nations Cup, and Yashin kept a clean sheet in the semifinal as the Soviet Union beat Czechoslovakia 3-0.

In the final at the Parc des Princes against Yugoslavia, Yashin saved two free-kicks before being beaten by a deflected shot that connected with his captain Igor Netto. In extra time, Yashin made vital interventions as Yugoslavia tried to equalize Viktor Ponedelnik's 113th-minute winner.

The celebrations were relatively tame in Paris, with runner-up Dragan Sekularac claiming that the “crowds in France wanted western European glamor, not mysterious teams from the other side of Europe” as he commented on the sparse attendance at a reception held at the Eiffel Tower. But upon their return to Moscow, the Soviet team was celebrated like heroes by over 100,000 of their compatriots at a victory parade held in the Central Lenin Stadium (now known as Luzhniki).

Bouncing Back

Yashin’s heroics in Paris were the glory before a fall. At the 1962 World Cup, his errors against Colombia resulted in the game ending 4-4 before the highly fancied Soviets were eliminated at the quarterfinal stage once more by falling to hosts Chile 2-1.

“I was in disbelief that I’d scored past the great Lev Yashin,” Eladio Rojas, who embraced the ‘keeper instead of his teammates, said years later. “I still am. I was overcome with excitement that all I wanted to do was hug him. Scoring past Yashin was like a trophy.”

Yashin was made the scapegoat for the exit in Arica and was branded a “fading force” by L’Equipe. He would likely have been mentally tortured by Rojas and his blunders against Colombia, once posing: “What kind of a goalkeeper is one who is not tormented by a goal he has conceded?”

“He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future,” added Yashin, of whom it was later revealed had suffered a concussion in the match against Chile.

As all greats do, Yashin made a comeback for the ages by first leading Dynamo to another league title in 1963 and becoming the first and only goalkeeper ever to claim France Football’s Ballon d’Or for the best player in Europe. Yashin credited the spectacular saves he made during an England versus Rest of the World match at Wembley, where Pele was mysteriously absent, with prolonging his career and earning him the award months after the 2-1 loss in a game to mark 100 years of the English Football Association.

Yashin pounces on the ball during a match between England and a Rest of the World XI at Wembley in 1963. © Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images

Considering it to be his greatest achievement at the time, Yashin officially received his Ballon d’Or ahead of a European Championship quarterfinal second leg against Sweden in May 1964, in a match the USSR won 3-1 in front of around 100,000 fans in Moscow. The Soviets would go on to reach the final of the tournament in Spain, but were edged out 2-1 by the hosts in Madrid.

Yashin’s international journey continued at the 1966 World Cup in England, though he missed the first two matches due to injury. After returning to action, he led the Soviets to a best-ever fourth place finish following a semifinal loss to West Germany.

Hanging-up His Gloves

Completing two decades of loyal service to Dynamo and over a decade-and-a-half to his country, Yashin hung up his gloves in 1970 after traveling to his final World Cup in Mexico, where he acted as an assistant coach and third-choice back-up.

“I don’t know if one man has ever meant so much to one club,” said former Dynamo teammate Igor Chislenko, who along with Yashin was a rare breed as a one-club man.

But Yashin meant more to football than simply his allegiances to one club or country. At his testimonial in 1971, 103,000 fans reportedly turned out to see him play for Dynamo one last time against a European team captained by England and Manchester United legend Bobby Charlton.

Pele and Eusebio were also present, and joined the throngs of respected figures that spoke with reverence of a man who bowed out after setting a record of more than 150 penalty saves (“the joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save,” Yashin once said) and keeping around 275 clean sheets.

“Someone once said that a team with Pele started [a game] with a 1-0 lead. A team with Yashin started winning 2-0,” Pele explained.

“He made me as a footballer. When you’re able to score against the greatest goalkeeper in the history of world football, you remember it for your whole life. You realize that you can score against anyone,” said Portuguese great Eusebio.

England’s 1966 World Cup winner Gordon Banks, regarded as one of the greatest shot-stoppers of all time, likewise hailed his Russian counterpart. “Lev Yashin was first-class, a real super goalkeeper. Everything he did was top-class. He was the model for goalkeeping for the next ten to 15 years,” Banks said.

“I visualized myself doing some of the things he was doing. Even though I was already playing in the top division, I used to learn from him.”

One of a Kind

France Football agreed with Yashin’s undoubted influence, saying that he “revolutionized the role of goalkeeper like no other before him by always being ready to act as an extra defender,” and by “starting dangerous counter-attacks with his positioning and quick throws” after demonstrating his prowess through plucking crosses out of the sky.

One of the original ‘sweepers-keepers’, he was also renowned for commanding from the back, bellowing instructions to teammates while often out of his area and taking part in build-ups. He could expertly read the game, anticipating the opposition striker’s movement and where his shot was destined, and his long arms earned him the nickname ‘the Black Spider’ while helping him reach top-corner shots. Despite his somewhat lanky 6ft 2in frame, Yashin was known as agile and athletic.

The same France Football magazine which handed Yashin the Ballon d’Or in 1963 and named its goalkeeping award after him unsurprisingly picked the Russian in its all-time Dream Team in 2020. In November 2003, to mark UEFA’s jubilee, the Russian Football Union selected him as its most outstanding player of the last 50 years to compliment the Order of Lenin award he received in 1967 for his outstanding services to his country and people.

Yashin was a man of the people who fans always called by his first name, said his successor at Dynamo, Vladimir Pilguy. “To them, he was one of them like a brother or a friend. He used to walk home from matches with masses of fans – he’d let them carry his sports bag,” Pilguy added.

Yashin takes a tour of the Dynamo Stadium in 1989, at a match played in honor of his 60th birthday. © RIA Novosti/Vladimir Rodionov

Yet contrary to belief, Yashin wasn’t always the model pro that people thought. “My secret? Before a game I would smoke a cigarette to calm my nerves and down a nice vodka to tone my muscles,” he once revealed.

Despite his achievements, Yashin reportedly fell out with Dynamo in his later years, and in particular with chairman Piotr Bogdanov who boasted political clout that allegedly made Yashin unable to leave the country due to routine refusals to grant his wife a visa.

Monuments To an Icon

Nonetheless, Yashin remains a revered figure at the club. Its stadium is known as the VTB Arena for sponsorship purposes, but also bears Yashin’s name and his statue can be found outside it. Dynamo’s players wore a retro kit to honor him on would have been his 92nd birthday in 2021 and continued the tradition in 2022. In 2019, Yashin’s heroics were brought to a new generation in the form of a film based on his life, ‘Lev Yashin: Dream Goalkeeper’.

Yashin, sadly, has not been around to witness many such tributes to his career. In 1986, a blood clot he suffered in his leg required it to be amputated, before he passed away in 1990 from stomach cancer complications at the age of 60, with his wife and two daughters by his side.

It was during a European Cup match between Dnipro and Benfica in the Meteor Stadium that Yashin’s death was announced, reportedly bringing tears to the eyes of Portuguese icon Eusebio, who traveled as part of the Lisbon club’s delegation.

The striker, who is himself known as an all-time great of the game, called Yashin “the peerless goalkeeper of the century.” Many would find that hard to dispute, not only due to Yashin’s team and personal accolades, but also the sheer influence he had in his position.

In the pantheon of football icons, the Russian would surely lay claim to the number one shirt.

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Victor Young (Chicago, 1900 - Los Angeles, 1956) American musician who stood out for his work in the cinema as a composer of soundtracks. Considered one of the most influential musicians in Hollywood, Victor Young came to the world of cinema after some absolutely rocky beginnings. As he was the son of Polish emigrants and mastered the language of his parents, they decided to send him to Europe, thinking about his early musical education. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and soon accredited great musical gifts, surprising his teachers, who witnessed a brilliant career that led him in his teens to be the first violin of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Until that moment, his career did not suffer any setbacks; but, in 1917, he agrees to go on a concert tour in Russia, in full revolutionary euphoria. Security guarantees were minimal and he, in fact, was arrested. Everything raised fears for his personal integrity when a Bolshevik officer, admired for his talent, planned the escape of Young, who seemed touched by bad luck, because shortly after outwitting the Russian authorities, he was arrested again, this time in Germany, a country where his presence was not opportune, either. Once again, his talent as a violinist was the safe-conduct that helped him get out of prison, heading to the United States. After the hectic European tour, Victor Young decides to settle in Los Angeles, where he gains fame as a violinist. Attracted by the world of cinema, he tries his luck in the orchestra that Paramount has on staff to interpret the soundtracks of its productions. To everyone's surprise, Young began composing and arranging scores, and did so with such ease that he has gone down in film history as one of the world's most prolific musicians.

In his professional curriculum, there are around three hundred and fifty compositions and arrangements. His musical ability was best utilized by director Cecil B. DeMille, for whom Young composed unforgettable soundtracks such as those for Canadian Mounted Police and Samson and Delilah . However, Victor Young is best known for being the author of several western tunes without which it is difficult to explain the musical conventions of the genre: Johnny Guitar , Deep Roots and Rio Grande , among others. Although he devised soundtracks of unquestionable interest, in the case of The Quiet Man , he only won an Oscar, which was awarded posthumously, for Around the World in 80 Days , his cinematographic testament. Victor Young Filmography: A About Mrs. Leslie The Accused (1949 film) Aloma of the South Seas (1941 film) And Now Tomorrow And the Angels Sing Anything Can Happen Appointment with Danger Arise, My Love Arizona (1940 film) Army Girl Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film) B Beyond Glory Beyond the Blue Horizon (film) The Big Clock (film) Blackbeard the Pirate The Blue Dahlia The Brave One (1956 film) Breaking the Ice (film) Bright Leaf Buck Benny Rides Again Buckskin Frontier Bullfighter and the Lady The Buster Keaton Story C Calcutta (1947 film) California (1947 film) Caught in the Draft Chicago Deadline China (1943 film) China Gate (1957 film) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film) The Conqueror (1956 film) The Country Girl (1954 film) The Crystal Ball (film) D Dark Command Dream Girl (1948 film) Drum Beat E Ebb Tide (1937 film) The Emperor Waltz F Fair Wind to Java The File on Thelma Jordon The Fireball Flight Nurse (film) Flying Tigers (film) For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) The Forest Rangers (film) Forever Female Frankie and Johnny (1936 film) Frenchman's Creek (film) G The Glass Key (1942 film) Golden Boy (1939 film) Golden Earrings The Great John L. The Great Man's Lady The Great Moment (1944 film) The Greatest Show on Earth (film) Gulliver's Travels (1939 film) Gun Crazy H Hail the Conquering Hero Heritage of the Desert (1939 film) Hold Back the Dawn Hostages (1943 film) I I Walk Alone I Want a Divorce I Wanted Wings The Imperfect Lady (1947 film) J Johnny Guitar K Kitty (1945 film) Klondike Annie L Law of the Pampas The Left Hand of God The Lemon Drop Kid The Light That Failed (1939 film) The Light of Western Stars (1940 film) Little Boy Lost (1953 film) The Llano Kid Love Letters (1945 film) Love Thy Neighbor (1940 film) M The Mad Doctor (1941 film) Maid of Salem Make Way for Tomorrow A Man Alone (film) Man of Conquest The Maverick Queen A Medal for Benny A Millionaire for Christy Ministry of Fear Miss Tatlock's Millions Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942 film) My Favorite Spy (1951 film) My Foolish Heart (1949 film) N A Night at Earl Carroll's Night Has a Thousand Eyes The Night of Nights No Time for Love (1943 film) North West Mounted Police (film) O Omar Khayyam (film) One Minute to Zero One Night in Lisbon Our Very Own (1950 film) The Outlaw P Paid in Full (1950 film) The Paleface (1948 film) The Palm Beach Story Payment on Demand Practically Yours The Proud and Profane Q The Quiet Man R Range War Reaching for the Sun Reap the Wild Wind The Remarkable Andrew Riding High (1943 film) Riding High (1950 film) Rio Grande (1950 film) Road to Morocco Road to Singapore Road to Zanzibar Run of the Arrow S Samson and Delilah (1949 film) Sands of Iwo Jima Scaramouche (1952 film) The Searching Wind September Affair Shane (film) Silver Queen Skylark (1941 film) Something to Live For (film) Son of Sinbad Song of Surrender The Star (1952 film) The Stars Are Singing State of the Union (film) The Story of Dr. Wassell The Story of Will Rogers Strategic Air Command (film) Streets of Laredo (film) Suddenly, It's Spring The Sun Shines Bright T Take a Letter, Darling The Tall Men (film) Three Coins in the Fountain (film) Three Faces West Three Men from Texas Thunderbirds (1952 film) To Each His Own (1946 film) Trouble in the Glen True to Life (film) Two Years Before the Mast (film) U Unconquered (1947 film) The Uninvited (1944 film) Untamed (1940 film) W Way Down South (film) Wells Fargo (film) Where There's Life The Wild Blue Yonder (1951 film) Y You Came Along Young and Willing Read the full article

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