#if it sucks hit da bricks: the adam fantilli story

[workingforitallthetime]

Please expand on all things Adam!! Your headcanon tags are so interesting. And also why’d the announcers do that like that was shitty

god, i'm obsessed. that podcast at the start of the season when adam said that he wished he would have had more fun playing hockey when he was growing up? and then he sounded a little bit awed and grateful when he described umich like this: "i've never been on a team where everybody genuinely loves each other as much as we do on our team." bam, headcanon that adam had kind of a miserable minor hockey experience. and he just thought that was how it was supposed to be, that hockey was serious.

but then luca left for prep school. adam lost his permanent source of sunshine, the one person who was always in his corner, who didn't give a shit about how he was playing or what the media was saying about him. and that made it so much harder to put on a smile and endure the pressure and the expectations and everything else heating up around him in the GTHL. but also adam saw luca go and realized: wait, you can just leave? and pat brisson said yeah, kid, you sure can. (and then this fourteen-year-old kid had to hold a press conference to try to assuage the outrage about him fleeing toronto? good lord.)

so adam has been happily hanging out in the blissful obscurity of the USA ever since, finally having fun playing hockey, with luca by his side. but now the draft is coming and hockey canada is calling and it turns out adam couldn't ever leave like luca could leave. canada doesn't care about luca but canada's fucking pissed at adam. the TSN commentary tonight was really eye-opening. like, yes, adam had a couple of defensive screw-ups. but they blamed him for everything. the first intermission discussion pretty much implied he was poisoning canada's pure hockey culture with his trashy michigan frivolity (never mind that connor bedard also tried a lacrosse move like two minutes after adam did, connor gets no blame). when adam skated over to sit for his teammate's five-minute major: "here comes fantilli across to serve, the guy who does not kill penalties." uh yes he fucking does!!! and even his teammates roasting him about going to college and practicing lacrosse goals in his dorm room?!

(oh also he's completely codependent with his brother, but also maybe jealous that everyone uncomplicatedly loves luca with no strings attached and it seems like nobody's ever going to feel that way about adam? god the headcanons are incredible!)

#if it sucks hit da bricks: the adam fantilli story