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can you tell me more about NicoJack. Both first overall picks with the weight of the world on them

okay hello sorry for the delay in answering this but i uhhh have poor time management and a tendency to bite off more than i can chew so i have been writing like 15k worth of fics for two difference exchanges since you sent this so i have been uhhhh a lil busy but okay yes nicojack

i'm not sure quite what you're asking here so i'm gonna give some context for them both in case you don't know and then just kind of deep dive into vibes/my thoughts, and you can feel free to come back if you need me to clarify/expand on anything, okay?

nico went first overall in 2017, and is the first swiss player to do so. prior to that he played for SC Bern and for the national team for various tournaments (he played with his older brother Luca who currently plays for SC Biel and with siegs who the devs traded for last season. they're roommates again this season, as far as i can tell) He also did a year in the qmjhl playing for the moosehead and did really well there. he got the a that he split with palms right around his 21st birthday and in his season debut last year they gave him the c

and for jack i'm pulling directly from my jackty primer mostly but jack hughes is the second of the three hughes brothers-his older brother quinn plays defense on the canucks and his younger brother luke isa freshman at umich and a devs prospect. their mom, ellen, also played for team usa and i’m in love with her. he went the usntdp route and broke some records there before going first overall to the Devils in 2019.

you can read more about them / the team here in this devs primer i helped make though the other two involved def did pretty much all of the work lmao

but anyway. the vibes.

i'm not the first one to point out that the devils core at the end of last season had some major parallels to the pens when they really started their rebuild with who they talked about as their core (nico and jack as 1c and 2c like sid and geno, ty's a dman like tanger, and obvious mac comes into play like flower as the goalie) and i really cannot help but draw parallels to sidgeno and the early hrpf pairings in the dynamic we see for nicojack

they're two young first over alls (the only two in the devils history!) and the team is uh. Bad. we had three cups (95, 00, 03) and made the finals in 2012 where we lost. we've made the playoffs one since then, in nico's rookie season. they're literally meant to save the franchise, because we've been bottom of the league pretty much every season for the last decade, which is approximately when i got into the devs. my bad, you guys.

so they share that weight, and they have that really unique experience of having the weight of jersey on them-and i mean, nico had taylor hall is first few seasons to help him deal with the wait of being a first overall on a struggling team (rip hallsy he's not dead he's just a bruin) and nico had a captain in andy greene and a shit ton of veterans and a lot of really good players on the ice to fallback on, but jack got fucked over during his rookie season. no captain, the goalie he was living with got sent down, hallsy got traded, and it was uh. one of our worst seasons yet

jack's talked about nico and having him to talk to about it when he was a rookie, but it's a really interesting dynamic, right? because for all nico's second season was kind of a shitshow, i think a lot of the anger was more focused on the vets/hallsy and not directed at him. jack got called a draft bust pretty regularly through last season, and he's currently a point per game so. fuck them and fuck the nico haters because they're full of shit

back to my point: jack got a lot of shit his rookie season and nico was also growing into his leadership role-you see it more so after the hallsy trade, and you see it with him getting the a, and how he talked to the media. they've both got this incredible weight on them (the mortifying ordeal of being the face of the new jersey devils) but they've got each other to rely on.

jack said it best in this lil video: he went first overall as well. not many guys have the same path in terms of picks and playing on the same teams, leading up the nhl, you know, so. it’s been fun to become really good buddies with him and have his experiences and be a similar age with him.

unlike my jackty primer I don't have a billion links to every single time they talked about each other because my brain took one link at ty smith and has never let me have a moment of peace since, but i do have some fun odds and ends and i did do some crowdsourcing in my devs rpf server, so if i find anything else i'll reblog this and add more

-they were road roomies jack's rookie season and i believe it's in this podcast that jack talks about them just both taking four hour naps before games

-this photo of them from jack's rookie season

-this fun quote from the covid break last year because jack's really good at keeping tabs on his teammates

-this quote from last season a little before they started pretty much being the 1c/2c (and now they ARE and i'm EMOTIONAL)

-this quote from the start of this season and about zajac retiring that makes me lose my fucking mind

-this pic of them at a team bonding football game during the preseason

-still look sexy schao

-this hug from the win against edmonton the other night

-nico calling jack a star tonight

#primer #hrpf #once again y'all asked and i rambled on about devils ships #this team is obsessed with each other and it shows literally all the time

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