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people talk all the time about the pain of reading a great fic and then going to the authors page and its just twenty hockey rpf fics but we never talk about the joy this event causes as a hockey rpf enjoyer. i just read a wonderful fanfiction and upon looking at the authors page lo and behold my good friend sidney crosby is there waiting for me

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└ tyson barrie: human disaster

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Landy and Tyson declare their undying love to each other through Valentine’s Day cards.

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I need this as an All Star Feature ASAP

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tyson barrie retiring without one final season with the avs ej style? killing myself

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└ thank you, t-beauty, t-legend, tyson barrie.

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tyson tuesday forever

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the point of rpf isn’t to concoct scenarios that are thinly veiled attempts to fuck the celebrities you like yourself. the point of rpf is to learn as much lore as is possible about the celebrities you like by whatever means necessary and use that information to craft scenarios that are wildly implausible but Technically could have happened. and then to chuckle about it. by the way

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i dont owe you an explanation

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send him in, coach

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↳ ERIK JOHNSON SPOOKS MORE AVALANCHE PLAYERS WITH A LOBSTER | 8.13.25

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the thing with sports tumblr is that you will follow someone and then they will post something that makes you go. oh. i am in enemy territory

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ARTTURI LEHKONEN [20231027] NHL Stars feat. Siim

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it's funny how like. to an extent a sport will forever be frozen in time to when you first got into it. you will associate players with teams they haven't played for in years. your team's Roster™ will be the roster it was when you first started watching

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being john tavares is like. i’m a middle-aged man with a wife and three kids. i was once the captain of the toronto maple leafs. i got sued for tax evasion. i was drafted first overall. i’m the most hated man on long island. i’m the reason the OHL 15-year-old exception exists. i was once canada’s golden boy. montreal almost killed me. i’m a lululemon girl. i’m the reason the NHL doesn’t participate in the olympics. i’m running a multi-level marketing scheme for a cursed amulet that repels 5G. i led toronto to its first playoff win in twenty years. the most important tournament i’ve ever played almost ruined my career. i have a kombucha tap in my house. i’m an ambassador for red light therapy. i’m a mother to matthew knies. i slayed the dragon. i’m a hockey superstar. i’m the most important leaf. i’m never going to get what i want. i’m clinically insane. i’m just Some Guy.

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Excerpts from ‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey (archived) by Kenny Jacoby for USA TODAY, published August 1, 2025.

(Note: this is the final frame of an interactive graphic available on the live article. It shows the Stars' acquisition of rinks over the years)

Lisa Bry expected a standard meet-and-greet when she visited the manager of the local ice rink. Instead, she says that a front-office executive for a $2 billion National Hockey League team threatened her.  Bry had just been elected president of Frisco Ice Hockey Association, a nonprofit hockey club for middle and high school students in Frisco, Texas. One of its board’s first actions under her leadership was to cancel the contracts of two coaches who had received dismal reviews from parent feedback surveys. But at the April 2023 meeting, Bry said Dallas Stars executive Keith Andresen told her that the Stars, which ran the rink where the club practices, wanted those coaches to stay.  His next words are seared in her memory:  “Let me remind you where you get your ice from.”

In the face of Andresen’s threat, Bry stood her ground. The club did not renew the two coaches’ contracts. Emails, meeting audio, internal documents and dozens of interviews detail what happened next. That summer, the Stars informed all two-dozen local high school hockey clubs that the NHL team would be taking over their operations. No longer would the clubs set and collect their own fees, negotiate their own practice ice time, hire and pay their own coaches or sign sponsors without the Stars’ approval. All players would now pay the Stars directly. All coaches would now be Stars hires and employees. Immediately, the Stars imposed a new fee structure that raised registration fees for many players while reducing the number of ice hours their teams received. All teams would now get two preseason games – one fewer than in years past – and no more than one hour of practice ice a week. The Stars later reduced the regular-season schedule from 18 games to 16. That’s less than half the number of weekly ice hours that USA Hockey’s American Development Model recommends for teenagers to improve. Bry and the other club leaders were stunned. The Stars stripped the clubs of their agency, practically overnight. The Stars reinstated the two coaches. And there was nothing Bry or the club leaders could do – because the Stars controlled the ice.

Pierce, who runs a Facebook group called Texas Hockey Parents with more than 4,000 members, criticized the Stars in a 2021 post after a game in which her son sustained a concussion. That post landed her in hot water with Todd Cochran, then the StarCenter McKinney general manager and president of the McKinney North Stars. According to Pierce, a SafeSport complaint she later filed and her typed notes memorializing the conversation, Cochran instructed Pierce not to post in her Facebook group for at least six months “if your son wants any future here in Dallas hockey.” Cochran, who no longer works for the Stars or McKinney North Stars, did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment. Pierce said Cochran also instructed her to remove other “negative” posts from the Facebook group. Many times, Pierce complied. “I definitely made myself small for a period of time out of fear,” she said. “You get so beaten down, and you see your kid get screwed over for opportunities, and you decide, ‘You know what? Maybe I do have to play by their rules to get where I want to be.’”

Anyone who has a problem with the way the Stars do business can take it up with the Texas Amateur Hockey Association, the USA Hockey affiliate that regulates the sport in the region. The problem: Its board has long been filled with Stars executives, some of whom used their positions to enrich themselves.  USA Hockey, recognized by federal law as the sport’s national governing body, delegates much of its authority to its 34 regional nonprofit affiliates, including the Texas Amateur Hockey Association, which oversees amateur hockey in Texas and Oklahoma. The association’s board members are elected by the region’s clubs and leagues. But their votes are weighted by the number of players they register – a structure that gives the Stars a colossal advantage. Of 13,700 players in the two states, more than 5,000 were registered with the Stars’ for-profit adult, house and high school hockey leagues, membership data from midway through the 2024-25 season show – 37%. The players themselves don’t cast votes; a Stars representative casts votes on their behalf. Roughly 2,800 more players – another 20% – registered with travel clubs that rent Stars ice or played in the Dallas Stars Travel Hockey League, which used Stars rinks for tournaments and games. Voting against the NHL team’s interests comes with the implicit risk that the Stars could stop selling them ice or oust them from the league. Until recently, Stars employees held four of the 11 Texas Amateur Hockey Association voting board seats, including president and secretary. That changed after a USA TODAY investigation in March revealed that President Lucas Reid and Secretary Brad Buckland – both of whom served as Stars executives – used their positions for personal gain.  For years, Reid, Buckland and Stars vice president Damon Boettcher organized Stars tournaments that required out-of-town participants to book minimum three-night stays at select hotels – or risk their teams being kicked out of the tournaments without a refund. At the same time, the three executives ran their own for-profit company that took a cut of the revenue from each hotel booking.