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that's what the leader gets (lund coffee delivery)

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you guys i was just digging through the sharks' capfriendly page for reasons and discovered something so beautiful:

we have that crazy old man for another year 😭😭

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today is some kind of local holiday to me i think. not bc i hated dq (i didn't, i thought he was fine, he did the okayest he could with [gestures vaguely]) but bc now i get to engage in beautiful thought journeys like "what if they promoted jmac and then pat sieloff was our coach" or "what gmmg has another night vision of firing someone like jwill" or "what is they fire jmac and then scott sabourin re-signs for 15 years and we have a player coach" and "does this mean they'll yeet dq nepo baby henry back to the ahl and promote eldest daughter nikolai knyzhov". much to consider.....

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gmmg is gonna re-sign jmac and scotty every single year for the next decade and no one can stop him . old man fight club is the only thing he cares about

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gordon ramsay (gmmg) 'you fucking donkey' (firing dq) vs. 'oh dear, oh dear gorgous' (jmac almost certainly coming back despite equally sucking shit) dot meme

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dq going insane in the exit interview and telling sheng he thinks that fans want to murder him specifically in sinister ways and then sheng turning around and asking mike if he was going to keep dq around and mike going "........... eh." and then mike deciding to fire him at 2am. is like. i mean. if this were any other team there would be 6879543786957894379685 think pieces but it's san jose so we're just gonna move it right along

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What if they demote DQ to the Cuda and promote Jmac to the Sharks lol. I think they'd have to add a new chapter to the DSM to cover what that would do this franchise and fanbase

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MORE cuda all prospect practice, this time shot on black and white film. forwards in white and defensemen in black. the goalies are magnus chrona and our new son gabriel carriere. the middle big photo is joe thornton, patrick marleau and mike ricci laughing it up which is honestly always the highlight of the practices, like fuck the future of the team let me see jumbo and patty. NO editorializing...ok maybe a little editorializing: the last photo is when mason klee started comparing stick lengths with i think gannon laroque, which always feels very teenager with a crush coded like oh let me see how much bigger your hands are....oh gannon laroque let me see how long your stick is compared to mine. who said that 🤨

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i've been working on not editorializing or publicly criticizing my work, especially if it's a craft or an art i'm still working on, bc i think generally it doesn't serve me or the audience. but i will give context! all-prospect practice (minus injured prospects + cassels and lindblom at the start who dipped as soon as the forward corps hit the ice). forwards are in white, defensemen are in black. you're only allowed to sit in two sections behind the defend-twice goal and i was like not willing to move between sections and potentially get yelled at by nolly. ONE editorial comment tho, the aquarium did not enjoy being perceived with a film camera:

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i actually did sweat out my cringe but went to bed immediately after slamming an in'n'out order bc my manager made me pinch run which was...a choice on her part...and have been suffering the sting of a thousand work-related paper cuts all day but then the firebirds for some unknown reason just emailed me a playoffs presale link and i DO NOT need that energy rn so. hold pls

if i sweat out the cringe of being perceived at working on a new hobby at my softball game tonight. i will post some cuda practice photos shot on film

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if i sweat out the cringe of being perceived at working on a new hobby at my softball game tonight. i will post some cuda practice photos shot on film

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@tausendsorgen and I did Sharkuda Rise '23-'24 at Sharks Paint The Ice!!

My favorite part is when people look at us writing that list and they are like ....what is the theme here....

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crucial tidbit from the mario town hall: he has been thinking about bringing youngest of plugs back and nikita actually watched all his videos and told him he loved them

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#drew implying that they’ve been locked in mortal combat for ages now and that HES BEEN HIT BEFORE @puckpocketed

pspsps.... come here..... let me show you something real and true and beautiful

(2024 March 26, DAL @ SJS)

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stick penalty mcgee

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*clears throat*

As many of us reach the end of our team’s NHL seasons, we may be (and should be!) looking towards the AHL playoffs/Calder Cup playoffs if applicable. Hell, we can even talk about the ECHL/Kelly Cup Playoffs if we like for the sake of this post.

I just want to say, to anyone who will listen: none of these players are “baby” [insert team name.] The Coachella Valley Firebirds and the Kansas City Mavericks are not the Baby Kraken. They are grown professionals, many of whom have grinded for MANY years of their career and will continue to grind just for the love of the game. While some are prospects in our pipeline, and the AHL especially is a development league, they are all professional hockey players. No one is a baby. They’re playing very good hockey, and—even above that—many of them in the AHL are playing a grittier, rougher, more physical game because it’s more allowed there.

To go even further, AHL players and better halves are often more involved with local community initiatives purely due to their more local schedules. I know in my own corner, my local AHL team has a TERRIBLE record, but they’re also SUPER active with hospitals and food kitchens around our community. Those aren’t babies.

They exist in a level of limbo that many career NHLers will never know. We joked over here on Krakenblr about the plight of Cale Fleury getting sent up and down again and again but that’s the reality for so many. Like you wanna work hard? Get to the NHL? Be ready to drop everything and present yourself to maybe play a game or maybe not. And do it again and again and again. Not a baby; and Fleury (among other repeat call-ups) was not even close to a rookie.

Let’s stop with the baby talk, please? Pretty please?

To finish, an excerpt from Sean Shapiro’s collection of essays “We Win Here,” a book about the Texas Stars.

Anyway: No more baby kraken or baby stars or baby penguins or baby whatevers pls (I will make case by case exceptions for rookies but ONLY THEM)

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are you there god? it's me, pickles