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I hope I didn’t leave a bad impression with my last ask, gah, I’m not good with social interactions. I wanted to make it up to you by giving you a happier ask! What if slashers (any of them you want to write for) with reader who isn’t an S/O but rather a really good best friend who was there for them since the beginning?

Oh, what was your last ask, if I may inquire? Either way, this idea is absolutely adorable, I’d love to write it!

Michael Myers

Michael grew up with you. Your mother and his were great friends, so the two of you were kind of forced together.

He wasn’t too fond of you at first, but you grew closer as the days passed. It was inevitable.

You grew even closer as school went on, always there to run away from bullies or patch up any wounds thst were given. Sadly, being friends with Michael is a one-way ticket to Freakville.

I can imagine that the two of of you would spend lots of time in his forest together, building forts out of branches and such.

Now, in the current day, you provide shelter for your murderer friend, spending the nights watching movies or painting homemade masks together.

He keeps you safe from anyone and anything posing a threat to you, following you around whenever he can, and making sure you’re never harmed.

You patch up his wounds, feed him, and make sure the police don’t come sniffing around your house. Even if they did, you talk them into leaving without suspicion.

You know Michael could never bring himself to hurt you, so he lets you boss him around quite often with no more than a glare and a huff.

He’s like a tsundere, but platonic. He’d never admit that you’re his best- and only- friend, but it’s the truth, and he loves you like family.

Jason Voorhees

Jason was so, so shy, but something about you made him want to be your friend. You were so... normal, and be admired that.

It took quite some encouragement to actually go talk to you, and he had Pamela at his side through it all. He was so afraid you’d hate his face.

The moment you choose to be his friend he’s attached to you. He’d put all of his trust in you, and he’d see you as a sort of protector.

Ever since he started hanging out with you, less people have bothered him. Probably because he was usually out in the forest with you, away from prying eyes, playing hide and seek or tropical explorers.

You came back to Camp Crystal Lake every year, even after he died. You couldn’t bear to leave the memories. You spoke to Pamela a lot, too, keeping Jason’s spirit alive between the two of you.

When Pam died, you went to the lake to pay your respects at her tombstone. You had never guessed Jason, big, scary, murdering Jason, would greet you with a great big hug.

You moved out to the lake on a whim, and Jason moved in with you, patrolling the grounds at night and helping you with chores or gardening during the day.

He’s just as clingy as ever, but now, he’s your protector, and he always will be.

He doesn’t like when you swim in the lake, but he battles down his fear and acts as a life guard whenever you insist on taking a dip.

You patch up his wounds, making sure he’s clean and healthy, and in turn he keeps any pesky teenagers at bay, as well as keeps your crops nice and strong. He’s a great farmer.

Billy & Stu

Billy and Stu were best friends from the beginning, and they weren’t opposed to having a third party join their group.

Even as kids Billy was super popular, so both you and Stu were in the clear when it came to bullies.

You spent most weekends sleeping over at each other’s houses watching all sorts of movies. Horror, comedy, action, romance- you name it! Because of this, you’re just as much of a movie buff as the others.

When other friends like Sidney, Tatum and Randy came along, Billy and Stu made sure you knew you were still top priority.

They didn’t hide their murderous plans from you for long, unable to bear seeing you so worried for your own life.

Once you knew they were the killers, you couldn’t be angry or scared of them. Although, you did feel slightly guilty as your friends died off around you. Anyone would.

As adults, movie nights are still inportant, and you find yourself watching movies as you patch up their bumps and bruises from their hunts.

They keep you plenty safe, and the three of you together have the best fun. You’re all meant to be.

Danny ‘Jed Olsen’ Johnson

Danny was an outcast as a kid- he preferred photographs over people, but something about your face was next to irresistible.

Confident little Danny strolled right up to you one day and asked if he could take some pictures of you and your pretty face.

You and him clicked at that very moment, and he even taught you some of his photography skills.

His mother loved the hell out of you, and was always happy to have you over for dinner.

The night that Danny killed his mother and father, his first instinct was to go find you for help. Let’s just say you were surprised to see a bloody, terrified Danny crawling through your bedroom window at 3 am.

He ditched town for a while, finding shelter and solace in an old shack he’d stumbled upon, you taking up the job of bringing him food and whatever else he would need to live.

His Jed Olsen days were just fine, him showing his face again and living with you until people linked the Jed alibi to the murders. Then he was hiding again.

You hid with him, being the errand boy/girl, and spending most days chilling around with him doing who-knows-what. You were like a sister/brother to him, and he was just the same to you.

He trusts you with his life, and he kills off anyone who bothers you. You can even make requests, like you would to a rad DJ at a party. Although this was different... being murder and all.

Any and all S/Os of yours must pass the ‘Danny Test’, wherein he sees if they’re good enough to date you. Most fail. He’s picky, and overprotective.

Brahms Heelshire

The first day your parents brought you to the Heelshire residence to spend time with their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Heelshire, both you and Brahms were reluctant to meet another child.

Living a life of seclusion Brahms never imagined meeting someone hed actually care for enough to consider a friend. He was proven wrong.

He wanted to see you every day, and you wanted the same. You ended up having play dates every second day or so, and Brahms found himself actually growing very fond of you.

The fire was devestating, and you couldn’t sleep for weeks and weeks. In the future, an ad for a nanny job seemed like a shockingly nostalgiac idea, so you took the job to see tbe house where you made so many memories.

Brahms recognized you almost instantly. He basically rushed his parents out of the house so he could see you in action, in a natural environment where you could be yourself. He needed to know if it was really you.

Upon confirming that it was you, (Y/N), he showed himself that same day without fear. All it took for you to burst into happy tears was him saying your name in the same voice he had as a child.

Now, Brahms loves to reenact the old days, having tea parties and playing in the forest like he had as a child. He’s so happy to have you back!

He’s a very jealous man, so he’s never going to be fond of your S/O, but he’ll tolerate you having one as long as you promise not to leave him.

He won’t go in the walls very often anymore because he’s not afraid of you. He also won’t wear his mask much. His trust in you is infinite!

Pyramid Head

Before Pyramid Head became the monster he was, he had a normal life in a human world, with you glued to his side like two peas in a pod.

At school, he would keep you safe from bullies, using his abnormal height and strength to scare them off.

He always inwardly groaned when people would say the two of you were cute together, because neither of you liked each other like that.

The day P.H. went missing, you had been heartbroken. Who knew you would stumble upon him again years later in hell on earth?

When first running into Pyramid Head as we know him now, neither of you recognized each other. How could you, after all those years?

You would have been dead if you hadn’t spoken, and if he hadn’t recognized your voice. He was completely shocked.

Unable to speak, It was more than difficult to tell you thst he was him, your old best friend. After plenty of struggling you finally realize.

Now, he’s your ultimate bodyguard. Nothing and no one will ever hurt you. He knows Silent Hill like the back of his hand, so he’s like a guide as well.

He’ll do his very best to train you to defend yourself. He can’t lose you, not after you’ve finally returned again.

He’s got serious attachement issues, so he never leaves your side. Despite all the défense training, he won’t leave you alone for long.

Amanda Young

Amanda lived a rough childhood, so it was fantastic to have a friend like you to help her through it.

She was defiant, even as a child, so she stood up to anyone who would try to tease either of you. It usually resulted in a harsh beating, but she always walked away alright.

As she fell deeper and deeper into a dark spiral, she ignores your attempts to help, and before she knew it she was addicted to drugs. She wishes she’d have listened to you and your warnings.

When you heard she had been kidnapped by the infamous Jigsaw, you were horrified. You had never in a million years expected her to walk out alive, yet she did.

She kept her mentoring with John Kramer on the down low, keeping that new identity hidden. You were just glad she had gotten off of drugs.

Balancing a stable life with you and enough time with John was difficult and strenuous for your relationship. Sooner or later you grew curious as to where she always was and demanded an answer.

She told you. In a moment of vulnerability she spilled her guts, telling you everything about her gae with Jigsaw and it’s outcome, how she was training to kill. She had cried, afraid you would leave her or turn her in to the police.

Of course you did neither. After a bit of a rough patch where you had to get used to the idea, you and Amanda grew closer than ever. You even helped her with some traps and devices for her games.

You saw how she looked up to John like a father figure, glad that she had someone like that in her life again. John grew fond of you as well, and before you knew it, he was training both of you to be his disciples.

You and Amanda regarded each other as siblings for the rest of your days.

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rin-the-shadow · 4 years

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Had another round as Michael Myers tonight that was kinda weird. Maybe it was just that I’d been having some trouble in the Treatment Theater, so having a map where I actually had space to move and which I understood well from when I play survivor just felt weirdly easy by comparison.

But I ended up mowing everyone down to a point that I’d accidentally death-hooked one person (didn’t realize she’d gone into struggle on her first hook) and gotten two of the other three to second hook, and they still had 4 gens left to do. Ended up mostly running around and chasing people, breaking walls and kicking things, got the fourth person to second hook, and then ended up letting them go.

I dunno. I think if we’d had two gens left by the time I got everyone second hooked, I probably would have gone ahead and tried for the 4K just to see what it’s like, but it also felt weird to just be suddenly steamrolling everyone when the rest of the night, I’d been having difficulty getting more than two people hooked at all. It ended up being a fun round regardless, it was just weird in context of my other rounds.

I’m also finally starting to get some Scratched Mirrors in my bloodweb, so once I’ve gotten a bit more skilled, I’ll definitely be having some fun with perma-tier 1 Michael. I’ve also accumulated a few Tombstones, but I haven’t yet decided if I’ll end up using them or not.

Oh! And I finally accumulated enough Auric Cells in the Rift to be able to add Feng to my survivor roster. Though we’ll see if she’s still there in the morning or if the transaction will have undone itself and I’ll have to add her again.

#rin plays games #dead by daylight #dbd #michael myers #rin's mysterious reversing transactions

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neuvostoliitto · 5 years

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my current fave killers to play in dbd:

-myers. lmao but he was the first killer i really put time into playing and who i used to “main” (currently i play almost all killers + survivor equally) and the first killer i got to rank 1 with. wow it’s been a while : D. he is just really fun to play for me most of the time. normally i just use stalk movement speed/charge speed/ dead rabbit add ons. it’s fine that he has some boosted stuff like tombstone and the .. wallhack.. but i personally dont enjoy playing against those so i feel it would be unfair if i used them

-pig. she is maybe my current favorite. the combat straps + video tape is a really good combo against looping and the rtb can be used to waste time. i like to run nurses’ calling with her for sneaky hits :8) also good meme potential with the survivors

-freddy. he became so strong with his buffs i kinda feel bad xD we call him “mr. 80%” because that’s what his kill rate was close to in some stats if i recall right. fake pallets are good. also + pop goes the weasel + bbq is nasty just saying

-spirit. if i really want to make sure i win i play her. she is very powerful and fun to play as, (but probably not very fun to play against, i admit). i used to use make your choice with her which is really strong because she is so fast while phasing. i just use some basic killer build now but i used to play her perkless/add onless and it made little difference. i would say she is almost nurse tier

#my fave but kinda meme perk right now is bloodwarden #here's a fun trick ive been doing if im about to lose xD #down a survivor and pretend you are 'toxic' by just standing over them until the end game timer is under half way done #then hook them .. slap some survivors and enjoy #they wont make it #i ve done this 2times this week and it was so satisfying #the survivors werent even mad #the waiting thing really works if you didnt do so good so the survivors dont respect you #they never see it coming

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Will be discussing Halloween (2018) and the original 1978 film on November 3rd, 2018 on the cleanup forum for the Complete Monster film. Pretty excited for it. A rough draft of the Bogeyman’s EP..

BEWARE OF SPOILERS:

What is the work?

Halloween is the classic 1978 horror film directed by director John Carpenter. Many of us already know the premise; a masked killer returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, to continue his killing spree only to get thrown into conflict with teenage babysitter Laurie Strode. I don’t even need to get into how much of an impact the film left on the horror genre or how Michael himself became the progenitor of future slashers. Forty years after the events of the 1978 film, a direct sequel was made, ignoring all the events from the sequels up to and including the second film. During that timeframe, Laurie herself had become a paranoid old woman who had spent the remainder of her days preparing for Michael’s eventual escape. Her obsession with killing Michael had since driven a wedge between her and her family, her having suffered two divorces and her daughter being taken. But of course, her paranoia proves to be correct.

Who is he?

Michael Myers. The Shape. The Bogeyman. Evil on Two Legs. Michael Myers started off as a seemingly normal young boy until one Halloween night. In 1963, after his older sister Judith finished having “fun” with her boyfriend, Michael goes to her room and stabs her repeatedly with a kitchen knife until she died. Shortly afterward, Michael’s parents arrived, speechless to what had transpired. Michael was six-years-old at the time. Michael is then taken to the Smith’s Grove Sanitarium where he is placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis. After spending a few years trying to reach Michael, Dr. Loomis realized that there was nothing salvageable to be found within the child, concluding that he was purely and simply evil. So, he spent the last few years ensuring that Myers would never escape his incarceration. But evil always finds a way…

What has he done?

In the first film, Dr. Loomis and his assistant Marion Chambers are tasked with picking Michael up from the Smith’s Grove Sanitarium so that he could be taken to court. They discover that several patients of the sanitarium were freely roaming the road. Loomis goes out to investigate, leaving Marion unarmed. Without warning, Michael attacks her, forcing her out of the car before driving away. Upon returning to Haddonfield, Michael kills a man for his uniform, and breaks into a hardware store, stealing a few knives, rope, and his signature white mask.

Soon afterward, Michael starts to stalk Laurie Strode and her friends. Michael follows them to their neighborhood with them not being the wiser. Annie Brackett, a friend of Laurie’s who was babysitting at the time, received a call from her boyfriend, asking her to pick him up. While waiting in the car, Michael materializes from the back and starts strangling Annie before slitting her throat. After a few more murders, Michael takes the bodies of Laurie’s slain friends and places them into some morbid art piece, completing it by placing the tombstone of his deceased sister on the bed. Laurie arrives to investigate only to get ambushed by the deranged killer. After a grapple with Michael – and stabbing him in the eye with a clothes hanger-- Dr. Loomis arrives, and shoots Michael six times. Michael plummets off the balcony to his assumed end, but when Loomis turns back to look, Michael vanishes. Apparently during that lapse in time, Dr. Loomis tried to shoot Michael only to come short of killing him by Officer Hawkins.

Forty years later, two podcasters – Aaron Korey and Dana Haines respectively – make a documentary about the 1978 Haddonfield murders and wish to interview Michael Myers who hadn’t uttered a word for years. Dr. Loomis had since passed, being replaced by his pupil Dr. Ranbir Sartain. Aaron tries to invoke some sort of response from Michael by producing his mask, but it didn’t seem to have much effect. Aaron and Dana try to convince Laurie to speak with Michael before he was sentenced to maximum security, but that’s a no show. On the night the bus was to leave, it crashes, releasing the inmates. A father and son were riding at the time, and the father gets out to inspect the crash. The preteen boy leaves the car after his father disappeared, only to discover his lifeless body, his neck having been broken in inhumane fashion. The boy goes back to the car…only for Michael to then kill him by smashing his head against the window until it cracked. Michael goes onto murder the two podcasters as well as a clerk at a gas station, and an engineer so he could take his clothes. Arriving at Haddonfield, Michael goes on a small killing spree, killing a mother with a hammer and another woman with a kitchen knife for no other reason than he could. After murdering Allyson’s friends, he tries to go after her before being run over by Officer Hawkins. Before he could finish him off, Sartain kills him with his pen knife, explaining that he wanted Michael to live so he could use him for his purposes. Unfortunately for him, Michael regains consciousness and forcefully drags him out of the car, stomping his head into a bloody pulp (why can’t they learn that evil isn’t a toy).

Michael follows Allyson to Laurie’s house, and murders two police officers, having turned one of the poor bastard’s heads into a jack-o-lantern. He then kills Ray and goes after Laurie after taking a moment to recognize her. After seemingly succeeding at killing her by throwing her out the window, he gets shot by Karen as part of a Wounded Gazelle Gambit. Laurie returns, forcing Michael into the saferoom and she activates metallic bars to trap Michael inside. Gas fills the saferoom as a flare is dropped into the room, setting it and Michael ablaze. Michael is last seen angrily glaring at Laurie with his one good eye, fully aware he was thoroughly screwed. So, yeah. Michael is “dead.” Well, I guess that means that he is truly gone forever. It’s not like the producers were considering making sequels if the film did well. Oh wait.

Freudian Excuse? Mitigating factors?

No excuses, whatsoever. Michael has no tragic backstory or anything of that sort. Myers initially was a “normal” kid until that Halloween night where he knifed his sister to death in an unprovoked attack. Given that the sequels were ignored in this continuity, there is no connection to some evil cult to draw from, no familial connection between Laurie and Michael…At the very least, one of the recurring elements behind Myers’ character is that he is simply a psychopathic killer. From the time he murdered his own sister to his years living in Smith Grove’s Sanitarium, Myers was nothing more than a psychopath. He was utterly born into it. One of the more notable things about Michael is his sadism. He pins Lynda’s boyfriend to the wall with his knife before placing a bedsheet on himself and making her believe that he was her boyfriend. Or there was that time that he desecrates his sister’s grave by stealing her tombstone and making some crude piece with it and the bodies of Laurie’s friends. But that is nothing compared to his actions forty years later.

One of the first things he does when he escapes? He murders a father and his son by breaking their necks, with the boy, he repeatedly smashes his head against the car’s window until it breaks. This also marks the first time in the series where Michael kills a preteen victim (not counting the comics). Or when he goes to retrieve his mask? He killed a clerk by pulling his lower teeth out before showing them to Dana. He takes Aaron and slams his face on the stall door until it opened. When he finally gets to Haddonfield, Myers decides to recreate his original spree. Only here? It’s even more brutal than before. His kills are more random, one of them being where he grabs a hammer and beats a mother to death with it. As for sparing the woman’s baby…really, leaving a completely defenseless baby to fend for itself because its mother is dead? And the possibility that the baby could die if no one decides to check on the mother? Yeah…not really redeeming. With each of these kills, they all perpetuate that Michael has no logical reason to do what he does. He simply chooses to. Hell, the film even makes it ambiguous on whether he wanted to get revenge on Laurie as he appeared disinterested in facing her again until literally being taken to her abode.

Heinous standard?

Meets it, obviously. Aside from Michael holding the moniker of being the progenitor of a slew of slasher films that played Follow the Leader, Michael has a sizable body count. While his original spree ended with five people falling victim to him (which is low for a horror movie), the direct sequel quadruples that. He ends the movie with roughly around 16 victims killed. In addition, the kills this time around are especially gruesome such as repeatedly slamming a person’s head on a stall door; decapitating a man and hollowing the head out to make a jack-o-lantern; stomping a person’s head to mulch, etc. Need I also mention that one of his victims was a child? Other than that, Michael obliterates the heinous standard.

#complete monster #austindr #robbyrobinson #subpages cleanup complete monster #Michael Myers #Halloween #evil #pure evil #the bogeyman #John Carpenter

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mizbabygirl · 7 years

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Blackhawks Player Nicknames (according to Second City Hockey.com) [03\23\2017]

Andrew Desjardins #11 (currently free agent) Desi, Dijon, Colonel Mustard. Not Ben Smith, but was traded for him. Depth forward.

Artem Anisimov #15 Arty, Arty Party, Ani. Our long-awaited 2C. Friend of Annette Frontpresence.

Artemi Panarin #72 (now with Columbus Blue Jackets) Pan, Bread Man, Panera Bread, Snake. No one is quite sure how to spell his first name. Undrafted, caused much salt among fans of other teams when he won the Calder Trophy for best NHL rookie at the age of 24.

Brent Seabrook #7 Seabs, Biscuit (a reference to Seabiscuit), The Captain Whisperer (after he stepped into the box to comfort Toews after his third crappy penalty in the process of losing to Detroit in Game 4 in the 2013 playoffs). Nacho Seabre (admitted weakness for nachos and pizza). Affectionately known as "(my) Seabsie boy" to his teammates. If he looks slow on the ice it's probably because he ate too many nachos. Gave his son Carter the middle name of "Seven,” but alleges it was his wife's idea.

Brian Campbell #51 (now retired) Soupy (like Campbell's soup, generic nickname for anyone with this last name), Soup Dogg, Ginger (the hair), 51 Phantom.

Corey Crawford #50 Crow, Watcher (the Watcher on the Wall from Game of Thrones), Crawful (generally used sarcastically), Crawsome. As this is Chicago, the victim of a perpetual goalie controversy despite performing as an elite NHL starter for the last four seasons. His glove hand/blocker/five-hole sucks and we'll never win anything with him in net. He's a fucking beauty (quote from his Cup parade speech where he was totally non-sober and dropped two f-bombs).

Dennis Rasmussen #70 (now with Anaheim Ducks) Moose, Raz. Swedish defensive forward.

Duncan Keith #2 Duncs, Jigsaw (reference to character from Saw, because his teammates claim he's kind of psycho scary and methodical), Teeth, in reference to his heroism in the 2010 WCF, losing 7 teeth in Game 4 and only missing a few shifts, Bambi because of how fast he skates (he has crazy good conditioning and routinely has the highest TOI of the team). Inspired the phrase 'Chicago Runs on Duncan'.

John Hayden #40 Hayds, Hayder.

Johnny Oduya #27 Odie, Oh do ya? eg, "I think his last name has a lot of pun-potential." "Oh, do ya?" Jeremy Roenick is jealous now because Oduya's wearing his old number, but Roenick thinks it should be retired.

Jonathan Toews #19 Jonny, Tazer, Captain, Best Captain, Captain Marvel (he wears the C and he's the best/marvelous, obviously), Captain Serious (because he is one serious motherfucker, although glimpses of him off-guard on camera suggest his off-ice personality has a large component of goofy weirdo), Captain Lardass (from an angry Twitter comment), Captain Seriously [Adjective]. Draws comparisons to Grumpy Cat (Kaner's feline equivalent is Lil Bub) and to a hockeybot who does not understand human emotions, due to his hilariously incongruous facial expressions in any given situation (see also Toewsface)

Jordin Tootoo #22 Toots, Two two and other such puns. Depth forward, here for the grit.

Marcus Kruger #16 (now with Carolina Hurricanes) Krugs, Frogger (because he likes to play in traffic, gets crunched a lot, yet has many lives), Freddy (his team nickname, from Nightmare on Elm Street), The Plan All Along (according to Stan Bowman, his call-up from Europe in late 2011 was "all part of the plan"). "Kruger is mashed, gets away with the puck" - commentary from Foley, and the story of his life. As Tracey Myers once put it, his tombstone will read, "Kruger took a hit to make a play.”

Marian Hossa #81 Hoss, Panda (originally sad panda, a name acquired during the playoffs while he playing for Detroit, shortened to Panda when he joined the Hawks), Gossamer (from autocorrect), HE IS MARIAN HOSSA AND YOU ARE NOT, because few can do what he does. Likes KitKats, as they are "good for you!"

He is a hockey demigod, a fact acknowledged by everyone including the official twitter. His name may be substituted for "God" in common phrases, eg "Oh my Hossa!"

Michal Kempny #6 Lemony, via autocorrect. Third pair dman.

Michal Rozsival #32 Rozi, Rozsi. Elderly depth dman, looks like an elf. Will still be signing 1-year deals with the Hawks when Toews and Kane have retired.

Nick Schmaltz #8 KFC (Schmaltz means chicken fat), Biggy Schmaltz. Playmaking center drafted from UND (this worked out well last time they tried it), snatched from under the noses of the St Louis Blues when Stan traded up in the draft. Brother Jordan is a Blues prospect. Chicago Mission alum.

Niklas Hjalmarsson #4 (now with Arizona Coyotes) Hjammer, Hammer, Meatball (because he was the original Swede Hawk), Jelly (his AHL nickname), Super Nintendo Chalmers (Simpsons reference), Jarbles (the LA announcers clearly mislaid the Swedish names cheatsheet in the WCF and called him Jarbleson), Swedish Viking (description by Jonny Oduya). His leg bones have been upgraded to titanium, judging by the number of shots he blocks.

Patrick Kane #88 Kaner, Lazy, Showtime, wee blond ninja, Black Magic for what he does with the puck, from a quote by former SCHer gmh - "...but the devil lives inside this kid, I swear it. It rises out of him in a mist, this baby-faced defiant wrathful version of Pat Kane, escapes his bodily confines to perform satanic miracles all over the offensive zone. The only thing more fearsome than that assist was the keep-in preceding it. The only thing more unholy than his face is his black magic."

Richard Panik #14 Visa (due to visa issues when joining the team), Panik at the UC!, or Disco for obvious reasons. His name is actually pronounced PAH-neek but hockey never lets a bad pun go to waste.

Ryan Hartman #38 Hartzy. Giving Seabrook a run for his money for "Best Hair" on the team. Another Illinois native/Chicago Mission kid.

Scott Darling #33 (now with Carolina Hurricanes) Oh My, Clem - from the song "Oh my darling Clementine.” A native of Lemont (or maybe Aurora according to one confused commentator), is very tall.

Tanner Kero #67 Depth center.

Tomas Jurco #13 Part of Stan's secret plan to collect all the Slovaks in the NHL in case any of them grow up into Hossas.

Trevor van Riemsdyk #57 (now with Carolina Hurricanes) TVR, Smiley van Smiley due to his happy demeanor in interviews. Brother of James/JVR.

Prospects/IceHogs

Tyler Motte #64 (now with Columbus Blue Jackets) Apple Sauce, Motter.

Vinnie Hinostroza #48 Cousin Vinnie. Bartlett native and ex-Chicago Mission kid.

Brandon Mashinter #53 Mash, Manshitter Here to maintain the quota of players called Brandon and occasionally punch things.

To see the rest of the article, go to: https://www.secondcityhockey.com/2017/3/23/13762402/guide-nicknames-jargon-slang-blackhawks-fans

#chicago blackhawks #blackhawks nicknames

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junker-town · 7 years

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The 5 players in the NL West who matter the most

These are the most interesting and crucial players of the National League West. Pay a little extra attention to them.

Welcome back to our series looking at the most important/compelling players in each division. These are the players whose fates are intertwined with their teams. If they have a great season, their team probably is having a great season, too. If they flop, their teams will be scrambling. These are the canaries in the coal mine.

Of course, we can’t be too obvious. You’re not going to learn anything if I write, “Boy, if Clayton Kershaw pitches fewer than 100 innings, the Dodgers won’t win as many games as expected.” We need players who are more enigmatic than that.

Who are the canaries in the NL West coal mine? We have answers.

San Diego Padres - Wil Myers

I’m not a Padres fan, but I still stay awake at night, thinking about trading Trea Turner away. Not only did they trade him away, but they had to fudge the rules to do it, making him a player-to-be-named-later-wink-wink to get the deal done. How does that happen? How many people had to sign off on that?

Then I remember Joe Ross and curse a lot. And, again, I’m not even invested in the danged team.

Which is all an extended way of saying this: Earn this, Wil Myers. Be the All-Star from the first half of last year, not the dizzy mess from the second half.

Myers is almost a human window for the Padres. When he’s mashing like the cleanup hitter they thought they were acquiring, he looks like a cornerstone of the team, someone who will be around for at least three or four years. If the Padres turn their outstanding farm system into an outstanding major-league roster, Myers would be young and cheap enough to help them, regardless if it’s in 2019 or 2021.

If he can’t overcome the swing-and-miss in his approach, and if the league has truly figured him out, the Padres will deal him for ... not Trea Turner. He’ll wander the badlands like Justin Smoak or Brett Wallace, surviving on pine cones and his wits.

Myers was an above-average hitter last year, so keep the faith. If he struggles, though, there really isn’t any incentive at all for the Padres to speed the rebuilding process up.

Los Angeles Dodgers - Julio Urias

The Dodgers cannot live on Clayton Kershaw alone. Every year, they reach the postseason. Every year, they ask him to pitch on short rest and do everything. Every year, it doesn’t work out.

What the Dodgers need is a situation that allows them to use Kershaw on short rest once, maybe twice, as a secret weapon, a card pulled from somewhere unspeakable that wins the hand. That is, a situation where they aren’t using Kershaw on short rest because, hey, that’s the blueprint. The Dodgers were probably pretty jealous of how the Indians aped their postseason plan, riding Corey Kluber and Andrew Miller through the prickle bushes and all the way to the pennant. Except:

Both of them had cartoonish tombstones in their eyes by Game 7 of the World Series, and

The Indians had to do that because of various injuries

What the Dodgers need, then, is that third pitcher. The complementary head to the postseason hydra. It’s something they lacked when Zack Greinke was around, in part because they refused to trade Julio Urias. Now they have Rich Hill — risky, but excellent — and they need a third.

Urias has as much talent as any pitcher in baseball. He’s still a zygote, sure, but the Dodgers are reverse-strasburging him, starting him slow and ramping up the innings in preparation for the postseason. You’ll know in two or three months if the plan is to roll into October with Kershaw/Hill/Urias and Kershaw available for a Game 5 or 7, or if the Dodgers are just going to make Kershaw do everything again. The success of Urias in his first full-ish season will be a huge part of that.

Colorado Rockies - assorted Tylers

The Rockies will have an absurd lineup in a month or so, just absurd. When David Dahl, Ian Desmond, and Tom Murphy come back, it’ll be possible for them to have six, seven, or even eight superior hitters to the hitters playing the same positions for their opponents. Desmond is being misused, but that doesn’t mean you can’t talk about their infield in the same breath as the Cubs’, both offensively and defensively.

If they want to contend, then, they need to pitch. This is not a novel concept. This is sort of the story of the franchise, really.

The reliable pitching staff fled across the mountains, and the executive in the purple tie followed.

This has gone on for decades. Remember the weirdo piggyback experiment? Goodness.

But this time, the Rockies have some homegrown pitchers of note, and they’re used to Coors Field and ready to evolve. Jon Gray should be the ace, and there are younger pitchers like Jeff Hoffman and Kyle Freeland who could develop quicker than expected, but Tylers Anderson and Chatwood have the potential to turn the Rockies into immediate contenders. If they’re fine, the Rockies are fine. If they’re great, the Rockies are great. If they’re a mess, well, you get the idea.

Both Anderson and Chatwood are 27.3 years old, according to Roster Resource, so while it’s not fair to suggest their at the crossroad of their respective careers, expectations for both of them shouldn’t be tempered. This when they both need to rustle around and come up with 180-200 innings of above-average pitching.

Because if they don’t, man, what a waste of a great lineup.

San Francisco Giants - Jarrett Parker

There are few teams in baseball that need to scrap for every last win as much as the Giants. They’ll need every position to be humming along as expected if they’re going to threaten the Dodgers. They’ll need every pitcher to do what they’re supposed to if they’re going to fight off other teams for the NL wild card again. They might squeak into the postseason by a game. They might miss the postseason by a game.

Considering this, it sure was bold of them to go in-house with left field. Parker has what the Giants need, which is power, and lots of it, but he’s also 28 and something of a finished product. Just taking his strikeout rate at Triple-A and copy/pasting it into the majors would make him one of the greatest strikeout hitters in franchise history, too, so it’s not as if it’s taken him this long to become a starter because he’s been blocked by better players. He’s a flawed hitter.

But Parker has power. Enough power to get it out of right field in AT&T Park, and the Giants might be baseball’s most desperate station-to-station team. They hit just 55 home runs in the second half last year, with most of them coming from Denard Span, who won’t do it again, and Angel Pagan, who’s gone.

The Giants already platooned Parker, which is sensible, considering his splits, so all they want him to do is bludgeon right-handed pitching early in games. That’s his one job, and they essentially planned this crucial offseason around his ability to do that.

If he’s hitting .190 with 3 homers by May 15, you’ll have a pretty good idea of how the Giants are feeling. But that goes for him hitting .240 with 10 homers, too. It’s a fine line.

Arizona Diamondbacks - Shelby Miller

If we’re going to start the divisional tour by complaining about Joe Ross and Trea Turner, we have to end it here. Miller didn’t exactly knock on a door, sit down, and fire Dave Stewart himself, but it was close. Metaphorically, at least.

Zack Greinke should be fine, even if “fine” is defined as something below a Cy Young level of performance. Robbie Ray will have to figure out how to turn his xFIP into ERA, and Patrick Corbin will have to figure out how to return to 2013, but there’s no one more crucial to the entire franchise than Miller. Like the Rockies, the Diamondbacks can hit. They have roughly the same roster they did last year, when some folks were predicting to win the NL West. They should have the same lineup next year, too, with everyone young and talented enough to help them score 850 runs.

The only difference is that we have a season’s worth of evidence that suggests their pitching is completely incapable of helping that lineup out. That might have been a hiccup, something they’ll be mercifully incapable of repeating.

Miller is another one of those players who could push the Diamondbacks to reload or rebuild. Is he the young, cost-controlled No. 2 they thought they were getting? If so, keep A.J. Pollock and Paul Goldschmidt around and fill in the margins. Is he the disaster of 2016? Well, uh, see, there aren’t any prospects to trade, really, and there isn’t a lot of money to spend in the market after Greinke, so it’ll become awfully tempting to start over.

The Pollock-Goldschmidt window is something like that duck-rabbit optical illusion. It’s a window the Diamondbacks can look at and interpret two different ways. There’s the window of contending with these superlative talents ... but there’s also the window of cashing those superlative talents in for some of the greatest prospects in baseball. It’s a heckuva lot easier to go all-in on the first window if there’s a 20-something starting pitcher coming into his own, just like they were expecting in the first place.

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