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#it’s just so bittersweet. as an eichs narrative obsessive
brockachu · 2 years
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hey y’all ever think about how the new narrative (at least in the league, and a little from some sabres fans) is that the sabres can finally get a true rebuild done, shaking off the haunted vibes from jack, but using what he was traded for. and it’s just like. he was supposed to save the franchise right? and there is so much budding hope in the sabres i’ve seen recently.
like some ppl are already projecting tuch for next captain. the sabres seem to be developing krebs pretty well & he’s def getting more play than he would’ve in vegas. they also have a 1st & 3rd round pick from the trade that could go so many ways to rounding out that increasingly youthful roster.
and the irony is that jack maybe did finally save the franchise. by leaving.
#ooohhh ooohhhhh aily is in their jack feels again excuse me excuse me#it’s just so bittersweet. as an eichs narrative obsessive#the funny thing for me is knowing i Really did not care that much before#i was specifically pointedly dispassionate about the 2015 draft class bc i just refused to partake in the weird nationalist feud#the mcdavid vs eichel was so Weirdly patriotic on both sides and i Hated it. also i just have Never cared for the Next One gimmick#didn’t like it on crosby didn’t like it on mcdavid. trying not to let it affect my opinion on bedard as the next big name nhl projected 1oa#tho we’re still 2 drafts off from the bedard scramble. lord protect any other child in that draft projected near him#anyway i could’ve gone his whole career not giving half a fuck about eichs until the surgery hubbub happened. whoof#even while on hockey hiatus i followed a handful of hockey podcasts just to know a general idea of what was going on even if i didn’t watch#puck soup got me digging up the eichs narrative even before i was back to following the canucks roster and whatnot#but boy i tumbled right in and dove deep on the eichs narrative. here i still am just chilling occasionally coming back with shiny rocks#i’m always gonna side with an individual over an org unless it’s real clear the individual is fucking awful (see: kesler)#i just. would like to see jack have his moment please. i know it is absolutely good enough that he is healthy & playing well#but we all know players want and expect more for themselves. i want eichs to get his moment. i want eichs to get to be indisputably right.#tbh i’m exporting some personal shit on it. i want eichs to get the clear unequivocal vindication that i am not sure i’ll ever get#as i’ve noted on my pinned post i’m going through a lot and it’s been escalating and escalating for like 2 years now. since the pandemic#and i just. every day i have to confront that shit sucks and i will likely never get an apology or anyone admitting i was right or anything#if i’m lucky i will get out of this chunk of time with more coping tools and less unresolved trauma and maybe a lawsuit settlement which#i don’t personally believe in financial litigation for trauma but it is the only system we fucking having in this hell capitalist ‘democrac#i am just. exhausted. and disappointed. and angry. and sad. and exhausted again. and holding it together with will & gritted teeth#the most i can wish for is that the process of ~all this~ pans out sooner than later. it could be resolved in the next couple months#or it could take a literal nother year. at most 2.#and i’m not just holding it together for me. i’m holding it together for fucking everyone.#bc i get to process and reprocess all of this at least 3 times. once for me. once to translate for my parents. once to explain to my sibs.#it’s not anything i can pass off to anyone else. but it’s also fucking impossible feeling like a single linchpin keeping this entire shakin#train together. i reiterate i am so exhausted. even when i can delegate some things i still have to go back to make sure it gets done#bc everyone is so used to me just fucking doing everything that they forget they were supposed to take a task for me#anyway anyway so yeah. i am outsourcing my emotions to some hockey and i would like a win please#i would like something i can point to and say ‘see? that worked. i can do that.’#i know it will be ok eventually. but i am asking for a sign. i am asking for a beacon. please
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