#s. crosby

[holy-puckslibrary]

just a lil firefighter!sid fluff for y'all :)

gif from @ehghtysevenarchive + per this ask and others

Surely, the chief of Canada's oldest fire department has more important things to do on a crisp morning, the last one preceding a fresh week, than this. He most definitely does. And, yes, Chief Crosby is known for his pragmatic approach to, well, everything.

But neither carries weight here—not when she calls.

Leaky faucet, dead car battery, unreachable spider... It doesn't matter. One ring, and he's rushing home. He can't pin-point when the pattern began, likely sometime shortly between the day you moved into town and his first off-day, but it's a routine he's come to enjoy despite the extra strain on both his schedule and his body; Sidney never thought sharing a property line could be so tedious or time-consuming.

He knows he shouldn't enjoy the distraction as much as he does. You aren't together, Sidney doesn't ever allow his imagination wander that far, but he can't help it. He can't help but help. He rarely turns down anyone in need, which has done wonders for his reputation within the community, but with you... With you, it's different, and embarrassingly so.

He doesn't have the words to explain it. Not that he needs to, it's written plainly across his face.

There's a reason you're regular fixtures in the town's gossip column.

When he arrives on scene—not ten minutes after his F-Series crawled down the gravel drive—Sidney shakes his head and laughs. Collecting his cell and his radio, he slips out of the truck, watching as you fret like a mother hen.

Still in your slippers, you're stood at the base of a decently-sized red spruce wedged between his yard and yours, your crumpled face angled up into the yellow-green needles. You're the very picture of worry, wringing your trembling hands and muttering to yourself.

A stray kitten caught in a tree, that's what's got you in a such a state.

"Well, this is a new one," he bellows in lieu of a greeting, slamming the door shut as his boots hit the ground.

Briefly, your glassy eyes dart in his direction. You're midway through your customary apology when he arrives at your side and quiets you, just as he always does.

"They're more than capable of holding down the fort for however long it takes to rescue our new friend, okay?"

"I know, but what if—"

"But nothing," Sidney huffs, and he dares to take you by the shoulders. And, externally, he ignores the way you shiver under his palms. "If I didn't think it was safe for me to step out for a couple of minutes, I wouldn't. You believe me, right?"

You nod, bottom lip pinched between your teeth.

"Good. Now, how 'bout you keep an ear on this," Sidney sets the clunky satellite radio in your hand, "—and I'll grab the ladder from the shed?"

He doesn't really need your help monitoring the channel, but he knows you'll feel better if you feel like you're doing something. Like him, you find comfort in your utility.

In less than a minute, Sidney re-emerges, rounding the corner with a ladder in hand. You're in the same spot, now fidgeting with the radio, anxiously dumping it from one palm to the other and back again. He follows your gaze to line up the simple equipment necessary for the rescue operation.

Sidney's heart swells as you quietly step forward to spot him.

Lucky for everyone, the ball of orange fur is on the branch nearest to the ground. Sidney needs only to step up onto the first wrung to safetly coax the frightened creature into his waiting hands, he's back on the ground not long after.

He gives the kitten a gentle parting scratch under the chin, then transfers the purring fluff to you. The soft bundle takes to you immediately, nuzzling into your chest like that's where it wanted to be all along.

"I think he likes you," Sidney observes with a cheek-numbing grin.

Your lips are tipped up at the end and there's fan of happiness rooting itself around your eyes. Your mouth opens to reply, but before the words come—

"Well, would you look at this?"

Across the quiet street and a few houses to the left sits an audience of two. Both of which are now cooing as loudly as two ladies in their sixties can manage. Coffee cups in one hand and their cellphones propped up in the other, they fawn over the two of you as if it's live theater.

Sidney curses their sons, who he'd completed the explorer program with as teens, for enabling this technological torture.

"Smile, you two! Oh, Denise is just going to eat this up," one of them, a spitfire in a 4'11 frame by the name of Mrs. Bouchard, exclaims to her co-conspirator, Ms. Johnston.

Then, to no one's surprise and Sid's chagrin, they giddily type out their respective messages to the local paper's equally-nosy editor-in-chief.

"Looks like we're front-page news again," you hum bashfully.

The tabby mewls in your arms. You curl into the little bundle of fur, lips landing between its delicate ears.

Sid studies you in his periphery as he slips in and out of heady contemplation, ultimately deciding he doesn't mind as much as he once did. "That we are..."

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[puckgoss]

The one thing I noticed from the Daniela video.. Vince has got an 🍑 sheeeeshhh

that's hockey players for ya. google "sidney crosby butt" his ass is legendary

[shutth3puckup]

The most secretive relationship in the NHL has to be Crosby's. Is he engaged? Secretly married? No one knows.

Are they still together? Do they have three kids with another on the way? Life’s biggest mystery.

[icecoldversace]

sidney crosby if you can hear me please. sidney crosby please save me. please save me sidney crosby.

[ehghtyseven]

handsome as ever <3

[bcolfanfic]

young veterans au - POV you’re on gale’s phone, dad!gale version

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buckyegan_ Last time feeding the ducks as a 4 year old. Read a quote the other day about your kids being your heart beating outside of your body. I knew exactly what they meant.

crozbee Yep. ❤️❤️

cbiddick They gotta figure out how to keep kids little forever. One of Gale’s academia buddies working on that?

galecleven17 I sure hope so.

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galecleven17 with buckyegan_ Just in time for her birthday, an old babysitter recently contacted us to share a baby picture she realized she had of our girl.

I wish so bad that we knew you then. But we found our way to each other, and I thank God every day that he chose us to be your parents. Daddy loves you the stars, Josie Belle. I think 5 is going to be the best year yet.

alexjeff_art Those little baby cheeks- how cool you guys got that photo. Happy bday Josie!!!

rosenthal_ She has the best parents in you two. Can’t wait to see you guys!

[precious-little-scoundrel]

Seems kinda tough now to say goodbye this way

But Papa’s gotta be rough now, so he can be sweet to you another day

Bye bye baby, don’t cry baby, shoo shoo shoo baby

When I come back we’ll live a life of ease

Harry Crosby vibes for an upcoming “month in New York”

[simmyfrobby]

― Animals, Frank O'Hara

Hockey Poetry Post 74/?

(Photo credit: Ethan Miller, Justin K. Aller, Justin Berl, Patrick Smith, Jeff Vinnick, Jeff Vinnick, Patrick Smith, Jeff Vinnick, Dave Sandford, Twitter, Emilee Chinn, Patrick Smith, Bruce Bennett)

[ducktracy]

Pig and duck nip and tuck delivery service is a thing?!

'TIS INDEED!!!!! ...AS FAR AS CARTOONS GO, not in real life, but considering how the events of the short go the world is much much much better off for that being the case

thank you for offering me the opportunity to shill one of my favorite Anythings yet again... and for those who have not seen Baby Bottleneck please take the 7 minutes out of your day to watch it. there it is right at your finger tips!!!!! click it! CLICK IT! this cartoon sent me into heart palpitations so intensely for the first time i genuinely thought i was having a heart attack and on the verge of calling my parents the first time i saw it. it thusly has my favorite scene(s) out of anything ever made in the whole wide world, this attached video being among them... so if you haven't seen it I BEG! I PLEAD I GROVEL I CRY I IMPLORE. WATCH THIS CARTOON!!!! it's so so so so so so so so so so wonderful and so so so so so so so so so so important to me.

also please take the time to admire the wonderful details of Rod Scribner's animation such as a) Daffy throwing down the phones with such force that they actually swivel around on their axes and b) count how many times Daffy's hat changes positions/rotates on his head

[naanima]

I feel such feelings for Connor McDavid. Future King, saviour of Edmonton. Except it is his luck (bad or good) that he came into hockey when Sidney Crosby was still winning Cups right left & centre. So, Connor McDavid, the saviour of a franchise that had squandered multiple chances, due to mismanagement, fucking tries. He worked & toiled until he became the best player in the world, until the team built itself to be a contender, until he was ready to win that fucking cup.

But time and hockey is a fickle thing, Sidney Crosby, the King, the living legend, is still alive and grasping at the last light of his glory, and Connor Bedard, the next child draped with clinging hands of the hopes & dreams of a dying franchise has appeared. And open to him is all the ways he could grasp glory in his hands. All the untarnished hopes.

Connor McDavid, the king-in-waiting, the Next Next One, the best hockey player in the world has not won the Stanley Cup, not once. He has not won gold bcos the league did not allow their players the glory of olympics. And that narrative, his narrative is just full of pathos, the potential for greatness just at his fingertips and yet.

Connor McDavid is a king without a crown.

And HOW DO YOU NOT FEEL FOR HIM?

[holy-puckslibrary]

sid to a furry friend's rescue!

florist!reader gets flustered during sid's calendar shoot

parents mentors for the day

someone's going on a date with chief crosby... and it ain't our girl </3

gif from @matbaerzal

To Sidney, this sham is nothing more than a meat-market legitimized. His fierce, formidable crew, flaunted and auctioned off in the name of "charity," as upstanding members of the local community brazenly gawk and drink themselves into a courageous stupor.

Gathered in packs around the local watering hole on a Friday night, the only things missing are high-res Animal Planet cameras and the calm wonder of Sir David Attenborough. It's only a matter of time before they start throwing themselves at each other like elk during mating season.

It's a shame Sidney won't be around to see it.

"Don't even think about it, Chief."

Sidney slumps; he spoke too soon.

Now, he's caught between cracked-door freedom and the firm grip of his Assistant Fire Chief. Kneading at the annoyance budding between his brows, Sidney turns on his heel to face his childhood best friend.

"C'mon, really? This is a circus, Nate. I shouldn't—Is this really something I should be doing? Y'know, it's not exactly... becoming of a civil servant."

"I'm doing it," Nate shrugs. "You don't see me pitching a fit."

The Chief glares. "Yeah, because you already know who you're going home with."

"Not true; tonight's could be the night Emmy decides to act on her grade school crush," the blonde jokes, his chin tipped across the gymnasium. "And who'd blame her? Flower's lookin' better than usual tonight."

"Nate."

The younger of the two only laughs in response to the dramatic groan of his name.

"No, I get it. You're acting pissy because your flower's stuck at home with a stomach bug, and, subsequently, you've been condemned to the terrible fate of having Cole Harbour's hottest fight tooth and nail for a date with you—oh, the horror! Truly, I feel for you, Saint Crosby."

"Bandwagon much?" he grumbles.

As Nate's grin widens, Sid's frown deepens.

Blue eyes twinkling with satisfaction, Nate teases, "You didn't deny it this time."

"D-Deny, what?"

Nate rolls his eyes; Sid's refusal to acknowledge anything, let alone something so obvious to anyone with eyes, was starting to get old, and fast.

"Yeah, sure, okay. Play dumb if it makes you feel better. But I'd figure my shit out sooner rather than later if I were you."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sidney blinks.

"Oh, nothing... Just that you aren't the only civil servant sniffing around Blossom & Bloom these days."

With a parting wink, Nate vanishes into the crowd, leaving Sidney to stew in a fresh pot of bubbling unease.

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and the plot thickens... hehehe 😈

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FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)

Director: Sean S. Cunningham Cinematography: Barry Abrams

[puckgoss]

Haha glad it was interesting! I have a few more but IDK if it's too relevant.

Nathan Mackinnon absolutely despises having to do media. He is sweet but very much like Cale stiff AF. He complained all the time about having to make videos for social media, but he didn't come off as rude. More so like, when asked to do one,9 he said "holy... another one?" looked around, then sighed. LOL. And it was like that all the time. Also it appeared as he was annoyed at the presenters. He said something like "some of us actually want to play hockey". Again, still really sweet to people. Just a very business-driven person. Jake Oettinger and Clayton Keller were quite friendly with each other. Also saw Crosby having a conversation with Paul Bissonnette, cute considering they used to be teammates. Paul also tried to get with Tate LOL.

There was kind of a Justin Bieber concert thing after one night, players LOVED it. Matthews is a big fan, Jenner and his wife were there dancing together, Kaprizov, McDavid (having fun for once in his life), they all just looked like fangirls singing. Also looked like fanboys watching Tate perform. They knew Greedy by heart haha. Some of them even went out to watch her but can't remember who. Also remember Connor Hellebuyck was kinda avoiding Tomas Hertl. Heard they had private issues because of a teammate of Connor.

ty for coming back!!!

nathan mackinnon - this info tracks, he is super intense and serious, all hockey all the time lol that's the dawg for ya. u gotta love him

otter & keller - they played together on the NTDP for a few years so they've been good buddies for a long time!! super cute

biz - ya him n sid get along well, sid is always very gracious w everybody. completely unsurprising that biz tried to get w tate, can't imagine the diseases on this man

biebs concert - ya him n matthews are boys! i think biebs might be a bigger fan of matthews than matthews is of biebs tbh LOL. nice that so many of them were there enjoying themselves. n ya i think it was marner and someone else who went out to watch?? maybe hertl?? someone will remember.

helle & hertl - intereesstiiinngg i'm trying to pick my brain to figure out who this teammate could be

LOVEEEE all this tea thank u anon!!!

[shutth3puckup]

What the conspiracy surrounding Crosby and his long-time girlfriend Kathy??? I feel like it’s a open secret/joke that he’s going to leave her when he retires for a younger girl

so much info on them. She was a sex worker, they are very private, if she isn’t seen at a game or in another wags story following some kind of event instantly rumours of them breaking up spread. Some think he will leave her others think he is waiting until retirement to propose/ have kids.

Crosby-interesting has a lot of info on them (all pens really). They are very anti-Kathy so keep an open mind/ be aware of bias.

[thegroovyarchives]

David Crosby from the June, 1972 issue of Circus magazine.

[ehghtyseven]

those eyes