#this must be my 8th attempt looool

[saint-patrice]

Tuukka Rask for the photos please!

this one was also requested by @tuukkaflask40 - thank you both!!! the goalie love is long overdue

Note: a few people have said they like these posts, so i’m happy to take requests if there’s a particular player you’d like to see! see this page (i don’t think it works on mobile because tumblr is a burning shitpile, sorry) for details, and a list of ones i’ve done so far :) i have quite a few requests rn, but feel free to keep em coming! 

is there any other way to start this post? one of the most iconic photos in recent hockey history, and an amazing moment (even if massively infuriating). i vote we get a statue of this made and put it up outside TD Garden, alongside bobby

he is one scary, scary man. i’ve come to the conclusion that hockeyplayers are either too stupid to have fear, or have the biggest balls.because i, for one, could not get on the ice and face this without crying, throwing up, or perhaps both

(gif via @so-hockey-eh) HOWEVER! he is actually a lovely guy, as demonstrated here with his adorable daughter!!! i love how she’s so young but already knows what tuukka is like on the ice lmao. seeing Big Scary Hockey Men™ with their tiny children is always such an experience 😭 extremely cute, 10/10

a wonderful image of pasta loving and appreciating his goalie - something i hope we are all doing on a regular basis. after all these years of continually proving himself as Elite and breaking all kinds of records, sports media still try to talk shit on him, which really is unfortunate because he deserves all of the praise and all of the appreciation all of the time, because we really would be lost without him!!!!

haha issa baby

he is Not Amused. tuukka always appears to have a vague disinterest in whatever scene is unfolding in front of him and i love that. he just doesn’t give a flying fuck   

further proof that he does not care: this interview. i’drecommend you watch the video, it’s about 2:15 in, but someone asks both Tuukka and Patrice a question, and Tuukka just points to Patrice, who then explains “Tuukka’s just here.” what a legend

(gif via @puckducky) although he is very scary, i cannot bring myself to be physically intimidated by him, he’s just so lanky. and i know that he could kill me in a variety of ways with extreme ease, but i just look at him and i’m like… you cannot hurt me noodly man. maybe that’s how he gets em though - get people to underestimate his strength and then bam!! …who knows.

he is also a legend off the ice. i dare you to find me someone else who would describe their crowd as being ‘plenty lubed up’

yet another example (around 1:20). tuukka really was representing every bruins fan in this moment 

this one feels like an unlikely friendship if i’m honest, but i’m a fanof it. this is so grinchy i’m sorry tuuks

(gif via @martieblogsstuff) definitely a favourite playoff moment -p*rron trying his best to intimidate our finnish brick wall, but tuukka is having none of it, just giving him that slightly depraved smile in return, knowing full well he could break that boy’s spine if he wanted to. i fucking love it. also sometimes i forget how sick his goalie mask is but damn it’s cool

actual question - do other teams do this christmas thing, or is it just our particular bunch of idiots? this is quite the outfit, but at last the pants match the jacket (lookin at you, brad). bonus points for matching scarf i guess

(gif via @gaudreau) i think about this literally every day of mylife. it’s fantastic. an excellent moment to show off the all round chaotic and dumb nature of the boston bruins

(gif via @lesbiandebrusk) okay real talk, i am a supporter of that white jacket,he suits it. tuukka always has this look in his eye that tells me he knows something i don’t. it makes me nervous

what in fresh hell is this… i am so uncomfortable

(gifvia @goaliefight) yes!!!! despite what shitty sports journalists have to say about him, this team loves tuukka so much. they know he saves their asses when they’re having an off day, and makes them look even better when they’re having a good one. and he loves them sm too so it’s just very sweet all round

paint me like one of your finnish goalies a quick aside about the physical spectacle that is nhl goaltenders though - they are so unreasonably flexible in a way i can’t quite express. i competed as a gymnast for almost 9 years, and some of the stuff they do blows my mind. not to mention they’re doing it all effectively wrapped in a duvet? (at least that’s how i imagine it feels with all that padding) we really don’t give them enough credit

contemplating the pros and cons of which opposing player he should brutally murder first

he is looking very pleased with himself, and rightly so

this one sent me - what a badass. tuukka does the best press stuffbecause he, apparently, just does not give a shit what he says. here he is, absolutely thrilled at only having to answer 2 questions in an interview one time

Murder Contemplation Time™

i will leave you to enjoy this young, sweaty, and windswept tuukka

thank you for the request!! i hope this did mr tuukka rask, brick wall and metallica superfan, at least partial justice becuase god knows he deserves more credit