#willy nylander is a lazy chicken who doesn't care at all

[sergeifyodorov]

your class of 2015 post has genuinely changed the way i think about hockey and the NHL (and the media and team managers and players — it’s just changed me, okay??) and i’m SO in awe. brilliant job honestly.

thank you o7777,,, i think tho if i were to go back to it i would talk. more about how auston is Not The Villain (there is/was absolutely a bit of a fake "16 and 34 hate each other" thing, possibly to stir up actual drama between them and possibly so their agents could duke it out for bigger contracts. They have been close friends from the beginning.) and also about SLICK WILLY who was dogpiled on just as much as/maybe even more than mitchy (there was some serious xenophobia going on against him! also racism against auston that contributed to the Manly Man image) but who has the good fortune to just be completely fucking oblivious to all of that.