#world cup hockey 2018

[toasttt11]

introducing grey

Grey Olive Elizabeth Thompson was born September 6, 2004 to her parents Carter Thompson and Charlotte Moreau. Grey had a older brother Elijah Liam Benjamin Thompson, who went first overall to the New Jersey Devils in the 2018 NHL draft.

Charlotte Moreau never wanted children and by the time Grey was six she left and never looked back, did not contact her kids for years and completely ignored the fact she had children for her modeling career.

Carter Thompson was devastated when he noticed his wife didn’t enjoy having kids after their eldest Elijah was born, she seemed equally as disinterested in Grey was she born, Carter raised his two kids wonderfully and have always been extremely close with them.

Carter Thompson was a legendary Hockey player, playing twelve seasons with the New Jersey Devils, He was drafted in 1988 and won two stanley cups with the Devils, he retired in 2000 after his second Stanley cup as his first kid was going to be born in a few months.

Carter Thompson had met Ellen Hughes during a world championship, they became fast friends and Carter watched her fall in love with Jim. The three had become a great group of friends and has always been very close. Carter ended up deciding to move to Toronto with his family and then found out the Hughes were going to as well, they lived next door to each other for twelve years feeling more like one family than two.

The Hughes and The Thompson’s were really like one family rather than one, most nights they had dinners together, the kids all went to the same schools. They spend most holidays together and going on family vacations, or going to the boys hockey games and Grey’s karting races.

Elijah and Grey had always been extremely close, they were each other’s best friends, Elijah had always been the protective brother especially when their mother left Elijah became more protective of his sister. Which is why when the suddenly death of Elijah broke Grey. She woke up on July 24, 2018 and walked into his room to wake him but he wasn’t moving, he was dead. He passed away in his sleep that night.

After the death of Elijah, Carter and Grey couldn’t stand living in the house anymore, Ellen and Jim had bought a house in Michigan and Carter decided to follow them thinking it would do Grey and him some good to get out of the old house.

Quinn and Elijah were the best of friends growing up, they were similar in personality and really close in age. They always dreamed of playing in the NHL together and when they got drafted together it was the best day for the two. Elijah pasted a month after the NHl draft. Quinn first game in the NHL was a very hard day for him.

Quinn has always loved Grey, loving the girl who he got to have as a sister, and they have always been very close. The two got extremely more close after the death of Elijah, Quinn wanting to protect and care for Grey like Elijah did, and Grey wanting to be there and be a good friend for Quinn like Elijah did.

Jack had always looked up to Elijah and Quinn growing up and they had always been extremely close family as they all grew up. Jack picked playing the center position in hockey from wanting to be more like Elijah. Jack was very proud to have been picked the same as Elijah in the draft and going to the Devils as well, he wanted to make Elijah proud. He picked the number 86 for Elijah’s birthday August 6, a piece or him always with Jack as Jack plays for both of their dreams.

Jack and Grey have always been very close, especially with Grey moving to New jersey a little after Jack and her being so young, Jack took care of his little sister. Jack always ask Grey for her opinion on his outfits and hair knowing she will be honest.

Luke always adored Elijah growing up and thought he was so cool, Luke always loved Elijah. Luke secretly has always wanted to go to the Devils to play where Elijah should have played and it was emotional when he realized he got on the team and could make Elijah proud of him.

When Luke learned why Jack chose the number 86, he decided to do 43 as a tribute to Elijah. Quinn knew Elijah’s favorite number was always 43 so Quinn picked that for his NHL number. Elijah use to play with the number 6 a lot so that was the number Grey picked for her Formula one number.

Luke and Grey have always been best friends for being close in age and growing up together they have always been the closet. Anyone in the family could tell the two would end up together eventually and they did in 2021 and Luke’s draft the two confessed their feelings for each other and have been together since.

Grey had joined the Red Bull Junior team 2019 and met Max Verstappen then, Max took Grey under his wing and always has been protective of her. Grey had absolutely adored meeting Daniel Riccado and always enjoys hanging out how him.

Grey had met Oscar and Logan when they were young and in karting, all three of them away from their family in a new contry, they became very close very fast and have always stayed very close, the boys have always been protective of Grey as she is younger than them.

Grey met Ollie Bearman and the two are only a year apart so they understand each other extremely well and became fast friends. Grey is waiting till Ollie joins her in Formula One so they can race each other.

Grey and Carter have always had an extremely close father daughter relationship, one that only got closer as her mother left and Carter had become even closer to his kids. The two were heartbroken losing Elijah and they have stayed very close never knowing what might happen.

Carter owns a share of the Devils after playing with the team and sometimes will be there for certain events or games but he mostly enjoys being able to travel most of the time with his daughter watching her race.

Ellen had always treated Grey more of her daughter than Charlotte treated Grey. Ellen has always adored Grey and was very happy when Luke and Grey finally got together.

Jim has always adored having Grey around and has considered her family always, she spent a lot of time with watching the boys play hockey as they sat together on the bench.

Jim and Ellen are the godparents to Elijah and Grey as Carter knew if anything ever happen the two would always take care of his kids.

[fxdltc88]

Happy Anniversary Little Caesars!

Little Caesars was established at 32594 Cherry Hill Rd.

May 8th 1959, in Garden City, Mi.

Mike Ilitch played second base for the Tigers and a couple of other teams beginning in 1952.....thanks to a knee injury, he had to retire in 1955.

Little Caesars' history says it all began as a love story in 1954, when Ilitch and Marian Bayoff were thrown together on a blind date by Mike's dad. Fortunately, they hit it off, and it was just a few months later when they married. The two of them pooled their life savings in order to open their own business: a pizza restaurant.

1962 Little Caesars first franchise opened in Warren, called “Little Caesars Pizza Treat”. This featured the “Little Caesar guy eating a slice of pizza” logo. From there, Little Caesars really began to branch out and became the fastest-growing pizza chain in America.

That single mom-and-pop pizza shop grew into the third largest pizza chain in the world with stores in more than 27 countries and territories worldwide, including in each of the 50 U.S. states.

The growth of Little Caesars helped Mike and Marian create other leading brands in the food, sports and entertainment industries.

The couple purchased the Detroit Red Wings in 1982. While the team was known as the Dead Wings at the time, Mike and Marian believed they were a sleeping giant and immediately took charge to turn the team around. By 1997, the Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup in 42 years, and they went on to win three more.

Mike encouraged the Ford family to bring the Detroit Lions back to Detroit from the suburbs and build a new stadium right next door to the ballpark by relinquishing a portion of land to make way for the new stadium. The new football venue allowed Detroit to host the Super Bowl in 2006.

Today - true to Mike and Marian's vision for a bustling downtown area - the Ilitch organization is developing The District Detroit, a dynamic urban destination that provides a dense neighborhood experience featuring a variety of developments alongside Detroit's premier sports and entertainment venues. This includes the new highly innovative and state-of-the-art Little Caesars Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons, and the recipient of the 2018 Sports Facility of the Year award, presented by Sports Business Journal.

Throughout Mike’s life, he remained true to his hometown and was a zealous supporter of Detroit, working tirelessly to help it prosper and to bring pride to the city. In 1988, Mike and Marian purchased the neglected Fox Theatre and carefully restored it to its original 1928 splendor.

One year later, they moved the Little Caesars world headquarters from the suburbs into the newly renovated Fox Office Center adjacent to the restored theatre. This was during a time when many businesses were fleeing the city.

Mike displayed further commitment to the city he loved when he purchased the Detroit Tigers in 1992 and built a new state-of-the-art ballpark for the team. Remembering his early years as a minor league baseball player with the Tigers, he did everything in his power to make the fan experience at Comerica Park a memorable one.

Mike and Marian believed passionately in giving back to the community. As the parents of children who played hockey, the couple wanted to provide other children the opportunity to play the sport as well. So, they established the Little Caesars Amateur Hockey Program in 1968, and it has provided opportunities for tens of thousands of youngsters to play the great game of hockey over the years. Hundreds have gone on to play at colleges, universities and in the National Hockey League.

Inspired by the story of a veteran returning to civilian life, Mike founded the Little Caesars Veterans Program in 2006. The program provides honorably discharged veterans with financial incentives and other support to help them open a Little Caesars franchise.

Since 2000, grants and giving from Marian and Mike, the Ilitch companies and its charitable affiliates have totaled $220 million. This includes Marian and Mike's personal gifts of nearly $50 million to Detroit's Wayne State University - $8 million to the Department of Surgery and $40 million to build a new home for the Mike Ilitch School of Business, prominently located on Woodward Avenue.

[puckpocketed]

bonjour, i'm from vancouver but i have the worst sleep schedule ever so with onhockey dot tv by my side i'm abt to get into the aihl. who should i root for

BONSOIR!!! rip sleep schedule . I am a devout CBR Brave blog so, there’s only one answer here <3 some propaganda for you

i have personally met our starting goaltender Aleksi Toivonen and he’s a big sweetie . it was during this year’s off-season in uhhh february? and he was hanging out at our rink getting his reps in. i barely knew about the team back then so when he said he played for them i was like !!! and he let me take a very blurry photo 🫶

we’ve always been kinda good in a way that makes people a bit mad LMAO!!! won our first Goodall Cup 2018? so if you wanna root for the team where everyone’s praying for your downfall… get in here <3

on the topic of always being good; we’re so stacked that when IIHF Worlds is on, our roster gets STRIPPED because we have a lot of Australia’s best players! this year it happened and resulted in . um. a 9 game loss streak? <3 we were DEAD last in the league for a while. but the boys came back and we clawed our way to 2nd place in our conference pretty neatly

despite being so good, our rink is SHIT. i’m so serious. as a local, i’ve been to it and skated on it. god. soft, bewretched, small ice. there’s a fucking TRENCH between the boards and the ice too… like you could lose a small earring down that gap 😭 AND during intermission our zamboni does her best but often we have issues with flooding. smallest ice surface and smallest barn in the AIHL i do believe! this is because there’s been a decades-long power struggle between the owners and the government. (the streets are saying it has also historically been a pretty unfriendly place to the hockey players because the owner’s wife was a figure skater so her and her people always got preferential treatment LMAO) ANYWAY the propaganda part is . we play and practice on this ice and in this shitty old barn and we are still TORCHING the league <3 in a way i feel like we are the scrappy underdogs (we are not. but. we are to ME!!) anyway imagine what we could do with real facilities jskdjshsklff

canberra’s a small world so this team is just a bunch of brothers playing hockey together,, i’m SO serious. we got FOUR kubara brothers !! TWO miettinen brothers. and 2 Yorks !!! GONGEOUS NEPOBABIES..!!!

we just signed Austin Cangelosi and he’s boybestfriends with our guy Jake Ratcliffe and i love seeing them gossip on the ice like two girls at a slumber party. Cangelosi is 5’7 and got 🤏 this close to the NHL during a time where size was absolutely everything. i have the scouting notes from his draft year, and his overage draft years — i think if he’d come up in this era somebody would’ve taken a shot at him in like the 5th-7th round?? but alas. smash cut to now: he’s a small, fast, skilled player and has a relentless motor. if he stays with us next year he probably contends for most points in the league. he’s very good and fun and i louve heem…

i was talking shit about the Brave Cave but i love her so bad. we have new management who i deeply despise on a moral level because they’re a property development/building company, but aside from that they’ve put staff in place to make the vibes of pre/post games SO good. we’re hoping with this acquisition we will finally get the new rink we were promised in uhhhhh 2017. but who CARE!!! right now the capacity in the Cave is about 500, but it is apparently THEE most miserable place to play in as a travelling team. we’re a very rowdy crowd. we don’t boo our guys. we are deeply intimidating down to the last small child in CBR Brave facepaint.

on the topic of vibes: there are a few personalities at the rink who are pretty much fixtures. 1) the Cow Bell Guy; which is what it says on the tin. he brings a cow bell to every game and clangs it whenever something cool happens. when i say every game i mean like. i’ve seen him on monday nights when our beer league teams play godbless. (chatted to him a few times, his kid is a hockey fanatic and an ipad baby LMAO). 2) the Screamer; also what it says on the tin. Legend has it about 15 years ago she discovered hockey in an Autism Way and now she attends every home game and stands in the exact same corner. she heckles the SHIT out of the opposing team and honestly it would be kinda offputting if it was my team she was yelling at but she’s on MY side and so she’s a hero to me <3 i initially thought she was an overenthusiastic WAG or something but. no. she’s just on the hockey freak juice.

anyway. root for MY team. CBR BRAVE BEST TEAM OF ALL TIME EVER EVER EVER AND WE GOING TO THE CUP!!!!!

jokes aside please choose whatever team u like and have fun <3

[larsnicklas]

anyway to me evgeny kuznetsov will always be defined by his joy. he really had so much of it; it spilled over often and put a smile on so many faces including his teammates' and fans'. his personality is one of a kind, ebullient and brash and clever. a lot of what he did that people on the outside scorned him for came from a place of love — for his family, for his team, for the game. the flapping bird celly, for instance, that garnered so much bad faith criticism from more conservatively minded hockey pundits and fans — he did that for his daughter. it delighted her! and who was he to deny her just because some people whose opinions he didn't care about said he should stop?

i'll love kuzy forever — like that entire cup team is lodged in my heart, but kuzy gave us the game 6 ot winner against pittsburgh. i think that was actually the moment every single person who was invested in the capitals' success realized this year might be the one. i'll never forget it; for as much as the final game in vegas is embedded into my psyche as a sports fan, that kuzy goal in the second round might actually be one of the single most memorable moments of my life lol. the way i felt, the way hundreds and thousands of caps fans must have felt.... no matter what has happened since, no matter what happens from here on out, we'll always have that game, that playoff run, that magic that kuzy brought to the ice.

at his best, he's so creative and dynamic. one of those guys that can make something out of absolutely nothing, and a really dynamite playmaker. ovi got the conn smythe in 2018 and nobody on planet earth begrudges him that, but the argument kuzy should have gotten it for that playoff run... it's strong.

i understand that kuzy's time and legacy in washington is not an uncomplicated one, but the thing that isn't complicated is this: i'm grateful for all the good times he brought to the team and the fans, and i'm grateful for all he gave of himself along the way. and don't get it twisted, he gave as much of himself as he could. i know people liked to say (especially these past few years) that he wasn't trying, that he was checked out, that he was just a warm body on the ice. i don't know how you look at a guy that's so clearly struggling and come away with that attitude. just zero empathy. nobody wants to be struggling, man. no professional athlete in the world wants to go do what they've spent their whole life training to do and fucking fail at it. i really hope that he got — and continues to get — the support he needs, and i hope he gets that fresh start he wants so badly.

i've missed seeing him in good spirits; i've missed seeing him loose and happy and playful and i want him to feel that way again. i wanted so so much for it to be here with the capitals because i am sentimental to a debilitating degree, but even more than that i want him to feel good and be well, no matter where and how. i hope he gets that. i hope he knows that we're rooting for him always.

[claireelle18]

She’s a Gem - Vince Dunn

Shoutout to @cellythefloshie for gushing about this man, and encouraging this write. Hope everyone enjoys it!

Vince bought her some sort of sparkly gem for every major occasion that happened between the two. The tradition started after he won Lord Stanley, because she deserved something shiny. Paper rings were what he made her on every date leading up to the first gem. The St. Louis 2018-2019 team won the Stanley cup. He got his Stanley Cup and the ring to go along with it. He bought her Sapphires. This was the first major gift he ever gave her. The two only had been dating a little under a year when he did this. He said it was because she needed to rock something blue to go along with his gear. She wore the set every game, even during the bubble series. It made her feel closer to him, even though he was in Toronto, and FaceTimes were the only form of face to face either got of each other. Her shadow box with the paper rings he made her sitting next to the new box containing her first gem.

When news broke he was going to Seattle during the expansion, she was the first one to cheer on the new opportunity, even if that turned them long distance again. In the bubble, she moved home to Florida to be around her family. Due to the world turning back to some weird level of normal, the couple was allowed to see each other again. He wasn’t in the bubble anymore. He presented her with Aquamarines to match his new team’s jersey color. “You need to be able to coordinate correctly, loves,” he explained. A small promise to her that she had his heart. Her box of paper rings, more added to the collection of both because again he continued the original tradition for every date. She took the move to Seattle right before the fall season, right before the hockey season started up. She had been out of the Florida heat for a while, but her wardrobe was bright, cheery, Key West colorations. What did he get her? Pink Ethiopian opals. They reminded him of her so much, matching her personality (and her clothes). October 23, 2021 - Vince Dunn scores his first goal as a defensemen for the Seattle Kraken. The following day, he took her out and bought her black pearls. “What? I can’t celebrate my first goal with a new team by spoiling my hunny with some new jewelry?” “I’m not saying you can’t, but Vince this is about you!�� “And it wouldn’t be for me without my number one cheering me on from the sidelines.” A paper ring adorning her ring finger at that time. “Vince Dunn! You better not tell your mother you just said I’m your number one! She’ll be heartbroken!” ‘Ha,’ he thought. His mother would be estatic, knowing that there was good reason behind that statement.

She landed a new job in Seattle, finally, after being out there for a couple of months. Peruvian blue opals for her new job, and because it was another reason for him to gift her with something to reminder her of him. “What? Can’t spoil my girl?” “Vin, it’s your birthday celebration!”

“So? My beautiful girlfriend will now have something to wear and think about me while she rocks the new job!” She rolled her eyes, and thanked him again. The opals came in back to back sets, along with the pearls, due to the fact that their birthdays were days apart from each other. That paper ring collection larger than imagined when the tradition started. He couldn’t resist giving her options and reminders of him, every major chance he could. Whenever she wore them, it made his heart swell with pride. She loved it because he took the time to choose each item, each one holding so much meaning to their relationship. Maybe one day these would be passed down to their children, and then their children, and so on. The two had talked multiple times, at length, for the future, what it held for the couple - marriage, children, a real house. Over the off season break, he put his next plan of what celebration the two would have. The biggest decision for him. That ring. Not her paper rings, not the other rings that matched the sets of jewelry previously gifted. He had been giving it thoughts for a year now. First season completed in Seattle, he was ready for that next step with her. She donned his name multiple times for years, stitched into all the jerseys. She had stuck through it all with him. Every twist, turn, bump, and loop-de-loop life threw at them. Glued to his side. The ups and downs, highs and lows, every moment. That old box of paper rings proving every day their commitment. He knew she kept them all. He finally settled on the perfect ring for her. A 3.5 karat diamond with a titanium band. Classic, with minor flare. A little more flashy than the others in her now decent size collection, but she deserves the attention. The most important piece she’d own.

He found it by accident while out with the boys back in Toronto. Home for him is with her, no matter where they are. The group had popped into an antique based shop, and as she was more of a timeless, classic girl, he took a peek at what the case held. Nestled in red velvet, sat the ring. Then and there he saw her with that particular one adorning her finger. A little more shiny and sparkling, definitely a conversation starter. Similar to her grandmother’s ring that she said she adored growing up. The marquise cut, flower set diamond ring. Immediately he rang his mother, followed by her mother. Both were in agreeance. That ring was meant to be hers. Without a second thought, he bought it.

He had the girl of his dreams. He now had the perfect ring. All he needed was the perfect place to ask her that all so important question. She wasn’t the type to care for the general cheesy proposals. He needed something more meaningful, more unique.

He held onto that ring until their trip to the Bahamas with some of the other teammates that weren’t selected for the All Stars series. Sunset on the balcony of their hotel room with drinks, and a hidden bottle of champagne to celebrate with further after he asked. His phone hidden and recording to keep this moment forever.

Her back facing the camera, she was admiring the fire painted sky. He came up, hugging her from behind. The box in his pocket feeling heavier than before. “Hey hunny…you know that I love you, right?” He asked her.

“Yeah, of course I do loves. Why do you ask?”

He was already nervous, a little giddy even. He never thought he’d be there, ready to ask her to be by his side forever. He took her hand making her face him. “I say that because…be…because…I want to spend the until the end of time with you.” He drops down to one knee, his ocean tumbled curls falling into his eyes. “For years already you’ve worn my last name proudly across your back, but now I want you to share that last name. Our last name across your back. I want those future moments we’ve talked about time and time again. Will you marry me?” He pulled out the velvet box, that ring glinting, reflecting the scorching colors.

Her eyes sparkled with tears that threatened to tumble down her cheeks. “Of course I’ll marry you Vince!” He slipped the ring on, she pulled him in for a kiss.

After dinner and celebrations, back in the hotel room. “You picked a wonderful ring. Knowing me so well for this shiny one,” she commented to him. “But you know I’d marry you with paper rings if it came down to it. You’re the one I want.”

[alexbkrieger13]

Could you please do an introduction of the hockey girls you like? I’m lost

Marie-Philip Poulin

Aka Pou

I know we talk a lot about who's the Goat in women's football and how you can really classify just 1 but with women's hockey there's no question it is her

She's played in 4 Olympics and scored the game winner in 3 of them

Along with an overtime winner in the world championships in 2021 she has four Golden goals

Currently the captain of pwhl Montreal and is the longest serving captain in Canadian National Team history

Engaged to Laura Stacey

Laura is 1 of the alternate captains for pwhl Montreal (kind of like vice captain in football terms)

she also has a golden goal from the 2018 Clarkson Cup (think of it like the nwsl championships)

Laura wears #7 cause it is the same number her great grandfather wore when he played

They are both forwards

They won gold in the 2022 olympics and the 2021 and 2022 world championships

They also have a dog called arlo

[thedissociatives]

Top 5 moments in hockey history?

oooo tysm this is a good one ! hard to answer since there's so much. however this will be so insanely biased because there are things that are Big Deals to me that in the grand scheme of hockey history are not that important

great britain getting promoted to the top division at the 2018 div 1a world championship. as a british hockey fan i can't not say this can i. i was only vaguely aware of hockey at the time (thanks to this site's obsession with gritty lmao) but it's still such an important moment to me personally. we hadn't been in the top division since the 90s which is why i'm putting it instead of this year's promotion

detroit red wings 1997 stanley cup win. it's the 50 year cup drought it's the stuff the team had been through in the years building up to it it's the significance of winning at that time with that amount of europeans it's stevie finally getting to lift the cup after 14 ? years. it's just so important to me and ik my wings moots get it

1981 canada cup. ok this is where i'm getting really self-indulgent because there's so many other moments i could've put but of course i'm mentioning this tournament. the one where the green unit first played together. some of the best players of that decade (and all time, really). the fact that (most of) those guys would pave the way for russians in the nhl by the end of the decade plays into the significance of this ofc. but of all the green unit moments i just had to put their first games together. there's something so beautiful about the beginning, where no one is aware of where things will go and how it will all end

1972 summit series. how can i not put this. the first time the soviets faced nhl players can't not be mentioned. imo this was probably the most significant hockey moment if the 70s. also without the 72 summit series who knows if we'd be seeing as many europeans (particularly russians ofc) in the nhl. it was those games that made the league realise that those guys on the other side of the atlantic are just as good as them. which as an eu hockey fan i love to see

alex mogilny's defection. come on. it is me. of course i'm gonna say this. in terms of the big moments in hockey history i think this is slept on way too much. without this guy (and igor and slava ofc) we would not have guys like ovechkin and kucherov in the nhl right now. straight up. what makes mogilny's journey to the nhl stick out to me compared to igor/slava is that he was so young. he was barely 2 years older than i am now and you're telling me he did that? he helped change the trajectory of the nhl? whilst also basically still a kid probably scared of making the wrong choice? i'm glad he decided to go to the states when he did the way he did because, without guys like that, god knows what hockey would look like today

[korshrimpski]

I love finding random hockey connections but have no one to yap about them to so tumblr you shall become subjected to my yapping

Zach Benson and Connor Bedard: isn’t it so sweet that kids that used to have sleepovers with each other are now in the NHL together? They were both on the Vancouver Viper AAA team together, got drafted to the WHL (2020) and got drafted to the NHL (2023) in the same year (Andrew Cristall is also apart of this but i don’t know enough about that man to comment)

Olen Zellweger and Connor Bedard: they played on team Canada WJC in 2022/3 and played on team Canada again in 2024. And Zelly has one of the best bodies connor has ever seen

Matt Rempe and Kevin Korchinski: teammates on the Seattle Thunderbirds, Kevin even got his first WHL point on a Rempe goal. Kevin’s comments of Rempe’s post are always entertaining, and Rempe commenting under Korch’s Insta, “little kev” has well and truely changed my brain chemistry. (Also there names are next to each other on the alumni wall this doesn’t mean anything but that doesn’t mean it’s any less entertaining to me)

Jack Quinn and Brandt Clarke: I actually have nothing for this one other than Jack Quinn was at Brandt Clarkes draft party (to anyone who knows more please do tell ☺️🤲)

Jeff Skinner and Elias Lindholm: this one isn’t far reaching as the other as they were both drafted my Carolina but the photos of them together are so fun and *that* one photo, masterful

Clayton Keller and Auston Matthews: they are actually friends. IN FACT!! They have a shared Spotify playlist. Like I know they’re friends, they were in the UNSTPD together, Matthews’ literally said he would pick Keller to compete on team USA together but them having a shared Spotify playlist caught me off guard 💀

Shane Wright, Brandt Clarke and Brennan Othmann: DON MILLS FLYERS BOYS!!! Anyways I am fragile and these boys deserve the world. More info ig they played on Canada U18 team together in 2021 and WJC 2023 together (“there last go around” as Shane said) also Shane and Brendan share the same birthday (Jan 5th)

Elias Petterson and Rasmus Dahlin: teammates in 2018 for WJC team Sweden, and also this article (this one I swear made me half insane because I couldn’t find anything, but say it with me, “I’m not finding friendships, I’m finding connections.”)

Dylan Strome and Clayton Keller: I know this isn’t far stretching but idc whenever is see the yotes tweet from 2017 calling them the present and the future I get emotional

Alex Turcotte, Jordan Spence, Quinton Byfield and Alex Laferriere: again not far fetched as they are on the kings together (listen, when turcotte stops getting injured I can die happy) but tbh I just need people to know about these 4 because they’re iconic

JJ Peterka and Tim Stützle: team Germany teammates in 2020 and played on the same line, and the story in 2020 was that they lead Germany to first ever playoffs

Mark Stone and Peyton Krebs: I would just like to remind you that Krebs lived with mark stone and they got to Vegas the same year (2019) Krebs was his rookie

Dylan Holloway and Peyton Krebs: played together at the 2018 Hlinka-Gretzky cup. They were billeted in 2017-20 (dates a bit iffy). And Krebs said, “he’s [Holloway] pretty much a brother now.” Like 😭

Logan Cooley and Cutter Gauthier: I love crumbs if you can’t tell. Teammates at WJC 2023 (team USA), and this photo and this one (boys… stop being antisocial)

[nicohischier]

writing this before the game even starts so idk what the current ✨vibes✨ on the dash are like, but i’m gonna feel this way regardless of the outcome. i’ve been a devils fan since 2017 so obviously not the longest time in the world but it’s been over 5 years now so like. still a pretty fucking long time yknow? i’m waiting for the game to start now and i just had to get this off my chest cause i’ve been thinking about it since we lost the first two games at home. 

i know the team wants this and i know the fans want this for this team, but fuck man i really want this for all our teams and all our players. i want this for 2017 nico hischier who was the new jersey devils first ever first overall draft pick. i want this for 2019 jack hughes who was our second ever first overall draft pick in only three years. i want this for the 2018 team whose season was surrounded by two first overalls yet somehow fought their way into playoffs but were eliminated by the bolts, 4-1. i want this for all the guys who were traded or drafted or signed to this team since 2003 in hopes of bringing the cup back to jersey and who have since been traded away or retired before we could get that. i want it for the 2012 new jersey devils team who made it to the stanley cup finals, close enough they could feel the weight of the cup in their hands, but had to watch the kings bring it home instead, 4-2. i want it for 2012 adam henrique who, in his first fucking season, scored two playoffs overtime game winning goals, including the iconic one in game 6 against the rangers that sent us to the finals. i want it for zach parise who may have lost jerseys love when he went to minnesota but who still captained us to the finals and who may have played his last ever game this season. i want it for guys like andy greene and travis zajac who, if i’m correct, were the only guys in 2018 left from that 2012 cup run, and who were traded away from the devils in the last years of their careers, but re-signed one day contracts in order to retire as a devil. i want it for the ‘95, ‘00, and ‘03 teams who are awaiting the cups return. i want it for every single player who has ever worn the devils jersey and played devils hockey with the dream of bringing the cup back to the rock. 

but i really really really fucking want it for this 2023 team which somehow feels so fucking special. something about this team, this roster, that feels special. i want it for this team who was coming off a previous season where they finished 28th in the league. i want it for this team that was told at the beginning of the year that they weren’t expected to make it far, to just keep their heads up and play their hockey and maybe soon they would have a fighting chance. i want it for this team that went on a 13 game win streak. i want it for this team that broke so many individual and franchise records this season. i just want it. 

like i said, idk how the game turned out at the time of writing this and i’m definitely not gonna feel up to editing it if the outcome was unfavourable. so if things went belly up, then just read all the wants as “wanted” instead ig. 

i love this team, all iterations of it, and i hope they get to bring it home soon.

[toasttt11]

august crosby

August Catherine Crosby

Number: 7

Season: Eighth

Position: C

Height: 5”6

Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia

S/C: R

NHL: VGK

Prev Team: PIT

NHL

• Selected First overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2016 NHL Draft.

• Traded to the Vegas Knights for the 2017-2018 season.

International

Team Canada

•2023 World Championship- Gold Medal, 9 G, 8 A, 10 GP.

•2021 World Championship- Gold Medal, 9 G, 9 A, 7 GP

•2016 World Championship- Gold, 10 G, 8 A, 7 GP

•2016 World Junior Championship- Gold, 9 G, 9 A, 7 GP

•2015 World Junior Championship-Gold, 8 G, 9 A, 7 GP

•2014 World U-18 Hockey Challenge- Gold Medal, 7 G, 7 A, 7 GP

•2013 World U-17 Hockey Challenge- Gold Medal, 9 G, 8 A, 6 GP

Eighth Season (2023-2024)

Vegas Knights

42 G, 40 A, 82 P, 50 GP

Signed a 75 million dollar contract for 8 years and five million dollar signing bonus.

Captain.

Seventh Season (2022-2023)

Vegas Knights

58 G, 80 A, 135 P, 81 GP

Received King Clancy Memorial Trophy

Received Hart Memorial Trophy.

Received Art Ross Trophy.

Received Conn Smythe Trophy.

Stanley Cup.

Captain.

Sixth Season (2021-2022)

Vegas Knights

52 G, 77 A, 127 P, 80 GP

Received Hart Memorial Trophy.

Received Art Ross Trophy.

Captain

Fifth Season (2020-2021)

Vegas Knights

50 G, 75 A, 125 P, 75 GP

Received Hart Memorial Trophy.

Received Art Ross Trophy.

Received Ted Lindsay Award.

Alternative Captain

Fourth Season (2019-2020)

Vegas Knights

25 G, 30 A, 55 P, 40 GP

Received NHL Plus-Minus Trophy

Captain

Third Season (2018-2019)

Vegas Knights

48 G, 66 A, 113 P, 79 GP

Received Ted Lindsay Award.

Received Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.

Signed a six year contract for 50 million and three million signing bonus.

Captian.

Second Season (2017-2018)

Vegas Knights

42 G, 65 A, 107 P, 78 GP

Received Ted Lindsay Award.

Received Hart Memorial Trophy.

Received Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.

Alternate Captain.

Rookie Season (2016-2017)

Pittsburgh Penguins

39 G, 63 A, 102 P, 75 GP

Received the Rookie of the Year award.

Received Art Ross Trophy.

Received Conn Smythe Trophy.

Received Hart Memorial Trophy.

Signed a Contract for 9 Million dollars for two years and a 1 million dollar signing bonus.

Won a Stanley cup.

OHL

Third Season 2015-2016

85 G, 120 A, 205 P, 75 Gp

Captain.

Won OHL Championship.

Draft Year.

Second Season 2014-2015

70 G, 107 A, 177 P, 68 GP

Alternative Captain.

Rookie Season (2013-2014)

56 G, 110 A, 166 P, 68 GP

First player to ever get exceptional Status and joined a year earlier.

Personal

Born September 14, 1998

Daughter of Troy and Tina Crosby

Has two siblings Sidney and Taylor

[idontlikeem]

what is a commonly held pens opinion that you believe is wrong? (i think you have interesting insights about the team)

ooh anon thank you, very nice of you to say! this ask made me smile a lot :)

hmmm i think it depends on where we're looking for a commonly-held opinion.

there's a contingent of old hockey fans who think the team is cooked and it's over—i completely disagree with that, with the caveat that the big three need to continue to perform up to their standards, and the role players need to step up.

among that group you'll find people who say that geno should have been traded in 2018 'while they would have still gotten a good return', which i obviously disagree with because that's my man, but also because of something i've touched on in previous posts: when you have a superstar on your team who's still playing well (in this case, it would be just sid), you do NOT trade for futures and unproven assets—you get and keep players that help you win NOW. draft picks and young prospects are great for a team that is not planning on competing for a few years, especially if you can stockpile a ton of draft picks and very young prospects that are still 'seasoning' in juniors or college, but for a team that's looking to be competitive and make a deep playoff run, those assets are useless.

on a related note, you'll find people who get crabby about giving away draft picks for 'old' players. as long as those older players are proven to play at a high level, i say bring them on. the way pro athletes treat and maintain their bodies today is worlds ahead of what it used to be, and so while the game is more physically demanding than ever before, they have resources to keep them playing, and playing well, for longer. players like sid and geno and tanger don't have time to wait around for a player to be drafted, and keep playing elsewhere to get better, and then maybe break out of training camp one year to steal a spot on the varsity. they need players who can show up and support them and push the team towards the cup.

personally i think there are right and wrong ways to rebuild, and it's not all about having ten thousand draft picks. the more you have, the more likely you'll get a decent amount that 'hit' and turn into quality NHLers, but so much of that is about development, not just quantity. there is pain coming for the penguins, no doubt, but they've won three cups and made the playoffs for 16 straight seasons—no other team in the cap era can say that. the pendulum is gonna swing the other way when the big three retire, but if they keep focus on the development they're doing (and it's working—a lot of the prospects i was ready to write off after last year's camp showed up this year looking amazing and VERY ready to compete for a spot), there will be bright spots, and young core pieces to call up and build around.

also i don't think we should ever re-sign MAF unless he's totally willing to fully take a backup role for a lot less money than he's currently making 😬

[puckpocketed]

"u guys just read my tags huh." not the documentary anon but 100% guilty as charged. major tag supremacist here like i might scroll past 2 paragraph text posts for being too long but you fuckin BET i'm reading every last line of someone's thesis-length gibberish tags (also yes deft v faker storyline was chef's kiss 👍)

akadjdhfjgkg thanks i try 😭👍 and i also am a tag reader on occasion!! secret leetle notes :3

yes yes faker vs deft is MY crosby vs ovechkin and i truly mean that. they are like parallels. to me. their vastly different roles and the way people perceived them. deft losing out on titles constantly!!! deft having 0 cups while faker had 3. deft and the curse of not making it past quarterfinals. finally, finally winning his cup after all that time.

i’m sorry hockey mutuals nothing will ever top the feeling of watching the 2022 DRX cinderella gauntlet run. my hockey girlbestie and i watch worlds every year and have since ? 2018? and man. MAN. that year was so good!!! anon take my fin you understand me 🤝

[dfoxmarketing]

Vibrant Closing Ceremony Marks the End of Memorable Hangzhou Asian Games 2023

India’s Remarkable Performance at Asian Games in Hangzhou

The 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou came to an end with a memorable closing ceremony that praised the participants’ outstanding accomplishments and highlighted Chinese culture.

Indian competitors made a standout performance in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, that was marked by quality and tenacity. India, who had a delegation of 655 athletes, accomplished an incredible accomplishment by breaking their previous record of 70 medals established in Jakarta in 2018 and winning a total of 107 medals.

28 gold, 38 silver, and 41 bronze medals made up India’s impressive medal haul, which was an increase above the 70 medals earned by a squad of 570 athletes four years earlier. Only four countries managed to surpass the 100-medal threshold in Hangzhou, making India’s contribution to the total medal count all the more noteworthy.

The Indian shooters stood out among the competitors, winning 22 medals in all, including seven golds. Neeraj Chopra successfully defended his javelin throw championship, giving athletics its opportunity to shine. Track and field competitions gave India a total of six gold, fourteen silver and nine bronze medals.

India’s success in archery was further enhanced when the compound team won all five gold medals available in their division. The gold rush was maintained by the cricket and kabaddi teams, who each took home two gold medals. Along with winning gold, the men’s hockey team also qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

India Secures Olympic Quotas and Historic Gold Wins

Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy’s triumph in badminton signified India’s first men’s doubles gold medal at the Games. Squash, tennis, and equestrian victories added to India’s total gold medal count. The cricket teams for men and women both won gold.

The significance of Hangzhou, though, went beyond the number of medals. The competition offered 74 slots in several sports as a lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics. Six of these quotas were won by India, with boxing taking the top spot.

The tickets to Paris were acquired by athletes including Nikhat Zareen, Preeti Pawar, Parveen Hooda, and Lovlina Borgohain. India had a significant presence in the French city thanks to men’s hockey and athletics, assuring that the country would be well-represented at the next Olympic Games.

A Vibrant Closing Ceremony

The 80,000-person-seat ‘Big Lotus’ Stadium served as the venue for the event, which attracted viewers with a 75-minute show of lights, music, and lasers. The conclusion of more than two weeks of gruelling sports action was marked by the athletes from the 45 participating nations bidding farewell.

The goal of the closing ceremony’s “Culture and Sports” merger of sports and culture was to achieve harmony. In front of Chinese Premier Li Qiang and other officials, acting head of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), Randhir Singh, formally proclaimed the 19th Asian Games to be over.

Also Read: India vs Australia World Cup 2023: Virat Kohli and KL Rahul Lead IND to a Six-Wicket Victory

In accordance with the principles of the Olympic Council of Asia, Singh declared the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games ended and invited the youth of Asia to come together to celebrate the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, in three years.

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[ad_1] CHENNAI: There's a lot happening too quickly in the still-nascent Craig Fulton era after India's new chief coach replaced Graham Reid in the hot seat this April.The six months that he had before the Asian Games when he joined couldn't have allowed him to make sweeping changes to India's game, but he wants to take every challenge coming his way, on and off the field, "head on".In the backdrop of his impressive achievements, which include a stint as Belgium's assistant coach during their golden triumphs at the 2018 World Cup and the Tokyo Olympics, Hockey India must be lauded for their choice of a candidate with a proven track record.Timesofindia.com caught up with the former South Africa international on the sidelines of the Asian Champions Trophy here, in Chennai.02:49Asian Champions Trophy: India defeat PakistanExcerpts:What has your experience as India coach been in this short period so far?To sum it up, there were 39 players (in the core group) when I first started, and I still have a squad of 39. Big number. We had two weeks of training and then went straight to the Pro League with a group of players. We did okay there. It was nice to see a different group of players, and then when we came back, we had a little break as the guys had been in the camp for a long time. We started again with a fresh mindset to prepare for Spain (tour) and for this tournament (Asian Champions Trophy). It all takes time to change anything. It's almost like a blank canvas for me with all the players. It's not set in stone that I know exactly this player is going to get selected or that one. So it was refreshing to go through training phases with them, and then to play in Spain 10 days ago was excellent.Are things happening a little too quickly for someone who has not even completed four months in the role?For sure, everything is happening a lot faster, because normally you would have a break after the Spanish block (tour), come back, recover, look at it, have some training time and then prepare for this one (Asian Champions Trophy). But they ended up being back to back. That's why we have a larger squad here because a lot of the guys that are here also played in Spain and then we had to select a team because we can't rotate players (in a tournament). So I didn't want those guys to not be part of the learning and the lessons we are going through here. We share the whole experience together.(AP Photo)Are you happy with how the team has performed so far in this tournament, which is a kind of training ground to prepare against the same teams which will challenge India at the Asian Games?Yes. We are playing well. If you look at the facts of where we are. We played five games 10 days ago, then in three days we started this tournament.. So we played 10 games in 13-14 days and travelled. That's not normal. I don't think any other team is doing that. It's a great challenge for us and we are taking it head-on.How different would you say are the challenges as a coach in India compared to your stints in Europe and the UK?I think it's just a lot of things happening at the same time. As a coach, I would normally manage my programme and then get involved with coaching on that...There's a lot more action (in India), there's a lot more admin for that (programme), to plan it and get it around. Media is always a big thing and it's a big team. So you have got to up your game in a way in that space, but I have got a lot of support. I just need to lean on it and make sure I don't get side-tracked in doing the wrong things while there are more important things to focus on.18:45TOI Locker Room | Mirabai Chanu talks about life, weightlifting & much moreThe team is still getting used to your style of play -- half-court press, switching flanks and so on. But without getting too technical, does the Asian Games assignment play on the nerves, considering the history of repercussions in Indian hockey after a poor show in a big tournament?All of those are outcomes. We have a set plan. We have seen the schedule that has just come out for the Asian Games. We just got to be ready for the tournament and take it one game at a time. We can get drawn into all the hype of who is favourite, who is not. It's exactly that. It's being ready on the day and making sure we can execute our plans. And if something happens, we have a plan B and plan C, so that we are bomb-proof in a way to make sure we get the job done.In the 2018 Asian Games, we lost to Malaysia in the semis after thrashing minnows in the group stage. Are you and the team's sports psychologist Paddy Upton preparing the team to keep potential complacency at bay?It's mostly based around our habits and behaviours. That's where we are focusing a lot on because that creates our culture and our culture will then determine our performance. You can score as many goals as you like, but if you are not focused when you need to be really, really good, with and without the ball, it can hurt. So yes, one game at a time for me and the team, and we have been talking about that and not to get drawn into comparisons with any other team. India last won the Asian Games in 2014. So there's a step to take to make sure we are the number one team in Asia. How we do that is to try and perform in every game, get the consistency (going). At the end of the day, if you do that, you have a better chance of winning than losing.What difference has having a permanent sports psychologist for the team made so far?It's still early days. We have only been involved for two months. He (Upton) had a block of time before we went to Spain, which was good. 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[michaeljfoy]

Boston Sports Championships Drought

It’s been five soul-crushing years since any professional team in the Boston area has won a sports championship.

Since the turn of the millennium, Boston teams have won 12 sports championships

2001 New England Patriots won the Super Bowl

2003 Patriots won the Super Bowl

2004 Patriots won the Super Bowl

2004 Boston Red Sox won the World Series (first time in 86 years)

2007 Red Sox won the World Series

2008 Boston Celtics won the National Basketball Association championship

2011 Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup

2013 Red Sox won the World Series

2014 Patriots won the Super Bowl

2016 Patriots won the Super Bowl

2018 Patriots won the Super Bowl

2018 Red Sox won the World Series

Until 2018, we in the Boston area never went more than three years between sports championship celebrations. Now it’s beginning to feel an awful lot like the late 20th century around here.

Baseball was the first sport I learned to follow as a kid. One of my teachers was into it, and he’d frequently wheel a big TV into the classroom to watch the Red Sox during important games. They had last won a championship in 1918, but every decade or so they’d tease the local populace with a promising season — and reliably, they’d lose in gut-wrenching fashion.

In 1986 they took a 2-0 lead in the World Series, and things were looking good. Could this be the year?

Don’t be silly.

As any student of baseball history will tell you, the Red Sox went on to lose, again ripping out their fans’ hearts. The infamously emblematic play of that series was when a routine ground ball went through the first-baseman’s legs, allowing the New York Mets to win the game.

That disappointment was the final straw in my fandom. I was so soured that, even when the Sox were poised to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2004 World Series, I was at a Sarah Brightman concert instead. I was that sure that somehow they’d find a way to screw it up.

Given all of the Boston fandom’s travails of the 20th century, who in their right mind would’ve predicted the turnaround of fortunes in the new millennium. Sports championships galore!

Oddly, it started with a team that had been the laughingstock of the National Football League: the New England Patriots. Ever heard of Bill Belichick? Tom Brady? They instituted a culture of winning. They were the anti-Sox.

And then miracle of miracles happened: after 86 years of futility and misery, the Red Sox  won the World Series in 2004. I was out in western Canada for part of that playoff run. An article in the local paper there proclaimed that if the Red Sox actually won, the end of the world must be nigh.

And oh, how they won! They had been down three games to none to the hated New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series. No team in baseball’s long history had ever come back from such a deficit.

What made it all the more dispiriting is that the so-called rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox was like the rivalry between a hammer and a nail, with the Sox as the nail.

So the Sox’s playoff run was as good as over, right?

Wrong!

I shed tears of joy when they completed their historic comeback over the Yankees. As far as I was concerned, they could lose the World Series after that, and I’d still be happy. But the Cardinals were little more than a speed bump as the Sox swept their way to destiny, winning their first World Series since 1918.

Things sure had changed on the Boston sports scene. See the list above.

Now the bad old days seem to have returned. So far in 2023

the Bruins entered the playoffs with the best regular season record in the National Hockey League’s history. And then they promptly got eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, after leading the series three games to one.

the Celtics were touted to have the most-talented team in the National Basketball Association. At least they outlasted the Bruins, waiting for the semifinals before starting their summer vacation.

the Red Sox are struggling to win as many games as they lose, but given they’ve opted out of practicing defense, that’s not too bad.

the Patriots have begun this season’s training camp after a shockingly bad offensive showing last year. Rumors are that their offensive personnel are woefully inadequate, with the possible exception of the new offensive coach.

So as they say, all good things must come to an end.

I just hope we don’t have to repeat the late-1900s.

Author’s note: Because I’m not a huge follower of basketball, I probably unfairly omitted the story of the invincible Celtics of the 1960s and their successes in the ’70s and ’80s.

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