healingmirth | Entries tagged with hockey

Inconsistency, this is the problem.

The news ticker on NHL Network keeps saying Flyers "Despite odds, Pronger hopes to play again," and I keep thinking "me too!" But the problem is I sort of hope that for everyone. Everyone should get to play forever until they feel like quitting.

Except Giroux. Fuck that guy.

I have feelings that require a better keyboard to explain. soon! You should read this now though.

This is so good, y'all. So good. I feel about this story/series maybe like how fanatics feel about The Hunger Games. Like I want to know how shit got here, and where its going, but I also just want to roll around in the universe and appreciate it.

Before the Fall (55089 words) by

ionthesparrow
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hockey RPF, Sports RPF
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jeff Carter/Mike Richards
Characters: Jeff Carter, Mike Richards, Patrick Sharp, Claude Giroux, Joffrey Lupul
Series: Part 2 of Hockey at the End of the World
Summary:

His place on this team is inked down on paper, stitched into the fabric of his sweater. Nothing’s going to change that.

Relationships are slightly more complex than implied by the pairing tag, but pretty consistent with fanon personas. Rich, that's the word.

I remembered this existed today, and then I went to go re-read it, and then I clicked the Carter/Richards tag and sorted by hit count, and this wasn't at the top, which is a damn shame, so, fic rec! Heed the warnings in the author's note etc., but it's all pretty fanon-typical for dystopia fic.

Hockey at the End of the World (25386 words) by

ionthesparrow
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Mature
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jeff Carter/Mike Richards
Characters: Jeff Carter, Mike Richards, Patrick Sharp
Summary:

Jeff has a plan: Get to camp, skate well. Make the team. Do well. Make the Orange. Survive. Win Cups. Get free.

Easy.

If someone wants to validate my opinion of its awesomeness, I will perhaps go rec this on

bestthingever. Or you can!

ionthesparrow is also the author of the Teen Wolf Written Works series, which I remember really liking all of, but I don't actually remember what happened to Derek and Stiles (and Lydia and everyone else) in the first two parts after reading the unexpected awesomeness of the Allison/Lydia third part.

"We're probably gonna have to get a bigger bandwagon." - Dustin Penner of the Los Angeles Kings, after scoring the game- and western conference series-winning goal in overtime.

So, hockey. I'm still not sure how this happened. I am likely to continue to suck at being a fan of any one team, because I want everyone to win. I got a little misty-eyed at how dejected the Rangers were after they lost last night, and I seriously could not have cared less about whether the Devils or Rangers advanced to the Stanley Cup finals.

Very High Dreams: Making the NHL from Non-Elite Hockey Countries

Anze Kopitar learned five languages and went alone as a teenager to a completely different country in order to get good enough to make the NHL and nobody says shit about it except, hey, a Slovenian guy, that’s crazy. Canadian kids get praised for how hard it must have been to go to high school part time and move from Moose Jaw to Calgary.

Also, You Can Play finally produced a video in which the dude isn't quite so obviously reading off cards behind the camera: Cal Clutterbuck. Brooks Orpik came close, bless him for trying.

I still wish they'd make their videos with language that's a little more inclusive, but it's progress, I guess.

I am not a hockey fan. I've never lived in a community with the critical mass of interest, and while I went to a few of our games in high school, I can't remember why. I can only imagine that one of us had a crush on someone on the team.

I haven't managed to read all of this article yet, both because it is long, and I am at work, and because it's making me more sad with every sentence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sports/hockey/derek-boogaard-a-boy-learns-to-brawl.html

That said, also read some hockey RPF last week, and found a story from last year's RPF big bang, team Canada at the Vancouver Olympics (remember that month when winter games RPF took over fandom? Good times.) that is filled with such love for the sport that it almost makes me forget how utterly useless I find watching hockey on TV to be:

going up flying, going home (master post) (Sidney Crosby/Jonathan Toews, author warns for "explicit sexual activity, very mild breathplay, cutting, scarification, violence of the hockey-related sort")

I don't have anything even vaguely approaching an appropriate icon, so therefore, uh... Logan => Canada => hockey => angst => Logan...

Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

Screws fall out all the time; the world is an imperfect place

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