"It’s Roman’s Fault That Cody Is A Boring Champion?!"

is it too much to ask for this facial hair to make a return 👉🏻👈🏻

Wait could you elaborate on the exception to sid's superstition that nate occupies?

Sid has a superstition about not wearing/using other player's gear. He's never done it when it was his choice, only when it was a team thing like when all the Penguins wore Malkin and Jágr jerseys during warmups. But even then, it wasn't actually other player's gear. Their equipment manager(s) used brand new jerseys that had never been worn to make jerseys for the team.

But during the All-Star weekend in Toronto, this man wore Nate's hoodie with that 29 right there on his chest like it was a badge of honor. He stood in that post-game interview smiling and looking all cozy, like this is something he just does every single day. NBD.

And Nate had worn it several times that weekend.

And since this is related

I'm not sure if Sid has any superstitions about players touching any of his gear except his sticks, but he had Nate touching all over his gear at 4N.

Because of that arm injury he was dealing with that almost prevented him from going in the first place, he was struggling to get his jersey and his pads to sit comfortably. He couldn't bring his arm up to do it himself, so he needed help.

In comes Nate, shoving his hands all down Sid's jersey and tugging on those chest pads Sid has had since he played in Rimouski. 👀

Which is even more interesting when you realize that Nate wasn't Sid's stall neighbor. He was sitting two stalls down from Sid, while Point and McDavid were Sid's neighbors on either side of him.

So, either Sid asked Nate because Nate is the exception to a lot of Sid's rules, or Nate was just helping him because he was already finished getting himself dressed. Either way, Nate was the one with his hand all down Sid's jersey. 👀

in honour of willy day I present to you: the essence of william nylander (as told by my camera roll)

designed specifically to distract you from the events of this evening. because it's what he would want.

is it too much to ask for this facial hair to make a return 👉🏻👈🏻

At the same damn time…

Hello! I love that one mattdrai fic you recommended. may i also bother u and ask for some more mattdrai recommendations? i already read head above water and scrawling it forever series and i LOVED both of them i cannot stop thinking about it!!

I loooooove MattDrai! There are so many incredible fics for this pairing (and more being written all the time honestly) so this is not an exhaustive list of good ones. But here are some longer fics I liked a lot, in no particular order:

let me look at you by isozyme

Baby, I’m a Wildcard by wearemany

slip under the tongue into translation by lighthousetowers

gather your broken lessons and move by rumandwhine

comment for engagement by RippingOffZeppelin

Growing Into Someone by blaahaj

(Honestly everything blaahaj writes is amazing, another one I love is Muscle Memory)

but please (don’t) bite, orphaned by the author

Opposite of Nothing by angry_geno_is_score

so is the longing by dogjuice

Bred to the Bone by puckthisshift

(Get a Torch and a Flame and) Burn the Path You Want by Linsky (The whole wolf verse is fun and definitely worth a read, lots of different great pairings!)

Odour by CoffeeHound91

Sea Change by andthreequarts

preference by daisysusan

linger by bropunzeling

hockey fic recs

An anon asked for my favorite hockey fic a while back, and I got so distracted re-reading my faves that it took longer than I planned. Also, I just hit 300 followers, so this seemed like a perfect time post some of my favorite fics in this crazy hockey fandom that I adore. 

GEN

Dry Spell by @marmolita -  Five times people failed to break Tyler’s goal-scoring curse and one time they succeeded.

I absolutely love this fic, if only because every time I see Sebastian Aho now I think about how he’s a magical elf. 

JAMIE BENN/TYLER SEGUIN

Jump Into That Water by @greymichaela - You are not your biology. Tyler’s mother had told him that so many times growing up. When he told her he wanted to play hockey but was afraid to go up against so many alphas.You are not your biology. When an alpha triggered his heat during a scrum and Tyler had to be carried off the ice, fever already burning up his bones.You are not your biology. Tyler wishes he could believe her.

I love the A/B/O dynamics at play here, and Tyler’s characterization is spot on. One of the first A/B/O fics I read and I still think about it on the regular. 

Silence by @kwriteshockey -  Jamie and Tyler hook up. They know it’s a bad idea. They can’t stop.

I think this is the first fic of Kira’s that I got a sneak peek of and I couldn’t stop thinking about it until she posted the full fic. There’s longing and emotions and pining and basically all of my favorite things in one fic. 

Assist by hatrickane -  Tyler has gone so long without touching an alpha that it’s starting to have a negative effect on him. Good thing Jamie is always willing to help him out.

Literally the first A/B/O fic I ever read and still one of my favorites. 

SIDNEY CROSBY/EVGENI MALKIN

a thrill that I have never known by Mellow_Yellow - Sidney always knew his family would pick who he ended up with. It was how things were done, and no matter what the outside world thought, he’d never questioned it before because it was just the reality: ice was frozen, getting checked against the boards knocked the wind out of you, one day Sid would be matched to someone his parents and the matchmaker and his aunts and uncles and his community thought was the best fit for him. And best of all, Sidney wouldn’t have to worry about it. He would just focus on hockey. He’d deal with it one day. Eventually. ‘One day’ had seemed so much farther away when he was younger.

I wish there were a thousand fics in this AU for all of my favorite pairings. I love the themes, Sid’s characterization, his relationship with his religion, and the evolution of his relationship with Geno. Still my favorite Sidgeno fic and a favorite re-read. 

First Day of My Life by ChibiRHM -  The first girl Sid ever falls in love with is named Rachel Forbes. When he first meets her, she’s four weeks old, pink, and squishy-looking. Objectively, she’s kind of ugly, but she’s so tiny when he sees her in the incubator at NICU, and he’s never seen a baby that small.

I love kidfic and this is good kidfic. How Sid and Geno slowly fall in love and their love of Rachel is just….god, so good. This fic is like a warm blanket. 

SIDNEY CROSBY/TRAVIS KONENCY

(How Do We Fall Apart?) Faster Than a Hairpin Trigger by crookedsilence -  Since presenting at fifteen, Sid has had no interest in finding a mate or bonding. Unfortunately, mind over matter only takes you so far in life, and in the summer of 2016, he finds himself receiving some less-than-encouraging news about his biological needs.

I know, okay? I know but this is so good and it’s the fic that made me decide to claim a Sid/TK prompt for Pucking Rare and the fact that there’s only three fics for this pairing is criminal. 

TRAVIS KONECNY/NOLAN PATRICK

got my eyes on you by Anonymous - Travis lets himself into Kevin’s house with his key and maybe screams a little bit at the sight of the tall, shirtless stranger with a tiny ponytail who’s washing dishes in his kitchen. Said stranger doesn’t even really react, just looks over his shoulder with a flat, unimpressed look. “What are you doing here?” he asks, in a low, rumbly voice.Weird attitude for a burglar to have. Or maybe some kind of crazed fan? He’s pretty big, but Travis thinks he could take him. Maybe. “What am I doing here?” he kind of yells. Sue him, he’s still in shock. “Who the fuck are you?”

My fave quarantine fic I’ve read. This is just so cute and fluffy and just so very TK and Patty. 

TYSON BARRIE/GABRIEL LANDESKOG

I Would Never Leave You In The Dark (gave you the center of my heart) by Bluejay141519 - Tyson flinches. His breathing is shaky but he’s been nothing short of a wreck for the last few days. He can do this. He owes Gabe this.“ He said yes to dating you for real, remember? He said yes once. Give him a reason to say it again .” (Or- Tyson fucks up).

My favorite Landesbarrie fic. Tyson’s an idiot, Gabe is soft, and the whole thing is just everything I look for in a fic. I’ve probably re-read it half a dozen times. 

the light through the windowpane by underwaternow - It still probably wouldn’t have amounted to anything besides Tyson’s own personal suffering if it wasn’t for the game against the Blues a week later. Brayden drops his gloves before the puck even hits the ice, and after an extremely shitty loss Gabe corners Tyson once the media has left the room, as he’s shoving his helmet back into his bag. or, the one where Gabe and Tyson fall in love, break up, Gabe gets married, Tyson falls apart a little, they don’t speak to each other for awhile, and then they finally make up. colloquially referred to as “sad fic” but there’s very much a happy ending or, the one that’s “about” “Gabe and Tyson” but is really Tyson’s story

This fic broke my heart and then slowly put it back together again. Through most of the fic, I wasn’t even sure I wanted them to be together, but by the end I was crying into my pillow at 2AM. 

MICHAEL LATTA/TOM WILSON

Salt Year by pukeandcry - Mike will never play hockey again, and he’ll never have the life he had in D.C. with Tom again, and those things were – they were all he wanted. He had exactly what he wanted in life, at least for a short time, right up until an otherwise clean hit against the boards just happened to land in a freakish, nightmare way and shatter his left leg in more places than he can even remember now. His whole life had been stolen away in a matter of seconds. And that’s exactly the kind of thing he can’t think about if he wants to get through the day.

This was recced to me by a friend, and I had never read this pairing before but it absolutely wrecked me. Complicated, messy, but beautiful and it hurts in the best way. 

PATRICK KANE/JONATHAN TOEWS

Trust Fall by trademarkgiggle - Patrick’s always thought of himself as a difficult sub. What he doesn’t know is that in the hands of the right dom, he’ll melt. (Jonny is the right dom.)

So, okay. I really don’t care for Patrick Kane and some of the kinks in this fic are not my thing, but I was recced this by @kkane88 and I though okay let’s give it a shot because I trust her taste without question. I ended up staying up all night at one point because I couldn’t stop reading this and was basically liveblogging my reactions to her as I went along and I feel like that’s how we truly bonded lol. 

Blur by @kwriteshockey -  Patrick’s in love with Jonny, but he can’t have him. He decides to go home with Kesler. (He doesn’t).

SPEAKING OF KIRA (again!), let’s talk about how she made me feel feelings with this gem of a fic. We love possessive jealous Jonny more than anything. 

With a Honey in The Middle I Matthew Knies & Joseph Woll☆✐

A Home Away From Home I Matthew Knies☆✐

Playing without me? I Matthew Knies ☆✐

“If you cross her, then you cross me” I Matthew Knies☆№

Bed Chem I William Nylander x reader x Matthew Knies ✐☆

But with three of us, honey, it's a sideshow I William Nylander & Matthew Knies - Part one☆♕

But with three of us, honey, it's a sideshow I William Nylander & Matthew Knies - Part two☆♕

But with three of us, honey, it's a sideshow I William Nylander & Matthew Knies - Part three☆☆♕

GUYS GUYS GUYS

OKAY IK I KEEP GOING MIA BUT I HAVE A VERRRRYYYY IMPORTANT QUESTION

There’s a Matthew tkachuk fic I read on here! It’s 4+1 and it’s like 4 times you took care of matthew and the one time matthew gets to take care of you and idk who it’s by but like one time he gets a concussion another he’s drunk and the one with you is you being sick!!!

Someone pls find this fic for me I will give you my first born child