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30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
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From: (Anonymous)There are some interesting short videos following him on draft day:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-H0JLlIyCP0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jpv6_D7TC4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTmDLILIa4I
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4O-MvDS_7HM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OsOsFzpH4ik - I lied, there's adorable shippiness of him going back to sit with Jordan Subban while he waited to get drafted
He's type 1 diabetic (lots of videos of him talking about this on YouTube), who wears an insulin pump and recently got a service dog
http://www.lfpress.com/2015/01/22/new-best-friends
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
From: (Anonymous)(You know Teemu played a long time when he was still in the NHL at the time that infant was drafted.)
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
From: (Anonymous)Being around the NHL has given him some prime #tbt material. Here he is with Mats Sundin: https://instagram.com/p/R-seryoVsG/
Practicing in the ACC with his dad, because you can do that when your dad plays: https://instagram.com/p/xVMmSIoVi8/
And my personal favorite, being held by Teemu Selanne when he was a literal newborn. (Tie Domi and Teemu were both on the Jets when Max was born, and apparently very good friends.) The caption of the photo says that Teemu was one of the first people Max ever met: https://instagram.com/p/k-HmNcoVsb/
If you go through his instagram (https://instagram.com/max_domi/) you'll also find a plethora of photos of him with his baby cousins and they're all ADORABLE. Here are two to prove my point but there are more.
https://instagram.com/p/1v6h6DoVvX/
https://instagram.com/p/iZlp4pIVj6/
I'm not saying you should write kid!fics about him, but that's exactly what I'm saying.
He has a tattoo that says diabetic https://instagram.com/p/vbp6AwoVtR/ (also visible in the second photo of him with a baby). He's close with Bobby Clarke, who also has had type 1 diabetes since he was a pre-teen and needed a doctor's note to even be scouted.
Max sticks his tongue out when he celebrates goals. He says his mom doesn't like it.
He played on the London Knights for juniors, where he clearly had a crush on Bo Horvat: http://thecoggs.tumblr.com/post/113661552876/12-allow-me-to-make-a-case-for-bo-horvat-max#notes
Those are all the things I know about Max Domi.
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
From: (Anonymous)https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9cl0HRCAAEyvQo.jpg:large
His name is Zane Porter and I recommend searching his name on tumblr. Here's a sneak peek (VERY nsfw):
http://xxxtroyxxx.tumblr.com/post/112181971526/dominic-santos-zane-porter-randybluecom
Sadly the other guy in that gifset, Dominic Santos, doesn't look all that much like Anthony Duclair, but we can pretend, because YEAH these dummies are on the same team now! (This is sfw, I've stepped away from the porn now.)
http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Max+Domi+Anthony+Duclair+IIHF+World+Junior+V1OjuTqNweIl.jpg
Can an Arizona nonnie tell me what the plans are for these two? Are they likely to play in the NHL this year?
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
From: (Anonymous)Tell me more about this stylish guy, 'yotes nonnies.
(and um, the only person I know on this roster is Anders Lindback but I don't have much to say about him other than -sigh-.)
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
From: (Anonymous)(That is the sum-total of what I know about him myself, but it's a good primer!)
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
From: (Anonymous)Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes - OEL/Boedker
From: (Anonymous)Random links:
OELevator ft Mikkel Boedker (in which we learn that Boeds owns OEL of Sweden briefs but doesn't wear them because his thighs are too big):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA5A8MqM-Y
Boeds' blog on the Coyotes site: http://coyotes.nhl.com/club/newsindex.htm?location=%2Fblogs%2Fboedker
Boeds doing the weather: http://video.coyotes.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=229773
OEL and Boeds take Max Domi and Henrik Samuelsson out for a sushi date: https://youtu.be/nSdSbdh0Fzg
Also solarcat wrote a nice long primer here:
http://solarcat.tumblr.com/post/100954830666/precious-scandinavian-boyfriends-a-mikkel
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes - OEL/Boedker
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From: (Anonymous)and also henrik samuelsson, who is the son of ulf samuelsson, aka retired nhl player on the penguins and current assistant coach for the new york rangers. his father is swedish, but he's american, and has played for team usa. henrik also played for the edmonton oil kings, with curtis lazar, mark pysyk, griffin reinhart, and like a billion other people. (his older brother is also a coyotes prospect, and his sister is playing college hockey. here is a picture of all three of them, henrik is on the left: https://instagram.com/p/6yEqKJOawS/)
obviously both dylan strome and nick merkley were drafted there this summer. both of them are featured in the draft year documentary that aired last season which is pretty neat. merkley played with draisaitl on the kelowna rockets last year alongside captain and capitals prospect madison bowey.
everyone in hockey knows everyone else.
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
From: (Anonymous)http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/puck-daddy-s-summer-series--the-arizona-coyotes-from-a-to-z-230601815.html
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
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From: (Anonymous)on him being a talkative person, street hockey, his family, face-offs, his off-ice hockey IQ, the Strome/McLeod "family", his friendship with Mitch Marner, his skating:
At 9:20 a.m., the kids in the hall at the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game were advised that the interview crew was running behind. They heard the same at 9:40. And at 10. They wondered what the holdup was. Finally, at 10:20, the cause of the delay was clear to all.
Dylan Strome walked out of the studio.
“Not the guy you’d want to start this with,” said Connor McDavid, Strome’s teammate with the Erie Otters. “He just won’t shut up.” McDavid already knew what everyone in the studio and the hallway was just finding out—that while there might be some dispute about this draft class’s best skater or slickest passer, one kid stands alone as the most voluble character.
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Yet these topics were fairly well covered in half an hour or so. The rest of the time, Strome talked about his obsession: street hockey. The brothers Strome (Ryan, Dylan and their younger brother, Matt) have played hundreds of games against the McLeod brothers (Matt, Mike and Ryan), who live around the corner in Mississauga.
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These aren’t just casual games, either—they’re heated contests for the greatest prize in Mississauga street hockey: a miniature Stanley Cup fashioned in wood-shop class. “And there’s the most valuable player award, the Conn Strome Trophy,” Dylan says.
Strome has tried to recruit other talents—so far McDavid has balked, but Marner has made a couple of guest appearances.
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Advised of this, McDavid could only shake his head. “He’s going to be a top-five pick, but when his name is called, he’s going to be playing ball hockey on his street and slashing some 12-year-old on the ankle,” McDavid says.
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Said one Ontario-based NHL scout: “He’s almost exactly like his brother that way. Off the ice, they just don’t stop talking—they’re really outgoing, good teammates. On the ice, they’re really similar too, a pair of rink rats. They do a lot of the same things. They both made huge jumps from their rookie season to their draft season. [Ryan Strome went from 29 points to 109.] Dylan figures to be a different package—a bigger body. But, like his brother, he’ll be a no-maintenance type, a guy who won’t need anyone pushing him to become a better player.”
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/cant-take-street-otters-strome/
J: “Going back to that “Leafs House,” your older brother Ryan (5th overall pick, 2011- NY Islanders) is having a great season and is one heck of a player. Your younger brother Matt is playing AAA with the Marlboros in Toronto and recently scored the OT goal to win their league championship. From watching you play, other than the obvious skills, what stands out to me is your Hockey IQ. Some things can’t be taught, but they can certainly be cultivated. Do you attribute your hockey sense to the home you grew up in?”
D: “Without a doubt, my family had a tremendous impact on me when it comes to the game. For us, it was “Hockey, hockey, hockey.” Both my mom and dad were huge hockey fans. My brothers and I were in the rinks almost every day for 8-9 months of the year. But if we weren’t on the ice, then we were playing road hockey. If we weren’t playing road hockey, then we were playing mini-sticks. I’m thankful for growing up in the family I did. Nothing was ever forced on us or anything. We all just simply love the game and everything about it.”
http://leafshub.com/exclusive-talking-puck-with-dylan-strome/
"We're such a hockey-centric family and my parents are usually in different cities at different times," Dylan Strome said. "Even now, Ryan is in Long Island, my little brother is in Mississauga, my dad is in New York and my mom is in Erie, but we still love it and wouldn't trade it for anything."
Dylan said he and Ryan either text or talk every day.
"It's important to stay close with someone who has been through the experiences I'm going through now and has had some emotional ups and downs," Dylan said. "I'll watch his games and text him my opinion afterward. When your older brother is playing in the NHL there's no need to give him too many pointers, but I study the game and watch it a lot so he listens to what I have to say."
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=738843
“I just remember me and my dad used to work on face-offs a lot when I was younger. He would take turns with me, Matt, and Ryan — my other brothers,” he said. “Every time we’d play a little mini-stick game or we’d play road hockey, there would always be face-offs included. Just little things like that got me a little bit better through the years. Now, every day, I work with the coach after practice. I just get better and better.
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The Strome family has deep roots in hockey. The aforementioned Matt and Ryan are 21-year-old Ryan Strome, selected fifth overall at the 2011 NHL Draft by the New York Islanders, and 15-year-old Matthew Strome, a winger for the Toronto Marlboros’ Minor Midget AAA squad.
So who’s the best face-off man in the Strome household?
“I don’t know. Matt’s pretty good, I won’t lie, but he plays wing now most of the year, so I don’t know,” he said. “I’d like to see that in the summer.”
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The eldest Strome brothers have never played together. “Four years is a little too much,” Dylan said. “We played a bit against each other during the summer in a little summer league that we play in, but never really together.”
http://www.hockeysfuture.com/articles/116167/2015-nhl-draft-otters-strome-ably-filling-void-left-mcdavid-injury/
“The curious thing is, Strome will get on the power play with McDavid but he’ll take all the faceoffs,” said Dan Marr, director of the NHL’s Central Scouting Bureau. “In important times of the game, Strome is out there taking the faceoff. As far as the coaching staff is concerned, he’s very proficient in that area. That’s something NHL scouting directors and general managers look for.”
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“The maturity is obviously crazy. He’s much more mature than I was at his age, that’s for sure,” Ryan Strome said with a laugh. “I was obviously smaller than him, not as physically mature. But he’s got all the tools, mature beyond his years like I keep saying.”
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“He’s always got a smile on his face, always happy,” Williamson said. “That’s similar to how Ryan was. Ryan probably had a little more edge to him on the ice, but their personalities off the ice seem very similar.”
“Ryan was a jokester,” Williamson added, “in on every conversation that was going, always had something to say, very humorous. I see Dylan similarly.”
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Inspired by their dad, the Strome brothers dabbled in competitive lacrosse growing up.
All three brothers – the baby sibling, Matt, is a promising 15-year-old OHL prospect – made the rep team in Mississauga, with Dylan and Matt also suiting up for Team Ontario.
New York Islanders captain John Tavares, whom the Stromes now train with in the off-season, famously honed his skills during his time as a young lacrosse player. The influence of the ball sport manifests in Tavares’ all-world stickhandling.
You could say the same for the crafty Strome brothers, but dad Chris Strome notes they were originally enrolled in lacrosse for another reason -- to take a break from hockey.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/15/otters-teammate-dylan-strome-not-mcdavids-sidekick
When Erie Otters coach Kris Knoblauch asks his team a question about hockey, one player always seems to have the answer: Dylan Strome.
“I’ve never met anyone that knows as much as him,” says Knoblauch. “If you were to ask anything about the NHL or the OHL he would have an answer.
“I could pose a question about the other team’s power play — who’s on it, what percentage they’re running. If the room is stumped, he’s the guy with the answer. We might just be talking about in the NHL, who’s the leading scorer, or who’s the fourth-line left winger for the Penguins. He would have the answer. He just enjoys hockey.”
http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/2015/04/20/otters-dylan-strome-has-all-tools-to-become-big-strong-nhl-centre.html
But this “family” is different. It’s actually made up of two, the Stromes and the McLeods. Each has three boys – there are two Ryans, and two Matts, to go with one Dylan and one Mikey. The boys all grew up playing together and against each other in Lorne Park, the suburban Mississauga neighbourhood both families call home.
To say the families are close is an understatement. They are intertwined to the extent that the six boys have been occasional teammates, long-time classmates, driveway shinny partners, unofficial coaches and constant best friends.
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When Ryan Strome was drafted by the Islanders, fifth overall in 2011, all five of the others dressed up in Islanders gear. And when he played in last year’s world juniors in Russia, everyone else was up at 4 a.m. watching together.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2014/01/07/stromes_mcleods_could_be_hockeys_next_sutters_staals.html
Ryan [McLeod], a centre, credits his development as a hockey player to the intense backyard battles that the brothers have engaged in over the years. Without them, he doesn’t think he would be the same player that he is now.
http://hockeynow.ca/major-junior/the-stromes-and-the-mcleods-doubling-the-sibling-effect
From ages 10-16, Marner and Strome were the standouts of teams they played on and against, until, of course, they played each other. Then came the glares, the huffing and puffing, and the little extra physical stuff for that one player the other couldn't solve.
"I didn't like (fellow top prospect Lawson Crouse) back in the day, but I really didn't like (Marner)," Strome said. "We went at it a lot."
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When they were both chosen to play for Team Ontario at the 2014 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, they were content to stay on separate lines, both helping the team, but away from each other.
But that arrangement wasn't working, as evidenced by Ontario's three-goal deficit to Russia after two periods of the third game. Coach Roger Hunt, also the general manager of the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, decided to make a change.
“We were down big, and Mitch was our most dynamic player and Dylan was our most complete player that was playing well in the tournament and I thought, well, you have to put your best guys together and roll them over every two shifts and see what happens," Hunt told the Sporting News.
That decision didn't go over well at first, but within a split second, their desire to win trumped their hatred.
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"It was pretty special and ever since then we’ve loved playing with each other and we have a great bond," Marner said.
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"For sure going through this with him is something special," Marner said. "We were texting each other before that draft saying when both of us get drafted are we going to meet up after? Are we going to do a big hug or something like that? And he said 'Yeah I’m going to jump into your arms and stuff' and I was like, 'Well, I might fall but if you want, go ahead.' "
http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/story/2015-06-26/mitch-marner-dylan-strome-2015-nhl-draft-connor-mcdavid-jack-eichel
Needing three points to tie his buddy Mitch Marner of the London Nights at 126 points for the scoring title, the six-foot-three, 187 lb.-centreman put up four goals and a pair of assists to finish with 129 points, a team record.
In 127 OHL games, he’d never had a hat-trick. Until Sunday. “I guess it’s worth the wait,” a grinning Strome said.
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The two are close friends. Marner texted Strome earlier in the day and told him to have a good game, “but don’t get too many points.” Strome pulled his phone out of his grey dress pants pocket Sunday after the game, and there was another text from his buddy. “I’m not gonna read it now,” he said, smiling, with a handful of microphones in his face. “I wouldn’t do that to him.”
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/otters-scoring-champ-strome-humble-kid/
Strome knows skating is his biggest deficiency and is working tirelessly to improve it. Over the past four summers the Mississauga, Ont., native trained with former Toronto Maple Leafs skating coach Dawn Braid a couple of times a week.
Braid, who previously worked with Ryan Strome and now-New York Islanders teammate John Tavares, said Dylan has improved remarkably from when he started training with her at age 13.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2015/01/20/dylan-strome-happy-to-develop-in-connor-mcdavids-shadow.html
Re: 30-in30: Arizona Coyotes
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