#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

...y i k e s

Re: Game day thread 11 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

This is a cute little write-up, nonny, thank you. I especially liked the Czechoslovakia 2.0 part. (Sidenote, but I loled at all the Tomases. I know it's like the 3rd most common name in the Czech Republic or something, but there still seem to be a disproportionate number of them.)

Would you mind describing the team's playing style a little?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Considering they have edited to post to say just "Auston Matthews, precious", I'm assuming they were just oblivious to the connotations of calling a half-Mexican guy a "bean", but wow, yikes.

Re: Game day thread 11 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

No problem! There was one game we iced all three of them (Tatar, Jurco and Nosek), and Ken Daniels, our play-by-play announcer, spent the entire game just trying to insert the word "Tomas" into every single sentence he could. It was funny the first hundred times.

The Wings are old and small on average, so they try to play a skills game. However, they did put together a grind line of Glendening-Sheahan-Abdelkader during the only playoff game they won last season, so that might happen again this year. Our top two centers are for sure going to be Frans Nielsen and Dylan Larkin, but after Datsyuk left, just about everything else is up in the air.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

NA

+10000

I kind of got uncomfortable too with the projection on Buff and Seth Jones about how they'd feel about the Torts comments, though to a lesser extent than with all of the projection on Matthews about literally everything. It might be awkward for them, but tbh chances are they agree with Torts. Black/POC isn't a monolith, hell even in the NFL there are a lot of black players speaking out against Kapernik, and that's their right even if I disagree.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Kaepernick, sorry for the butchering of his name

Re: Game day thread 11 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I can't even blame him. I would do the exact same thing as a play-by-play announcer no matter how annoying it was to everyone else.

Re: Game day thread 11 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

This reminds me of the Texas Rangers radio announcers - they have different words they try and insert into the broadcast each week. It's pretty fun.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

That feeling when you like a player, want to read fic about him, and cannot fucking stand how he's written in most fic about him.

I know, I know, I could be the change and all that. But what I really want is someone else to write fic I want to read.

Re: Game day thread 11 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

It is fun, but I think that with a worse broadcast team it would be super annoying. Luckily for us, Nadel is one of the best of the best.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Who is it? No need to play coy. :)

Even if you don't say, I have similar and longstanding feels about people on my team and do feel you.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't mind me asking, who is it? I've had the exact same issue lately.

Re: Game day thread 11 Sept 2016

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt
Oh for sure. And his voice is so damn soothing too

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, speaking for myself, I'm well aware that it's actually extremely likely that Buff and Jones agrees with Torts, so for me it was less about "omg my pure perfect oppressed fav" and just, really personally upsetting that there could potentially be a black player in that situation. But yeah idk if you were talking about meme or if we saw the same namespace people talk about it, but some of it was pretty gross, I saw someone tweet that they hoped Jones would sit for the anthem with CBJ so they could see Torts' head explode over whether or not to bench his best d-man, which...... ugh.

Girls Hockey Day!

[(Anonymous)]

Are the rinks around you doing anything for girls/womens hockey day?

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

Rob Rossi on Instagram is more than my brain can handle on Monday.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

where i live, "mijo" is a pretty common affectionate term (that occasionally gets used for acquaintances) so if the tumblr users in question happened to actually *be* latinx i'd probably give them the credit of the doubt.

but yeah, i strongly dislike "my smol son"-type shit, and in most cases "mijo" for matthews is going to annoy me even more. it creeps me out in ways i can't articulate.

/white, i live in a majority-latinx city and a *really* majority-latinx neighborhood

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yeah, I was thinking more of what I saw on my TL. I was scrolling through and all day I just wanted to scream "POC players are not here for you to earn social justice points by needlessly defending them! They are not woobies you need to protect! They are not props for your narrative regardless of your good intentions!"

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

[(Anonymous)]

Or any day, possibly?

Re: Fic Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

I would spend actual money to buy a tshirt that says "Meme contains multitudes." Nonnie.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

As someone who is half Latinx, I definitely haven't felt more comfortable in fandom since Matthews got drafted. At least the white people in my life know they're annoying the shit out of me when they do this type of stuff "ironically". This weird, earnest racial ally stuff has been... interesting. Incredibly irritating, when I see people blatantly ignore being told (politely, calmly, by people who are way more patient than I am) why the way they talk about him comes across so poorly.

I also can't quite explain what about this phenomenon bothers me so much. The closest I figured is that I just really, really don't like the objectifican that's, like, fundamental in fic fandom when it comes to minority players.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Do you and Sid talk when you’re on the ice?

Not much. Sid talks too much every game (laughs). He talks too quick for me. Actually, when he’s mad, I don’t understand. But he’s funny.

https://www.nhl.com/penguins/video/world-cup-malkin-091116/t-277437428/c-44658103 (at 2:12)


Sid was asked about Geno's comment:

http://www.rds.ca/videos/hockey/lnh/sidney-crosby-ce-sera-bizarre-de-jouer-contre-malkin-3.1196873 (at 2:24)

http://www.tvasports.ca/2016/09/12/crosby-et-malkin-ne-se-comprennent-pas-sur-la-glace / https://streamable.com/rsnw (the angle is better when he's laughing but the video is shorter)

Re: Women's Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Jessica Koizumi retired :(
(but has a coaching job at OSU apparently so good for her!)

https://nwhl.zone/retirement-letter-whale-captain-jessica-koizumi/

Re: Girls Hockey Day!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a hockey player and I didn't even know about this :( I was at one of my local rinks today too, nothing going on.

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even know http://filipf0rsberg.tumblr.com/post/150238236758/lord-help-him