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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

This is the twenty-sixth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
da

I think they probably meet people in ways connected to their being hockey players. Like, you're a pro hockey player. You're probably circulating in certain crowds. But I don't think every single hockey player only knows people they grew up playing with and/or teammates. Some of them marry non-hockey celebrities of one stripe or another, and I'm sure there are opportunities to make friends in those social groups as well.

Re: Game day thread 22 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it would have been better if they had one Team NA exhibition match with Canada (or the US) instead of two with Team Europe. Ah well, having the kids go back feeling like they have something to prove could add some spice to the start of the season.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting comments on Pens locker room history from beat reporter Josh Yohe recently. When talking about Geno and Sid's relationship, mentioned how Geno shut down the attempted captaincy coup during Sid's concussion, Josh said "I do think this team is closer. Sid wasn’t really allowed to be the leader back then. This team really is his. And I think it shows."

(He wouldn't say who had been involved in the captaincy stuff but said some people were guessing accurately. The most speculated about culprits are Brooks Orpik, Jordan Staal and Craig Adams.)

Re: Game day thread 22 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It kind of feels like the league really didn't anticipate NA being as good of a concept as it was.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
When Ben Lovejoy was traded back to Pittsburgh, he talked about getting messages from many non-team-related friends he still had in city. I suspect wives/girlfriends might be a big part in these sorts of connections, depending on their jobs/interests etc.

(frozen comment) Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say this was brand new information? it was interesting to me in context of thinking about locker room dynamics.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
According to Yohe, not just shut it down, he just said, "This is stupid, Sid's the fuckin captain," and then up and left.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
My impression of the Pens' lockerroom is that it's one of the more friendly but businesslike/professional rooms in the league. Old-school guys probably think it's a little dissatisfying.

(frozen comment) Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say you were saying that? Calm down.

Re: Game day thread 22 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, I hope Bob is extra sharp on Saturday. Because that SF has blowout written all over it.

Re: Game day thread 22 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh. He's loads better than Dallas Eakins. So we'll take him.

Re: Fic Discussion - aparecium by oops_ohdear

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
NA

Yeah, I think inventing a school or playing with Durmstrang and/or Salem would be a lot of fun, but I also think worldbuilding is one of the best parts of fic. To the point that I tend to make pages upon pages of worldbuilding notes and then never write the actual fic, because I finished the fun part.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a really interesting discussion on the Pens Roundtable last week (Rossi warning. If that's a thing you need) about the Pens locker room and how the beats anticipate it's going to change now that the second cup has secured Sid and Geno's reputations (legacies??) and they hinted around the fact that in the past the Pens locker room wasn't bad per se. But was often tense, which I thought was interesting.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Geno <3
Where did you get that from?

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
This was the infamous incident where they all came out with C's on their sweater I think. I'm such a sap it's one of my low-key favorite hockey stories about a team.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember Brian Gionta saying that the Sabres' locker room was still pretty tight during The Bad Years, but A) splintered locker room narratives aren't fun, why would you go out of your way to tell the media about it and B) he came from Montreal, so even if he did mean it, it could just as well mean Florida summers are better than actual Hell.

Re: Game day thread 22 Sept 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
DA (Do you follow NCAA DI men's hockey? If not, you might have fun starting in mid-January and February figuring out who's going to the NCAA playoffs in positions roughly 12-16, although personally I don't know anyone who can do it without "cheating" and using the Pairwise calculator at some point.)

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yohe did a Good Dudes feature on Geno. Unfortunately I don't have access, I saw a screencap that's been taken down, and also saw other people on my TL talking about it.

Re: Fandom Goggles

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, if a player is going to have a love affair with a fast food joint, Dairy Queen is probably the best choice.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Before last season, he was with the Lightning nearly the entire 2014-15 season, too. (I think he missed October is all.) He had plenty of time to make friends, although, I've never actually heard about him hanging out with anyone.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought it was interesting/funny/eyerolling that Rossi was like "I know I've always said they were only friendly teammates, but I have to concede that now Sid and Geno are actually friends".

An ex-Pen (Niskanen?) talked about how tense/stressed things were in recent seasons, not in a bad "everyone hates each other" way but regarding the expectations on the team.

Re: What's up with Your Team: It's August Edition - Klingberg Snapchat things

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Klinger made my day. Also curious choice to film Nemo leaving the can and then Jamie...?

Re: Fic Discussion - aparecium by oops_ohdear

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Sure, it would be fun, but it would be a wizarding boarding school AU, not a HP AU, you know? Also, I think we know so little about Durmstrang, most of which is sort of uncomfortably stereotypical, that you'd be essentially just borrowing the name, but still inventing a school.

That said, you know there's that narrative of the Western Conference being hard-hitting possesion monsters and the Eastern Conference being speedy offensive dynamos and you it'd be interesting to break the divisions down into four houses and have a hockey wizard boarding school.

Re: Fic Discussion - aparecium by oops_ohdear

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

I haven't read the fic, so maybe those years aren't in play. I was just responding to your comment of "if he has to be in Hogwarts at all," and if the only issue is that Russian-born wizards don't go to Hogwarts, I think that's a case where you should just handwave.

It would be different if you were exploring the HP verse itself, and wanted to really think about how a Russian education system maps onto the narrative. I think there's a Steve Rogers fic that looks at how he'd be if he were Captain USSR instead, for example.

But if you're just writing the average AU, you're most likely going to be duplicating most of what Rowling did anyway with different names, and asking your readers to mentally translate all the time. "Oh, right, that's the one that's like Gryffindor."

Re: Fic Discussion - aparecium by oops_ohdear

(Anonymous) 2016-09-22 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd still have the same system of magic, though. Owls, wands, potions, magical creatures, all that fun stuff from the HP verse. I wouldn't say Fantastic Beasts is a generic urban fantasy because it's not set at Hogwarts, for example.