dekedangle_rpfanon | #26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Well according to this, it's because the players were already deferring to his natural (magical?) leadership aura : http://news.nationalpost.com/sports/nhl/connor-mcdavid-was-natural-choice-to-captain-team-north-america-hes-a-hell-of-a-hockey-player

How much of that is Scheifele and RNH toeing the party line, idk. It's not like they're going to go out and say it was an awful choice after all.

(Mini complaint. I have no patience for captain narratives at all and the hockey media's fixation on it is so tiresome. Plenty of sports teams get along fine without putting a fancy letter on someone. All the ink spilled on who should be captain, Pav, Joe, or Pat? like it's going to change the outcome of even one game out of 82. I roll my eyes.)

I know about it because it happened to me (symptoms didn't present until about an hour after it happened, ended up in the ER) but my HS soccer coach didn't let me go back in the game - I sat out.

In professional sports I'm just like, ughhh. They should sit out, plain and simple.

I wonder if captaincy has more of an effect on the NCAA or juniors level, with the number of rookies coming in every year and the turnover.

That being said I just remembered some college team named their goalie captain, which is great.

my favorite part of that article so far is the assertion that if not for the existence of the U23 McDavid "probably would have been Canada’s centrepiece on offence."

LOL, he probably wouldn't even have made the team. (He's good enough to, but I don't think they would have taken him.)

Frank Vatrano out for 3 months.

https://www.nhl.com/bruins/news/bruins-issue-update-on-frank-vatrano/c-282100106

Eh, they might have, but there's no indication that Hockey Canada asked for him, unlike USA Hockey with their guys.

“I think it’s like all players when you get to a certain stage in your career,” Kitchen said. “You’re going to feel different aches and pains coming up, and it’s something you probably have to manage for the rest of your career. I think he’ll come back and he’ll be fine. It’s not like it’s in March that [we’re first hearing] about it. So, we’re not that concerned about it.”

http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/duncan-keith-on-ice-for-first-hawks-practice/

Keith is done for. Lol just when the Hawks thought they had fixed their D.

I am noticing that a lot of players who played more than one position last year are now only playing one. WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME, YAHOO!?

"As a member of Team North America’s management staff said, McDavid often needs to know that he’s “the guy” or else he’s not as effective."

This doesn't really strike me as a positive or as a reason to pick, or to justifying picking, someone as captain.

SA justify, not justifying

Well, from a narrative standpoint, loving the thought of McDavid with an actual character flaw.

Ugh. At least he's not a defenseman, but I was looking forward to watching him this year.

It also doesn't seem to bear out, considering that he didn't exactly score 11 goals every game.

I don't know much about McDavid and am in no way qualified to decide the best way to handle him, but as a hockey fan, I'd probably be less annoyed by everything McDavid if they waited until he actually set the league on fire to treat him like someone who set the league on fire.

I know! It's making it really difficult for me to do my pre-rankings.

I know he had a couple of assists, but he was pretty clearly "the guy" on team NA and was not incredibly effective in terms of scoring goals? He literally could not have been any more of "the guy" and still didn't produce as much as I think they were hoping he would.

If being "that guy" also includes means needing teammates that worship him...

Even as I was tying that it felt kind of ridiculous to apply that sort of narcissism to McDavid, based on the few things I know about him.

ayrt

At least that applies to A LOT of high-ranked players, so no one can really capitalize on it? Last year, I decided that the most important thing was just to have more players playing than your opponent, and that served me pretty well for most of the season. But it's harder to do if the BFPA only slots into one position.

At least McDavid: Secret Xtreme Narcissist would be entertaining in fic?

Or maybe there could be the story where team management all believes this and pressures the rest of the Oilers into puffing McDavid up (in sexy ways), while McDavid's unaware/bewildered.

ayrt
Yeah, everybody who meets him says he's a nice guy, so it's hard to imagine him as some kind of raging egomaniac. I'm sure he has pretty healthy self-confidence, but even that article in this thread talks about how he "talks in a whisper" and "leads by example" so I can't see him having some sort of tantrum or hissy fit if he wasn't made the captain of team NA or something. Idk, he's an enigma I guess.

http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/1450/

YT tagset is open and there's a whole lot of hockey in there.

I'm a bit sad that whoever also nominated Stars obviously wants totally different fic to me since they nominated Katie Hoaldridge and I'm not into WAGs in fic.

Maybe less worshipers, more emotion support animals? Maybe even something that acknowledges how emotionally draining it can be to be somebody's crutch- "Yeah, Connor, I love you, you're the best, find someone else to tell you that for five minutes so I can finish this set, please."

I was just thinking that I would interpret "needing to be told he's 'the guy' all the time" as less narcissism and more insecurity, tbqh. But either way I'm also interested in it from a narrative standpoint *eyes emoji*

sa

NOPE.

lol

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