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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: Random Hockey Stuff

(Anonymous) 2016-08-16 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
A lot of it seems to be about going to free agency, which the Sabres knew and have commented on; I think they've said they wanted the extra negotiating time and he earned UFA.

That being sad, I'd bet Boston or New York.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

(Anonymous) 2016-08-16 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still hoping for the Sabres, just because I want nice things for Eichel and really want a line of Jimmy/Jack/Sam

Re: What's up with Your Team: It's August Edition

(Anonymous) 2016-08-16 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/coyotes-bring-back-vrbata-1-deal-220626306--nhl.html

Radim Vrbata signed a one-year with the Coyotes.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

(Anonymous) 2016-08-16 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw some clips from summer league play, they looked really good together. That'll be a huge selling point.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

(Anonymous) 2016-08-16 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not confident on the team he'll chose, but I believe these are the teams he won't sign with

Chicago
Toronto
Boston

Re: Kinkmeme Discussion

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Did you know it's been four whole months since 37 Things To Do In LA got updated? I didn't think it'd been so long, but I just went back and reread the most recent parts, and yep, not since April. :(

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Yea, they have apparently been killing it in the summer league, so hopefully he sees it as something to build upon

Re: Hockey players of meme

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'm the nonny above you, so I feel you about only winning 1 game! lol

It's hilarious playing in a league that's mostly men for me. I'm small, so people are afraid to get too physical with me on the ice. I can trip over my own skates and they'll apologize to me and ask if I'm ok! Silly men... :)

Re: Kinkmeme Discussion

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
nooooooooooooooooo :((

Re: Let's Name the Las Vegas Team

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Clearly they need to draw some inspiration from teams past: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Brushback/LasVegasThunderValen96-97.jpg

Other things that amused me in that google search: this photo http://www.samaritanmag.com/sites/default/files/resize/images/Clint-Malarchuk-March-5-199-300x264.png (glad to see him in a neck guard) and the occasional image from Thunder from Down Under, a male strip show in Vegas (also good inspiration).

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm half expecting NJ to get him. Vesey has been said to value privacy so he'd for sure get that as a Devil compared to being with NYR and Boston. Plus, Devils are on the rise moreso than the Rangers and I'd argue the Bruins too. Sabres and Isles are also in that same category tas the Devils hough.

Re: Random Hockey Stuff

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm half expecting NJ to get him. Vesey has been said to value privacy so he'd for sure get that as a Devil compared to being with NYR and Boston. Plus, Devils are on the rise moreso than the Rangers and I'd argue the Bruins too. Sabres and Isles are also in that same category tas the Devils though.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the "official" ticket site that's linked on the WCoH site is still only selling half-packs of tickets, but all the resell sites have individual games now. The cheapest I've seen is for the Czech vs. Europe game for $10, but most of them are significantly more.

AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Because your resident stats nonnie was bored.

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
*bump*

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
First, the greatest hits of July 2015. In another comment I'll put overall trends and a compare/contrast to July 2016. I can provide links for individual fics if someone wants them, but I didn't want to clutter up the comment. Mostly I just wanted an excuse to remember old favorites. I found some interesting stuff I hadn't read before, too. :)

Top 10 in kudos, July 2015
1. F5 F5 F5, by cornfields (17300 words) – ensemble AU including Latta/Wilson, Kane/Toews, Crosby/Malkin

2. stop, drop, and roll, by Lexie (105000 words) – Crosby/Malkin firefighter AU

3. Once Upon a Dream, by omelet (9500 words) – Crosby/Malkin, curse fic involving actual penguins and Geno the zookeeper

4. Tumblr ficlets and timestamps, by jezziejay (29500 words) – K/T

5. keep on loving you, by bluejayys (5300 words) – Bennett/Martin, Malkin/Crosby coffee shop AU

6. cover my skin with your sunkissed light, by megster (4600 words) – K/T, possibly with magic?

7. Call Me Baby, by Demotu (7100 words) – K/T, feminization kink

8. Glory Hallelujah (Imma Take That Ass to Church) (3500 words), by exmanhater – K/T, five things fic w/wedding

9. Out of the Woods, by fourfreedoms – K/T, non-hockey AU

10. 'cause it's the only thing I wanna do, by bluejayys (6400 words) – Crosby/Malkin, prequel to fic above

Not included: two Check Please fics, including the top "hockey RPF" kudos earner of the month with 1765 kudos.

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
July 2015 had 174 fics posted versus 186 in July 2016. The Hawks had twice as much fic as the next team with 47, and then the Pens and Stars were both in the low 20s. Mostly what I was interested in when looking at these numbers was whether there was a noticeable drop anywhere from 2015 to 2016, and honestly, there doesn't seem like there was much of one. There are more crossteam pairings now, and overall the Hawks and Pens take up a smaller percentage of the total fics than they used to, but July 2016 actually had a slight increase in total fic from July 2015.

The one big caveat here is the possibility of people having deleted fic posted from July 2015 and earlier due to the Kane thing, and I don't have any way to check for that or to get any sense of how many people deleted.

I might try the same comparison again with August last year and this year once the month is over, because we're on pace for a significant decrease in August versus last year. Maybe because of the Olympics, as people suggested elsewhere?

Big ships (any with 10+ in July 2015 or July 2016):
K/T (32 in July 2015 / 23 in July 2016)
Benn/Seguin (12 / 9)
Crosby/Malkin (10 / 7)

Teams/groups with the most fic:
Hawks (47 / 35)
Pens (23 / 20)
Stars (20 / 15)
Crossteam (15 / 24)
Panthers (6 / 10)
Draft class 2015 (2 / 13)

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I know that it's the least important consequence of what happened, but I'll never stop being sad that the Benn/Seguin segment of F5 F5 F5 was canceled after the PKane stuff. It was the one I was most looking forward to.

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Great info!

It feels to me like there's a difference in length of fic. I feel like we get more shorter stuff now, but I don't know if that's just my perception.

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

So I went and looked, and this is what I got:

Average:
July 2015 - 5041
July 2016 - 6670

Median:
July 2015 - 3200
July 2016 - 3100

The median is less sensitive to outliers in the data (ie, it doesn't care if someone posts a 500k word Jets fic), so IMO it's a better measure of the middle in this scenario. And there has been a drop in the median, but only a very slight one. Meanwhile the average has gone up.

If you're avoiding K/T fic these days, though, that might add to the perception that fic is getting shorter. Of the top ten fics for wordcount in July 2016, four of them were K/T, including the top three. (The other pairings were Marner/McDavid/Strome, Carter/Richards, Kessel/Bozak, McDavid/Ekblad, Braid/Draisaitl, and a Devils ensemble fic - so, a lot of recent draftee fic.)

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
This made me wonder if I had missed a good, long Bozak/Kessel but looking at the fic in question, probably not. Sadface.

Re: AO3 hockey stats: a July 2015 retrospective

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Thanks for looking into that! That makes a lot of sense.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
FFS Steve Dangle and Co. please get better with interviewing. I'm trying to listen to this Kristina Rutherford interview on the SDP because she's a great writer and I love her and y'all are stomping all over it.

Re: What's up with Your Team: It's August Edition

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Pens re-sign Cullen for one year at $1M. He made $800k last year. I have to think given his production last year, he could have gotten more money elsewhere, but I'm pleased that he decided to stay.

Re: What's up with Your Team: It's August Edition

(Anonymous) 2016-08-17 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/world-cup-of-hockey/johnny-gaudreau-play-world-cup-without-nhl-contract/

Rumor is that Johnny Gaudreau has purchased his own insurance, so that he can play in the World Cup even though he doesn't have a contract yet, and also that he's informed the Flames that he will put a moratorium on negotiations once he arrives for World Cup camp until the end, so that he can concentrate on the World Cup. World Cup from campt to finish is Sept. 4 to Oct. 1 with the Flames first game Oct. 12.