#29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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

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[(Anonymous)]

Someone has to know, right?

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[(Anonymous)]

Do college hockey players (men's and women's) dress up before games like he NHL/AHL?

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[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone have sources to help understand the more complex details of hockey? I've been watching my whole life and generally understand basic stats and to be fairly confident identifying a bad line change or a defensive hole, but I've hit a plateau in absorbing things like systems, strategies, less obvious player weaknesses, etc.

(To be more specific, the publication I work for is looking for someone to cover our local junior league team. I applied on a whim, then realized in a panic that I have less knowledge connecting the two than I'd like. Help.)

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[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone have a primer for the Rangers? Or any other useful links in that vein? :)

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[(Anonymous)]

Is Joe Louis arena the Joe or The Joe.

Thanks meme.

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[(Anonymous)]

Decide for me, nonnies: which game should I watch tonight?

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[(Anonymous)]

This may not be the place for this, but does anyone know if imogenedisease is Jewish? Her recent Passover stuff has felt... weird, to me, and she's gotten facts wrong before. I was wondering if she posted on her tumblr or anything.

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[(Anonymous)]

What's the longest active missing-the-playoffs streak?

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[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone know if the NHL has specific rules about how well helmets actually have to fit players? It seems like at least some of the scary non-concussion injuries I've seen lately could have been mitigated or even prevented by having the players wear securely fastened, well-fitted helmets, as opposed to having them flopping around on their heads so loosely that they might as well be wearing saucepans.

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[(Anonymous)]

Non-fandom related, I hope that's okay.

How on earth do you make friends as an adult? The final one of my super close friends is moving several states away (as have the others) with very little possibility of returning (as with most of the others). I have a few so-so friends who will remain in my area after this final BFF departure but I'm not super interested in pursuing like a deeper friendship with them and would kind of like to meet a new crop of people -- but how??????? I literally don't know. I'm intensely private and pretty shy which is why I've relied on the friends I've had for years and years so deeply for so long. I'm just, like, So Very Lonely. Like, I sometimes lay awake at night and cry because I feel so isolated and insular, even though it is pretty much my fault because this is the life I've built for myself. Does anyone actually have any positive experiences of joining groups solo and making friends that way? I feel like that's always everyone's advice but it seems super not likely.

Sorry. I know meme isn't my personal diary but I have like no one else to ask.

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[(Anonymous)]

Meme. How do we know that Phil Kessel only has one testicle?? Was it hard (hehe) news at some point?? Or just generally accepted fandom lore.

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[(Anonymous)]

Why is the Leafs blog called Pension Plan Puppets?

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[(Anonymous)]

im fairly new to hockey and rpf but why don't some people like oflights? i recommended a fic to a friend and she said she wouldn't read it because she didn't like them but wouldn't explain why

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[(Anonymous)]

Is there a way to save gifs from twitter to my iPhone? I feel like such a moron asking this question but I cannot figure it out.

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[(Anonymous)]

does hockey twitter view Sergei Fedorov the same way they view both Kanes, Harry Z. and Ribeiro?

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[(Anonymous)]

Can someone point me to the Marner/Matthews recs list someone posted to the meme recently? I'm the one who asked for it and I think I forgot to respond.

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[(Anonymous)]

Looking for recs for Matthews/anyone not Marner. Is there any good fic?

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[(Anonymous)]

So Jen Neale is "outraged" because Rogers Place is switching some of the women's bathrooms to men's bathrooms during the playoffs because there are more men than women in the arena.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/sorry-ladies-rogers-place-prefers-happy-male-fans-043701506.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

This method of "bathroom balancing" is a really common practice in the arena that I frequent depending on the event. And I guess i never thought of it as some form of discrimination against me as a women attending male-dominated events and I just assumed that it was common everywhere?

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[(Anonymous)]

Fellow nonnies, I have a linguistic inquiry: the expression "blow the lead" refers only to situations where team A has the lead in the game/series and team B ties it, or does it also apply to a game/series where team B cuts down the lead significantly but never actually catches up to team A?

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[(Anonymous)]

i'm reading up on the mem cup and i have a question: the windsor spitfires are hosting this season, so they were definitely in it, but they were also playing in the ohl playoffs. so what if they won those too, who would be the fourth team in the mem cup? and does that ever happen, or does the host team usually half-ass the playoffs so they can rest up?

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[(Anonymous)]

If you were a friend of an NHL player and you were going to see them after an away game - where do you go? Do you just go to the locker room? The family room? The parking lot?

Also what do you need to get to those places - an escort? A badge? A ticket? A note from your mom??

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[(Anonymous)]

Did we ever find out what the deal was with Ryan Johansen's mysterious health problem? The heart problem, or whatever it was?

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[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone have links to the videos these gifs of Jeff Skinner came from?

http://faulker.tumblr.com/post/158951787470/why-does-jeff-do-weird-things-during-warmups-my

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[(Anonymous)]

What's that website where you can put in two teams and see all the trades between the two of them over the last ten years?

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[(Anonymous)]

Can I ao3 savior on my iPhone? I never want to see player x/reader as a pairing again.