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#29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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YES I love primers, I wish they were so much more common than they are.

I keep meaning to put together a Colton Parayko one. I definitely ended up with a lot of links during a research spiral, at least, and dude's origin story made me do a "WTF? *HE* ended up taking the first NCAA offer because he was undersized at the time?" (stat sheet 6'4/220 now)

I will pay you so many brownie points for more information on Parayko.

ayrt

OK, here's some. not organized, my notes are shit, and no pics sorry. this is a mix of actual info with a few possible ships and why they're possible scattered throughout.

He played for Team NA with Ghostbear and I could totally go for "mutual professional respect and possibly ghost having cuddling game far beyond what his physical size should allow", size kink in the more standard sense optional.) Also means Team NA in general is at least a "they HAVE met in person other than on-ice" situation.

Colton links:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/brophy/colton-parayko-limitless-potential-1.3830852

Mike Hitchcock said nice things about him last year, and also said that he needs to work on the offensive side of his game some. Ship-useful: at least last year his usual D-partner was Joel Edmundson. (Although Edmundson and Rob Fabbri are somarried that they're basically team social media official, so I'm voting for ot3 because poly plus size kink.)

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/no-goals-are-no-problem-for-blues-parayko/article_f8deec9f-81ad-5f62-8513-f08c31f4ca35.html

still having on-ice scoring problems 2016, continuing to improve game, I don't remember anything ship useful.

http://bleedinblue.com/2016/09/19/st-louis-blues-social-media-roundup-colton-parayko-popular/
he had to play against blues teammate jori lehtera who high-sticked him, apology BJ could be in order. got the last laugh (2 assists and a win in that game). also gaudreau (who deflected his shot to give him one of those assists) basically said he had a bomb of a shot. (finally, if what i THINK is happening is happening in the last gif, a) surprise PKane warning and b) go Jaro Halak indeed.)

https://twitter.com/hashtag/parayko?lang=en

just for amusement's sake

http://alaskananooks.com/news/2012/10/3/MHOCKEY_1003122815.aspx

2012, he was a very baby-faced (and very serious-looking) freshman. All the basic personal info (size, shooting side, age, family's names, etc. He used to race motocross, he wants to meet alex pietroangelo, and his pick for celebrity to meet is vince vaughn so might be an "entourage" fan.)

http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/wcha/2015/2/3/7368803/eye-on-the-future-st-louis-blues-prospect-colton-parayko-alaska-scouting-report

the blues basically secretly scouted him and finally drafted him in the third round in 2012. he got one first-place vote and finished in the top five for calder voting overall, i'd say the secrecy paid off for them at least so far. mentions that at least in college he had some offensive upside. also all "not perfect footwork and not a stellar *skater* but decent for dude his size".

from 2014:

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/blues-might-have-big-hidden-gem-in-parayko/article_a7bc43be-8207-5ff5-8e56-b57fbdfe0e06.html

this is sort of his "origin story" so pretty much a top priority read if you want to know parayko backstory. had a MAJOR growth spurt over a year or two (5'8" to 6'4"ish) and understandably had some physical adjustment issues (i believe his words were "like a new deer".)

http://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/hockeyworld-st-louis-defenceman-colton-parayko-toiling-on-degree-during-playoffs

i was impressed, he had to take an exam between game 4 and game 5 and was taking 3 online classes during at least part of last year's playoffs. actually does have a degree now (business something-or-another). also there is a pic somewhere with him in glasses where he has an uncanny resemblance to a much younger harold finch from "person of interest".

quote from him:

Again, as has been well-documented, he played junior A in Fort McMurray, where he was off many a scout’s radar but a hot-button item for then Blues’ amateur scout Marshall Davidson, who surreptitiously would watch him up in the Fort and convinced the Blues to take the youngster in the third round of the 2012 draft before the kid went to school in Alaska (Fairbanks) on a scholarship.

Nobody was knocking down his doors with college offers.

“Did I have lots of schools after me? No. I only went on one visit, to Alaska. I jumped the gun because I barely made the junior team my first year there at 17. I was the seventh defenceman at the start (Fort McMurray). After that year, they offered me a scholarship, though. I mean, a full ride. Who wouldn’t take that?”

also Shattenkirk said nice things about him professionally and so did Hitchcock.

if you hate the hawks as much as i do you might want to stick to the part actually about parayko and avoid the round-up at the end.

http://lakingsinsider.com/2015/11/03/audio-quick-hits-with-ryan-reaves/

ryan reaves says nice things on this podcast too (among other things "he's a big body with moves" or something that "things that make you go hmmm..." parayko praise starts at ~1:50. also cute pic of reaves with a fan's sign showing. i shipped them already, but i'm always down for rl ship fuel.)

http://www.newsminer.com/sports/uaf_nanooks/former-uaf-standout-colton-parayko-exceeded-expectations-as-nhl-rookie/article_4e126736-306c-11e6-aa89-53051840acf9.html
(this is not quite paywalled but you only get 5 free so i recommend incognito and copy/paste if you find anything specific you want to save.)

http://www.stlouisgametime.com/2015/10/16/9549087/how-excited-should-blues-fans-be-about-colton-parayko

quote from writer: Should fans start getting weird with this kid and fall in love or keep their distance? I think he's like a well done double cheeseburger at a midnight diner. I wouldn't write a story about it on the way home but I would revisit this joint a few times to find out how good it really is. writer is COLD in some spots. ending is positive but much of the body copy isn't.

Also I forget if Pietroangelo is still a Blue, but if so possible "you're my favorite" shipping possibilities and they may have even been a d-pairing at some point (or at least it's a FIC possibility).

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/10/14/st-louis-blues-talented-blueliner-colton-parayko-makes-way-to-nhl-via-pipedream

more origin story. he did not make MAJOR juniors (remember the gigantic growth spurt)? so he had to make his way to alaska-fairbanks through junior A and junior AA. (where he's from the major junior league is the WHL, and that's designated as AAA.) article is going to get you "1 of 10 free" pop-up unless you're a subscriber, iirc the clock resets each month.

https://archauthority.com/2015/09/25/can-colton-parayko-build-enough-momentum-to-make-st-louis-blues-roster/
(won't come up for me because of security protocol problem, may for some nonnies although obviously open with care.)

http://herald-review.com/sports/hockey/colton-parayko-carter-hutton-lead-blues-past-sharks/article_cfaafe13-b666-57b2-b7b1-e49910280e77.html
(coming up as 404, but may be archived or something).

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2016/10/18/colton-parayko-playing-back-home-in-edmonton-this-week/
exactly what it sounds like. if you wanted to write him having a high school/college sweetie this would be an excellent meetup op because apparently he had a big family/friends cheering section for it.

so hopefully that is SOMEWHAT helpful. i know there's probably more out there, but that's my current bookmarked list.

This is amazing. Thank you.

ayrt

You're very welcome :).

more stuff (i ship reaves/parayko mostly so there's a few reaves links in here as well)

http://www.chicagowolves.com/2015/04/09/meet-a-new-wolf-colton-parayko/
(in which we learn important things like parayko comes across as a giant nerd who enjoys numbers and his degree is in business finance. also Parayko’s legion of fans in Alaska could have told Anderson how great the St. Albert, Alberta, native happens to be. At the Nanooks’ postseason banquet, Parayko earned a team-high four awards: Top Defenseman, Team Player, Most Dedicated Player and Fan’s Choice.

The affable Parayko claims not to know why he became a fan favorite, but there’s no question it’s the truth. A quick check of Google Analytics shows that the Chicago Wolves website has enjoyed a 600 percent increase in hits from Alaska during Parayko’s first month with the team.)

http://vladitarasenkos.tumblr.com/post/131184190555/ryan-reaves-poses-with-colton-parayko-for-the

this is the postgame pic from his first goal where a smiling shirtless reaves is draped all over him. (reaves is 6'3" by stat sheet and still noticeably shorter than colton. not best shirtless pic of reaves by any means, though. this one is better plus the caption is PRICELESS: https://twitter.com/trubluegirls/status/470740927196430336?lang=en
https://twitter.com/jprutherford/status/718129621393416192
here for the nice view of his tats.)

http://www.kmov.com/story/30259966/an-unconventional-route-turns-into-opportunity-for-parayko

http://lkorac10.blogspot.com/2015/07/parayko-continues-to-climb-blues.html

more origin story stuff, everybody says he's basically unfazeable on-ice in first.

some youtube stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMQ1ut7hLP8
(his Zero to Sixty appearance for Blues TV)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caP_ONLL-G8
(highlights, set to "renegades", some college celly is hilarious because his team is NOTABLY shorter by varying margins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Y6YWUHKWA
long interview about deciding to go pro, i think this is the "he looks like bb finch" one and nonnies with glasses kinks should possibly check this out.

sadly i don't have an easy link for his college team's rendition of "staying alive" as a PSA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANrAGHfm0zk

talking about the winter classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8uQ-MuBec

normally looks a *lot* better, here for him talking about being made captain when he was a junior. says nice things about his A's

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/chicago-wolves-the-farm-team-that-reaps-what-it-sows/

how chicago's staff runs (or at least ran) the wolves

http://www.alaskananooks.com/news/2015/10/6/MHOCKEY_1006152606.aspx?path=mhockey

him getting drafted

DA Yay, more Parayko love! I just have a few quick corrections/additions:

The Blues old coach was Ken Hitchcock, not Mike (you may be thinking Mike Babcock--multiple cocks = confusion for all).

Pietrangelo is still with the Blues and was named captain last summer after Backes left. He and Parayko also haven't been paired together very often because they're both RHD and Pietrangelo is pretty much always going to be on the top pairing unless he's injured, so it makes sense to have them on different pairings. (As an aside, everyone should definitely write more Petro, since he's a goofball who is way too into fantasy baseball and he does stuff like randomly wearing one of Jake Allen's shirts around because it ended up in his laundry (maybe) and he thought it fit well. Or just didn't notice until Darren Pang pointed it out: http://www.foxsports.com/midwest/video/834547779586)

Parayko was mostly paired with Gunnarsson during his rookie season, and Gunnarsson used to spend a lot of time giving him a run-down about opposing teams and players before games. This article is about Parayko and Gunnarsson, if you haven't seen it already: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/whats-it-like-to-be-a-rookie-when-colton-parayko/

They also paired him with Shattenkirk and Edmundson a decent amount his rookie season. He mostly plays with Edmundson on the 2nd pairing now, and while Edmundson and Fabbri are basically married like you said, they're all pretty cute together. Pictures of Edmundson and Parayko standing next to Fabbri are always pretty amusing, too, given the height difference.

And he's actually 6'5, not 6'4! And may possibly be closer to 6'6ish, if Darren Pang (the Blues color commentator) is to be believed, since he's mentioned it during games. Panger is also prone to exaggeration and 5'5 himself, so he may not be a great judge there. I'm pretty sure everyone looks tall to him.

Major junior isn't actually the same as AAA, or Midget AAA. In Alberta, it would go Midget AA - Midget AAA - Junior A - Major Junior (this is ignoring all the stuff below Midget AA to keep the list from getting too long). Parayko didn't play for a Midget AAA team--in Alberta that would be the AMHL, which is generally where players need to be if they want to move on to the WHL (Major Junior) or the AJHL (Junior A). For players who want to go the Major Junior route to the NHL, they'd usually (not always) play Midget AA, then Midget AAA, then hopefully get drafted into the WHL and either move up to play there or play Junior A for awhile and then move up. There are some players who go the NCAA route who do Midget AA, Midget AAA, Junior A, and then NCAA. Parayko is a pretty neat case, like you pointed out, because he did Midget AA and didn't make Midget AAA, but decided to go ahead and paid to try out for Junior A with the Oil Barons and managed to make it, and then was scouted by the Blues while flying under the radar. There's a pretty good article about it here: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/colton-parayko-became-blues-best-kept-secret/

He also managed to surprise a lot of people when he made the roster out of training camp last year and actually stuck around. He'd only played a few games in the AHL at the end of the previous season and most of the people who followed the team's prospects knew he was good and were pretty hopeful about him, but thought he'd spend at least a year down in the AHL developing a bit more.

So, yeah, he's pretty awesome. And also adorable, super polite (a lot of the players and even the Blues radio and TV announcers have brought up how polite he is--he folds the towels before he hands them back to the trainers on the bench and has been known to help the staff carry bags and equipment in at away games), and not super great about the whole being in front of a camera thing. His episode of Zero to Sixty actually discusses/showcases the last two (plus Patrik Berglund eating--please stop coming to these things with food, Bergie): https://www.nhl.com/blues/video/zero-to-sixty-parayko/t-277437432/c-47567503

Another DA, adding to the above:

Petro and Parayko used to play together on the 2nd powerplay unit before the Shattenkirk trade. There were frustrating times when he'd hardly pass to Colton even when he was open. But Colt honestly doesn't shoot enough still so maybe there was a reason for that? (Petro has been promoted to 1st PP now.) The two of them occasionally end up on the ice together in late-game situations too, but the Blues are pretty rigid about having LD-RD pairs out there most of the time.

The team usually calls Parayko 'Pary' and Perron 'Perrs' but it's not that consistent. (In some post-games, Perron gets called Perry too. It drives me nutty.)

And, yeah, Colton Parayko's degree is in business administration!

On the subject of Pietrangelo, I would super love fic about him. He makes the worst dad jokes all the time, which is very much the way to my heart. David Backes used to joke about him never shutting up, but I think that's just Petro's ADD. He's apparently one of the most active guys on the bench during games - always giving feedback to the guys on the ice, like an extra coach.

DA

I think I partially blocked out their time together on the power play because it could be pretty frustrating, lol. I really hope that they get him to shoot more next season--it does seem like things have picked up a bit recently, so that's good! And the older guys seem like they've been letting both Colton and Eddy know they should be shooting more and they might possibly both be taking it to heart. The fact that they finally got Colton's stick breaking issues sorted out will hopefully help, too (talk about frustrating, that was the worst).

The world definitely needs more Petro fic where he wins people over with his constant chatter (and generally sunny disposition). Or just Petro and his rookie d-men, since I swear he was more happy when Parayko and Edmundson got their first goals than they were. All the stories about Petro giving guys advice warm the cockles of my heart. He's such a good captain. <3

SA And that DA should be AYRT. Lost track of myself there, whoops.

ayrt

thanks a lot for both the additional links/info and the corrections, especially the clarification on "this isn't ALL the levels of junior hockey but it covers the applicable to parayko ones" (american, did not do my due diligence, oops).

i just watched the pietrangelo vid and was amused. i have a shirt that i never bought and nobody around me's ever claimed so i would *believe* the "oops laundry mishap", but i also like goalie-D ships so i'd be down with the real story being a "yeah, i'm wearing my bf's number and telling the press lies why" situation.

the first thing i thought when reading the article about gunnarson and parayko having "okay, this is what/who you should be looking out for" dinners" and them having their own lingo/parayko saying very nice things about him was something along the lines of "parayko being gunnarson's 'kept rookie' a la addandsubtract's verse". and i'm even more impressed now, because as i understand it, defense is NOT generally one of the positions that rookies (or even second or third-year guys sometimes) shine at just because although there's a learning curve for the Show regardless of position, it's a lot sharper if you play D than if you're a forward.

and yeah, i've heard both the "polite in general" and "helps out staff at times with gear transport/folds towels", and he did *not* look all that comfortable on-camera even in his Zero to Sixty. (which I *really* wish Reaves had been there for although Bergie eating was amusing.)

(presumably different nonnie with added info: thanks for your contributions as well, because i didn't know pretty much any of that and now *i'm* pro-petro fic too.)

AYRT

No problem! Honestly, I follow Junior hockey and have friends who have kids and nieces/nephews playing at lower levels, and I still find it a bit convoluted and confusing sometimes.

I've heard/read lots of comments about the locker room being pretty tight-knit, which I know every team says, but even guys who've done PTOs have said the same things, so it might not entirely be off-base. I wouldn't imagine "whoops, I have no idea how I ended up with this person's shirt, but I'll wear it" is totally far fetched, haha. And Petro and Jake were drafted the same year and have only ever played for the Blues, so fic with them could be a lot of fun! Jake seems fairly laid back when he's not the ice, too, so the personality contrast could be interesting.

I am 100% behind kept rookie fic, too! And yeah, Parayko has basically been one of the best kinds of surprises for fans. He's had some minor struggles, but overall he's pretty put-together for a guy who's only in his second year. Even back in his rookie year, a lot of the other players and media commented a lot on his composure and hockey sense and how good he was at communicating with his teammates and helping direct play.

ayrt

i'm always down for personality contrasts (among other things, it's one of the reasons i miss hockey spouses pk/carey so so much.) so petro/jake is interesting me right now, but i am *not* up for the amount of research i'd have to do.

it's not exactly *kept* rookie, but a friend of mine and i now have a whole bunch of not!fic parayko/reaves thanks to whichever nonnie came up with "north american rookies all get tentacles" (basically nc-17 tentacle mentoring 101 turns more serious after parayko's rookie year ends with him using his words that *feelings* got involved. ryan's understandably "ok, mature for your years but still a bb plus neither of us is trade-proof so think about this over the summer/etc." so summer is them doing basically whatever their rl selves did only with some skype/phone sex and keeping in touch included, and they're more-or-less dating in that verse at the moment. we decided that keeping tentacles once you got off your elc was basically a personal decision, and that because of that some guys keep them either a) as an edge to stay on a roster if they're not superstars because NA rookies are a common thing b) it's fun or c) combo platter.)

Your not fic sounds great fun!

ayrt

BizNasty talked about *his* PTO back in 2016 (where he and Ryan Whitney were basically there to be the "court jesters") and said he seriously wanted the Blues to adopt him/the org was quality. So them having a really tight-knit locker room is backed up by at least one short-timer.

Among other things, Ryan Reaves had Biz and Whitney over for dinner a couple times during their stay in St. Louis. (Biz basically said "yeah, we got paid to fight each other when I was still a Coyote but we're cool on a personal level that was essentially just business", and says nice things about several other Blues.)

The link is about *last* year's playoffs. I have no idea who he's going for in this SCF, although if I had to guess I'd go with the Pens because he was in their org for a while.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/2016/04/27/paul-bissonnette-st-louis-blues-stanley-cup-playoffs-thank-you/83597980/

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