Mayhem on the Ice

[nightdog_barks]

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen FOUR FIGHTS AT THE SAME TIME ON THE ICE.

O_o

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[taiga13]

AND EVERYONE THINKS CANADIANS ARE ALWAYS NICE!

[nightdog_barks]

LOLOLOL TAIGA WERE YOU WATCHING THAT GAME? Oh my god. And then right after the refs got those fights cleared up, ANOTHER ONE STARTED.

[taiga13]

According to the CBC, "Strangely enough a player has lost a tooth in all three games and whichever team ends up toothless has won the game." This is a bloody series!

[nightdog_barks]

*g* Yep, we saw Pageau (sp?) lose his tooth. As it turned out, he was really the sort-of hero of the night -- only 20 years old, his first "real" NHL game (he just got called up from Binghamton), and he scored a hat trick!

The thing I didn't catch was when one of the CBC announcers was talking about his dad, and she said something about how Pageau's dad was born in Montreal and cheered for the Habs forever, until mumble mumble mumble Shaw mumble mumble and then he cheered for everyone EXCEPT the Habs. And I was like wat? So I have no idea how Pageau's dad came to hate the Habs.

[taiga13]

They traded Rogie Vachon. My countrymen are crazy!
http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/05/01/ottawa-senators-rookie-jean-gabriel-pageau-overcomes-the-odds-to-play-in-nhl
http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=18724

[nightdog_barks]

OHHHHHHHHH!!! I SEE NOW. IT WASN'T SHAW, IT WAS VACHON. :D

Thanks for clearing that up, Taiga! Heh, I once had a plotbunny/WIP where Wilson had played a little ice hockey at McGill, because one of his roommates had an uncle or a cousin or something who was a famous Habs player. He (Wilson) kept it a secret from his parents. *g*

[taiga13]

Ooh, write it!

[roga]

So what do I need to do to make you a hockey RPF fan, hmm?

[nightdog_barks]

*g* Actually I have read a few hockey RPFs, but the ones I read (and I can't remember whose they were -- they were linked through a meme) didn't have enough ... well, hockey in them. It's the same way with the soccer RPFs I've read. They almost always open after the game and go from there. I'd like to read something set during the game, with the adrenaline flowing and muscles burning and getting slammed into the boards and the crowd roaring and then some idiot throws a squid on the ice and you get to stop and catch your breath ...

... um. Not that I've really thought about it or anything. But do you have any recs? :D

[roga]

OKAY. So there are a lot of fics with actual hockey in them and since I never took care to pay individual attention to them, it's difficult to remember which exactly they are /o\ But off the top of my head I can definitely recomment two, and they are:

1. Hockey at the End of the Word, a dystopia AU which I just made a rec post about;

and

2. going up flying, going home, which I will simply c/p my rec for:

(explicit, 43,000 words, Crosby/Toews) by antumbral - 2010 Winter Olympics fic about Team Canada. This is the fic that when I read it I thought, man, this is it, the ultimate hockey fic, the one that no matter if you've never watched a game or even know who any of these people are, you will love this story, and it will make you want to love the game. Some time has passed and perhaps I'm not as star struck as I was when I first read it, but I still think it's a breathtaking story, about Sidney Crosby, with the weight of an entire nation's hopes on his shoulders, during the two near-ethereal weeks of the Vancouver Olympics. The prose is gorgeous, and the intricate, action-packed detail in which the games were written had me on the edge of my seat, but most of all it was the characterization of Sidney and Toews and the - unique atmosphere of the Olympics, I guess, that did it for me. And Crosby/Tazer, oh man. I know you're probably thinking they would win awards for Most Intensest Relationship but really it was actually kind of relaxed! And intense. And fucking beautiful.

[nightdog_barks]

YAY THANK YOU FOR THE RECS! It will take me a while to get through them, but YAY. :D