GMJR on Crosby (x)
Los Angeles Kings fined $100,000 for violating terms of Slava Voynov’s suspension
Penguins head coach Mike Johnston and assistant coach Rick Tocchet behind the bench during the Pens’ first pre-season game against Detroit. (x)
New Penguins head coach Mike Johnston doesn’t punish the loser of things like shootout drills like Bylsma would (mustache boy, juice boy, etc).
Johnston instead rewards the winner, and lets him do something like pick out the playlist that they’ll all listen to next practice. During a lot of his practices, he just runs nonstop drills with music blaring in the background.
He allows for virtually no breaks during his practices, he doesn’t stop players during the drills if they’re not getting them right at first. Players learn to correct their own mistakes.
i just want jeff to post lots of pictures of small dogs, start up a selfie series with all the kids he meets named carter, and to share his dinner recipes with everyone. i want jeff carter on twitter to be the first step toward him becoming the mommy blogger i’ve always dreamed he could be.
Is this account for real, because list of twitters he’s currently following include: "millionaire," "luxury life," "celeb homes," "house porn," "car porn," "jeep porn," "mancave heaven," "real estate heaven," and "athlete cars"
excuse you, he is also following hgtv and earthpix and hemp_heals and the hermosa chamber of commerce because he cares about his community!!!
but, really, yeah, it’s him. his wife is the one who told people about it. lolol at jeff carter’s not even secret at all addiction to nice houses and cars. like kings teammates have already made fun of him because his car apparently is full of silly batman-esque features, because he’s a big rich nerd about it. also let’s never forget that he moved from a perfectly fine home in manhattan beach to a hermosa beach spot with a light-up dance floor, future toilet, and bunk beds so other people could come stay in his ridiculous residence.
- Mike Johnston on flying to Russia to meet Evgeni Malkin (via whoretuzzo)
I woukd live it if you told me about actor Geno meeting his favorite player Sid :)
it’s pure coincidence that geno’s newest film is on location in pittsburgh, but once he’s there, he can’t help needling his pa for the chance to go to a pens game.
"should enjoy city! see sights, learn about culture,” he says, trying his most winning smile at her. it was super successful in the last movie in the series, when he was gaining the affections of lupita while also juggling international espionage. that smile got rave reviews.
jen just rolls her eyes at him. “you want to go to the pens game?”
"exactly," geno replies, biting his lip and widening his eyes at her, because while jen is tough and responsible and geno’s favorite pa ever, she also can be a total sucker if geno tries hard enough.
jen sighs. “i can get you tickets,” she says, reaching over to thwack him on the shoulder, “if you do that interview with gq that you’ve been putting off for the last two months.”
"fine," geno sighs. he hates gq interviews — not only are the questions terrible, the reporters never seem to fall for his go-to get-out-of-interview-free strategy of pretending he doesn’t understand that much english — but this is his chance to see sidney crosby in person, and, well. geno’s not going to let that chance pass him by.
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in an interview right after geno’s hollywood big break, someone from people asked him who his favorite celebrity was, and geno, having just watched the penguins play the kings the night before on an honest to god tv instead of a shitty internet stream, was too stupid to lie.
"sidney crosby," he says, without even thinking about it, only realizing his mistake when the reporter frowned at him.
"who?" she’d asked, and geno had winced and started talking about the newest fincher film, and the subject had been dropped.
now, though, geno’s not some twenty year old in a supporting role in a film that blew up in cannes. he’s better at taking interview questions and saying the right things about other actor’s work, and if someone asks who his favorite celebrity is, he knows to answer with someone eminent, like meryl or stanley tucci.
he doesn’t ever let on that his answer hasn’t changed since he was nervous in a cafe talking to a people reporter. geno’s still, as jen would unkindly put it, “sort of obsessed” with sidney crosby, and when he stands up against the glass at consul in a jersey and baseball cap, it’s to watch in awe as the best hockey player in the world skates lazy loops around and flicks pucks into the net.
jen pulled through for him and got him a perfect ticket, right up against the glass, and geno spends the whole game entranced. the pens are playing hard, crosby getting an assist on kunitz’s goal fifteen minutes into the first, and geno’s happy enough to be here to not even care when some girls approach him during the second intermission.
"excuse me," one of them says, probably not over fifteen, "are you — i just — are you geno? malkin?"
"yes, is me," geno says cheerfully, because the pens are winning and sidney crosby is skating like he’s never been injured.
"i just — could we get a picture?" the girl asks, and geno nods, because why the hell not?
he realizes why the hell not when, right after the game — the pens handily beating the senators 4-1, crosby with two assists and a goal so pretty geno could cry — his phone buzzes in his pocket.
"that picture of you is trending on twitter," jen says, business-like. "they’ve pulled up that interview from the beginning — you know, the one where you say your favorite celebrity is sidney crosby?"
"oh," geno replies, even as people give him a side-long look as they file out of the arena.
"you are aware you’re wearing his jersey?" jen asks, half-laughing, and geno frowns.
"is just sports game. shouldn’t be big deal," he replies, and jen laughs again.
"yeah, well, you and big deal go together like peanut butter and jelly — oh shit, i think that’s — don’t hang up, okay? i gotta take this."
geno waits, holding his phone up to his ear as he slowly makes his way to the parking lot when jen clicks back on.
"okay, that was pens media, who wanted to know — how do you feel about meeting sidney crosby?"
"are you serious?" geno asks, and jen hums in affirmation.
"they want you to come in tomorrow, which works for us because you don’t have to come in until 9 pm anyways. apparently, it’s not just you — crosby really likes your movies, they asked about it for that #asksid deal they did last month."
"oh," geno says, blinking hard, "oh, okay."
"you can watch their practice, apparently," jen tells him. "now get back to your trailer. if you don’t sleep, i’ll kill you myself."
"bossy," geno tells her, and then gets in the car to drive back to the set.
if, once he’s back in his trailer, poking at his laptop on his bed, he finds the #asksid video and watches as sidney crosby stutters and laughs about how “i watched death would be kindera couple of times. i guess you could say he — geno malkin, i mean — is one of my favorites” a couple times on repeat, well. no one will know.
Lombardi’s loyalty to his players runs deep and he heard what he needed to hear from Richards in meetings this week. Richards greatly underperformed in the second half of the regular season and was dropped to the fourth line.
"The biggest thing in the meeting with Michael - the important thing - is that he realized he’s going to have to make some adjustments in his offseason training," Lombardi said on Friday in an interview with The Times.
"He’s 29. In his prime. So it’s not as though the dropoff should be related to age. But players need to realize when you start getting 27, 28 — you can’t train, can’t prepare like you use to when you were 22 or 23."
Richards, Lombardi said, was candid about his shortcomings. Richards had 11 goals and 41 points in 82 games in the regular season and was a far better player in the postseason run.
Lombardi’s loyalty and the candor of Richards were parts of the equation. And Richards has that intangible factor, a heart-and-soul player who has won at every level, and is adept at guiding the mood of the dressing room.
"He was very candid," Lombardi said. "The most important thing is he realized he wasn’t anywhere near where he is capable of being. If he’s telling you, ‘Well, I was good.’ Then you’ve got a big problem. If he’s not able to critique himself, then we’re wasting our time.
"But he freely admitted that it was nowhere near where he was capable, and the root is not age or injury. It starts with the understanding that I’ve got to prepare like a 28- or 29-year-old, not a 22-year-old.
"As long as he looked me in the eye and made that promise that he would make the commitment in the offseason …Essentially, I have to trust him. Once that deadline goes, we’re locked in."
THIS TEAM JUST KILLS ME.
also - i love that dean calls him “michael,” and i wish he’d talk even more about the meeting(s) they had this week, and i can’t help thinking of every time richie talked in an interview after the philly trade about how holmgren had met with him (and jeff) and shook their hands and said they wouldn’t be traded, and how fucking angry and hurt he clearly was about realizing he never should have trusted that a GM’s word would trump a “business deal.” so to be somewhere now where basically everybody decides to trust everybody else - to, as dean said at the rally, rely on the powerful fear of disappointing people you love - is pretty significant on both sides.
18 June 2014
So, let’s say Tazer has his own hockey-related talk show that’s surprisingly popular. It’s not like he has the most seductive voice in the world or the smoothest patter or can boost his ratings with a bunch of celebrity guests.
No, the secret of Tazer’s success is that he’s very attached to his own opinions.
When listeners call in to disagree with him, he has absolutely no compunction against telling them all the many and varied ways in which they’re wrong. It’s gotten to the point where people tune in just to hear him argue with callers and call them fatties on air.
No, so if it were up to me what would happen next is that the Hawks, tired of all the bad publicity Kaner was getting would be like WE NEED TO DO SOME DAMAGE CONTROL. What about that dude that everyone likes? the one on the radio? who’s always yelling? if we send Kaner to see him, he’ll yell at Kaner, and then Kaner will totally look like a good guy! YEAH, MARKETING!!!! so they’d be like yo Kaner we booked you an interview spot with that yelling radio guy, and Patrick would be like, uhhhh, I can’t do that. and they’d be like well, why not? and he’d say, um, I can’t tell you? and then they wouldn’t fly for obvious reasons, so Patrick would end up on Jonny’ show
He arrives at the studio the day of the interview, and he’d be like, no it’s cool, I just won’t argue, and maybe he won’t know it’s me who’s been calling in all the time? I’ll just be really professional and play it cool and no one will be any wiser and I won’t lose my stress relief outlet. it’s fine. it’s cool, I got this.
And it STARTS OUT fine, sure. Patrick is able to keep his cool and calmly discuss hockey, it’s just that JONNY IS SO FUCKING AGGRAVATING WHAT THE FUCK HE CANNOT LET THIS STAND!!!!!!!! so he finally gives in and starts arguing and that’s fine, they go back and forth a few times, and Jonny’s producer is LOVING IT, meanwhile whatever poor PR person they sent with Patrick is crying quietly into their clipboard about how they’re going to get fired when suddenly this slow smile spreads across Jonny’s face and Patrick is a little freaked out, all what the hell is wrong with your face?
and Jonny, still smiling, says, nothing is wrong with my face I just figured out why your voice is so familiar. and Patrick panics and is like NO YOU DIDN’T and Jonny says YES I DID and he’s still all smiley and Patrick says STOP SMILING YOU DON’T KNOW ME and Jonny’s just there smiling all YES I DO!!!!!!!!! and then IDK they talk after the show and maybe Patrick invites Jonny to a game, and then Patrick comes on his show a bunch more times and then eventually KISSING!!!!!!!!!
nooooooooooo i'm so happy but i'm also so sad?? can i please request a timestamp where they talk about what went down with ksenia, and then sid makes some big apology gesture for leaving that one time, and then they, like, adopt a baby and move into sid's house in cole habour? they wasted like 20 years, i just want them to happy. TT
SORRY. (I’m not sorry.) I guess this is what happens when I have a lot of feelings about teams being eliminated — it has to go somewhere.I think neither Geno or Sid would say that those years were wasted, because they had hockey. They both saw it as a trade-off: hockey or a relationship with a teammate.All either of them have ever wanted is to play hockey at the best, highest levels, and they put up with the media as the price of doing that. But the intensity of the media scrutiny that would come along with being both out and involved with a teammate (or the toxicity of a secret relationship, separate houses, summers apart, always careful of what you say or do around anyone), would have tainted hockey for them. It’s not until they’re both on the edge of retirement that the calculus changes for them, that being together is what would make them happier in the long term.But that’s still kind of depressing, so let’s talk about Sid and Geno getting married.
