connor mcdavid sees the most sensitive and softest skin of someone’s exposed throat and says “is anyone going to bury their face in there as a way to connect, to press vulnerability to vulnerability in silence, to feel their heartbeat against their mouth, to feel the fluttering of their lashes as they blink, to bend down and compress themselves from a large hockey player into just a small timid thing that wants to be taken care of?” and then doesn’t wait for an answer

in my mind everyone in the nhl is texting tyson barrie asking if they should watch the gay hockey show and he’s texting each one back with a considered response. no. yes. no you’re not ready yet but give it two to four years and you’ll be at the right point in your journey. yes please live-text me your responses (FINGERS IN MOUTH!!!!!). no absolutely not. god no. i know you already have you don’t need to ask me for retroactive permission. no. no. yes and you better do it before geno moves back to russia

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what if we used to pass to each other for one timers and were always the last two off the ice for warmups but you got traded so now you’re playing against the team you wanted to play on since you were a little kid and did for nearly 10 years and i said i’m not gonna answer anymore questions about you and i didn’t even look at your during warmups but i still timed stepping off the ice with you one last time even if it was on opposite teams and i couldn’t help but look once when i knew you wouldn’t be

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KSENIA DANIELA KHARLAMOVA as Svetlana Vetrova in HEATED RIVALRY (2025)

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it was devastating then and it’s devastating now to get confirmation from danny that trevor and jamie were always meant to be a package trade!! danny trying to strike a deal with pat verbeek who was playing hardball. there was only room on the boat for one player, so danny took jamie. you can’t save everyone, so he had to leave trevor behind to rot in anaheim. if danny had gotten both back then, would trevor have broken his ankle? torn his knee? been changed into a different person because of pat verbeek and greg cronin? all that pain he went through…just because the trade picks on the table weren’t good enough to reach an agreement. but the worst part is!!! but the worst part is it doesn’t even matter how many times you run the trade simulator, 100 times out of 100 times, trevor would always choose to put jamie on that lifeboat ahead of him

pov: you just picked up a river rock

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