Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

😭😭

I hadn't fully thought about how good this was gonna be until I saw that canada's first line was celebrini-mcdavid-wilson, aka a superstar prodigy, the best player in the world, and a seige weapon who will just plough thru ppl until he gets sent to the penalty box and demoted.

ok not to be a nerd but they've started announcing the team lineups from olympic practices, and the two funniest lines by far are a) tkachuk-eichel-tkachuk for the US, aka "what if a line was evil," and b) marner-crosby-stone as canada's THIRD line, literally an all-star line on its own tbh.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

👍👍 already bookmarked!

thank you!!

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aww thanks!

when I checked after watching, this was an ongoing forum dispute among TMDB people, who were arguing over whether it qualifies because its only on YouTube?

omg... this may actually be it, I thought the BBC had an exclusive but apparently they don't get access to 100% of the live events.

Includes:
• an intro to Milan's much-maligned new hockey arena, which was still under construction THIS WEEK.
• some recent backstory on the US/Canada rivalry.
• a brief explanation of the tournament itself.
• roster highlights from the US and Canadian teams (plus two scandalous snubs).

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exactly

yeah, seems bad!

groan

Both types can destroy ships

sorry, you're too literate. we're talking about the seige weapon here.

one common fanfic spelling mistake i honestly love is when people misspell the word "cannon" because they forgot there's meant to be another N in there.

sorry no hahaha

drafted this and its 2500 words long, a real boon to all the friends I'm heroically protecting from constant infodumps of hockey gossip

nooooo

oh my god they already had to cancel a game. the Finnish
women's team have norovirus.

some events start before the opening ceremony

oh wow!! well congrats to her though!

👍

still scandalised that the US team snubbed jason robertson. he is the STATISTICALLY PROVEN TOP GOAL SCORER OF YOUR NATION. and he has AN ADORABLE CAT.

actually does anyone want a beginners guide to 2026 olympic ice hockey. because I think I will write one with a rundown of all the drama.

yeah I remember hearing that!! altho really.... full face coverage is good......

oh my god

yeppp