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Showing posts with label hockey. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Hockey player sleepover bobbleheads








@catbtoffoli Nothing is ever normal ๐Ÿ˜† @San Jose Sharks @never offside ♬ Nothing Perfect - nimino
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Gritty is disturbingly-good at axe-throwing

@grittynhl

i throw more than just ๐ŸŽ‚

♬ original sound - Gritty



Pop-Tarts hires good people, too:

@poptarts who let the tarts out ๐Ÿซฃ See @Marvel Studios #TheFantasticFour: First Steps in theaters July 25 #poptarts #Fantastic4 #Fantasteic4 #BlueRaspberry #foodtok #poptartsmascot #TWA ♬ son original - goofy_vidz
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Great photo of the Seattle Kraken getting coached up



("Jessica Campbell became the first female coach in the NHL when the Seattle Kraken named her an assistant".)
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Thursday, January 9, 2025

Devil's head mask for New Hersey Devil's goalie Jacob Markstrรถm




The artist posted several making of videos:




A previous skullhead mask:


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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Seattle Kraken's deep sea diver





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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Yet another great one-off jersey for the Seattle Kraken





Previous jerseys: Women's Day; Lunar New Year.
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Friday, March 8, 2024

Fun fishy Women's Day logo for the Seattle Kraken





Pins and stickers are already sold out, but there's some clothing.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Every goon wants to fight New York Rangers 6'7" rookie Matt Rempe

Here's a good look at current fighting etiquette, and a long fight:



And here he is a few games earlier discussing agreeing to a fight:





He's huge:

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Monday, December 11, 2023

The NJ Devils have a 6'5" Swiss goaltender named Akira Schmid

Per this Reddit summary of a paywalled article, Akira is named for Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. His brother is named Krilin and liked a Tweet screenshotting that summary.





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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Detroit Red Wings are giving away zamboni-shaped gravy boats on Thanksgiving eve

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Funny figurine giveaway by the Milwaukee Admirals

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Arizona Coyotes defenseman Travis Dermott shamed the NHL into rescinding its ban on Pride tape; Scholastic might have reconsidered its stance, too

May:
There's been a trend this NHL season that has nothing to do with the sport's on-ice product. Several teams have announced plans to hold Pride Nights, during which players wear jerseys celebrating the LGBTQ+ community either during warmups or games -- or both.

But many of those plans have been scraped by teams after being made public. 
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As the Athletic notes, five percent of the NHL's players are Russian.

"These are legitimate fears," Ben Noble, associate professor of Russian politics at University College London, told the Athletic. "'If you put on a Pride jersey, then there is uncertainty regarding how this would be interpreted by law enforcement in Russia — and that's a risk.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says the league will no longer have teams wear themed jerseys during warmups for Pride Nights or any specialty night games going forward.
Don’t you see? The NHL had a problem, and it had to solve it. NHL teams have been holding Pride nights for 10 years and ... uh, OK, there was no problem for pretty much all of that. The first NHL Pride Night was in Florida in 2013, and for almost a decade it was a lovely little inclusive thing, along with other nights: Hockey Fights Cancer, Military Appreciation and more — from Indigenous celebration nights across Canada, to South Asian Heritage Night in Winnipeg, to Gender Equity Night in New Jersey. 
CBS:
Arizona Coyotes defenseman Travis Dermott recently became the first player to challenge the NHL's ban of Pride Tape when he used it on his stick in a game against the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday. Following Dermott's decision, the NHL has rescinded its ban on players using Pride Tape, the league announced on Tuesday.
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"It was kind of just an, 'All right, I'm doing this, and we're going to deal with the consequences and move forward, and hopefully I'll have a positive impact on some people that needed that positive impact.'"




Supposedly Scholastic is reconsidering appeasement, too--I haven't seen this written up anywhere, and their most recent press release is still justifying their appeasement strategy:

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

The Seattle Kraken hockey team soon regretted its attempt to utilize the part of Tiktok interested in hockey-themed romance novels

ESPN:

"BookTok" is a commonly used TikTok hashtag by content creators who want to discuss, review or promote books. A subset of that community focuses on hockey romance novels, with some users fixating on actual NHL players as proxies for fictional characters.

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Last winter, the Kraken's social media team embraced the hockey BookTok community's interest in their players. The Kraken changed their TikTok bio to "Mostly BookTok" and began publishing videos that targeted that audience. Some featured players like Wennberg and defenseman Vince Dunn walking in slow motion before games while wearing business suits, with captions like "when you accidentally become a BookTok account and now that's all you can post."

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Alex Wennberg published his own statement a few days later, citing backlash that his wife had received for "speaking up about sexual harassment on TikTok" in her comments. He noted "vile comments" on Felicia Wennberg's Instagram, including on photos of their 2-year-old son.

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as of Monday, the Kraken had archived any media that referenced BookTok, removing images and videos from all public social media feeds. 




Here's a long tiktok about the matter by an author of hockey-themed romance novels including "Pucking Around" ("a spicy ‘why choose’ hockey romance") and "Pucking Wild" (a spicy MF reverse age gap hockey romance)--she says it's about the common problem of abstraction, where celebrities stop being perceived as genuine humans:

@emilyrathbooks I’ve turned off the duet/stitch function and comments so this statement can simply be exactly as it is. I love my reader community and I love and respect the wonderful hockey community I’ve fostered with teams around the world. Let’s all treat others with respect and kindness ❤️ #emilyverse #emilyrathbooks #jacksonvillerays #jacksonvilleraysseries #puckingaround #sportsromance #hockeyromance #hockeytok ♬ original sound - Dr. Emily Rath | Author
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Thursday, February 2, 2023

"National NHL ratings in the U.S. have taken an enormous hit year-over-year"

"The report reveals a concerning 22% year-over-year decrease in viewership." (I wonder if they've been coasting all these years on the boom from the perfect storm of Gretzky on the Kings, Genesis hockey, and Upper Deck trading cards.)
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Monday, January 23, 2023

Jade Rabbit logo for the Seattle Kraken Lunar New Year jersey



Hat, tee, and patch still available.
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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Lava Skull NHL goalie mask


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Thursday, October 20, 2022

The Vegas Golden Knights "reverse retro" jersey is glow in the dark

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Sunday, November 7, 2021

Alternate logos for the Seattle Kraken; 100 Gecs fans compete on using old technology; These Ecco the Dolphin pages look great





@townballroom

That was a wild ride… ##100gecs ##SamsClubScanAndGo ##hyperpop ##foryou

♬ stupid horse - 100 gecs & Laura Les & Dylan Brady








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