I'm so excited to finally share this piece with you all. A huge thanks to Elias for being so generous with his time and his answers, and obviously for timing his 100pts to spruik the article. Give it a read and let me know what you think!!!
Building a Leader by Sarah Guiney ✍️
Botchford Project participant,
@sleeplesshockey
, details how Elias Pettersson has grown this season and has shaped into one of the leaders for the
#Canucks
.
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Quinn Hughes, whose emergence off the ice is just as impressive as his development into an elite player, gave the latest example of his leadership ahead of Vancouver's annual Pride Night.
"In our organization everyone is welcomed." (
@imacSportsnet
)
Zadorov and Soucy adding an edge on the back end the Canucks haven't had in years.
Lesson of the day: Fuck around and find out for McDavid slashing Soucy first
it absolutely rules that travis dermott said 'lets do it baby i know the law' and now every player knows the the league will back down at the slightest pressure
every so often brock boeser does this unhinged whooping squeal thing when a liney scores a big goal and he's done it so loud on two big petey goals in the last two games that it's been audible on the broadcast and how can you not be getting swept up in this right now
brock boeser is the heart of this team. quinn the leader, petey the thinker, miller the emotions, demko the steadiness, but boeser the heart. i hope with everything in me that they can win it for him. for their heart.
someone please go gif the slow camera pan around pp1 before the puck drop at the start of this period. they looked rabid, which in hindsight absolutely rules
bit alarming that the yotes deleted the dermott media availability and the pride night post featuring his image. surely the league wouldn't crack down on him NOW, after the absolute pr debacle this turned into
Brock Boeser only mentioned the blood clot issue that kept him out of R2 game 7 in his post season avail but he was also playing with a broken finger sustained from practice prior to R1 game 3.
#canucks
The
#NHL24
#StanleyCup
Playoff Simulation is official 🏆
The
@Canucks
win the Stanley Cup in 7 games as part of a 2011 rematch against the Boston Bruins.
being a canucks opponent and talking shit about quinn hughes right now is amongst the stupidest things you could possibly be doing. why would you piss that man off when he's fuelled by spite. how bad do you want him to break some ankles
carson soucy you HAVE to stop smirking in the face of violence bro. you have to stop delighting in the trials and tribulations of your opponents. they'll kill you carson soucy
NEWS: The NHL sent an updated memo to teams Thursday clarifying what they can do this season with special initiatives such as Pride Night.
A source told ESPN that several teams sought clarity as the first memo was deemed to be confusing and restrictive.
Cutting Edges Hockey Club, Vancouver's 2SLGBTQIA+ hockey club who often feature in Canucks pride night, have released a strong statement calling upon 'the Vancouver Canucks, the Canucks players and the Aquilini family to denounce this decision and ask it to be revoked.'
when discussing canucks captaincy i don't think any of us realised just how much quinn was going to enjoy being captain. like i have never seen his face do this outside of a goal celly
cannot get over this. the jerseys are one thing, but players requiring actual physical distance between themselves and queer fans??? simply being in proximity to queer folks is unacceptable, apparently. unreal
thrilled for all the canucks asg guys but 'all-star brock boeser' is everything to me. imagine if you could go back and tell the brock of december 2022 that this was on the cards for him. could not be more happy for the guy if i actively tried
how has the rest of the league not gotten behind the garly-demko hug yet???? i've had to endure charming post-game goalie rituals from every other team but silence when the canucks get one???? i see how it is
what does aus women's cricket have to do to get a run on the main channel???? pack the mcg with 86k spectators??? become the best and most successful national cricket team this country has ever seen, over a sustained period of time????? just curious
petey: yah i'd say the noise started to creep in
quinn, who consumes every piece of hockey media and who loses sleep worrying about this team and who largely Became One With The Noise in the month of feb:
can't stop thinking about how the canucks will have to defeat stecher's oilers and tanev's stars en route to a cup, like some kind of messed up scott pilgrim situation
@awkspiritanimal
yeah!!! and i especially love the whole 'i'm confused how a person could even be/think like this' vibe when homophobes looove to have their bad faith arguments that have no internal logic. like, he's heard you out and nothing you're saying makes sense bud!!! it's so good
we really don't talk enough about that first game back against the leafs after the whole team got covid, which remains one of the most remarkable wins i've ever seen from this team. he and holtby were literally still coughing post-game. ot winner, 2G 1A. look how sick he was.
sometimes i spend like 30 seconds thinking about how rabid bo horvat would get about beating the leafs with the canucks and have to wonder what the hell the rest of you are remembering
actually the worst part of this pettersson conversation is how many hockey guys are calling him feminine/queer names as insults lmao 'diva' 'primadonna' 'girl' 'fairy' and you guys are out here wondering why you can't grow the game
it shouldn't matter that the crosscheck happened to 'the best player in the league' because a first game player up from the AHL should have the same protections as the league's stars. hope this helps!
the thing about all the pettersson criticism we're about to hear over the summer (with some of it almost certainly warranted) is he's probably going to win you a cup anyway. that's what he chose when he signed here, in amongst the vitriol and criticism he always seems to attract
nah sorry imagine you're troy stecher playing in australia for the yotes and there are at least two visible 'troy from richmond' signs in the crowd. how confused is that man right now
two games in a row elias pettersson has thought 'i'm going to pass to the other guy, the goalie will be expecting me to shoot' and two games in a row the other guy has gone 'god as my witness WILL force this puck back to petey'
on dec 17 last year, i got an email to inform me that my botchford project application had been successful.
on dec 17 this year, i'll be making my awihl commentary debut.
it's been a year utterly beyond comprehension and i'm having so much fun seeing where hockey's taking me
last game it was the canucks all checking on the sharks goalie while his own teammates skated away. today it's the whole canucks bench erupting at the cole fight and the stars simply watching.
something's shifted in vancouver, man.
love this game every year where leafs fans are like 'HA look how many leafs fans are at rogers' like yes that's right???? half your city moved here because it's that much nicer you absolute crumpet
it has been a genuine joy to watch opposition broadcasts this roadtrip: just this delightful blend of astonishment, disbelief, and dread. flabbergasted callers having read about it, but only just now seeing it for the first time. terror whenever lotto has the puck. resignation.
"We might has well put skirts on them then... I think we're letting the goalies off the hook."
Lightning coach Jon Cooper weighs in with his perspective on the two disallowed goals tonight and the impact those decisions had on the game.
carson soucy you HAVE to stop smirking in the face of violence bro. you have to stop delighting in the trials and tribulations of your opponents. they'll kill you carson soucy
the thing about vancouver is we could all complain about the refs for the next 30 years and not win a cup and it STILL wouldn't be as egregious a sin as wasting connor mcdavid's prime
i can stand here and tell you this was life-altering for me (true) or that you can reply/DM any questions you might have (also true) but ultimately, what empowered me to apply last year was reading a previous participant's post about their background.
so here's mine:
The Canucks Communications Department is proud to announce the fifth annual season of The Botchford Project, a program sponsored by The Athletic, honouring the legacy of the late Jason Botchford.
Applications are now open until Wednesday November 22 at noon.
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thinking about how brock boeser might just hit 30 goals in their first game back at rogers after this seismic shift of a roadtrip, for lotto line's big homecoming, on canucks pride night
the idea of lekkerimäki hitting the nhl while having an existing long-running beef with some american kid on the ducks is making me lose it. 100% what the canucks need and i can't wait
someone please go gif the slow camera pan around pp1 before the puck drop at the start of this period. they looked rabid, which in hindsight absolutely rules
i am SO sick of pride night discourse being dominated by paternalistic and condescending 'well it's his religion and we should respect that' talking points, as though queer people have zero experience at the intersection of their queerness and religion
"brock boeser channels his inner sedin" spoken like someone who hasn't searched 'boeser pettersson bank pass goal' upwards of a hundred times on youtube
i don't know how euro players deal with the constantly moving goalposts on acceptable body language and emoting in this league, i really don't. why do north americans fixate on this
My Botchford Project day was an absolute revelation, even if the game didn't exactly go the way we'd hoped. A huge thanks to
@KatBotchford
and
@CanucksPR
for taking a chance on an Aussie with no formal journalism experience -- I'm so grateful and I'll never ever forget it