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talking all things sports. the botchford project 22/23, change our game: women in sports broadcasting '23, 🎙AWIHL. views my own. she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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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!!!
@Canucks
Vancouver Canucks
1 year
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 . READ |
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love this from bear. 'for me, it's just kind of confusing.'
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Sportsnet
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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 )
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the best part of this is how miller wheels around to take on any oilers surely rushing in to defend their captain and there's just... no one
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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
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sam kerr with the rare reverse milkshake duck
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7 months
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
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2 months
good things happen to good people!!!! 😇 #canucks
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until next time, boston 🫡
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really appreciate the repeated use of 'teammate' here!!!
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Vancouver Canucks
1 year
Vancouver Canucks to celebrate the 2SLGBTQIA+ community at Pride Night, this Friday against the Calgary Flames. DETAILS |
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5 months
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
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i'd like to humbly put forth this video as being instrumental to the canucks' success this year
@Canucks
Vancouver Canucks
1 year
The team group chat’s poppin’ off! #Canucks 2023.24 season schedule has arrived 📆 SCHEDULE |
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4 months
quinn hughes' performance today almost suggests he was more stressed about the pettersson contract than pettersson was
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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.
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6 months
mfw i don't have strong english and you hit me with the word 'accelerate' in front of an arena full of people
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petey with the support staff 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
@Canucks
Vancouver Canucks
2 months
BENCH BUZZIN'
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5 months
when you and the lads understand what needs to be done
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5 months
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
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they should abolish the DoPS and just let kevin bieksa decide with a thumbs up or down like in ancient rome
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5 months
this crowd reaction to the first höglander goal (from the canucks instagram) is so good
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4 months
are you seriously telling me they recalled podkolzin to the big team right as dune 2 got released
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terrible night for the 'changing pettersson's linemates won't do shit' crowd
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3 months
death, taxes, and whatever the hell possesses thatcher demko's body when he plays the vegas golden knights
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8 months
pov: you're a stars player who had the audacity to breathe on thatcher demko post-whistle
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6 months
bo horvat winner in OT to beat the leafs, is it
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30 days
hey quick question canucks fans anyone else feel insane
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man, if you don't have chills watching the canucks salute the crowd. they know.
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5 months
BROCK BOESER I HAD THIS QUEUED UP FOR YOUR PRIDE GAME GOAL THAT NEVER HAPPENED BUT I FORGIVE YOU LET'S GO
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5 months
we have elias pettersson doing cellies holy shit we're going all the way
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8 months
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
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27 days
game 4 hattrick to send us to overtime, all with a broken finger. the legend grows
@sportsnetmurph
Dan Murphy
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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
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2 months
there is not one singular person in vancouver who is capable of handling this path to the cup
@EASPORTSNHL
EA SPORTS NHL
2 months
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.
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7 months
dudes rock
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1 month
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
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if conor garland gets you in a headlock you should retire immediately
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new meme format just dropped thanks petey 🫡 #canucks
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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
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9 months
just in case anyone still had any doubts that the new league-wide ban on players wearing specialty jerseys is specifically due to pride night:
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Ryan S. Clark
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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.
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also this would be funny if it wasn't so messed up lmao the league really said You Mustn't Force Players To Stand Near The Gays
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3 months
canucks discourse rn for some reason
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3 months
excuse me. what was this man JUST saying about certain footwear with suits
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8 months
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.'
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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
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8 months
not sure anyone had 'tyler myers makes multiple attempts on elias pettersson's life' in even their wildest season predictions
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9 months
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
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also this would be funny if it wasn't so messed up lmao the league really said You Mustn't Force Players To Stand Near The Gays
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his day 🫶🏻
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3 months
it's becoming more and more apparent that nils höglander is going to be a gamebreaker in the playoffs
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5 months
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
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okay here's who used pride tape, by my count: - brock boeser - quinn hughes - tyler myers - sam lafferty - pius suter - nils åman - ian cole
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5 months
also where's the running commentary on who's using pride tape in warmies
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the second rick tocchet said 'who cares' about the pasta water dripping on the floor was the moment i knew he had the jack adams locked down
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the chances of fishbowl quinn hughes are low......... but never zero.
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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
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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
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6 months
binnington in goal... nils höglander you have the chance to score THE funniest goal of all time
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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:
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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
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grateful for the character development that's happened over the past year because good lord
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@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
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still haven't released the hockey canada report btw but at least we've stopped some awful people from forcing us to look at rainbow tape
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the refs are so brave because if rick tocchet looked at me like that i'd cry
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there's only one man capable of stopping the golden knights in net
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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.
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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
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brock boeser we are so ready for your pride night hattrick taking you to your career high 30 goals on the season 👑
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anyway!!! today and always: queer people belong in hockey, and queer people are what makes hockey so great. you will never get rid of us x
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'i respect all opinions' vs 'please don't make me be in a room with a lesbian'
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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
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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!
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quinn hughes you have the chance to do the funniest thing possible
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5 months
this was tonight's btw
@BR_OpenIce
B/R Open Ice
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WHAT A MOVE BY PETTERSSON 😳
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canucks two goals down in the playoffs???? by god, that's brock boeser's music
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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
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love that kesler's laying out towels. sedins are coaching. bieksa came back and trained for a day. like yes put these legends to work
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all respect to petey but he could not be looking more vancouver out there with his arc'teryx cap and skin that hasn't seen the sun in A While
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if the canucks clinch tonight it's because of him
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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
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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'
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it is legitimately upsetting to me that this is someone doing an accent. you should have to be born into this one to sound like this
@brianjoralvarez
Brian Jordan Alvarez
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Rick can’t post all the time!!!
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now would be the funniest possible time for nils höglander to hit the michigan btw
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högs saying his new year's resolution is to be a nice guy when like 27/32 teams have beef with him is genuinely awesome. dudes rock
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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
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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.
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oh 🥹
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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
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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.
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what a week for misogyny in hockey
@BallyLightning
Bally Sports Sun: Lightning
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"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.
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'loves to fight but is bad at it' is my favourite thing i've learnt about zadorov btw
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just as the prophecy foretold
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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
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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
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sarah
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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:
@Canucks
Vancouver Canucks
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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. DETAILS |
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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
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6 months
canucks folks: we're all in agreement that we're sending brock boeser to the all-star game, right
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7 months
@passittobulis me every höglander game since his debut
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2 months
now THESE are the shirts the canucks need to sell
@LachInTheCrease
Lachlan Irvine
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No words needed hahaha #Canucks
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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
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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
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canucks artwork invoking the ongoing orca offensive on rich people and environmental villains >>>
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2 months
@LachInTheCrease 4OT incoming
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7 months
the only thing better than a dman who shoots at 107mph is a dman who shoots at 107mph and has only publicly uttered two sentences since 2019
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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
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sarah
9 months
brock boeser gotta be top 10 in the league for looking offended after getting penalised for something he absolutely 100% did
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sarah
8 months
"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
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sarah
2 months
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
@ryanwhitney6
Ryan Whitney
2 months
Canucks fans talk to me. What is up with number 40. Forget the no shots and lack of production. He looks disinterested out there
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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
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