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winning is not loyal

@st-louis / st-louis.tumblr.com

long-suffering flyers fan, nick suzuki evangelist, little guys with gumption appreciator, and terrible personality. i never trust a lead. sometimes i post about metal. tags and more information.
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for reference:

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  • this is my hockey scrapbook. pretty much anything i’m interested in, watching or reading, goes here.
  • my teams are the flyers and habs.
  • please don’t be weird and/or a dick in the tags because life is too short not to block you. 
  • if i blocked you, it’s 95% likely it’s because you were a dick about my teams in the tags.
  • anon is on for the moment, please don’t be an asshole.
#thanks for your time.#i need to update my tags page but shrug emoji
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i think that's really where suzuki has taken a step this season. he's helped both caufield and slafkovsky enormously. and both of those guys also got help from marty st-louis, adam nicholas . . . it starts with martin st-louis in the sense that he, long ago, last season even, determined that cole caufield needs to be a more well-rounded player. but it helps that nick suzuki's on board with it and he sees it too. so in game, he can mention things on the bench, or a good backcheck. i noticed the other night, tuesday night, cole had an amazing neutral zone backcheck that created a turnover, and the canadiens got the puck back and spent another 15-20 seconds in the offensive zone as a result and that's just something that was absent in cole caufield's game before this season. there's a trickle-down effect from this . . . i would call it almost cute, the way nick and cole were so invested in slafkovsky's improvement. they saw it as their own personal challenge to get him there and once he got over a certain hump, he was doing it on his own. but juraj's confidence has never been an issue . . . i think nick is the mini-coach on that line.

— arpon basu

#habs
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sounds like nick isn't going to worlds and like a) i get it, he's probably fucking tired from carrying that team on his back 82 games a year for five years and he's probably been playing through minor injuries, and b) i know he feels like he shouldn't have to prove that he's qualified to make the olympic team (and he shouldn't! he's very good!) but i'm worried that this is gonna kill his hopes for making the olympic team and i'm really sad about that.

#habs#nick suzuki#i will be worrying about this for the next two years thanks <3
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