kirill learned more english specifically to backchat the media, confirmed
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wanted to go for a run today so bad but it's still 50k winds and there's only two hours of light left i'm SUFFERING
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the thing about that kid is like okay sure i’ll play along with you and i’ll pretend every hit he’s ever laid is totally clean and any injuries were just freak incidents of bad luck because he’s so tall and he would never want to hurt anyone and his team is definitely not encouraging him to hurt anyone. okay? everything i’m about to say is taking all of that in consideration in good faith. if these are the results of good, clean hits, and they’re legal, then the nhl needs to change its rules about hits. i don’t care if someone is 6’7. if they can’t finish a hit without direct head contact they shouldn’t be laying them at all. “aw, that sucks, why does he have to play differently than anyone else” because everyone else seems capable of not knocking out multiple players in a season where they had the second lowest ice time in the league. sorry! players not getting traumatic head injuries is more important to me than making sure everyone can hit anyone they want however they want in the name of fairness, and it should be for the league too.
i don’t understand why this is controversial. last season when i said if an elbow to the head in the middle of the ice is a legal hit they need to change what a legal hit is i got so many people angry with me and it’s like, for what? for what? i am not talking about these types of players on a personal level, i am not insulting teams out of rivalries, i am not implying all fans of these players or teams are bad people. when a style of play has proven to be dangerous time and time and time and time and time again, then that style of play needs to be removed from the game. if next season sidney crosby decided his new move was laying out opponents by elbowing them in the head i would feel the exact same way. if you absolutely cannot play hockey without posing serious and long-term risk to the health of your opponents on the ice, you should not be playing hockey. the end. legal hits clean hits head down height difference i don’t care it doesn’t matter. even believing that it’s an accident every time. you should not be on that ice if you are incapable of playing safely.
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fantastic article. (i wasn’t aware we were allowed to have sports writers who actually knew how to write.)
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mtkachuk's playoff mind games are sooo funny there's no one doing it like him. up 3-0 in the tampa series talking about how even it's been and how much tampa dominated them... last year's nonstop gassing up of the bruins/leafs/canes + "the reward for beating the best team in the league is playing the second best team in the league" + completely refusing to let the "we want florida" thing die. don't be fooled he does NOT gaf what any opposing team or fanbase thinks of him he's literally weaving his little narratives for the guys in the room with him... subtly gaslighting them into believing they're still the underdogs... matthew tkachuk the tonesetter playmaker manipulator that you are. love u babe
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Baby Kirill! Look at his little hat!
[Translation: Thank you all for your congratulations]
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zuccarello and kaprizov after the wild win in overtime // 28th april 2022
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every time a wild has a birthday i revamp this post
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NHLers as Oddly Specific Graphic Tees: Part 13 ???
✨ Kirill Kaprizov edition ✨
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"what's something you're not good at?"
".....golf?"
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