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i just think hockey connections are neat and the hughes have a lot. so here's a noncomphrehensive review of their connections (as it relates to their teams) through their dad jim. and this also kinda doubles as a background about him.
so jim hughes grew up on long island and has many ties to the area, hence the “comin home” comment from luke during jack’s draft and jack’s walk up song being “i’m coming home”.
currently jim is a director of player development at CAA hockey (2016-) and previously was the director of player development for the leafs (2009-15). he also has 20 years of coaching experience which has brought him to new jersey, orlando, boston, new hampshire, and toronto. but before all this, he played hockey at providence college (1985-89) which is where he overlapped with tom fitzgerald, current president of hockey operations and gm of the devils, for two years. if you were ever curious why jim and ellen were seated next to the gm of jack and luke’s team at brady tkachuk’s wedding, now you know.
jim hughes 1985
in fact, jim was a huge factor in why fitzgerald attended providence as jim hosted him for his recruiting trip. during jim’s time at providence, he was represented by ray shero who was the gm for the devils from 2015-20.
devils GM ray shero meeting with the hughes family at the 2019 nhl draft
while jim was an assistant coach with the orlando sun bears (1999-2001), he became acquainted with head coach peter horachek who was a scout for the devils in 2019 and is currently an assistant coach for them.
jim hughes (left) is in this photo, idk if peter horachek is but this from when the solar bears won the turner cup and that's how the photo of jack in a cup came about
after orlando jim had been named as an assistant coach for the bruins (2001-03) and that’s where he met, then head coach, robbie ftorek, who became a close family friend. following his tenure with boston he went to new hampshire where he was assistant coach for the manchester monarchs (2003-05) under previous canucks’ head coach bruce boudreau. when jim became head coach (2005-06), his assistant coach was derek clancy who is currently an assistant gm for the leafs and previously was one for the canucks.
pretend that derek clancy is here with him (well he is, just off screen)
then settled in toronto as an assistant coach for the marlies, then as director of player development for the leafs. here jim and the boys got to know leafs legend willy nylander.
not at all connected to the boys’ teams i just wanted to include this photo, sue me
again, this is a noncomprehensive review and there is probably so much i missed, but i wanted to put this together for reference.
↳ info taken mostly from this the athletic article and this sportsnet article + some supplementary sources such as elite prospects
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I think that the Snakemouth roaches had a leaf of the Everlasting Sapling, but Spuder ate it.
- It explains why Spuder has been around since Queen Elizant 1 times
- The first and last chapter bosses would have both eaten the Sapling, which is nice bookends
- It's really funny
The problem with this theory is that Spuder is not covered in leaves like the Everlasting King. I'll fix that tomorrow, but right now it's really late.
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i was rewatching max's birthday shootout winner and it felt weirdly familiar, so i went and did a little digging to try to figure out why, and i found some pretty interesting stuff!
ok, quick stats dump
max is 2/11 in career shootout attempts
he's 2/3 in shootout attempts as a leaf
miraculously, both goals he scored were game winners
the first goal, flames @ leafs (nov. 10, 2023):
the second goal, rangers @ leafs (mar. 2, 2024):
yes, those are gifs from two different game winning shootout goals!! he'll score on you but he has to do it with PIZZAZZ, with GUMPTION, going BARDOWN like it's NOTHING. if it ain't broke, don't fix it, eh?
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hello! Do you have more information about your pokemon OCs? They look cool!!!
Hellooo thank you for asking :DD
I had settings of my ocs but didn't make any sheet, so I made their simple introduction card as soon as possible. I'm sorry if there is anything you can't understand.
I'm thinking of drawing their slice of life more often :)
If you have more question about them, you can ask me anytime!
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Something I love about doing art is the detail. One time someone told me to stop being detail focused JUST so I could actually finish a project.
So here's a big ramble about details in my own art that make me smile:
Textures: :)))) I love going crazy on textures because when I zoom in later on I go “wow I forgot I put that there” and it’s silly and fun.
Story telling: I love seeing how much of a story I can tell in just one drawing, so I just cram in a bunch of references and details.
I was just talking to some other artists the other day about how fun obscure details are in art, and thought I'd blab about it on here. Ok that's all, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Real question: how are these guys getting food poisoning so often? I feel like I've had it 2 or 3 times in my entire life that I remember, but I swear it goes through this team 2 or 3 times a year. What are they eating in Toronto??
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