CAPTAIN AMERICA
Jan. 1st, 2023 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goaltendergame 38 vs. sharks:
- number one pk in the league who?
- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OLD MAN TIP-IN LEGEND JOSEPH JAMES PAVELSKI!!!!!!!!!
entering 2023 with both stars teams on top of the west... jim nill you absolute animal. 😵💫 anyway this isn't going to be a real post so apologies for lack of cohesion i just need to scream for a few minutes!
after roope signing:
honestly i don't know why i ever doubted because when it comes down to it it seriously is like..... well frankly what reason does he even have to leave? i do think stars team culture as a whole is good and this partially factored into his willingness to take a pay cut but that's really just a piece of it, and when you look at the considerations of his age/family and dfw being a friendly area for hockey players to settle down near-retirement (no income tax, low market expectations/limited media pressure, etc.) it does slot into place easily. plus the stars are—as inconceivable as it may seem at times, keeping in mind their hole in the top 6 & general defensive deficiencies, plus some unnervingly good luck with injuries—objectively and numerically a good team at the moment. and pavs has never gotten his cup, and there's a point at which uprooting your entire family for... what? a potential few extra mil to round out your end-career years when you're being entrusted with the top line at 38, respected for your leadership without having to shoulder the actual media-facing burden of captaincy, not only on a ...contending... team but also actively helping develop its promising pool of upcoming talent, and essentially just genuinely valued and needed at every level of play, would be kind of dumb and really only an ego thing. and i think pavs is like. well what i like about the stars' social cohesion is that they don't need to be best friends to be genuinely good teammates. i think that's a quality pavs has and divulges to the younger players as a result, and that's why despite the stars locker room feeling ambiguous at times it's low on the ego scale and it becomes a place where shit just gets done. you put in the work and go home! professor pavs on his 9-5.
i do think part of this is that like... honestly it just feels like most of the players on this team are good at slotting into their expected roles properly, which when you look at (For Example) people like JT MILLER is actually not something to be taken for granted, and when we talk about winning culture this all comes from adaptability not just in play but re: the underlying psychological levels of accepting your deployment and usage with grace, especially as you age along your career. i think "leadership" is something that manifests in many various efforts too, like when we talk about active attempts at off-ice leadership it can be sort of ambiguous because the ways people need to be led obviously aren't universal. also male_bonding will literally reward the most inconceivably mundane venues of human affection and social interaction. and the stars have basically... this weird tiered leadership system because of 3 things that define its recent pains and successes: obviously 1491 contracts + jbenn captaincy, then unexpectedly fantastic drafting in 2017/2021 and the pavs ufa signing straight off his sharks captaincy, which means you've got different guys in different positions to leave others breathing room wherever they might need it to help the team move along. and i think that's shown a lot with benn and pavs helping johnny, because the stars getting so much young talent through the pipeline quickly when they've been a generally competitive team and stuck drafting late into the first and second round is impressive enough on its own, like just having a promising young rookie with the captain to anchor him on his line is one thing, but then also having This Other Guy with even more experience and the ability to mentor him elsewhere toward building a holistic nhl player profile is a really special combination that requires several key factors to align in subsequence the way it's happened with the stars.
like obviously i'm very attached to pavs's time with the sharks and i still think the way they scorned him for * is ridiculous but when you look back on it the guy has had such a solid and respectable career. of course would like him to hit 1k points first but he could retire now and there would be so much good to say about what he's accomplished. and you don't get that without knowing when to bend a little bit, or when to make accommodations and leave your ego at the door, and honestly credit to 1491 because i think they've also learned to roll with the team's tide in similar fashion. like the way the entire identity of this team was rewritten practically overnight with the 2017 draft can't be understated on basically every level imaginable, seeing how they've contributed majorly to why dallas have been able to combine playoff pushes (no matter how middling) with a still-promising prospect pool and saved them from the full tank and rebuild..... and i'm sure that's a weird thing to navigate when you're a homegrown pick and a huge part of the team's identity even if you aren't living up to the salary you have anymore.
the thing with professor pavs is that i'm like....... does he even like the kids on the team???? like obviously he isn't here to be friends with a bunch of 19 year olds. and yes he houses the kid but that's a sarah pavelski logistical masterclass at the end of the day. but also maybe that's just why it works. i think it's a 2-way thing where he does have enough generous instinct to want to guide these young players and help shape future success down the line even if he isn't on that roster in a few years, when wyatt and stanks and everyone else will be expected to fully hit their stride, but also when you're at that point in your career there must be some value to still being needed, and witnessing the direct fruits of your instructional labor is probably satisfying as hell. a lot of the discussion about finding another team is also that it's not just about the age factor and not wanting to take a chance on someone approaching 40 but when your established line is THAT good how can you even seek out the insecurity of another combination? which is again 2-way in the sense that some teams might undervalue him because of who he plays with (although that would be stupid) and then he himself is productively rewarded enough that i don't see why he'd want to disrupt such a consistently known variable.
sorry i don't know why i'm trying to break down old man psychology rn. anyway. tl;dr it's making me feel genuinely crazy that he's having this whole second act in dallas that might end up equaling his original legacy if he stays there long enough. i never really thought about it in palpable terms but.................
tl;dr [2] what's crazy is that he's doing the whole Just here to coach the new gen veteran presence thing while still producing at the top level. on pace to equal his career year at 37. brings out the best in roope and robo's game on a line where roope is the only one with significant rush metrics, master at positioning and elevating cerebral plays, top line synergy/60 a matter of genuine smarts and elite patience more than anything else. doesn't even play with wyatt and delly but has turned this whole team into deflection monsters. i don't know. stars are fun!
also sweet to see bichsel doing decently at world juniors right now. and i was of course right to anticipate cb98 being reunited with logan on his line LOL though it kills me how whenever some generational historical shit is happening there's always a random stars player/prospect kind of in the mix but not really..... like man is 2nd in w ppg behind bedsy and their line chemistry is insane and his gamescore metrics are nothing to scoff at but it's like. well he plays with bedard so who's going to care........ i feel insane about cb98 being all like "omg i used to idolize logan when we were younger he was the MAN in bc i looked up to him so much" as if he isn't barely 2 years younger than him girl relackssssss. he has such an obvious exceptionalplayerstatus generationalbaby complex it's insane. wonyoung moment. sorry i don't know why i said that
- number one pk in the league who?
- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO OLD MAN TIP-IN LEGEND JOSEPH JAMES PAVELSKI!!!!!!!!!
entering 2023 with both stars teams on top of the west... jim nill you absolute animal. 😵💫 anyway this isn't going to be a real post so apologies for lack of cohesion i just need to scream for a few minutes!
after roope signing:
seeing people say that pavs won't be able to come back now and it's like well that may be true and yes he's a ppg player but when u consider hine modeling his value largely after miro and how it's going to look once the cap increases and how quickly robo's bridge deal escalated with the start of the season looming it's just like, is it naive to think that there could be enough of a human/team culture element to it for him to want to stick around a little longer?
honestly i don't know why i ever doubted because when it comes down to it it seriously is like..... well frankly what reason does he even have to leave? i do think stars team culture as a whole is good and this partially factored into his willingness to take a pay cut but that's really just a piece of it, and when you look at the considerations of his age/family and dfw being a friendly area for hockey players to settle down near-retirement (no income tax, low market expectations/limited media pressure, etc.) it does slot into place easily. plus the stars are—as inconceivable as it may seem at times, keeping in mind their hole in the top 6 & general defensive deficiencies, plus some unnervingly good luck with injuries—objectively and numerically a good team at the moment. and pavs has never gotten his cup, and there's a point at which uprooting your entire family for... what? a potential few extra mil to round out your end-career years when you're being entrusted with the top line at 38, respected for your leadership without having to shoulder the actual media-facing burden of captaincy, not only on a ...contending... team but also actively helping develop its promising pool of upcoming talent, and essentially just genuinely valued and needed at every level of play, would be kind of dumb and really only an ego thing. and i think pavs is like. well what i like about the stars' social cohesion is that they don't need to be best friends to be genuinely good teammates. i think that's a quality pavs has and divulges to the younger players as a result, and that's why despite the stars locker room feeling ambiguous at times it's low on the ego scale and it becomes a place where shit just gets done. you put in the work and go home! professor pavs on his 9-5.
i do think part of this is that like... honestly it just feels like most of the players on this team are good at slotting into their expected roles properly, which when you look at (For Example) people like JT MILLER is actually not something to be taken for granted, and when we talk about winning culture this all comes from adaptability not just in play but re: the underlying psychological levels of accepting your deployment and usage with grace, especially as you age along your career. i think "leadership" is something that manifests in many various efforts too, like when we talk about active attempts at off-ice leadership it can be sort of ambiguous because the ways people need to be led obviously aren't universal. also male_bonding will literally reward the most inconceivably mundane venues of human affection and social interaction. and the stars have basically... this weird tiered leadership system because of 3 things that define its recent pains and successes: obviously 1491 contracts + jbenn captaincy, then unexpectedly fantastic drafting in 2017/2021 and the pavs ufa signing straight off his sharks captaincy, which means you've got different guys in different positions to leave others breathing room wherever they might need it to help the team move along. and i think that's shown a lot with benn and pavs helping johnny, because the stars getting so much young talent through the pipeline quickly when they've been a generally competitive team and stuck drafting late into the first and second round is impressive enough on its own, like just having a promising young rookie with the captain to anchor him on his line is one thing, but then also having This Other Guy with even more experience and the ability to mentor him elsewhere toward building a holistic nhl player profile is a really special combination that requires several key factors to align in subsequence the way it's happened with the stars.
like obviously i'm very attached to pavs's time with the sharks and i still think the way they scorned him for * is ridiculous but when you look back on it the guy has had such a solid and respectable career. of course would like him to hit 1k points first but he could retire now and there would be so much good to say about what he's accomplished. and you don't get that without knowing when to bend a little bit, or when to make accommodations and leave your ego at the door, and honestly credit to 1491 because i think they've also learned to roll with the team's tide in similar fashion. like the way the entire identity of this team was rewritten practically overnight with the 2017 draft can't be understated on basically every level imaginable, seeing how they've contributed majorly to why dallas have been able to combine playoff pushes (no matter how middling) with a still-promising prospect pool and saved them from the full tank and rebuild..... and i'm sure that's a weird thing to navigate when you're a homegrown pick and a huge part of the team's identity even if you aren't living up to the salary you have anymore.
the thing with professor pavs is that i'm like....... does he even like the kids on the team???? like obviously he isn't here to be friends with a bunch of 19 year olds. and yes he houses the kid but that's a sarah pavelski logistical masterclass at the end of the day. but also maybe that's just why it works. i think it's a 2-way thing where he does have enough generous instinct to want to guide these young players and help shape future success down the line even if he isn't on that roster in a few years, when wyatt and stanks and everyone else will be expected to fully hit their stride, but also when you're at that point in your career there must be some value to still being needed, and witnessing the direct fruits of your instructional labor is probably satisfying as hell. a lot of the discussion about finding another team is also that it's not just about the age factor and not wanting to take a chance on someone approaching 40 but when your established line is THAT good how can you even seek out the insecurity of another combination? which is again 2-way in the sense that some teams might undervalue him because of who he plays with (although that would be stupid) and then he himself is productively rewarded enough that i don't see why he'd want to disrupt such a consistently known variable.
sorry i don't know why i'm trying to break down old man psychology rn. anyway. tl;dr it's making me feel genuinely crazy that he's having this whole second act in dallas that might end up equaling his original legacy if he stays there long enough. i never really thought about it in palpable terms but.................
tl;dr [2] what's crazy is that he's doing the whole Just here to coach the new gen veteran presence thing while still producing at the top level. on pace to equal his career year at 37. brings out the best in roope and robo's game on a line where roope is the only one with significant rush metrics, master at positioning and elevating cerebral plays, top line synergy/60 a matter of genuine smarts and elite patience more than anything else. doesn't even play with wyatt and delly but has turned this whole team into deflection monsters. i don't know. stars are fun!
also sweet to see bichsel doing decently at world juniors right now. and i was of course right to anticipate cb98 being reunited with logan on his line LOL though it kills me how whenever some generational historical shit is happening there's always a random stars player/prospect kind of in the mix but not really..... like man is 2nd in w ppg behind bedsy and their line chemistry is insane and his gamescore metrics are nothing to scoff at but it's like. well he plays with bedard so who's going to care........ i feel insane about cb98 being all like "omg i used to idolize logan when we were younger he was the MAN in bc i looked up to him so much" as if he isn't barely 2 years younger than him girl relackssssss. he has such an obvious exceptionalplayerstatus generationalbaby complex it's insane. wonyoung moment. sorry i don't know why i said that
