canada olympic hockey roster: fangirl version

[guingel]

So much talking head babbling about which players from Team Canada's Olympics orientation camp will actually make the final squad, and none of them seem to be taking cuteness into account. Or how much Laura loves them. Shocking oversight, I am driven to make my own list. From this roster.

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[biggersandwich]

Your list is great! I am enjoying the hell out of watching the sports media people make lists with very, very similar logic, and then pretending it's news. Lulzy media spin is my favourite thing. :D

Also, Lu is totally prettier than Crawford, ijs. ;)

[guingel]

I am SO INTO PLAYOFF BEARDS. I didn't really expect it at all. You should have seen my twitter during the playoffs, it was about 80% "omgggggggggggg look how fuzzy Jeff Carter's face is!!!!!!" Like all summer i've been seeing people longing for hockey season to start up again, I'm like "you think you have a long wait, I'm desperate for more playoff beards!!"

So that's why Crawford gets the edge for me, because he grows such a magnificent pelt. Actually I got pretty into him all of a sudden, so it must be the beard, but I'm just really into his cute little face and little accent and little head bob right now.

But Bobby Lu would obviously win for personality! Sometimes he looks a little bit too unhealthy for me. But oh god how badly do I want him to come home to Long Island... ::sob::

[biggersandwich]

Hee! Not my thing at all, I'm afraid. Which is probably for the best when most of my faves completely fail at facial hair. Crow is acceptable looking, but I require shaving, haha.

Lu definitely has so much personality for a hockey player! But honestly, I just think he's super hot, idek.

[guingel]

Yeah, normally I'd say I like cleanshaven much better... I think it's the fact that they're all growing the beards simultaneously and I can compare, I get so much joy out of it. And then the guys who do end up with big bushy monstrosities look so impressive... or something. (which then leads to me writing tagfic like this!) The whole thing is just really really entertaining to me, even though I agree that in most cases it doesn't objectively improve their appearance!

ETA: And I kept trying to talk to my sister about it cos I didn't know many hockey fans at that point, and her husband grows a lovely ginger beard and every time I'd talk about James Neal she'd just be like, "::smuggity:: some of us don't have to look to hockey players for nice ginger beards!" SIGH.

When Lu looks like he's gotten enough sleep and taken a shower, I can totally get into his face and his little smirk... but that is not always the case, I find.

[thebeamiestface]

I wish Hamonic would make it but alas. I've read they're setting him up to be one of their leaders in 2018. Don't they know they NEED him to piss off Geno? Also, I'm not counting Brodeur out and they should be ASHAMED for not inviting him to camp.

[guingel]

Yeah, the Hammer scenario is kind of "EVERY OTHER CANADIAN DEFENDER GETS INJURED!!!" probably. And it's not quite worth it to me. So I'll just have to stick around until 2018. :DDD

Oh man, I hope Marty goes into beastmode and goes to Sochi. Marty to do all the things!!

[thebeamiestface]

And our Johnny lost three teeth last week in workouts. I swear he thinks he's Sidney Crosby.

[guingel]

Oh god, I saw that DDDD: ::facepalm:: Before the season even starts!! If I didn't know he'd already lost teeth and still looked this good, I'd be worried. ;)