the loser has to fall

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  1. Luca Haas looks Ilya Rozanov in the eye. Ilya Rozanov, recently appointed captain of The Ottawa Centaurs. Ilya Rozanov, who Luca has done unspeakable things to on Archive of Our Own.

    He gulps. His phone is weighing heavy in his back pocket, his phone which has been logged into an Archive of Our Own account for years. An account which features some… disgustingly detailed smut about the man currently shaking his hand.

    or, luca haas wrote a very popular hollanov fic when he was a teenager... he spends the first year of his professional hockey career in fear

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  2. ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ @teegan_without_sarah
    I AM FUCKING CRYING DID EVERYONE FUCKING SEE LUCA HAAS’S FACE WHEN HE GOT DRAFTED

    emilia @errrrmmelia
    can you BLAME HIM imagine thinking you were about to go to san francisco who are on a legendary team rebuild and were two points away from the playoffs and instead you go to FUCKING OTTAWAAAAAAAA

    or, luca’s draft told through everyone else’s eyes

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  3. LILLIAN: Today we have brought you in to talk about our rookies, or the Centaur Foals as we’re calling them.

    ILYA: Foals?

    BOYLE: … the name doesn’t really strike fear into the heart of our enemies.

    BARRETT: Oh that’s cute, did Harris come up with that? How many meetings did that take?

    LILLIAN: Each of you have been paired up with a different rookie to talk about.

    or, the social media marketing starts early. to hype up the new rookies (and the old ones) the centaurs start running their PR campaign introducing the new talent that will one day define the centaurs

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  4. A group of the rookies surround JONES in a weird circle centering his mic pack. They all lean in as they start singing badly.

    LEVIN: You would not believe your eyes.

    JONES: If ten million fire flies.

    YOUNG: Lit up the world as I fell asleep.

    HOLMBERG: I like to make myself believe.

    VAN DER BIJ: That planet earth turns

    LAPOINTE: Slowlyyyy.

    or, they mic up gareth jones, the media team learns to use the censor beep like their life depends on it

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  5. “He’s the most adulty,” Bee hisses.

    Shane squints at the group. “What have you done?”

    “Nothing!” Young squeaks which immediately means they have done something. “Uhm, just say hypothetically your washing machine is flooding and you try to open it to drain it, suddenly your entire laundry is flooding.”

    “Is the drain hose connected properly?”

    “Don’t look at me!” Arty whines. “Do I look like I know how to fix a drain hose? I don’t— stop looking at me!”

    or, five times shane is contacted by the rookies for adulting and one time he accidentally gives wildly incorrect advice

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  6. HARRIS: Shane! Ilya! I need you to sign something for me real quick.

    HOLLANDER: Uh— is this about the Centaur’s donation to the Canadian Cancer Society because I thought that came from the organisation not us— why are you recording us?

    HARRIS: No, no, not about the donation. I just have some fans who would like some photos of you signed.

    ROZANOV, suspiciously: What for?

    or harris drover conducts psychological warfare on the ottawa centaurs for the sake of social media by making them sign old photos of themselves

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  7. HARRIS: Today you’ll be reading thirst tweets about the other.

    HOLLANDER: No.

    ROZANOV, delighted: Oh! This will be fun.

    HOLLANDER: No way.

    HOLLANDER stands up.

    HOLLANDER: Where’s Barrett? He can do this.

    HOLLANDER actively walks off-set.

    or, in an unreleased video the ottawa centaur's read out thirst tweets in pairs and they all learn quite a lot they probably shouldn't have known about each other

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  8. HOLMBERG, reading: “Who are the Ottawa Foals?”

    YOUNG: This makes us sound like a YouTube dude-bro house.

    LEVIN: The hottest men in the league.

    JONES: We all know it’s Shane. You know it’s Shane based on the fact you have a [BEEP]in’ poster of him on your door.

    LAPOINTE: The Ottawa Foals is the name of the young core on the Ottawa Centaurs. It is mostly rookie players still on Entry Level Contracts but I am on my extension contract with the Cens. So I’m not a rookie anymore.

    or, the foals do the wired autocomplete interview. luca has a miserable time

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