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Anders winked at Ryan, and then the brothers got distracted arguing with each other about how best to arrange Ryan’s upcoming goals. When Lars briefly disappeared to help Anton get set up on his tablet, Ryan wondered if he’d be responsible for making small talk with Anders. Hopefully not. Anders seemed the quiet, brooding type.
Which was why he was surprised when Anders said, “Everyone else calls you RJ.”
Ryan couldn’t tell if there was an accusation there, and he didn’t know if he should play dumb. Given how supportive Anders had been today, it felt wrong to.
“They do,” he acknowledged and braced for more questions.
There were none: Anders merely nodded and began to put his gear back on.
They ended up losing to the Central Division team 7-9. Ryan did get his hat trick in the last shift of the game. Anders’s and Lars’s excitement for a goal that didn’t even get the team within tying baffled the other players, but Ryan loved getting smashed between them and nearly going deaf from Lars’s cheers.
It was the best possible end to the weekend, made only better when Lars enthusiastically sucked him off in his hotel room as they packed.
Instagram: Hockey in Other Languages
[Transcript from an Instagram reel featured on @bmorebluecrabsnhl]
Crabby the mascot holds up a sign that reads:Hockey around the world!
A photo of Pierre Lauren with a Quebec flag pops up on the screen before it shows him sitting at a high top table with a stack of cards. Jordy Foster sits across from him.
Pierre Lauren, holding up a sign:Not one you'll hear much, but?—
Jordy Foster:Bone party.
Lauren makes a face.
Foster:Buns par tea. Bon parry. What am I doing wrong?
Lauren:You are butchering my language with your American mouth. Bonne partie.
Foster:Bonne partie.
Lauren:Better.
Foster:What’s it mean?
Lauren:Good game.
Foster:…you said I wouldn’t hear it much.
Lauren:Oui.
A photo of Vladislav Voronin with a Russian flag before he appears with Logan Stewart at the same table.
Vladislav Voronin:(holds up the word “???????.”)
Logan Stewart, laughing:I’m sorry, what? How do those letters make those sounds?
Voronin:???????.
Stewart:Vrah tar.
Voronin shrugs:Not bad.
Stewart:What’s it mean?
Voronin:Goalie.
