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january meme day whatever: the plant
Jan. 12th, 2019 06:04 pmHa ha, today's topic. All right. Let's begin at the beginning.
When I latched on to Aaron Ekblad as My Person in current hockey fandom, I had to explain him to many of my friends. One friend, when she said his last name half-distracted because she was looking at her phone, and with her particular accent, said Ekblad in a way that sounded like Eggplant. He became Aaron Eggplant, or just Eggplant. (Since that time, I've noticed several hockey announcers tend to say his name in a way that sounds like Eggplant, too. It's a thing! IT REALLY IS.)
At some point during his first NHL summer, he posted on Instagram from a cafe in Canada that serves all plant-based products. I said something on twitter about him eating plants and another friend replied "He is a plant." And so.
Ekblad-->eggplant-->plants???--> the plant.
The plant is anxious and stupid and not developing into the player he was supposed to be. r/hockey considers him to be a first-overall bust ala Nail Yakupov. This makes me sad inside! It's partly because of the number of concussions he's had, partly because the Panthers rushed his development by throwing him into the NHL right away (you don't DO that with defensemen), partly because the Panthers didn't have a d-coach for his first few years and when they hired one it was Jack Capuano. Etc. There's gossip on r/hockey that he's lazy and doesn't want to have to work, because he was always the biggest guy on the ice and had raw talent when he was a kid so he never learned to work in the first place, but I take that with a grain of salt.
He has a very pretty girlfriend, Dayna, who is also from Canada, and is currently a med student in Florida. They have a tiny fluffy dog named Archie. They're very cute and romantic together.
He lived with the team captain, Willie Mitchell, his rookie year, and his friendship (MAYBE IN LOVE) with Willie and his wife has continued and is very cute and sweet. And dorky. Very dorky.
All the reports I've seen from people who've met him, either back when he was in juniors or since he got to the NHL, is that he's very polite and nice and not egotistical. I hope that's true! I want a nice plant, even if his team is garbage and dead set on ruining him and his career.
This is a tragic place to end this post, but I've got nothing else. FREE EKBLAD. Trade him to Dallas.
When I latched on to Aaron Ekblad as My Person in current hockey fandom, I had to explain him to many of my friends. One friend, when she said his last name half-distracted because she was looking at her phone, and with her particular accent, said Ekblad in a way that sounded like Eggplant. He became Aaron Eggplant, or just Eggplant. (Since that time, I've noticed several hockey announcers tend to say his name in a way that sounds like Eggplant, too. It's a thing! IT REALLY IS.)
At some point during his first NHL summer, he posted on Instagram from a cafe in Canada that serves all plant-based products. I said something on twitter about him eating plants and another friend replied "He is a plant." And so.
Ekblad-->eggplant-->plants???--> the plant.
The plant is anxious and stupid and not developing into the player he was supposed to be. r/hockey considers him to be a first-overall bust ala Nail Yakupov. This makes me sad inside! It's partly because of the number of concussions he's had, partly because the Panthers rushed his development by throwing him into the NHL right away (you don't DO that with defensemen), partly because the Panthers didn't have a d-coach for his first few years and when they hired one it was Jack Capuano. Etc. There's gossip on r/hockey that he's lazy and doesn't want to have to work, because he was always the biggest guy on the ice and had raw talent when he was a kid so he never learned to work in the first place, but I take that with a grain of salt.
He has a very pretty girlfriend, Dayna, who is also from Canada, and is currently a med student in Florida. They have a tiny fluffy dog named Archie. They're very cute and romantic together.
He lived with the team captain, Willie Mitchell, his rookie year, and his friendship (MAYBE IN LOVE) with Willie and his wife has continued and is very cute and sweet. And dorky. Very dorky.
All the reports I've seen from people who've met him, either back when he was in juniors or since he got to the NHL, is that he's very polite and nice and not egotistical. I hope that's true! I want a nice plant, even if his team is garbage and dead set on ruining him and his career.
This is a tragic place to end this post, but I've got nothing else. FREE EKBLAD. Trade him to Dallas.
