No one doesn't ship Carter and Richards
I'm sure everyone who cares about Richie and Carts already has Imp's Broken Bromance open in a tab, but if not, you should immediately do so. It's great. (Uh, if you have a great affection for the city Columbus, OH, be aware that nobody in this fic agrees with you.)
Because yesterday was Cup Final media day, Tim Panaccio wrote his own 4-part version for CSNPhilly today, which you can find starting here, but probably you don't even need to bother, since I've excerpted so much of it
Another ex-Flyer, Simon Gagne, said when Richards arrived in L.A., he was angry.
“You could see it,” Gagne said. “I had a chance to go through it the year before when I got traded to Tampa.
“Basically, what he was going through was similar stuff. I tried to talk to him a couple times. At the same time, he's old enough and he's the type of guy that likes to figure it out on his own.”
Living for Gagne trying to talk Richie down from his rage, because he'd gone through basically the exact same thing a year before. &Gags; And of course Richie was to stubborn to be comforted. Mike Richards cherishes his anger close to his heart.
While Mike Richards grew to enjoy life in L.A. this season, Jeff Carter seemed to be dying a slow death in Columbus and didn’t hide his unhappiness.
DYING A SLOW DEATH. LOVE YOU, TPANOTCH.
Carter has said repeatedly since arriving in L.A., that for as bad as things were last June – he barricaded himself in his Sea Isle City shore house – he couldn’t be more happy to be reunited with Richards – this time living in Richards’ house in Manhattan Beach, minutes from the Kings’ practice facility.
barricaded himself in his Sea Isle City shore house
“We didn't expect it, but things have worked out pretty good here for us. We're both happy to be in L.A. We love the situation we're in.”
“We couldn't even sign [with] each other [as future free agents] for a long time, so we didn't expect this,” Richards said. “But we're both excited. Jeff was extremely excited to come to L.A. and the rest is obviously history.
“We're happy right now. Jeff's living with me. We're having a good time in L.A. ... The trade was frustrating at first, but I couldn't be happier now.”
I love the idea of them STILL planning on signing to a team together in 15 years or whenever their contracts were finally up. So tragic! Probably they're actually going to buy houses next door to each other when they retire.
“The fact that we were as good as friends as we were, there's a lot of communication of trying to build chemistry, whether it's him telling me what I want to do with the puck or me telling him where I need him on the ice.
“I think that built chemistry a lot quicker. When you have a guy coming to a team that's new, you can sometimes have a guy being a little bit shy and not speak up as much, which might take things a little bit longer to know each other's hockey styles. But the fact that we knew each other, helped a lot.
“We always envisioned winning together and not too many people get that second opportunity, but we definitely have that now and we have to take advantage of it.”
Tell me more about Jeff Carter telling you what he wants you to do, Mike Richards. Also, I legit have a ton of feelings about how I want them to be happy and win a Cup together and be best friends for life.
Oh, and now Frank Seravalli has gotten in on the action too. It contains such paragraphs as
For the first time since that fateful June 23 day last year, Richards did not flinch when asked about the Flyers. The wounds are no longer fresh. When he returned to Philadelphia for the first time last October, he squirmed like a jealous ex-boyfriend, insisting the grudge match was nothing more than a "regular game."
Stunning.
Because yesterday was Cup Final media day, Tim Panaccio wrote his own 4-part version for CSNPhilly today, which you can find starting here, but probably you don't even need to bother, since I've excerpted so much of it
Another ex-Flyer, Simon Gagne, said when Richards arrived in L.A., he was angry.
“You could see it,” Gagne said. “I had a chance to go through it the year before when I got traded to Tampa.
“Basically, what he was going through was similar stuff. I tried to talk to him a couple times. At the same time, he's old enough and he's the type of guy that likes to figure it out on his own.”
Living for Gagne trying to talk Richie down from his rage, because he'd gone through basically the exact same thing a year before. &Gags; And of course Richie was to stubborn to be comforted. Mike Richards cherishes his anger close to his heart.
While Mike Richards grew to enjoy life in L.A. this season, Jeff Carter seemed to be dying a slow death in Columbus and didn’t hide his unhappiness.
DYING A SLOW DEATH. LOVE YOU, TPANOTCH.
Carter has said repeatedly since arriving in L.A., that for as bad as things were last June – he barricaded himself in his Sea Isle City shore house – he couldn’t be more happy to be reunited with Richards – this time living in Richards’ house in Manhattan Beach, minutes from the Kings’ practice facility.
barricaded himself in his Sea Isle City shore house
“We didn't expect it, but things have worked out pretty good here for us. We're both happy to be in L.A. We love the situation we're in.”
“We couldn't even sign [with] each other [as future free agents] for a long time, so we didn't expect this,” Richards said. “But we're both excited. Jeff was extremely excited to come to L.A. and the rest is obviously history.
“We're happy right now. Jeff's living with me. We're having a good time in L.A. ... The trade was frustrating at first, but I couldn't be happier now.”
I love the idea of them STILL planning on signing to a team together in 15 years or whenever their contracts were finally up. So tragic! Probably they're actually going to buy houses next door to each other when they retire.
“The fact that we were as good as friends as we were, there's a lot of communication of trying to build chemistry, whether it's him telling me what I want to do with the puck or me telling him where I need him on the ice.
“I think that built chemistry a lot quicker. When you have a guy coming to a team that's new, you can sometimes have a guy being a little bit shy and not speak up as much, which might take things a little bit longer to know each other's hockey styles. But the fact that we knew each other, helped a lot.
“We always envisioned winning together and not too many people get that second opportunity, but we definitely have that now and we have to take advantage of it.”
Tell me more about Jeff Carter telling you what he wants you to do, Mike Richards. Also, I legit have a ton of feelings about how I want them to be happy and win a Cup together and be best friends for life.
Oh, and now Frank Seravalli has gotten in on the action too. It contains such paragraphs as
For the first time since that fateful June 23 day last year, Richards did not flinch when asked about the Flyers. The wounds are no longer fresh. When he returned to Philadelphia for the first time last October, he squirmed like a jealous ex-boyfriend, insisting the grudge match was nothing more than a "regular game."
Stunning.