toewslake:

May 23rd, 2013: Brent Seabrook comforts Jonathan Toews after his third penalty in game four against Detroit.

Actual Highland Cattle: Mikhail Grabovski (♕)

Happy 194th Birthday, Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Born at Kensington Palace, London, on 24 May 1819, she became the longest reigning monarch in English history. In her reign she saw the advances in industry, science, communications (the telegraph, popular press) and other forms of technology; the building of railways and the London Underground, sewers, and power distribution networks; the construction of bridges and other engineering feats; a vast number of inventions; a greatly expanded empire; unequal growth of wealth, with class differences to the fore; tremendous poverty; increase in urban populations, with the growth of great cities like Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham; increased literacy; and great civic works, often funded by industrial philanthropists.

historyofromanovs:

history meme | five assassinations: the romanov family, 1918

After Emperor Nicholas II’s abdication in early 1917, the Imperial family were put under house arrest at the Alexander Palace in Saint Petersburg. The family, along with their loyal servants, were sent from the former Imperial Russian capital to the far lands of Siberia in a town named Tobolsk and later Ekaterinburg in the Urals. In the summer of 1918, the city was threatened by the advancing Whites. The hasty decision was taken by the Bolsheviks to kill Nicholas, his family, and his servants. During the early hours in the morning of 17 July 1918, all of the prisoners was taken to the cellar room of the Ipatiev House where they were staying and then were informed of their fate moments before being mercilessly massacred. Even the innocent children, the youngest only 13, was not spared. The legend has it that the young grand duchesses had to be finished off with bayonets as they had stuffed jewels in their blouses which had deflected the bullets. The Church of All Saints in Ekaterinburg were built on the site of the assassination.

oilersfever:

Sam Gagner pulls Jordan Eberle out of the scrum

the-happiest-of-endings:

if anything good came out of this game, it was seabs comforting tazer.

kestroll:

Alexandre Burrows

“He used to do this move after he scored goals in junior like he was pulling the bow and shooting. It was just a little tribute to him. I thought about it right away after I scored. I remember he used to do that all the time. I’ve seen it (Bourdon tribute video) 10 times already, but tonight (tribute game) it was even more special. I almost cried a bit on the ice. I almost had to stop watching it.” 

“Maybe Luc was out there to help me.”

RIP Luc Bourdon 1987-2008 

Actual Cavapoo: Cody Franson (♕)

sid-best:

Patrick Sharp says hello to his wife Abby and daughter Madelyn during a pause in pregame warmups on May 18. [x]

michaeldelzotto:

an intimate look into the life of a hockey fan (x)