The NHL has always limited how much individual players can express themselves during games, yet some stars still find a way.

Capitals forward TJ Oshie, for instance, writes a heartfelt tribute on every one of his game sticks. In 2016, we first reported that Oshie wrote the initials of his wife Lauren and his daughter Lyla on his sticks. Now Oshie, a father of two daughters and with a son on the way, has updated his message to include Leni’s initials and three dots for his unborn son.

The photos were shared by Jonah P. whose daughter received a game-used stick from Oshie earlier in the year. The initials are written in black marker.

There’s also another variation Oshie does where he simplifies the message and puts LLL and a single dot. This image was shared by the Altman family after Will got a stick from Oshie after he holding up a creative sign and wearing a donut plush toy on his head during warmups.

Before the Oshies became pregnant with their third child, TJ only included the initials LCO, LGO, and LRO.

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Lauren, Oshie’s wife, is currently 38-weeks pregnant and has a due date in late March.

The couple first revealed they were having a third child in late August and had a gender reveal party at MedStar Capitals Iceplex in early September.

By the time the NHL starts up play again, Oshie will have another set of initials to add to his sticks.

The Oshie family is about to grow one chonky son bigger.

On Monday, Lauren Oshie took to her bathroom to take one final photo with her baby bump. The photo suggests she’s being induced today or tomorrow.

Several days ago, Lauren also posted a video of TJ creating the couple’s crib from Nook Sleep and West Coast Kids.

While waiting for Baby Oshie number three to arrive, TJ has put a tribute on his game sticks which includes initials for everyone in his family and dots for his unborn son.

The baby will mark the couple’s third child and first son. TJ and Lauren are already parents to Lyla and Leni.

The Oshie family just got one tiny human bigger. Lauren Oshie gave birth to the couple’s third child, their first boy, Campbell Richard Oshie.

The 8-pound, 5-ounce Campell was delivered on Monday, March 16, and his birthday is one day before his older sister, Lyla, who turned six years old today.

Lyla and Leni are now both older sisters.

We first learned that Baby Oshie was soon to arrive on Lauren’s Instagram Monday morning when she posted her last photo with her bump.

While waiting for Baby Oshie number three to arrive, TJ put a tribute on his game sticks which includes initials for everyone in his family and dots for his unborn son.

TJ also published a post celebrating Lyla’s birthday.

Headline photo courtesy of @tjoshie7

Campbell Oshie has officially been welcomed into the world and, he was introduced to his sisters Lyla and Leni on Wednesday.

Lyla got the chance to hold the little cherub and when she held him close, he gave her a gift.

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I love that Lyla was so excited that she has a little brother that she laughed off his bladder accident. I also cannot believe I already consider Campbell as a relatable king. I am also a baby and I also pee!

Ian tells me that Ethan did the same thing to Alan May when Alan held his son when he was six days old. “He could sense evil,” Ian said to me very seriously in a message.

Congratulations to the Oshie family. Can’t wait for more hilarious moments.

Update: Five minutes after giving Lyla a surprise, Campbell gave Leni a surprise too!

Headline photo courtesy of @lauren.oshie

Campbell Oshie is only five days old, but he’s already living the sweet life.

Lauren Oshie revealed a newborn cake that was baked for their first son by Fluffy Thoughts Cakes located in McLean, VA. The cake is a Campbell’s Soup can that says Campbell’s Oshie’s Birthday Soup.

Campbell opened his eyes so he seems pretty impressed by it.

The family took what Lauren termed a “quarantine walk” around their neighborhood today.

Lyla even pushed the baby carriage.

TJ Oshie’s daughters, Lyla and Leni, spent a large part of their afternoon doing art.

You’ll be happy to know the canvas was their dad’s face.

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The two tiny troublemakers gave themselves makeovers. Then they turned to TJ who was napping on the sofa.

“Do it Lyla,” Leni whispered, encouraging her older sister to apply eye shadow.

The two couldn’t stop giggling.

Lauren didn’t provide a final shot of TJ, but we’ll always have his smokey eye.

Headline photo courtesy of @lauren.oshie

Lauren Oshie took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a new family portrait taken by Anna Meyer Photo.

It features TJ Oshie sitting on the couple’s white couch, featuring all three of their children: Lyla, Campbell, and Leni.

We agree with Paige Dowd.

And here’s with Lauren too!

The previous day, Lauren also shared several other shots including a pic of the whole family in front of a trellis.

Meanwhile, Anna shared her favorite from the photo set. “This is one of my favorites of them all @annameyerphoto ,” Lauren commented.

Anna also recently took the newborn photos for the Jensens and their newborn son Lorenzo.

Headline photo courtesy of @annameyerphoto/@lauren.oshie

Lauren Oshie logged into Instagram on Saturday and shared a wonderful photo of her three kids together.

The snapshot of Leni, Campbell, and Lyla is tremendous and it’s the details that will really make you smile.

Leni looks off into the distance with this steely gaze as if carbs are near. Meanwhile, the princess of the house, Lyla, wears a crown and holds a squirmy baby Campbell, suggesting she will be a very active mentor in her younger brother’s life.

After posing for this pic and playing dress-up, the girls took to a park and rode their bikes while dad held Campbell in the car. TJ Oshie recently taught Lyla how to ride a bike for the first time and it seems she can’t get enough now.

Lauren recently wrote that she’s “#feelingcomplete” in the caption of a family portrait photo suggesting the two parents may be done having more children. And who could blame them? These three kids are fun and a handful!

Headline photo courtesy of @lauren.oshie

During Phase 3 Training Camp, TJ Oshie was asked how the team would pass time in the bubble. “We’re a Mario Kart team,” Oshie said.

He was not lying.

Monday night, while speaking to his wife Lauren back at home, TJ had to leave because he had very important business he needed to conduct in the bubble. He needed to play video games with the boys.

Lauren’s face says it all. TJ is the ultimate family man, but he brought his Seattle Seahawks-colored headphones for a reason. When he’s not playing on the ice, he will be jamming those joysticks off of it. And if all goes well, he’ll have another video game character tattooed on his other upper thigh in October.

Headline photo courtesy of @lauren.oshie

TJ Oshie left the Capitals late last week to receive treatment for an unspecified injury in Minnesota.

Some RMNB readers, who have already lived through Nicklas Backstrom’s stepping away from the game announcement earlier this season, interpreted that as a potential swan song for Oshie before being placed on long term injured reserve.

Nope. In fact, the opposite has turned out to be true.

On Tuesday, Oshie returned to practice. Not only did he skate with the regulars, but he shed his non-contact jersey, too.

Even further, when Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery was asked about Oshie’s recovery status, he did not rule him out on playing in a game and soon.

“Potential for this week,” Carbery said. “We’ll see how he does post practice today. Tomorrow one more practice and then we’ll go from there.”

Now, perhaps the best source on when TJ will play next, has weighed in: Lauren Oshie.

Oshie’s wife conducted an Instagram Story Q/A on Tuesday afternoon. While doing so, she dropped this nugget when asked how TJ was doing health-wise.

“He’s doing well! He’ll be back in the lineup this Thursday!” she said.

And if you didn’t believe her the first time, she said the same thing later in her chat.

Lauren added that the family joined TJ on his trip. “We all went back for a couple of days,” she said.

Playing against the Seattle Kraken holds a special significance to Oshie since he first entered the NHL in 2021. He grew up in Everett, Washington, as a kid and played 10 seasons in the Seattle Junior Hockey Association. He remains a fan of the professional sports teams from his original hometown including the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.

“I had the full (Sonics) jersey and shorts for Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp,” Oshie has said in the past. “I was a huge Ken Griffey Jr. fan. I actually wanted to name Campbell, my son, Griffey but my wife had other plans.”

Oshie derailed much of his 2021-22 season when he rushed back from a broken foot so that he could play against the Kraken in Seattle for the first time time in his career.

“You guys know me well enough that once I can put my foot in a skate and I can move, I want to play,” Oshie said then. “I got out in the game in San Jose where the foot was still in pain, but I thought I could play and make an impact. Then the back went out in that game for no reason really and everything snowballed from there.”

Oshie has missed 17 of 38 games this season due to a variety of issues, including an incidental headshot he absorbed from Mattias Ekholm in November. The last game Oshie suited up in was on December 16 against the Nashville Predators.

Lauren was also asked during the chat where the Oshie family will settle once TJ retires, either in DC or moving back to Minnesota where they spend their summers.

“Honestly we go back and forth almost daily!” she said. “One day we think we know exactly where life after hockey is for us and the next it’s the complete opposite. The plan was always to end up in MN. But we’ve been in the DMV for 10 years now. We were traded here when Lyla was only 1! We’ve made so many friends here in VA that it’s going to be very difficult to leave if we do.”