LOOK: The long-awaited hockey emoji is finally here

Hockey fans are freaking out on social media now that a new software update has brought hockey emojis to reality.

Ladies and gentlemen, the hockey emoji is here. (@NHLFlyers)

Filed under the department of extremely important news you can’t live without (or whatever the opposite of that is for many of you): Our long international nightmare is over. The hockey emoji is finally here.

Thanks to the iOS 9.1 update, hockey fans can text and Tweet away with their very own emoji featuring a stick and puck.

There are actually 150 new emojis in the latest update and hockey fans are in full on celebration mode on social media over this new addition to the activity section on the emoji keybord. Seriously, the team social media counts are going nuts with this thing already.

For the non believers pic.twitter.com/W339BOnCme

— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) October 21, 2015

The emoji can look a little different depending on what platform you're viewing it on, for example:

The fact remains... The hockey emoji is here and now you never have to type words ever again, hockey fans.