Ranting to Thin Air
Damn! this keepin the faith stuff is hard isn’t it?
The bad old days are long gone, you remember when you just showed up, ate ( in your seats… continuously… all game), talked to your friend (the only one who would go with you… cuz well, its the Yotes…eww), maybe catch 15 or 25 minutes of half way decent hockey, go home and bitch for 3 days… repeat ad nauseum. No muss, no fuss, no adrenaline or quite frankly no real investment required.
Now, is a whole nother animal.
You wait with barely contained anticipation, you discuss, hypothesize and agonize on lines, player’s health, goalie status for every day they aren’t on the ice. You grab your now beloved jersey (that you actually customized cuz you are that heavily invested), drive out to the Job with a sense of purpose in spite of traffic and the temptation of FSN. You meet your newly aquired group of fanatical friends to discuss further and eat early (cuz you don’t wanna miss anything on the ice while shoveling nachos in your face).
And then you watch 20 min or 40 minutes or that rare and elusive animal, the 60 minute hockey game. Occasionally with the 20 minute version we’d still win, more often we’d slide thru on the 40 minute one but the 60 minute one was worth every moment of agony.
Now we have playoff dreams. And we are getting kicked in the teeth by the 20 and 40 minute showings by our beloved team. Damn it hurts. Other teams are kicking into high gear (chicago! cough, cough) and are basically going to overrun us even with injuries (colorado! cough, cough).
Its time for this team to man up and do more than talk the talk. Time for Verbie to earn that 3 year contract he wants (he’s aleady earned the raise in pay), time for Rhino to come out of the shadow of Doan and prove he’s a #2 center, the kids and the role players are doing their jobs pretty much every night. Doan and Jovo and Mules can’t do it alone. 5 of the 7 D have been adequate for most of the season, they need to help generate some offense while the chips are down though, (I know they’re mostly workin their asses off… but its playoffs, I’m sure if they dig they can find at least another 1 or 2 goals between the 6 of them). The goalies have been doing everything except score and if they could, they’d probably do that too.
Sorry … just a wee bit frustrated myself after the Canadiens game….
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