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framlingemAmong other wonderful things that have happened recently (choir rehearsals starting! Play rehearsals starting! Best friend acquiring an awesome man as a boyfriend! Finding a new pair of jeans that make my butt look ... less awful!), the NHL has finally gotten off its collective ass and started up again. This has a lot of benefits.
a) Restaurant owners, parking lot operators, bars, hotels, arena workers, etc. no longer have to worry about the loss of that big income segment.
b) Fun conversation topic with my mother (arguably the most fervent hockey fan ever born on the Isle of Wight).
c) There is HOCKEY AGAAAAAAAIN. I MISSED YOU, HOCKEY.
My favourite team, who played appallingly last season - really, really appallingly - have swapped coaches and are now playing a style of hockey much more suited to the actual players on the team. They're a small, fast bunch, and they were being asked to play a really tight defensive style before, which works a lot better if you have a lot of huge dudes who can hammer your opponents into submission. This year, they're focussing on speedy skating and shooting (they actually OUTSHOT their opponents! Last year, they'd get outshot 45-20 or some other ridiculous numbers), which is working out much better for them. So much so, in fact, that of their first five games, they've only lost one. ONE. They've got a great goaltender backing them up, and an actual chance of winning if he doesn't post a shutout every game, which is amazing. And, what's more, they've COME BACK FROM BEHIND to win a couple of times. Last year, they were so focussed on "get a lead and then PROTECT THAT LEAD" that they totally fell apart if they weren't in front, desperately hanging onto that one-goal margin by their tiny fingernails. This year, they're all "okay, guys, this sucks, let's go change it."
And it makes me SO HAPPY.
There's also been ongoing drama because one of our star defensemen (who played nearly half of every game, which is a lot) had been a Restricted Free Agent who hadn't signed a contract with us this year. Restricted Free Agency is a paperwork hellhole, but what it boils down to is that other teams can hire the guy, but only if "his" team doesn't want him and says they can. One game went by with no PK. Two. And finally we've signed him to a contract.
All of this is to introduce the following youtube video, in which a Habs fan sings a charming ballad to PK Subban. And it's brilliant.
a) Restaurant owners, parking lot operators, bars, hotels, arena workers, etc. no longer have to worry about the loss of that big income segment.
b) Fun conversation topic with my mother (arguably the most fervent hockey fan ever born on the Isle of Wight).
c) There is HOCKEY AGAAAAAAAIN. I MISSED YOU, HOCKEY.
My favourite team, who played appallingly last season - really, really appallingly - have swapped coaches and are now playing a style of hockey much more suited to the actual players on the team. They're a small, fast bunch, and they were being asked to play a really tight defensive style before, which works a lot better if you have a lot of huge dudes who can hammer your opponents into submission. This year, they're focussing on speedy skating and shooting (they actually OUTSHOT their opponents! Last year, they'd get outshot 45-20 or some other ridiculous numbers), which is working out much better for them. So much so, in fact, that of their first five games, they've only lost one. ONE. They've got a great goaltender backing them up, and an actual chance of winning if he doesn't post a shutout every game, which is amazing. And, what's more, they've COME BACK FROM BEHIND to win a couple of times. Last year, they were so focussed on "get a lead and then PROTECT THAT LEAD" that they totally fell apart if they weren't in front, desperately hanging onto that one-goal margin by their tiny fingernails. This year, they're all "okay, guys, this sucks, let's go change it."
And it makes me SO HAPPY.
There's also been ongoing drama because one of our star defensemen (who played nearly half of every game, which is a lot) had been a Restricted Free Agent who hadn't signed a contract with us this year. Restricted Free Agency is a paperwork hellhole, but what it boils down to is that other teams can hire the guy, but only if "his" team doesn't want him and says they can. One game went by with no PK. Two. And finally we've signed him to a contract.
All of this is to introduce the following youtube video, in which a Habs fan sings a charming ballad to PK Subban. And it's brilliant.
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Date: 2013-01-31 01:55 pm (UTC)