Well sports fans, the 2001-2002 NHL season is under way and I figured we are gonna need a place to vent our spleens when our favourite teams get their heads handed to them on a platter.
Conversely, we will also want to jump up and down and gyrate madly when our teams are the ones taking heads.
I am a lifelong Habs fan and because I live here in Edmonton I also root for our hometown Oilers (as long as they don’t play the Habs). What about you?
So far, tonight has gone pretty well. My Habs faced those godless Maple Leafs and walked out with a point. As always, it was a great game to watch and the overtime had me on the edge of my seat because the only thing better than a point is TWO points… especially when you take them from Toronto.
Here in the capital we retired #17’s jersey. It now hangs from the rafters next to Wayne Gretzky’s #99 and Al Hamilton’s #3. It was pretty touching to see Jari Kurri take a skate around the ice and listen to a sellout crowd cheer their lungs out.
I seriously hope that a similar ceremony will be held for Paul Coffey, one of the games greatest defensemen. It will be really fucking embarassing if they don’t.
Did anyone see the opening ceremonies at the Molson Centre? Four minutes and forty five seconds. That was the standing ovation that Saku Koivu received when he appeared. My hopes are with him that he beats that fucking cancer.
If you are asking why I put this rather sedate post in the Pit you probably don’t realize what kind of passion the game invokes in it’s loyal fans. As the season wears on and tempers get short there might be some R rated language. Just wait until some of us get going…
For example, if I called the Chicago Blackhawks a bunch of no talent, figure skating, mama’s boys with no hope of winning the Grail, jarbabyj would be in here tearing me a new one faster than you can say:
“HE SHOOTS…HE SCORES!!!”
Actually, I am hoping that the Blackhawks can overcome the two goal deficit they presently have to defeat the Calgary
Flames, we don’t need those cow-towners getting any stinking points. Not when they might be fighting the Oilers for a playoff spot later on.
This will teach that Hawks [sub]jarbabyj[/sub] fan for telling me I don’t talk enough about hockey… and tonight I’m even cheering for those godless figure skating wannabes that she seems to like so much.