[Junrlaeh]

condolences.

[Eromaveabeara]

thanks, I need it........

[Junrlaeh]

A stunningly beautiful young woman, obviously a witch, clasped my head in her hands, stared into my eyes, and said "Hockey is good." (At the Cellar of all places, so this is jazz-related.)

Tonight I found myself inexplicably listening to the game, shattered at the outcome.

Know any exorcists?

[UriyVlasov]

Have you tried listening to Coltrane's Ascension? If that doesn't make you forget hockey, then maybe you should just go buy some skates...

Sorry, but I still don't get it.

[Eromaveabeara]

to each his own I guess

it's what makes us all unique

there are roller hockey skates and ice skates in the closet

and coltrane's ascension in my collection

maybe the canucks should have listened to that before the game....

[Saduyre9de]

Maybe they should have tried giving 60 minutes of effort as opposed to too little too late. Interesting off season for sure. Who stays and who goes...

[JohnVK]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh euuuuuch blaaaaaaaaaa
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo

[Junrlaeh]

Quote:

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After enduring nine years of getting up at 4 am, taking my son to the arena three times a week and driving every weekend to arrive in the beneficence of Fort St. John or Vanderhoof, and sometimes (thank the goodness of existence) Prince Rupert with its real restaurant and a swimming pool, I think I can talk hockey.

Hockey is an action-packed game that is in a cold, repressed climate in order to allow groups to function as members of a social organism. It allows those individuals who need a tribe to conduct tribal rituals. The donning of costumes, the painting of faces, the chanting are all primative tools of sympathetic magic. It serves to make us feel as if we belong, to feel as if we own power.
Yes, I have so much in common with a million dollar a year
player(?) He plays for "my team," which is no more mine than the clouds over Saskatchewan belong to the people of the province. Players drift in and out. But it gives us a sense of community. We could perhaps have the same sense of community if we could bottle the energy on the ice, in the stands and in front of the television sets to use for something trivial like making sure the clouds continue to drift in a... oh lets say atmosphere around the earth. We could have the same sense of community if we all cheered on the statistics for ...lets say the ending of hunger. But these are not fun.
Sociologists tell us that males in particular need a place to scream, cry, jump up and down that is not considered frivolous "emotion". It is correct behavior to act emotional about a hockey team. It serves to vent repressed emotions.
So because it is fun, because it is tribal, and because it is a safe place to be emotional, sports will always attract money and attract people who need a place to belong.
Now if a jazz gig was a blood sport.... If a bad bridge could end in the injury of a sax player. My husband says, "It may have happened." If concussions could result from late entries...why now you are talking. You couldn't keep people away... not with a stick.

So, Brian, I do get why people need hockey.

[foltdan]

I had a backyard rink as a kid. I still play on the frozen lake back home around Christmas time. I don't remember a time when I felt more excitment then when Matt Cooke saved our season with five seconds left. What a heartbreak.

[fount_pirat]

It should be crystal clear by now that you either "get" hockey or you don't. I absolutely positively don't, and if you're telling me that the most exciting moment of your life involved a bunch of toothless white guys with goofy hair sliding around on ice chasing a piece of rubber, I most assuredly never WILL get it.

Plus, I'm a little worried about you man.:-)

[Saduyre9de]

Bumed with the Habs? Granted it's montreal and it's a bad season if they won't win the cup and sweep every series but for Montreal to even make it in the playoffs (let along oust Boston, the 2nd seed in the east) is pretty good. I have hesitations whether Tampa can overcome the size of the Flyers. (If by some minute chance the Leafs actually beat the Flyers then they'll get roasted by Tampa) SJ is coming out of the west though.