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Ice hockey is a game of unyielding passion. Players and fans pass every second of every game with their emotions on their sleeves. Split second decisions can lead to buzzer beaters with a tape-to-tape pass right on the money when you’re looking to tie the game with an extra attacker. The game’s intense physical play and quickness is unmatched by any game on the face of the planet.
Hockey has a strong following of enthusiastic fans, and this will be a blog for them. Those that don’t quite get the game should look elsewhere, I’m not looking to baby people into liking something they’re not interested in. I’ve been a hockey fan as long as I can remember, I have pictures of me at a kindergarten orientation wearing a Rangers sweatshirt. My first game was a Devils/Senators game back in 1995 just after the lockout, and since then I haven’t lost track of what the men in red have done. Today is an odd day for me to pick up this blog, seeing as the Flyers finished smothering the Devils with forechecking last night in Game 5; let’s just say this is my way of not cutting my throat.
Above all, this will be for fans of good hockey. Whether you like the high-flying scoring of the San Jose Sharks or the Washington Capitals, the finesse play of the Detroit Red Wings or the New Jersey Devils, or the rough-and-tumble game of the Philadelphia Flyers or the Anaheim Ducks, we’ll keep you entertained and cover major stories going on in the NHL. Most of all, we’ll keep my mind off of what happened last night at the Prudential Center.
Get that picture of you in a Rangers jersey up there as a banner pic. Why’d you sign a blog btw, your name is at the top.
I don’t know if we actually have pictures of me in the Rangers sweatshirt, I remember being ridiculed in 8th grade in a photo montage put on for the inane graduation ceremony into high school.