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OK guys... No hockey. So what next? Not even the Great One and Super Mario can skate in from their respective blue lines and save the day. How do we cope?
There's a handful of us here who love hockey. I'm sure we're devistated. Poor Lucy Splatter has got to be fuming when she looks at the dent her hubby put in the refrigerator with his forehead. I'm now starting to play with my food. I got a Hostess Ding-Dong from the vending machine the other day and hit it across the lunch-room with a mean slap-shot. (The lunch-lady couldn't close the 5-hole fast enough.)
Some of us are lucky to have the minors playing on cable. Here in Chicago, Comcast has picked up all of the Chicago Wolves games. This would probably not be the case if they hadn't won the Turner Cup twice in the first two years since their inception. I'm sure that others have picked up the minor leagues as well. But to me, it's not the same. Some of the players that we have followed for years are not playing. Some of the teams that we follow through win or loss are not playing. (the only solace to this is that I can say that the Red Wings don't have more points or a better record than the Blackhawks this year)
So what do we do?? How do we supplement our fix for hockey? Do we put on goalie equipment and ask our significant others or kids to shoot pucks at us? Do we go to NHL.com and buy all the hockey documentaries and sit in front of the boob-tube watching them in our hockey PJs (you know you own them) until you pass out in your favorite chair while watching them? Do you set your video-game console to play itself while you ask your significant other to stock the fridge with Molson, pizza, pretzels, and popcorn and only go to the fridge when each period ends?
So followers of Lord Stanley's Cup, what the puck do we do??? I'm open to suggestions.
There's a handful of us here who love hockey. I'm sure we're devistated. Poor Lucy Splatter has got to be fuming when she looks at the dent her hubby put in the refrigerator with his forehead. I'm now starting to play with my food. I got a Hostess Ding-Dong from the vending machine the other day and hit it across the lunch-room with a mean slap-shot. (The lunch-lady couldn't close the 5-hole fast enough.)
Some of us are lucky to have the minors playing on cable. Here in Chicago, Comcast has picked up all of the Chicago Wolves games. This would probably not be the case if they hadn't won the Turner Cup twice in the first two years since their inception. I'm sure that others have picked up the minor leagues as well. But to me, it's not the same. Some of the players that we have followed for years are not playing. Some of the teams that we follow through win or loss are not playing. (the only solace to this is that I can say that the Red Wings don't have more points or a better record than the Blackhawks this year)
So what do we do?? How do we supplement our fix for hockey? Do we put on goalie equipment and ask our significant others or kids to shoot pucks at us? Do we go to NHL.com and buy all the hockey documentaries and sit in front of the boob-tube watching them in our hockey PJs (you know you own them) until you pass out in your favorite chair while watching them? Do you set your video-game console to play itself while you ask your significant other to stock the fridge with Molson, pizza, pretzels, and popcorn and only go to the fridge when each period ends?
So followers of Lord Stanley's Cup, what the puck do we do??? I'm open to suggestions.
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