Quick Hits: Nice pond hockey photos; Mikko the Bastard?
The NY Times hockey blog, Slap Shot, is a little hit and miss in terms of covering things that interest me, but occasionally they come up with beauties that remind me why I subscribe to that blog (plus, I just like Stu Hackel, as he was the first to pimp the Ms. Conduct blog nationally).
Anyway, they put together a cool set of photos of people playing hockey outdoors and, while I dearly love Texas--and I really do--I'd love to be able to skate outside on occasion. The notion of just wandering up to a frozen body of water, not having to pay for the time or check schedules or share it with a 50 ankle skaters from the church group du jour... that's totally foreign to me. Ice is something I have to drive to, plan for, pay for, follow rules about what I'm wearing or carrying, etc. Seems quite magical for it to just "be."
Then again, I don't so much like driving or walking on it, so I'm just as quickly back to appreciating what I've got. :)
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I'm starting to think that Mikko is kind of a pain in the ass. Watch from the 2:20 mark (or watch the whole thing but at least through that point).
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5 comments:
whuh ?
i think that part's awesome !!!!
if i was a 10 year old kid and some douche was pandering to me like i was 5 i'd be pissed. i think, here, mikko is engaging them in actual "this is what the future holds" moves.... except for that lifty-uppy one. that one's just funny....
They showed a clip of when MK knocks the kid over on FSN the other day and my friend and I rewinded it a couple times, and were like, wait did that just happen?
I hope his competitiveness isn't so bad that he feels the need to beat up small children.
I don't actually know anything about his personality, but I do remember being that age, and I would have traded Christmas presents for a year to have Mikko Koivu pick me up and staple me to the boards.
Oh come on... picking on little kids is what makes life worth living...
As for real, honest to god, natural ice... come visit any time. We seem to like it a bit up here too.
Just remember, real ice is bumpy, chippy, hard to skate on, etc. But damn, if it isn't heaven on Earth, I don't know what is.
You know, you're probably right, Jon.
And I'll say nothing more about a desire for Mikko to staple me to the boards. Rawr.
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