Right Old Chaps:
- Kevin Porter - What sweetshop did the club manager pull this gentleman from? Big time minutes on the slippery pitch.
- Jochen Hecht – No sir, I am not Jochen.
- Anglican Ehrhoff – Get him a pint.
In the Background:
- Andrej Sekera – So good he might have pilfered something from the chemist’s shop.
By now most of you have heard that the NHL and the NHLPA have decided to officially partner with the You Can Play project. Most major outlets are covering it so run to Google and pick your favorite if you want to learn more. I run two Twitter accounts, my personal one that is linked on this website, and one for my LGBT blog. Each has it’s own list of follows with a few overlaps. What has struck me today is that this partnership is getting pretty equal play from both sides. People that wouldn’t normally be talking about hockey are now talking about hockey.
Are there a lot of sports fans in the LGBT community? Maybe, maybe not. But the LGBT community is an enormous group of people just itching for support. The NHL is doing the right thing with this partnership, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not also doing a good thing for itself. Now the NHL can boast something that no other major professional sports league in the United States can. That’s huge.
Indecorous Persuasions: Cutlasses @ Airships (4-9-13) North Stars And Black Holes Of The Briny Deep
Guiding Lights O’ the Sea:
- Kevin Porter – The scurvy swabie notched the lone tally
- Steve Ott The Pirate – Sendin’ ye airships to Davy Jones locker
- That be all.
Unsung Hero:
- Lonely waters.
There’s been a lot of talk about booing lately, and while I am loathe to write articles that everyone else is writing (and steal any thunder from our own), I do have one simple question to the fans that are booing:
What do you hope to get out of this?
Quick Take – Perspectives
Last night a team that’s struggled all season* played against a team that’s been struggling lately. Both clubs were short their top scorer, both clubs were without last year’s captain (granted, one had gone all season* that way while the other traded theirs away 4 days prior), and both clubs are fighting tooth and nail for a playoff spot.
The Sabres won. It was their third straight victory, albeit not in regulation and thus giving up some ground to New Jersey. But a win hasn’t felt quite right in some time.
