October 11, 2007
Transplanting to Atlanta Hockey
For those of you who don't know, or know me, I grew up in St. Louis and grew up in what I like to call the "Hey Day" of hockey. The blues were working on compiling the longest streak of reaching the playoffs in professional sports history. They were good, with great players playing for them such as Adam Oates, Brenden Shanahan, Brett Hull, Grant Fuhr, Curtis Joseph, Tony Twist (joke), and a few others that went on to be big names else where. Unfortunately none of these guys all played at the same time, because frankly that would have been awesome.
But the Blues have been hitting hard times, actually this season they've started of real nice, especially with the addition of Paul Kariya, they killed nashville last night 4 to 1, which the Preds are supposed to contend with Detroit for the division.
But the strike, coupled with living here in the south has made being a blues fan near impossible. NHL games are rarely televised and when they are its either big match ups or the thrashers. And unlike the cardinals who come to Atlanta for 3 to 4 games a year the Blues never come to Atlanta.
So basically I've taken it upon myself to give up some of my St. Louis roots, and stop rooting for the Blues and give my full allegiance to the Thrashers. Instead of 'Bleeding Blue" (the Blues theme a few years ago) I will "Believe in Blueland" (the thrashers odd theme this year).
Something that is making this transition easier is the Thrashers new jersey's...
Which is a vast improvement over there old ones
Many teams have tried to do a red motif on the jersey, the blues went for it and everybody hated it... I tried finding a picture but couldn't find a decent one.
Anyway, I'm excited to go to some games as Philips is a great arena to watch hockey (and concerts) in.
Posted by holtonian at October 11, 2007 08:44 AM