Showing posts with label Gretzky is cursed to forever coach the Coyotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gretzky is cursed to forever coach the Coyotes. Show all posts

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Close Encounters with Coyotes


When I was 12, my family and I stuffed ourselves into mom's topaz-coloured Topaz and went camping across Canada from KOA to National Park, and back through the northern states. We came across many coyotes in Alberta, from the pack wandering a golf course in Drumheller, to the extremely happy one with a deer leg in it's mouth running along a rocky mountain highway. They'd also start howling at night.

I don't know much about the Phoenix Coyotes, except that they used to be the Winnipeg Jets...and that still irks me every time. There's a serious black hole in hockey Canada and Winnipeg is right in the middle of it. The fact the team moved to a place where no one gives a damn about them or even knows Shane Doan doesn't help it either. The fact it went to a non-hockey market that seems to be doing worse financially is also aggravating. Bring back the Jets! I might wear my Winnipeg Jets t-shirt actually, but I don't think the Great One will see me way up there.

Speaking of Gretzky... Is it penance for him stealing the last puck from the Jets that he now owns/coaches the team (to ruin)? I always wondered about that...

So Price will face his cousin, Shane Doan, for the second time in his career. Nevertheless, I don't want to see another "let's play 1 period and then let Carey do the rest" game. It's the Jets guys! Don't lose to the Jets, no matter how cool their old logo was and how lame their new one is.

On another note...
I don't know why, but my room is freezing. I also really need to get my snowtires on my car...