Ovechtrick89*
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- Apr 10, 2012
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This may get long winded but hear me out if you will:
Not sure if many on this board know but i'm from England and I started watching hockey about 7/8 years ago when a Canadian friend of mine i knew in school introduced me to it. His ex pat dad was a huge Habs fan and i remember one day going round their house and instead of doing the normal s**t you do with your school buddies i sat on his sofa just watching a hockey game and being mesmerised.
There was this little period after that where all i was doing was abandoning my true sport which was and still is football (soccer to you) and just watching what i could of hockey. I didn't have a team so i had to naturally get one and that's when i came across Alex Ovechkin, i'd never seen anything like it and seeing as i naturally gravitate to true skill players in any sport i said to myself 'I don't care who he plays for i'm supporting that team as of now'.
Now obviously being a noob to hockey and the NHL i had no idea his team was the Washington Capitals. So as i progressed from being a rookie fan to actually caring who his team mates were i started to really like guys like Semin and Backstrom and my investment in them started to grow.
My support for the caps is big time LOYAL. Honestly i'm telling the truth when i say that i lose interest in watching hockey when they don't play. Every year they get knocked out of the cup i just stop watching until the stanley finals where i convince myself to watch. That's how much i care about this team.
I'm now at a point where i literally know most of the little intricacies and nuances of the sport, i could probably lecture that Canadian dudes dad on fore and back checking and teach him a thing or two.
Anyway here's where my question comes into play, have i invested too much into an organisation that looks like it clearly DOESN'T care. Year after year i keep getting my hopes up only to be shot down by an idiot owner and GM who doesn't invest properly the way the great teams in the NHL do to get a cup. I keep telling myself like i did when i was younger 'as long as we have Ovechkin we have a chance' but it looks increasingly year on year that no matter how great he is, he needs help but this owner and more importantly GM won't do anything about it.
This article has basically culminated from me sitting and watching free agent day as the names roll off the screen going to other teams while GM just sits there, let's Ribeiro walk and not do anything to replace him.
I will always support the Caps as long as i'm a hockey fan but i'm just sick of investing so much and getting let down every year when it counts when things can be done to get this team over the hump.
So I ask, did i make a mistake 7 years ago trusting Ted and George?
Not sure if many on this board know but i'm from England and I started watching hockey about 7/8 years ago when a Canadian friend of mine i knew in school introduced me to it. His ex pat dad was a huge Habs fan and i remember one day going round their house and instead of doing the normal s**t you do with your school buddies i sat on his sofa just watching a hockey game and being mesmerised.
There was this little period after that where all i was doing was abandoning my true sport which was and still is football (soccer to you) and just watching what i could of hockey. I didn't have a team so i had to naturally get one and that's when i came across Alex Ovechkin, i'd never seen anything like it and seeing as i naturally gravitate to true skill players in any sport i said to myself 'I don't care who he plays for i'm supporting that team as of now'.
Now obviously being a noob to hockey and the NHL i had no idea his team was the Washington Capitals. So as i progressed from being a rookie fan to actually caring who his team mates were i started to really like guys like Semin and Backstrom and my investment in them started to grow.
My support for the caps is big time LOYAL. Honestly i'm telling the truth when i say that i lose interest in watching hockey when they don't play. Every year they get knocked out of the cup i just stop watching until the stanley finals where i convince myself to watch. That's how much i care about this team.
I'm now at a point where i literally know most of the little intricacies and nuances of the sport, i could probably lecture that Canadian dudes dad on fore and back checking and teach him a thing or two.
Anyway here's where my question comes into play, have i invested too much into an organisation that looks like it clearly DOESN'T care. Year after year i keep getting my hopes up only to be shot down by an idiot owner and GM who doesn't invest properly the way the great teams in the NHL do to get a cup. I keep telling myself like i did when i was younger 'as long as we have Ovechkin we have a chance' but it looks increasingly year on year that no matter how great he is, he needs help but this owner and more importantly GM won't do anything about it.
This article has basically culminated from me sitting and watching free agent day as the names roll off the screen going to other teams while GM just sits there, let's Ribeiro walk and not do anything to replace him.
I will always support the Caps as long as i'm a hockey fan but i'm just sick of investing so much and getting let down every year when it counts when things can be done to get this team over the hump.
So I ask, did i make a mistake 7 years ago trusting Ted and George?
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