It's cute? I'm giving you my honest opinion. There is some "Cosmic Jackets-ness" out there, but it's much bigger in our heads than it is for the players. Even then my narrative is not the same as yours. Not to imply that you do, but I've never believed any of that loser mystique crap that ink gets wasted on. To me, why would you even want to "erase 20 years of being the Jackets"? Maybe that's not what you meant, but it's not a thought I relate to. Maybe there's a couple years in there that are worth forgetting, but I can't say I've thought about Scott Arniel much lately, it's not an issue for me.
Think of a guy like Josh Anderson who's played on winning teams every year since he was a kid. He doesn't get here and think about losing all of a sudden. It's only really feeding off the fans energy where the full franchise history has influence on him, and then it's a positive thing. What does it mean for Dzingel, or Kukan? I'll give you it probably means something to Atkinson and Savard, the only two guys to have played with Rick Nash. That was in their rookie season, in 2011-12, yet again their story is much more about the up and down time they've been here. The team hasn't been that bad for any of them. They're 9th in the league in wins since the 2012 lockout.
That's about where they fit in my consciousness - a pretty good young team that has yet to prove they can beat the best when it matters the most. That's a dramatic enough quest for me.
Toni Kallio didn't ring a bell. Google tells me that Tomi Kallio played a dozen games for the Jackets, I don't remember him either.
