Sharks
Posted at 4:46 pm on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in Sports, and tagged buffalo, hockey, sabres, syracuse.
I’m going to give it a chance tonight. That is, western hockey. Growing up in Buffalo and going to school in Syracuse, I have my obvious biases — Sabres and eastern hockey, Big East basketball, AFL football. But I live in the bay area, and I’d love to watch more hockey.
Whenever the Sabres make it to national tv, I make an appointment to watch it (or at least TiVo it). And when the Sabres play the Sharks in San Jose, I make sure that I will be there. But what about the rest of the season? Tonight I will try something different: I will watch the Sharks-Ducks playoff game.
I am a Sabres fan lost in the bay area, so I will try to root for the Sharks, but if the underdog Ducks are having their way, I will not be upset (at least visibly). More importantly, I will try to acclimate myself to the style of hockey played in the west — the forecheck and defensive hustle — and see if this type of hockey I will be able to find myself watching for the foreseeable future. If not — well, I’m moving back to Buffalo, because nothing beats watching and caring for the god-damned Sabres.
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