Hockey post.
Jun. 4th, 2013 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
syndelarCan somebody please explain to me, please, the tendency of hockey fans to turn on their own teams and players the second they lose. I don't have any idea if it's the American/Canadian thing, but Europeans do not have that...kill drive to hate the team as soon as things aren't going the way they expect it to. Croatia is not a hockey country, we're more of a soccer country, but still, there's no hate for the team. Yeah, okay, we're the 8th team in the world right now, playing for the qualifications for the World championship next year, we won the bronze medal in 1998. world Championship and then failed to repeat the success ever since but we all stand behind our team. That's what you do, because they're YOUR TEAM.
Our only good hockey club KHL Medvescak, just got into Russian KHL league on the power of our fans alone. They are the fourth KHL team by the average game attendance, the 14th in Europe in total and that, more than the quality of our players and more than the bank statements got us into KHL. You don't give up on your team.
I'm new to hockey, I'll admit that and I have favorites, of course, the Pens are it, but even when you see them play as bad as they did last night you just keep on having faith in them. If they don't win it this year it'll be the next one cause they are an amazing team and they'll get there. The team doesn't benefit from having it's fans turn their backs on them the second something goes wrong. You move on and have faith and you'll get there.
Seriously, is it an American/Canadian thing cause I've never seen anything like it?
On a more cheerful hockey note Medvescak. We got Aaron Foc as our general manager, Mark French of AHL's Hershey Bears and Calder cup winner, Mark Dekanich (AHL and NHL) as our goalie, Charles Linglet (AHL), Ryan Vesce (San Jose Sharks), Hugh Jessiman (AHL/NHL), Mike Glumac (St. Louis Blues). Most of the players are going to be guys who have croatian ancestry so that makes it all the more interesting. Now I just gotta figure out how to get to the games cause the tickets are freakin cheap but the ride to our capital is way too expensive for me to make.
There was also a thing last summer where Medvescak played in Pula Arena a 2000 years old Roman arena in an event called Arena Ice Fever in Pula. Seriously, google it cause it was amazing.
This was gonna be a post about a lot of things but I'm having a lot of hockey feels right now, okay, so there. ^_^
Our only good hockey club KHL Medvescak, just got into Russian KHL league on the power of our fans alone. They are the fourth KHL team by the average game attendance, the 14th in Europe in total and that, more than the quality of our players and more than the bank statements got us into KHL. You don't give up on your team.
I'm new to hockey, I'll admit that and I have favorites, of course, the Pens are it, but even when you see them play as bad as they did last night you just keep on having faith in them. If they don't win it this year it'll be the next one cause they are an amazing team and they'll get there. The team doesn't benefit from having it's fans turn their backs on them the second something goes wrong. You move on and have faith and you'll get there.
Seriously, is it an American/Canadian thing cause I've never seen anything like it?
On a more cheerful hockey note Medvescak. We got Aaron Foc as our general manager, Mark French of AHL's Hershey Bears and Calder cup winner, Mark Dekanich (AHL and NHL) as our goalie, Charles Linglet (AHL), Ryan Vesce (San Jose Sharks), Hugh Jessiman (AHL/NHL), Mike Glumac (St. Louis Blues). Most of the players are going to be guys who have croatian ancestry so that makes it all the more interesting. Now I just gotta figure out how to get to the games cause the tickets are freakin cheap but the ride to our capital is way too expensive for me to make.
There was also a thing last summer where Medvescak played in Pula Arena a 2000 years old Roman arena in an event called Arena Ice Fever in Pula. Seriously, google it cause it was amazing.
This was gonna be a post about a lot of things but I'm having a lot of hockey feels right now, okay, so there. ^_^
