Sorry folks,
Yes for the most part I did have my tongue deeply buried in my cheek. We hockey folks are sick and tired of having our sport misunderstood by the greater American public. We only seem to get "ink" when something turns ugly. So we hockey folks are a bit touchy about getting picked on for our supposed much greater perpensity for violence.
Meanwhile, it seems that the real worst of organized sports these days are in the other big 3 of the 4. They have bench clearing brawls in Baseball and basketball; while we in hockey took stiff measures against this and there hasn't been one in the pro ranks in years because of this pro-active stand. There is all sorts of negative, urban trash talking and show boating in Baseball, football and basketball. I'm about to join an officiating organization that covers all sports, and it seems that officials are getting harrased and abused just as much if not more in the other supposedly less violent sports.
But ya gotta admit that the picture of me with my dirty blond mullet and Canuck style goatee blowin' in the wind, with one hand on the wheel of a beat up old ZJ Grand Cherokee with the other swinging some blue oil smoke spitting chainsaw in the other is pretty crazy now. I actually got quite a giggle out of the whole thing. "Now just where did I put that old form fitted, no cage in front, goalie mask from the 1970's??? Here kitty, kitty...."
Now granted I guess up in Maine, real men have to have a collection of chainsaws to go with there CCHITT-Kickers, pick-up trucks and flannel shirts....(hee, hee) but tell us bert, just what is a nice country doctor doing with such a fine assortment of these things????
