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gallylove
One of his predecessors, Patrick Roy, liked to make the impossible look impossible. Price likes to make the impossible look easy. For Roy, it was as if he was saying to opponents, I can do the spectacular, and you can’t. He challenged them. Price’s message is different. You think that was spectacular — look at my face. That was nothing. I have so much more in me. Price doesn’t challenge his opponents, pushing them to be better. He defeats them.

Ken Dryden on Carey Price (via gallylove)

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djpengwin
hockey meme: 1/1 quote [“People follow a sport like hockey and they look for symbolism. They want the game to mean something. They want the game to matter. So to them, a fresh sheet of ice just after the Zamboni has laid its final spray of water presents the purest vision of possibility they could imagine. The skates being sharpened over and over and over again are a meditation on perfection, and the routines and rituals that surround the rink are a language of dedication in need of no translation. To them, games aren’t meant to be seen; they’re meant to be felt. Blood points a path directly to the heart; sweat, a trail to the soul; and tears, a connection to a conviction that people search for their entire lives. The ones who look for something more, believe in something more, are the ones who turn close games into unforgettable nights; who transform great players into heroes for all time; and who, no matter what, maintain unwavering faith in the incredible. There are people out there who look at something like hockey and they want the game to matter. So it does.”]
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androxin
Hockey is home to grace and grit, to brains and brawn, to prolonged periods of brute force followed by sudden explosions of astonishing elegance. It elevates teamwork and celebrates self-sacrifice. It bestows an annual award for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct. It inspires awe and honors tradition and does both at once, at the end of each season, when its two best teams meet to win and hold and see their names engraved upon the most hallowed, the most regal, the most revered trophy in all of professional sports.

A friend of mine sent this to me last night when I was struggling to describe what it is about hockey that I like so much. This article does a pretty damn good job of that.

(via androxin)

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garageleague
These fellows have invented a game that is played on ice. They have fashioned knives which are fastened on their boots and they skate at each other in a menacing manner as they pursue a black rubber disc and propel it towards their opponent’s wicket. There is a great noise and threatening as they advance toward the goal, brandishing their dangerous weapons at the enemy.

possibly the greatest description of hockey by an Englishman in the late 1800s when it was newly invented (via garageleague)

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