I've come to the conclusion, that since the lockout is now a thing that happened, and there's nothing to be done about it, I won't waste my energy on feeling bad about it, and just focus on being glad about the positive side effects to European leagues. Not that I don't hope that it ends as soon as possible, but meanwhile, I have enough crap in my life without letting the lockout get me down as well.
Your team really has the worst luck. And the worst PP. Hopefully Jokinen might be able to do some good. (I may have adopted Kärpät as my team in SM-liiga, so now I feel kind of invested. Damn you!)
Hopefully we just went through all the bad luck for the season all ready, and the rest of it will be better. As for the PP, idek. It hasn't really seemed like they are trying, most of the time. I'm not really holding my breath on there being that much improvement on it anytime soon either, since it has been a problem for some time already, but if we can get other areas working better, and start to score at some point, it shouldn't bother quite as much. Thankfully, Jokinen has trained with the team during the summer, so he should fit in well enough and start doing some good right from the first game. He'll be in the line up tomorrow already, so no need to even wait for all that long to see.
Besides, Kärpät is a great team to adopt, and I'll happily take on any blame for your investment. :D Sure, they can be a little fail at times, but once they get everything working, they're not just good, they're fraking awesome. Did I mention the eight years in row they spent being third or better? Four of those being championship years?
Are there any good train/bus connections of some sort, or do you have to get a hold of a car to be able to go see them play? The fastest straight train connection would be just shy of three and a half hours, so not impossible as such, but as a two way trip would cost more than 50 euros, in just the travel expenses, seeing home games is kind of out of the question for a student budget. Luckily, the nearest hockey town is just a little over hour away via train, and I visit there often enough for other reasons too, since my sister plus a lot of my friends life there, so at least I get to go watch their away games at times.
My personal belief is that Selänne isn't retiring until after Sochi, but that's just pure speculation. There was an interview this summer with him, one of those "are you continuing or not" type of things, and at that point, his answer was, that the only thing he can say for a complete certainty about his career is that he won't be playing in Sochi. Then again, he also said at one point that he wouldn't be playing for team Finland after Turin, and he retired for the first time in 2007 (not that it took, but anyway) and every fall since then he's said that this will be his last year playing, so yeah, he'll play in Sochi.
And if he does play, at this point, how could anyone cheer against him getting the bloody gold, for real? I'd say that's reason enough for even Swedes to be excused for cheering for Finland, just this once. :D
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Your team really has the worst luck. And the worst PP. Hopefully Jokinen might be able to do some good. (I may have adopted Kärpät as my team in SM-liiga, so now I feel kind of invested. Damn you!)
Hopefully we just went through all the bad luck for the season all ready, and the rest of it will be better. As for the PP, idek. It hasn't really seemed like they are trying, most of the time. I'm not really holding my breath on there being that much improvement on it anytime soon either, since it has been a problem for some time already, but if we can get other areas working better, and start to score at some point, it shouldn't bother quite as much. Thankfully, Jokinen has trained with the team during the summer, so he should fit in well enough and start doing some good right from the first game. He'll be in the line up tomorrow already, so no need to even wait for all that long to see.
Besides, Kärpät is a great team to adopt, and I'll happily take on any blame for your investment. :D Sure, they can be a little fail at times, but once they get everything working, they're not just good, they're fraking awesome. Did I mention the eight years in row they spent being third or better? Four of those being championship years?
If it helps, here's some highlights from the last ten years. :D
Are there any good train/bus connections of some sort, or do you have to get a hold of a car to be able to go see them play?
The fastest straight train connection would be just shy of three and a half hours, so not impossible as such, but as a two way trip would cost more than 50 euros, in just the travel expenses, seeing home games is kind of out of the question for a student budget. Luckily, the nearest hockey town is just a little over hour away via train, and I visit there often enough for other reasons too, since my sister plus a lot of my friends life there, so at least I get to go watch their away games at times.
My personal belief is that Selänne isn't retiring until after Sochi, but that's just pure speculation.
There was an interview this summer with him, one of those "are you continuing or not" type of things, and at that point, his answer was, that the only thing he can say for a complete certainty about his career is that he won't be playing in Sochi.
Then again, he also said at one point that he wouldn't be playing for team Finland after Turin, and he retired for the first time in 2007 (not that it took, but anyway) and every fall since then he's said that this will be his last year playing, so yeah, he'll play in Sochi.
And if he does play, at this point, how could anyone cheer against him getting the bloody gold, for real? I'd say that's reason enough for even Swedes to be excused for cheering for Finland, just this once. :D