No real surprise about the Sunrise Ave. Being that they're a Finnish band, and while they've had quite a lot of international success, it's been mostly in Germany and eastern Europe, so it wasn't like I was expecting anyone to have heard of them. But, hey, definitely worth checking out. Also, they've been making songs fit for Carts/Richie for pretty much their entire existence. I mean, their breakaway single is named Fairytale Gone Bad. 'Nuff said.
As for the Brodeur vs. Selänne issue; I'm 99% certain that if they retired on the same day, North American media (and therefor pretty much all of the internet) would forget that Selänne even existed, based on the simple fact that Brodeur is Canadian.
Most likely yeah. Although, I'd like to think that both of them have enough class not to do it on the exact same day, even if they were to come to a decision about retiring around the same time. I mean it can't be that hard to book press conferences on different times. Also, Selänne could just end up putting of the decision until training camp starts, which is what he did last year. Only thing he has said on the matter, after all, is that he'll probably announce it around July 1. And it's not like he won't be given the time, if he asks for it.
But I'd still like to think, that if it were to come down to them both retiring, and doing it around the same time, that Selänne would get at least some attention. If not for any other reasons, than because of the five years long game of will he or won't he, will finally have come to an end. And then there's also him being very much of a backbone for the Ducks, (he did finnish the season leading the team in points, and averaging like 18 minutes of ice time per game. Not bad for a 41 year old) and so at the very least it'd be news worthy on the "Ducks are in somewhat deep shit, right now" -level.
There's a part of me that thinks that he'd have a change to give Brodeur a run for his money even, on the issue, but that's mostly because we Finns have a bad habit of not exactly disregarding goalies, but overlooking them at least. Which leads unconsciously thinking that no one's going to give a damn about some goalie. I realize this is not true, and on a conscious level I do think that goalies deserve all the love they can get, but it's not like it's easy to go against ingrained attitudes, even once you think that are wrong.
Then again, at this point, no one's buying him retiring. So if he were to announce doing that, it's just as likely that the hockey world at large would just go LOL, yeah right, pull the other one. And then they'd wish him a good summer, and see you September.
Just today I ran across a Finnish interview from last summer, where he claims that this year will be his last one for sure. Absolutely will not even think about coming back after that. Knee won't take it blah blah. And here we are, a year later, and he's training for new season..
Basically I'm just hoping that he'll once again end up coming on the side of won't. For one thing 20 NHL seasons would be a nice round even number in a way that 19 just isn't. And also, he's less than 30 goals away from breaking Lemieux's record. Which, not entire possible for him to do in a one season. And from there it's not far to Yzerman and Messier. And then he'd might as will go for the gold and become the first european player to reach 700 goals..
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As for the Brodeur vs. Selänne issue; I'm 99% certain that if they retired on the same day, North American media (and therefor pretty much all of the internet) would forget that Selänne even existed, based on the simple fact that Brodeur is Canadian.
Most likely yeah. Although, I'd like to think that both of them have enough class not to do it on the exact same day, even if they were to come to a decision about retiring around the same time. I mean it can't be that hard to book press conferences on different times. Also, Selänne could just end up putting of the decision until training camp starts, which is what he did last year. Only thing he has said on the matter, after all, is that he'll probably announce it around July 1. And it's not like he won't be given the time, if he asks for it.
But I'd still like to think, that if it were to come down to them both retiring, and doing it around the same time, that Selänne would get at least some attention. If not for any other reasons, than because of the five years long game of will he or won't he, will finally have come to an end. And then there's also him being very much of a backbone for the Ducks, (he did finnish the season leading the team in points, and averaging like 18 minutes of ice time per game. Not bad for a 41 year old) and so at the very least it'd be news worthy on the "Ducks are in somewhat deep shit, right now" -level.
There's a part of me that thinks that he'd have a change to give Brodeur a run for his money even, on the issue, but that's mostly because we Finns have a bad habit of not exactly disregarding goalies, but overlooking them at least. Which leads unconsciously thinking that no one's going to give a damn about some goalie. I realize this is not true, and on a conscious level I do think that goalies deserve all the love they can get, but it's not like it's easy to go against ingrained attitudes, even once you think that are wrong.
Then again, at this point, no one's buying him retiring. So if he were to announce doing that, it's just as likely that the hockey world at large would just go LOL, yeah right, pull the other one. And then they'd wish him a good summer, and see you September.
Just today I ran across a Finnish interview from last summer, where he claims that this year will be his last one for sure. Absolutely will not even think about coming back after that. Knee won't take it blah blah. And here we are, a year later, and he's training for new season..
Basically I'm just hoping that he'll once again end up coming on the side of won't. For one thing 20 NHL seasons would be a nice round even number in a way that 19 just isn't. And also, he's less than 30 goals away from breaking Lemieux's record. Which, not entire possible for him to do in a one season. And from there it's not far to Yzerman and Messier.
And then he'd might as will go for the gold and become the first european player to reach 700 goals..