My Love Is An Echo

cassia

or getting the boot....

i just started watching last season, and picked my guy to root for: Lucky Luc Robitaille

no more Luc, but i didn't even know he was somewhat new to detroit.....

around here it's all shannahan and of course yzerman...i like lil scrappers....sometimes draper and others

but i'm still learning~~~

(cool intersperse weaves of lovesongs and hockey WHEE)

THAT'S yinyangy eh

CranMalReign

Originally posted by cassia
or getting the boot....

i just started watching last season, and picked my guy to root for: Lucky Luc Robitaille

no more Luc, but i didn't even know he was somewhat new to detroit.....

around here it's all shannahan and of course yzerman...i like lil scrappers....sometimes draper and others

but i'm still learning~~~

(cool intersperse weaves of lovesongs and hockey WHEE)

THAT'S yinyangy eh

Luc Robitaille is an ex Penguin!

Yzerman and Draper are long time Wings, so it's ok.

I remember when I started watching hockey. 1990. My great grandmother had a Pens game one when I was visiting. I was enchanted. Decided I'd watch more. Fell in love with the sport. And it just so happened at the end of that season... the Pens won their first of 2 straight Stanley Cups. I was hooked.

They were contenders up until 2001. After than, it was all down hill. My boys have broken my heart.

cassia

had a little team, the gulls,
but i never saw them

as far as names, i really like the buffalo sabres
i kinda root for any good play,
regardless of which team

(which sometimes gets me in a heap of trouble!)

and yeh, i dig it when the goalies get gruff...
and last week
i saw a couple players sailing into the net head first !

we're going to anaheim on a trip later this spring, and unfortunately miss the wings/ducks game by a few days...

hmmmm kinda feel like writing a hockey poem....
p has a Huge book in here in the study.....TOTAL HOCKEY but it's probably outdated........maybe i'll work on an Ode to the Penguins....

epitaph?

CranMalReign

Originally posted by cassia
had a little team, the gulls,
but i never saw them

as far as names, i really like the buffalo sabres
i kinda root for any good play,
regardless of which team

(which sometimes gets me in a heap of trouble!)

and yeh, i dig it when the goalies get gruff...
and last week
i saw a couple players sailing into the net head first !

we're going to anaheim on a trip later this spring, and unfortunately miss the wings/ducks game by a few days...

hmmmm kinda feel like writing a hockey poem....
p has a Huge book in here in the study.....TOTAL HOCKEY but it's probably outdated........maybe i'll work on an Ode to the Penguins....

epitaph?

I prefer Ode. They'll be back.

Even if it's without Lemieux.
and Jagr.
and Straka.
and Kovalev.
and Lang.
and Francis.
and Barasso.
and Coffey.
and Samuellson.
and Stevens.
and Robitaille.
and Recchi.
and Mullen.
and Tocchet.
and...

phishgod

Ok--yeah
I was born in Pitt (and so were my Daddy)
and I still get back for a visit with my
Aunt in the North Hills every now & again,
and even took Cass there for my Uncle's funeral
a while back, and then up to Oil City
for the burial & over to see the old
fam digs in Greenville, then on up to Erie,
wow! So Total Hockey! I remember actually
seeing first Pens games with a cousin
who now is big time high school
hockey coach in Pitt someplace, took
his boys to state championship rounds in
Phillie in his first season, but of
course I wear the Red Wheeled Wing,
and nothing like a Wings/Avs game to
get a little blood on the ice, oh yeah== I remember the Roy Osgood fracus and the Claude Lemieux hit that
broke up Draper & started the whole blood feud thing,
but I think I actually saw my first pro baseball game
in Three Rivers, and I remember singing
"We Are Family" years later along with Willie Stargell
pretty well too, and shit, Pitt, the zoo,
Kennywood, the incline, damn what a bowl
full of memories that all brings up,
but I pretty much stick to hockey now,
although I occasionally will get into
a March madness or Bowl blitz stupor,
I confess, but the joys of
my life are poems, & Cass & rock n roll.

So yeah, Total Hockey (2000 Edition)
sits up there whenever I get the urge to
do hockey trivia, when I am not occupied
with the better things in my life, like C.

Thanks for the read, and your comments all.

CranMalReign

Originally posted by phishgod
Ok--yeah
I was born in Pitt (and so were my Daddy)
and I still get back for a visit with my
Aunt in the North Hills every now & again,
and even took Cass there for my Uncle's funeral
a while back, and then up to Oil City
for the burial & over to see the old
fam digs in Greenville, then on up to Erie,
wow! So Total Hockey! I remember actually
seeing first Pens games with a cousin
who now is big time high school
hockey coach in Pitt someplace, took
his boys to state championship rounds in
Phillie in his first season, but of
course I wear the Red Wheeled Wing,
and nothing like a Wings/Avs game to
get a little blood on the ice, oh yeah== I remember the Roy Osgood fracus and the Claude Lemieux hit that
broke up Draper & started the whole blood feud thing,
but I think I actually saw my first pro baseball game
in Three Rivers, and I remember singing
"We Are Family" years later along with Willie Stargell
pretty well too, and shit, Pitt, the zoo,
Kennywood, the incline, damn what a bowl
full of memories that all brings up,
but I pretty much stick to hockey now,
although I occasionally will get into
a March madness or Bowl blitz stupor,
I confess, but the joys of
my life are poems, & Cass & rock n roll.

So yeah, Total Hockey (2000 Edition)
sits up there whenever I get the urge to
do hockey trivia, when I am not occupied
with the better things in my life, like C.

Thanks for the read, and your comments all.

You've brought a tear to my eye. Oh, how I miss my city.

North Hills... right down the road from where I grew up in Cranberry Township.

Though I am far too young to remember the "we are family" days of the Buccos.

But I did get to watch Three Rivers come down from the far bank of the Ohio. Sad, sad day. Knew that old clunker all my life. I think BE posted my poem about it on the "Favorite Poem" thread.

Philly sucks sack. I miss Pittsburgh (except for the "no jobs" part)

phishgod

Course My Dad was raised on Squirrel Hill,
& I spent a bit of time wandering all around the Point
and such myself, also had cousins and such in the South Hills,
assort'd other relatives spread about at different times & spots...
and I have wandered around down in the neighborhood of Front & Broad in Philly, too, but some great days in Pitt ( & a scary night or two in Philly) myself (had a bro-in-law went to Brown),
so I sorta know my way around the Commmonwealth.

Yeah. So Michigan is home, but PA is the homeland.

& for my beloved Cassia--
my love IS an echo,
she's so my LBQ gurl
--we gonna go do Pitt again sometime,
maybe meet the editor who introduced us there for supper or something if it works out on the next trip over that way.
Good memories CRM & Thanks for the read.