Paige laments Swede-ness of Detroit
I can’t say I usually enjoy reading the Denver columnists because, well, they’re biased towards the Colorado team (and have you read Lincicome’s column?). Anyways, I went to read Woody Paige’s column in the Denver Post today and I can’t say it’s the best written column (because it’s definitely not), but it certainly was entertaining. I found myself even laughing a few times. I suggest reading the entire thing, but here are my favorite parts.
This isn’t fair. The Avalanche have only one Swedish hockey player, the Wings a baseball team. Nine.
Back in the good old days of the 1990s, the Avs were matched in the playoffs against those pleasant, polite, passive Soviets — Fedorov, Fetisov, Larionov, Kozlov and, of course, Konstantinov.
Oh, we pine for the Wizards of Ov’s.
The Avs defeated them occasionally.
But the Avs can’t touch the ‘Stroms and the ‘Sons of Sweden.
These Swede birds of youth have eight goals — and 22 total points — against the Avalanche in three games.
Not impressed yet? Not wowed? How about 43 points in nine postseason games? Fortytrippingthree.
The goal was by Pavel Datsyuk — how did a Russian make this team — but the assisters were Henrik Zetterberg and Nicklas Lidstrom. They’re from Sweden.
I have become smorgas-bored talking about these Swedes. They’re too good. A million people from Swedish came to the U.S. early last century. It seems a million hockey players are emigrating from Sweden early in this century, and they’re all centers and wingers — and Wings.
Didn’t they idolize Forsberg? Didn’t they want to come to Colorado? Didn’t they want to end up on a U.S. stamp or a coin minted in Denver?
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May 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Great article. Funny as hell. But the guy needs to do his research. Jakub Kindl is from Czech.