The Hockey Tonk Man
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Zero issue with this
Team thanks the fans, fans thank the team.
Team thanks the fans, fans thank the team.
Zero issue with this
Team thanks the fans, fans thank the team.
How is it fake? You think players don't appreciate the fans who's interest pays their salaries? What?I hate it regardless of win or loss. It’s fake and dumb
I think the Rangers only do it after winsI think Rangers started it off like 10 years ago or so after every home game? I dont know. But I remember them doing it and now teams seem to copy them.
I always thought it looked pretty dumb, and the play by play have to along with it.... "here's the players at centre ice saluting the crowd"
They exceeded expectations this year and many seen them as a wild card team. Appreciating their fans isn't stupid.
They're saluting the fans who supported and cheered them all year. It's a simple thank you.just watched Boston add yet another playoff disappointment to their long ass list of them and yet the players do the little salute after the game to chants of "LET'S GO BRUINS"
this is the saddest zoomer shit ever (obviously it is some euro tradition lol) like you lost guys get in the dressing room don't soak in your participation medal
Have you tried though?This tradition would be a lot more fun if fans were allowed to throw tomatoes at them.
*just kidding*
I don’t know if you’re interested in my perspective as a Swedish fan who usually stand up chanting and singing throughout my team’s games… But it’s like, we support them with our voices, and they play for us the fans. We shared the season together, we’ll be there through thick and thin. It’s not simply sports entertainment for us. And there’s nothing like the atmosphere in my team’s home arena when it’s packed and the standing section’s singing spreads into the seated crowd. If ever you get the opportunity in the future, I highly recommend visiting an SHL playoff game!
On another note, one North American hockey tradition that always felt weird to me but which I’ve come to appreciate, (and which has been adopted in Sweden), is the handshake line after playoff exits. I’ve often marveled at the restraint — or actual respect, even — at display in those lines. “How can you resist the opportunity to bash that guy’s face in: he got away with murder and was rewarded with a championship for it?”
are you too related? Or just OP's backup account to help support him?I hate it regardless of win or loss. It’s fake and dumb
OP needs a hug and a tissue
Hugs? More euro bullshit
Real men refuse touch of any kind, get dumped by their significant other for being emotionally unavailable, leave angry drunken messages to their estranged children, and spend evenings getting angry at their favorite sports team, writing message board posts about how every player should be traded and all management should be fired, because they're all so f***ing soft.
In my day, players had the balls to go up into the stands and beat fans with their own shoe. But since those damn euros arrived, we've gotten "fan salutes", and "fan events" and "hockey is for everyone" and all sorts of woke, touchy-feely bullshit and they won't even let me in my local rink anymore because they say I "screamed homophobic slurs at pee-wee players". f***ing soft.
Pfft, "hugs". f***ing zoomers
Hugs? More euro bullshit
Real men refuse touch of any kind, get dumped by their significant other for being emotionally unavailable, leave angry drunken messages to their estranged children, and spend evenings getting angry at their favorite sports team, writing message board posts about how every player should be traded and all management should be fired, because they're all so f***ing soft.
In my day, players had the balls to go up into the stands and beat fans with their own shoe. But since those damn euros arrived, we've gotten "fan salutes", and "fan events" and "hockey is for everyone" and all sorts of woke, touchy-feely bullshit and they won't even let me in my local rink anymore because they say I "screamed homophobic slurs at pee-wee players". f***ing soft.
Pfft, "hugs". f***ing zoomers
bro you ok? i mean i dont usually respond to the chirps but this one seems to come from deep lol
I feel like there's a lesson to be learned here.....Are you seriously ragging on a team for saying thank you to their fans after they get eliminated?
Those fans bled for them. Those fans threw shit on the ice for them. Those fans started (and lost) fights at our rink for them.
The least they can do is say thank you.