Hockey offseason

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Austria won 4:1 against Sweden in football and qualified for the European Championships for the first time in very long. I'm normally not a football fan but I heard about the recent successes of the national team and I watched the last few minutes of the game. I think I'm starting to understand a bit better why people enjoy watching football, which surprised me but hey, why not. The long and enthusiastic post-game hugs on the field must be excellent for RPF fans.

Barely a month until the NHL season starts again! Before that there's the preseason, and before that training camp starts in less than two weeks. Today is media day, and Phil Kessel is in Pittsburgh. Apparently Sid already took him on a dinner date. (Insert yet another moment of "Phil Kessel is a Penguin!" This will take a while to get used to.)
I'm really looking forward to hockey.

I'm in a kind of weird between-fandoms moment. Now I still have more time to watch TV/movies etc. than I'll have once the NHL season starts again, so I want to take advantage of that, and I did. Usually when I meet new good canon I don't know if I'll get into the fandom or not, but this time I know I probably won't because I'll be distracted soon, and it's kind of a weird feeling, like there's a time limit. (Also none of the fandoms really grabbed me so far but that usually surprises me.) I could rewatch Killjoys and try to write that vampire fic or one of the other ideas I had, but it would take me some time and by then will I still be interested or will I want to write mostly hockey fic again? (Right now I'm a bit stalled because "more canon soon!" is distracting. No it doesn't make sense.) Or I could attempt to write that one Clone Wars fic with the droid, but I'm pretty sure I won't have the time and in any case it will never be as good as it is in my head. I could just continue reading Les Mis fic – I have no idea how I even started with that, I never read or watched any of the canon. Or I could watch something else, maybe iZombie or Dark Matter. I thought about FMA but I'm pretty sure I can't finish that in one month and still get work done.
Oh yeah, I should get actual work done. Ahem. Maybe I don't have time to watch anything new after all. The last few days were very unproductive and I didn't even do something specific to procrastinate, I'm skilled like that.

(Cooking regularly on my own turns out to require more effort than I thought. I'll have to work on that. At least laundry is not a problem.)

Comments

[jae]

I am not an expert in either football or hockey, but from the perspective of a non-fan who's tried to understand how the games work, I think they're actually very similar sports.

-J

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You have to get a thing past the goalie into the other team's net, so actually yes, pretty similar. I could never keep track of football in the past - 22 players at the same time! Hockey is faster, but it has fewer people playing simultaneously. I think watching hockey helped me see patterns on the field, so this time when watching football I didn't feel as lost.

[downjune]

Hockey is so close! And it is such a time-suck once it starts; you're right, everything else does take a backseat. I am really enjoying Killjoys! Dutch/John fills me with absolute GLEE. I still have like three or four more eps to go, so I'm very nervous how the season will turn out!

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Dutch&Johnny are amazing together. I really liked the last few episodes, I hope you will too! Lucky you, when you watch the season finale you already know there'll be a second season :)