Oh yes, it is the NHL Playoffs, or as they are better known, The Stanley Cup…
Here is my emotional investment. I have always had one team I liked more than any other, but it isn’t a passion or something I get overly excited about. I like the Pittsburgh Penguins.
My wife and sister-in-law, who both comment on here occasionally, are New Jersey Devils fans. When over in the States in January 2008, I went to the Prudential Arena in lovely picturesque (!) Newark to watch the Devils play the Philadelphia Flyers. A report of the game can be found on my other place. I did enjoy it, but just as the first baseball teams I saw were the Yankees and Blue Jays, and I care for neither, then so I couldn’t really care about the Devils. If Pittsburgh don’t win, then maybe it would be nice for the Devils to win for my own American family’s happiness.
However, it looks like, according to the American family, that they may play each other in the Eastern Conference Semis or Finals (it looks to me as though, if they work as a bracket, that the Devils will lose to the Rangers before that ever happens, while the Penguins may lose to the Bruins, but what do I know?) Would it be worth it to me to see my beloved’s unhappiness for a team I “like” rather than “love” to win?
What do you think? Think she would feel the same as a Yankee fan?
Come on The Penguins!!!!
Love you really, Beloved and Sister-In-Law!!!!
