2012年4月27日星期五
Every pro athlete would like to control
To rebound as he did and score 27 goals www.itoplvbags.com and 59 points is also double-edged, either inviting “One More Year,” as the burgeoning Alfie Fan Club chants, or becoming the perfect sendoff to a great career.
Another factor to consider: Alfredsson suffered two concussions this season, and this husband and father of four places huge value on that aspect of his life.
Every pro athlete would like to control his exit strategy. Most don’t get that chance. In the end, the magic that was 2011-12 will either be the perfect note on which to depart or just too good to leave for a 39-year-old.
“This year has been unbelievable,” Alfredsson said Thursday night, referring to a “great group of guys” in the room. “I’m a grumpy old man at times, and they made this year very enjoyable for me.”
Teams usually convert 3-2 leads in a series, but in the final two games against a first-place team, Ottawa looked very much the rebuilding group we forgot it was. Asked if he thought the Senators were close to re-joining the NHL elite, in other words a team to win a Stanley Cup with before he retires, Alfredsson said: “I don’t know. We’ve taken another few steps.”
And then he named several of the up-and-coming players on louis vuitton lattice handbag the roster, players who would be better off learning from the master.
But it’s Alfredsson’s call. And he needs his space to make it.“I’m a white woman, and I’ve been married to a black man for 15 years,” Carolyn said. “Our son and I love hockey. He wants to get more involved and play the sport.
“But his father has had some rough experiences in his life, where it’s basically been made known to him that this is a white man’s sport and to not even think about it. He went through some ugly stuff growing up.”
When Ward (whose parents are from Barbados) flailed that back-hander past Bruins goalie Tim Thomas on Wednesday night, he became the first black player in NHL history to clinch a series in overtime with a goal. He also provided Carolyn with her strongest argument yet for letting her son play the game.
But the other side of that debate arrived minutes after the goal, in the form of the absolute gutter of Twitterverse. Among the least objectionable Tweets (and almost the only two not to use the n-word preceded by a expletive adjective): “The only reason Joel ward is playing hockey is because he got cut from the basketball team in high school #gorilla” And, “Warning Wholesale Louis Vuitton Monogram Denim Handbags Fashion Cheap Outlet Online With White Figure to Joel Ward. Your one of three black guys in Canada. I will find you . . . and I will kill you.”
Ugh.
“We have this great, prideful moment where I can point to a player like Joel Ward and say, ‘Look, he made it,’ and then comes this awful stuff afterward,” Carolyn said. “I honestly hope my husband doesn’t hear about it or read anything about it on the Internet, because it will reinforce all his ideas that our son shouldn’t play.”
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