Well, with topics drying up as the NHL season winds to a close, I thought it would be somewhat interesting as to how I chose my team in hockey.
When I was younger around 3 or 4, the teams I usually followed were those of names I had heard of so I cheered for them. That meant the players I knew of at that time were Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Mark Messier, and Steve Yzerman. So pretty much when from the 86-87 season to the end of the decade those were my teams that those guys played for.
I was a huge sports fan as a kid (I could and still can tell you the starting lineup of the 1992 and 1993 Toronto Blue Jays) and my ears perked up when I started hearing stuff about the Vancouver Canucks and this Russian player they wanted to bring over Pavel Bure. The only time I had seen Pavel Bure play was against Canada at the '91 World Juniors in Saskatoon on TSN (The only reason I can remember this is because of the line Bure was on and how much it was feared. Bure, Federov, Mogilny).
However I was interested to see him play in the NHL and the way the Russian Rocket played blew my mind. This guy was lightning quick and did stuff at high speed that some players couldn't do walking through it. However, in my later player fixation, I became aware of another player and just adopted that team as the one I would cheer for, #16 Trevor Linden. Linden didn't have the flash of Bure but always busted his ass out on the ice.
Do you guys have any stories like this, give me a comment on how your team became your team.
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