OK, among all this doom and gloom, here is one from NHL Hockey All-star game. I know most avoided it like replays of our losses last year, but this one is pure Hollywood worthy. Its about a journeyman player John Scott, 6-8 and strong, who was what you would call an enforcer - or worse. John Scott had a total of 5 goals scored in 285 games but had 542 penalty minutes.
But in this era of institutional distaste the fans got together and not only voted him to the All-star game but he had the most total votes of anyone on his team (making him The Pacific division captain). The Arizona team he was playing on considered it an embarrassment as did the NHL and asked him to decline. He decided he wanted to go ...likely his only chance at making it. He was the "People's Cherce" as they say.
The Arizona Coyotes (or otherwise hereby know as the "dirty desert dogs") traded him to Montreal who stashed him in their minors. Bur he held firm and went to the A-S game, sporting a non-team related shirt in early events But it still carried the C for Captain. The players supported him, the Nashville fans (host team) did the same and so did many of us TV viewers.
Waal....the game(s) consisted of 3 x 20 minute segments with the 2 Eastern conference teams playing the first game. The two Western conference teams playing the second, and the finale between the two winners.. all were 3 on 3 games with plenty of open shots and opportunities. In his first game John Scott was set up twice by teammates and scored on both. Players rallied around him including some shrimp on the other team challenging him to a fake fight in jest.
John's Pacific team won the tournament. And though now a minor leaguer with a wife, 2 kids and twins on the way, he got to share $1M as a winner ($90K apiece). The MVP as determined by attending customers and TV voters made him the MVP , getting a brand new SUV. At which point to his astonishment he was lifted (among struggling teammates) on their shoulders and applauded. Even taciturn Kings coach , Darryl Sutter, said he was their "Nuclear option".
See, as I said, a Hollywood film in the making. A feel good story on a melancholy message board. But Hollywood will probably mess it up by casting 5-7" Tom Cruise as the 6-8" John Scott. LOL.
But in this era of institutional distaste the fans got together and not only voted him to the All-star game but he had the most total votes of anyone on his team (making him The Pacific division captain). The Arizona team he was playing on considered it an embarrassment as did the NHL and asked him to decline. He decided he wanted to go ...likely his only chance at making it. He was the "People's Cherce" as they say.
The Arizona Coyotes (or otherwise hereby know as the "dirty desert dogs") traded him to Montreal who stashed him in their minors. Bur he held firm and went to the A-S game, sporting a non-team related shirt in early events But it still carried the C for Captain. The players supported him, the Nashville fans (host team) did the same and so did many of us TV viewers.
Waal....the game(s) consisted of 3 x 20 minute segments with the 2 Eastern conference teams playing the first game. The two Western conference teams playing the second, and the finale between the two winners.. all were 3 on 3 games with plenty of open shots and opportunities. In his first game John Scott was set up twice by teammates and scored on both. Players rallied around him including some shrimp on the other team challenging him to a fake fight in jest.
John's Pacific team won the tournament. And though now a minor leaguer with a wife, 2 kids and twins on the way, he got to share $1M as a winner ($90K apiece). The MVP as determined by attending customers and TV voters made him the MVP , getting a brand new SUV. At which point to his astonishment he was lifted (among struggling teammates) on their shoulders and applauded. Even taciturn Kings coach , Darryl Sutter, said he was their "Nuclear option".
See, as I said, a Hollywood film in the making. A feel good story on a melancholy message board. But Hollywood will probably mess it up by casting 5-7" Tom Cruise as the 6-8" John Scott. LOL.
