You switch players names for regular words:
Son: I feel sick.
Mom: (feeling head for temperature) You ok? Do you feel like you have to chara?
or..
Mom: Dammit! Why does the cat have to chara in the house?
- Your kids will not be in the same room as you during a hockey game because last time someone scored and you made them stay in the room for 2 hours for good luck.
- Your kids know they can’t ask you for a ride anywhere on game day due to excessive beer consumption during games. ;-)
- You know to never have your child picked up by another kid’s parent during a game. This is due to the fact you are engrossed in the game and in-between periods you remember that someone picked your kid up but you can’t remember who or, sometimes, which kid.
- Your husband and you know that both cannot attend your child’s open house due to playoffs. So you flip for it and the winner gets to stay and watch the game.
- Your kids know what’s for dinner according to the game time. Early games are late b-b-q and late games are usually crock-pot or long cooking stews and soups.
- Your son automatically hands over the laptop before game time with it set on Letsgokings.com’s GDT.
- Your kids aren’t even embarrassed in front of their friends anymore when their friends see mom and dad in the living room wearing the team jersey’s making empty beer pyramids on the coffee table.
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Sadly, these are all true. At least you know your handing down the love of the game to your kids and when they grow up and do the same thing, we will know in our hearts the hockey fan has been preserved.
Oh and that flag in front of the house pictured above? Yup, ours.
Go Kings Go!
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Bev
April 17, 2012
Love it. Sad thing for me….daughter went a married a Ca. boy who grew up with baseball,basketball and football. He wouldn’t know a hockey stick from a mop. Sad,sad,sad.
tracykingslover
April 17, 2012
There is hope! my hubby is a Ca surfer boy and now a nice converted hockey fanatic
It just takes time. LOL, plus he had to coach the kids in hockey – 
The Recipe Seeker
April 17, 2012
Loved this post. Reminded me of my parents. We weren’t allowed to talk to them when they were listening to a game or later on watching one on Hockey Night in Canada. The husband is also a CA boy (boy? almost 80 years old) but that’s the reason why we started this blog. So all us women can relate and vent. love it.
GO KINGS!!!
Bev
April 17, 2012
Problem with dads raising boys, like my son-in-welll ya know, he raised their 2 boys playing those 3 sports he liked. I could still kick my daughter bow legged!
tracykingslover
April 17, 2012
LOL! you had my laugh so hard my son came in and asked what was the matter? lol!!!
hockeyjockey
April 19, 2012
Tracy.. needed a day to recover from being pre-game nervous..( I get worse as each year
we improve.). then need last night and today to come to terms that we just played one sucky game and we will still be fine.. I really do see us getting to round two..
I read Surly’s blog and sure did not agree with him.. I thought as I texted you
we
1) did not play our game
2) did not forecheck( even though we were credited with more hits)
3) were really outplayed in the neutral zone
4) lost our ability to have puck possession..instead chipped the puck most of the night
5) did not like Carter’s play as well as Dought’s on the PP..
6) our D men were also way too predictable over and over with same outlet passing.. no change ups
7) And as to the opposite of Puck possession.. when we don’t want it…Martinez and Doughts took way way too long with the Puck instead of shooting.. by the
time they either did shoot or pass there was NO lane to shoot in.. I think if they had let fly
sooner there were bigger openings then when they waited that half sec and the openings closed even more.
The first 12 minutes or so were ok.. we always take a while to warm up.. feel out the game.. we are just a slow team that way.. not a problem.. we are who we are..
And the last 5 minutes when they got really desperate.. then the puck started flying as did the checks.. yes nucks were playing protection hockey by then but still that was our game and we did not play it 90% of the night.
Now that I have said all that..
Tracy.. too funny your blog!!
It reminded me of what I sent out last year.. I got it somewhere so cannot take credit..
I just checked what pertained to me.. one of my buddies sent back
‘Michelle.. I think there are way more then 16 things
So it is below
(one more thing.. I need that Flag!.. I have been afraid to put one out as it would be
stolen.. but screw it.. I could always get another.. .. the one in my house is great but I need one outside as well
GO KINGS GO!!!
Subject: 16 SIGNS I MIGHT BE AN ‘OBSESSED HOCKEY FAN
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>1) NHL News Takes over Your Internet X
>2) You Have Made a “History Will Be Made” Commercial
>3) You “Dress Up” for Games X
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>4) Your Mood Is Determined by a Win or Loss XXX
>5) Travelling to Away Games Is a Must
>6) You Own NHL Gamecenter X
>7) You Collect NHL Jerseys X
>8) You Live in Your Jersey
>9) You Grow a Playoff Beard
>10) You Take off Work on Deadline Day and the First Day of Free Agency ( Or stay connected to computer)
>11) You Know Everything About the Players XXX ( some more then others :0 )
>12) You Can Differentiate Members of a Team by Skating Techniques X
>13) You Have Game Superstitions X
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>14) If Things Are Not Working, You Change It Up X
>15) “I’m Sorry, I Can’t. I Have a Hockey Game.” X
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>16) You Don’t Make Vacation Plans Until After Mid-June XX
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tracykingslover
April 20, 2012
“Martinez and Doughts took way way too long with the Puck instead of shooting.. by the
time they either did shoot or pass there was NO lane to shoot in.. I think if they had let fly
sooner there were bigger openings then when they waited that half sec and the openings closed even more.”
This. Martinez I thought was ok, but DD sucked. He just did. He needs to work on releasing the puck sooner. And Richards was off too. Give up the puck and then get the assist on the goal going into our net!
I think that they let the Sedins and all the talk get to them. I hope to see an entirely different game on Sunday. And sunday, what is that? why wait so long? I heard there is a Coldplay concert at Rogers arena Friday and Sat. Geez, not like this is the STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS!
Again, we stay to our game, come out hard and fast and we’ll be fine. Plus I wish Sutter would start the Kopi line instead of the Richards line.
Hockeyjockey
April 21, 2012
I thought Carter was worse then Richards..and just bet his ankle is bothering him. I expect us back to task tomorrow …
And seriously..thought nuck arena was built for Hockey..not concerts…stupid
(Don’t get me wtong..love concerts..love Coldplay..but Priorities.
GO KINGS GO!!!