{"id":121,"date":"2011-10-16T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2015-04-05T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:31:26","slug":"reasons-to-like-stars-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to like Stars hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first day of NHL free agency this past July, the Dallas Stars<\/a> signed six new players. Last week, they acquired another through trade (there were salary cap issues).<\/p>\n

I love hockey because it’s a very fast-paced, high-energy game. And, well, also because of this. These are those seven new players:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Sheldon Souray<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jake Dowell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eric Nystrom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vernon Fiddler*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Radek Dvorak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Ryder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adam Pardy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Seriously. Damn.<\/p>\n

*This whole little exercise, my Googling2<\/sup>\u00a0the new players’ photos, started when they showed a picture of Vernon Fiddler on the Jumbotron during the game last night. He was in a suit and tie, clean shaven, hair combed, and he had his teeth in<\/i>3<\/sup>. He was so<\/b> handsome, it made me curious about the others.4<\/sup><\/p>\n

2<\/sup>The photos all came from Google images, BTW, and I have no rights to them whatsoever. I suppose they’ll stay up here until I get caught.<\/p>\n

3<\/sup>Vernon doesn’t put his teeth in when he plays. Actually, during games he kind of looks like a caricature of a hockey player: all craggy, with stringy hair, dark stubble and missing teeth, very much like someone you really don’t want to mess with. But he cleans up real<\/i> good.<\/p>\n

4<\/sup>Yes, we can see<\/i> them during games, but they’re wearing their helmets and they’re really sweaty (not so much in a steamy, tantalizing way as much as a “Dude! You’re dripping<\/i> on me,” kind of way). It’s pretty hard to tell what they really look like. The photos are much better.<\/p>\n

Really, much<\/b><\/i> better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first day of NHL free agency this past July, the Dallas Stars signed six new players. Last week, they acquired another through trade (there were salary cap issues). I love hockey because it’s a very fast-paced, high-energy game. And, well, also because of this. These are those seven new players: Sheldon Souray Jake Dowell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}