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There’s No Sense Pretending This Is Just Another Hockey Game

So this is the new year

And I have no resolutions

For self-assigned penance

For problems with easy solutions

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Radek Faksa is still breaking in his gear for the Winter Classic. It feels good, he says, but still a little stiff. Like with most hockey gear, it probably won’t feel really “right” until a couple rounds of sweat goes through it, until the game action takes over.

It makes me think of driving a new car. It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly a car stops being “my new car” and becomes “my car.