Courtesy of one of Off Wing's roving correspondents, we've found a trio of short pieces on our favorite sport in the pages of The New Yorker. The three (cleverly broken into periods), start with one piece by Alec Wilkinson on the forlorn state of the sport as seen through the prism of the twilight of Mark Messier's career.
The middle stanza has us travelling back to the 60s to take a hard look at Senator John Kerry's high school hockey career, and what it might tell us about the presumptive Democratic nominee for President:
As Kerry has aged, so has his style of play. The comedian Denis Leary has skated with Kerry about ten times over the past few years. Leary describes Kerry as
Great Larionov article. I had the same take on the movie he did.
Miracle was a good hockey movie. If they showed more about how the Russian players approached the game, it would have been a great movie.