First, you must know that the Detroit Red Wings aren’t a team. They aren’t a franchise.
They are, in hockey vernacular, an “organ-EYE-zay-shun.”
That’s your first lesson in hockey speak.
You can’t talk serious hockey unless you call the teams in the NHL organEYEzayshuns.
We Americans have it all wrong. We’re silly that way—using “team” and “franchise,” adorably.
OrganEYEzayshun.
Got it?
Ken Holland gets it. He uses the right word, pronounces it correctly, with the proper accents on the right syllables.
But that’s just the start of Holland and his hockey-ese.
Holland is the general manager of the Red Wings, but even that isn’t totally accurate. Canadian hockey executives drop the “general” and just call themselves managers.
Holland was at it again Thursday, when interviewed by Fox Sports Detroit after the Nicklas Lidstrom retirement press conference.
“I have been dreading this day ever since I became manager in 1997,” Holland told Larry Murphy and ...
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