Professional sports are, above all other things, serious business. Partially, it is the money—billionaire owners squeezing every dollar and drop of prestige out of their purchases and millionaire players fighting for their share even as they’re treated like commodities by owners and fans alike.
The way we watch sports has changed, too, with the media reporting on and fans debating even the smallest transactions. This combination of obsessive coverage and the massive financial stakes involved makes it easy to lose the joy and wonder of sports.
Then a guy like Joey Hishon scores his first career NHL goal, and the reasons we watch these games are made clear.
The goal came in Hishon’s 11th career game. The 23-year-old is in his second full professional season and his very first NHL regular-season call-up. In his first 10 games, he failed to record a single point for a Colorado Avalanche team that has long been out of the playoff race. Then on Tuesday against the Nashville Predators, he wired a wrist shot from the high slot, beating Preds goaltender Pekka Rinne. The goal broke a ...
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Article written by Jonathan Willis