In a town long known for its southern efficiency and northern charm, we, in Washington, DC, finally have a team known for both: efficiency (these guys can win!) and charm (yeah, that's right, charming hockey players).
And, being a hockey team, they are northern. Picture-perfect, poster-child northern, in fact, featuring talent and charisma from every slice of global boreality (if it's not a word, it should be), from Siberia to Vancouver (the long way).
Check it out (you should be able to click on the little hockey player icons to get names and hometowns of the players):
Efficiency, charm, plus that northern penchant for the battle. My circumpolar passion fulfilled.
I love this map!
ReplyDeleteIt's like a ring of fire around the north pole with everyone around the same latitude. And jeez does it make me wonder about some of the towns these guys come from. Krasnojarsk, Russia (Alexander Semin's hometown) looks beautiful - - and seems incredibly remote.
It sure does seem remote to me! As the third-largest city in Siberia it lies 2,000 miles or so east of Moscow! But to the 948,500 people who live there (according to Wikipedia) I guess we're the ones that seem remote.
ReplyDeleteI do think it's amazing to think that, in spite of the distances between them, all these Caps players (and their counterparts on the other very international NHL teams) are really from the same region - the northern one -, and share at least one thing - ice hockey - as a result.