If You Like The Flying V, You’ll Like The Husky Hockey Team
Admit it, you have a soft spot for The Mighty Ducks. As a kid in the mid-’90s, you made your parents buy you roller blades, a hockey stick, and a street puck.
You hit the pavement and practiced your Russ Tyler knucklepuck for hours on end, trying and failing to master the float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-bee movement of Kenan Thompson’s CGI-enhanced supermove.
You rounded up all the kids in the neighborhood and practiced the Flying V, achieving more of a saggy “U,” but nonetheless forming a discernable letter in the alphabet.
You even practiced mock fights, grabbing your buddy’s jersey, pulling it over his head, and punching him in the face (softly), a la Kenny Wu.
It was all in good fun, but you lost the hockey bug by the time the decade was over. Outside of a little Xbox NHL here and there, your hockey days were behind you. Until now.
They celebrated like a playoff-bound team, despite the fact that their season had just come to a close. A third-place finish in a four-team division is not often cause for celebration, but for all accounts and purposes this ballclub was a winner.
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