ice hockey poem -- commemoration of 2010 NCAA championship

David Virgil Hobbs

Poem on the Occasion of 2010 Boston College National Ice Hockey Champions

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Motto

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ARGUMENT

The Boston College Men's Ice Hockey team, featuring lots of Massachusetts boys, decisively defeated Miami of Ohio in the NCAA semifinals, even though Miami's team was bigger and higher ranked. Then they also badly beat Wisconsin which also was higher ranked and had bigger players. This despite the fact Boston University (which is not Boston College) coach Parker had said, he does not recruit Massachusetts boys because Massachusetts players are injured, burnt-out, tired, and lack enthusiasm for ice hockey because of having played it too much as boys.

Part I

Boston College defeats Miami of Ohio by 7-0 in the 2010 NCAA Hockey semifinals

The youths of the Boston College Men's Ice Hockey Team
Are smaller than average men;
Yet in the semifinals
Against Ohio's Miami University
Their small players scored seven
Against men a tenth taller than them
While Miami scored zero against
Boston College's little defense

This even though Miami was ranked first
Whereas Boston College was ranked third

Part II

Boston College defeats Wisconsin by 5-0 in the 2010 NCAA Hockey finals

Then in the finals on Saturday night,
The Boston College team for hockey on ice,
Composed of youths below average in height
Playing against Wisconsin scored five times
While Wisconsin's taller and heavier young men
Scored zero against the Boston College defense

Part III

The Boston College victories contradict Boston University Coach Parker's idea that Massachusetts boys should not be recruited because they are stunted as a result of having been obsessed with ice hockey.

The Boston College men's ice hockey team scores many goals
Yet it contains many Massachusetts youths, known as massholes

And the Boston University Coach had stated,
His team contains few from the state of Massachusetts
Because the state's boys play too many hockey games,
And so by the time they become of college age,
They are tired injured burnt out and lazy,
And take no joy in the sport of hockey.

Yet Despite what the Boston University coach said,
The injured, tired, burnt out joyless and ice hockey obsessed
Boston College dwarves from the state of Massachusetts,
Beat two teams filled with tall heavy heroes,
by seven to nothing and five to zero.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

second winter olympics ice hockey poem

David Virgil Hobbs

Winter Olympics Hockey, February 26, 2010
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Argument

How Canada's hockey team being influenced by wise leadership gained an upset victory over higher ranked Russia; and how Russia's performance showed that if only it had not procrastinated being influenced by such leadership it would have won instead.

Part II

The narration continues after the ice hockey matches of February 24th, and prior to the matches of February 26th

Canada of second rank a few days before
Was upset by the fifth ranked Americans
While watched by twenty million Canadians,
But on Wednesday February the twenty fourth,
For the first time in fifty years Canada,
Defeated the number one ranked team Russia,
In a massacre, seven to three was the score

Five days before this triumph of the Canadians,
David Virgil emailed a dozen Olympians
Appointing them Olympian leaders,
One of them was Canada's Mike Richards

A top offensive line is also a shut down line rarely
Yet after the appointment of Richards immediately,
Canada formed a new line, which in one line combined
A top scoring line which also was a shut down line
Richards on the left, Crosby center and Nash on the right,
Intended to suppress the Russian offense
This it succeeded in doing as if blessed

Of the twelve athletes appointed five days before
One was Russia's second string goaltender, named Bryzgalov;
The first goalie, who was not appointed, was Nabokov,
Who gave up six goals up to minute twenty four,
While the Russian offense scored just one time;
The last thirty six minutes of the night,
With Bryzgalov in goal for the Russians
Russia scored two goals and allowed just one

The mathematics of the match could be said to show
That if Russia had used only Bryzgalov in goal
The Russians by a score of three goals to two would have won;
If Russia during the match had used Nabokov alone
there would have been a fifteen to two loss for the Russians,

Russia procrastinated putting Bryzgalov in goal
the result being the Russians though ranked number one,
were upset by the number two ranked Canadians,
who had earlier themselves thrilled
The US the land of David Virgil,
by giving the fifth ranked US victory
by a decisive score of five goals to three

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs

winter olympics ice hockey poem

David Virgil Hobbs

Winter Olympics Hockey, February 24, 2010
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Good info on ice hockey is hard to find
Her'es the best estimates I can make at this time

Michael Milbury and Jeremy Roenick
Are hockey announcers this flu-filled winter
At the year two thousand and ten olympics

The Milbury surname indicates English ancestry,
Mike graduated from Brighton High in Boston
When Nixon was the President in nineteen seventy;
The Roenick surname indicates something German
Jeremy graduated from Braintree high in Braintree
When Reagan was prez, in nineteen eighty seven.

In ice hockey Russia ranks first in the world,
Canada ranks second, and third is Sweden
Fourth is Finland, fifth is the US this year

At the winter olympics of two thousand ten,
On February twenty first, fifth ranked US
Beat second ranked Canada by a score of five to three;
Slovakia beat Russia on February eighteenth

Today it's US ranked five versus Switzerland ranked seventh,
Russia ranked number one versus Canada ranked second,
Fourth ranked Finland against sixth ranked Czechoslovakia,
And third ranked Sweden versus ninth ranked Slovakia

A dramatic tale will unfold on television,
How second ranked Canada does against number one Russia,
After having lost to the fifth ranked Americans,
While watched by twenty million Canadians

This year the highest paid ice hockey player
Earning ten million dollars for a year,
Is Canada's Vincent Lecavalier
Fifty six NHL players earned more than five million this year,
NHL players have a median salary per year of a million,
Meaning half get paid more and half less than a million per year.

@2010 David Virgil Hobbs