Speed Gibson

I'm not much of a hockey fan. I did used to take time off from work to watch every game of the high school tournament, until Sid Hartman et al ruined it with politically correct brackets. I do know enough to completely agree with Chad the Elder:

Here's one cliché that [the Minnesota Wild television announcers] ... should try: players make plays. It doesn't matter how many shots on goal you get. It doesn't matter if you "completely dominate" a period. If doesn't matter that you're "not getting any breaks." If you don't make plays, none of it matters.

This directly reminded me of my grandfather saying "fishermen will catch fish." My mother had a corollary: "Fishing lures catch more fishermen than fish."

You can have a sleek boat with a trolling motor, depth sounder, and fish locator. You can have the best rod, reel, and the most replete tackle box in the county. You can have a full spread of baits. Try as you might, wherever you might go, my grandfather in a rowboat would take more fish out of the lake with a bare hook. He was a fisherman.

So it is with many professions and pursuits.