One Fan's Perspective

If you have come back here (or if you are new), you might have notice some prolific writing (some good and some not) from 2007 ish to 2008.

And then, the entire last season has vanished from the blog.  Well, there are reasons for that.

First off, during last season, I referenced my sojourn through graduate school that heavily conflicted with my full time job, and my overall life.  Before then, I watched and completely consumed hockey.  I followed multiple teams, read multiple blogs, and found myself immersed into the hockey culture we love.

Then, I had to take a break.  Life was just too difficult then.

Then, my busiest summer academically occurred and the next thing I knew, the Phoenix Coyotes were in bankruptcy court.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t keep up and honestly, I was pretty bummed about the entire ordeal.  Usually, my day job is much slower in the summer – in the past, I could have joined the other Coyotes’ bloggers in their pursuit of the truth (and commiserating in the despair), but I just had to watch from the sidelines and wonder.

Thanks to Save the Coyotes, Five for Howling, and to Hip Shot Blog, I was able to keep up albeit from the sidelines.

Next, when I decided to come back, after my summer of hell was complete, I went to my site, only to find a 500 internal server error.  I called the support service of my hosting company and they stated that there was a .php error.  Many early readers knew that I was a video freak – I liked embedding the scenes of what I was talking about.  Some I took from YouTube, and others I took from elsewhere.  Most likely, it contributed to the internal combustion of the blog as well as to my potential burnout.  I liked showing the video and Panger’s breakdown of what happened.  That will happen much less often this time around, keeping things simple as they say.

So, the only recourse I had was to delete the blog since I had no way to get in and I had no idea how to fix the .php issues I had.  Of course, I didn’t back up anything, and I lost the entire last season.  That’s the way it goes I guess.  It’s not like there was that much there to begin with anyway.

When I started, I was the only one.  Out there in NHL land, I was kicked around pretty good by the average fan, saying that hockey doesn’t work here, Coyotes are not good, and I’m an idiot for following them.  It seems that others are too – par for the course, really.  But when I was far removed from hockey, these other writers took up the charge and held on for dear life.  Even though I wasn’t writing about hockey or the Coyotes, I was reading – feeling the despair and angry about it the whole way.

So, I’m back, just in a different role.  I’ll leave the game previews and the game recaps to the others.  Five for Howling and the community over there does a masterful job with it.  I’ll just add my perspective, here and there, just like the blog title says.

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