Long Live Lyle
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That’s fine/great. Again, the context was whether he has some innate love for the franchise/city (since that’s how it’s being presented) and if that could’ve potentially helped him in his perceived “weakness” which is enthusiasm on goal calls. He doesn’t have that innate love for Cbus/CBJ, but that doesn’t mean he’s unworthy of being selected, won’t be a good announcer or won’t grow to love the CBJ/Cbus.I mean I'm 47 so it is impossible for me to be a boyhood CBJ fan and that is why my first team was the NJ Devils when I started watching hockey in HS.
That being said, I've supported this team from day 1 and still follow the Devils to a lesser extent. It's hard because I don't live in NJ and I can be at NW Arena in 15 minutes from my house but I feel strong connections to both teams. I feel more connected to the CBJ because I'm here.
It's pretty fair to say that he grew up a Penguins fan but it can't mean he doesn't have connections to the CBJ that will obviously be rekindled deeper because he is now here locally.
I guess I do find it weird that, yet again, they’re trying to overemphasize his Ohio connection / “one of us”. Just feels like yet another inferiority complex thing (like “out of our blue, we rise” and when every other interview with every recent signee/draftee the media emphasizes how excited they are to be a Jacket, see Svoboda’s tweet in the Lindstrom thread as yet another example) that’s been a stable of this organization for a while and especially since the post-2019 exodus. But whatever, just kinda weird to me but not a big deal.
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