Source: theprovince.com - Saturday, March 30, 2019
The hand gestures by Sven Baertschi when he was describing his first-period goal on Saturday tell a story all their own. Sure, he did want to emphasize just how big his eyes got when he found himself opening up a gap on a flat-footed John Klingberg — his fingers extending out of a set of closed hands, as if they were fireworks — but it also spoke to his happiness about the fact he’d scored at all. We all know in our own selves how hard this season has been. We all have things that we really want to do. Sometimes those things are taken away from us, be that a pastime or a work thing or what have you. As outsiders, it can be difficult to get your head around the fact that what these athletes do, playing a sport, really is all they do. For most of us, sport is a side project to the rest of our lives. It’s something we fit around family, around work, around school, around friends. For professional athletes, this is it. They spend most of their time just trying to be better. They do, often unconsciously I’m sure, also spend time trying to suppress the idea that it could all end in a flash, that they could sustain an injury they won’t be able to overcome. For Baertschi, the last six weeks have been about getting healthy enough to live and then healthy enough to play. His return last weekend was partly just about relief, that that demon that lurks, looking to end careers, had been sent away again. There was also, of course, that need t
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The hand gestures by Sven Baertschi when he was describing his first-period goal on Saturday tell a story all their own. Sure, he did want to emphasize just how big his eyes got when he found himself opening up a gap on a flat-footed John Klingberg — his fingers extending out of a set of closed hands, as if they were fireworks — but it also spoke to his happiness about the fact he’d scored at all. We all know in our own selves how hard this season has been. We all have things that we really want to do. Sometimes those things are taken away from us, be that a pastime or a work thing or what have you. As outsiders, it can be difficult to get your head around the fact that what these athletes do, playing a sport, really is all they do. For most of us, sport is a side project to the rest of our lives. It’s something we fit around family, around work, around school, around friends. For professional athletes, this is it. They spend most of their time just trying to be better. They do, often unconsciously I’m sure, also spend time trying to suppress the idea that it could all end in a flash, that they could sustain an injury they won’t be able to overcome. For Baertschi, the last six weeks have been about getting healthy enough to live and then healthy enough to play. His return last weekend was partly just about relief, that that demon that lurks, looking to end careers, had been sent away again. There was also, of course, that need t
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