{"id":104071,"date":"2025-08-23T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/104071\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T10:53:07","slug":"colorado-avalanche-turn-to-haikus-to-kill-the-offseason-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/104071\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Turn to Haikus to Kill the Offseason Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C&#8217;mon, hockey; we need you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PublishedAugust 22, 2025 5:25 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedAugust 22, 2025 5:26 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/national-hockey-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NHL<\/a> offseason is brutal for hockey fans, and this late August stretch might be the worst.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Draft and the start of free agency are way in the rearview mirror, and we&#8217;re still a couple of weeks away from the start of training camp and the preseason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It&#8217;s brutal. I&#8217;m this close to going down to a local rink and recording the sounds of a beer league game that I can play when I&#8217;m trying to fall asleep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sweepstakes?cmpid=org=ok::ag=owned::mc=editorial::src=ok_content::cmp=sec_sweeps::add=SEC_Sweeps_Promotion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pack your bags, football fans! OutKick is sending one lucky winner and a friend to Athens for Georgia vs. Alabama. Travel\u2019s on us, VIP tickets in hand, and bragging rights for life. Enter Now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But as tough as it is for fans, it might be tougher for the folks working on teams&#8217; digital content and social media teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">There&#8217;s not much to discuss, and not every team can get as lucky as the Seattle Kraken and have their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/kraken-mascot-goes-fishing-gets-charged-grizzly-bear-while-fishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mascot almost get attacked by a bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">So, perhaps this is why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/colorado-avalanche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> have decided to say, &#8220;F&#8211;k it; it&#8217;s haiku time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Now, I&#8217;m not a huge poetry guy. If someone held a gun to my head and asked for my favorite poem, I&#8217;d have to go with &#8220;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,&#8221; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and that&#8217;s mostly because it&#8217;s the subject of an Iron Maiden song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Also, that would be a really weird reason to have a gun held to your head\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Anyway, having said that, I can still appreciate a haiku (a Japanese style of poetry with a focus on syllable count rather than rhyming).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">With on-ice action still a few weeks away, the Avalanche started writing haikus about some of the teams they&#8217;ll be facing this season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Like this one for the Pittsburgh Penguins that serves as an ode to Pens captain Sidney Crosby and Avs star Nathan MacKinnon, who both hail from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This one pays tribute to the Philadelphia Flyers and their inimitable mascot, Gritty:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">They gave some love to Canada&#8217;s &#8220;all-dressed&#8221; potato chips in honor of the team that plays in the nation&#8217;s capital, the Ottawa Senators:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">There were plenty more where those came from:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Stick taps to the admin for having some fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I can&#8217;t lie, I was digging these\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Hell, I&#8217;m gonna try one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Offseasons Go Slow<br \/>The Avalanche Would Agree<br \/>Please, Drop The Puck Soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C&#8217;mon, hockey; we need you&#8230; PublishedAugust 22, 2025 5:25 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedAugust 22, 2025 5:26 PM EDT FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-104071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}