Started looking at some Reddit alternatives today with the upcoming change to API policy. This seems like a cool option that lines up with my values. Super pumped to find a hockey community here as that was my main interest on Reddit. Still trying to figure out exactly how to use Lemmy, so any tips would be appreciated! Any team specific communities? I'm a leafs fan for reference
Well .... 😄 I moved to Canada in '88 from England, just in time to learn about ice hockey as a Flames fan the year they won the cup. A few years later the Northstars moved to Dallas after 4 straight seasons in the playoffs and I thought that was lame. I'm actually from Texas, and moved back there like a year after that, but stayed a Flames fan. I kind of dropped off from following hockey for a few years, and got back into it in my last few years of college, amid the heyday of the Stars v Avalanche playoffs rivalry. Still a Flames fan but still screw the not-the-Northstars so also an Avs fan. Then I moved to Minnesota after college in 2000, in time for the inaugural season of the Wild, so Wild fan. We crushed Dallas 6-0 in the first match-up, Dallas is allowed to have their team now. I've been back in Texas for like 20 years now, so now I'm a Stars fan (but I'll still cheer on my other 3 teams, and also Bruins, Blackhawks, and Habs). 😆 They did really build up a hockey culture in Dallas that I think helped boost availability of both youth leagues and adult rec leagues in Houston and Austin (and probably San Antonio but I never lived there). I played in rec leagues on and off, but am fully retired now due to neck problems.
It's still early in this hockey community. Nobody has even been chirping Leafs fans yet. Enjoy the moment.
I'm just trying to get this one more active and trying to post stuff regularly since I couldn't find any other active hockey community. If more people come I'm sure some team communities will pop up.
I love hockey. Everyone that's participated in this community so far has been awesome. I think we are lucky on the timing. It would have been a lot harder to get people active after the cup finals and especially after the draft.
We are doing one for all the remaining games this year. It's not really very refined at this point but post your suggestions in the next one and we can work on building a good system out as a community.