I’m sensitive to names, to first names and last names and the spellings of each, to names of car models and brands and the visual clutter of words we endure every day. I started to watch hockey last year, my first true foray into sports as an adult. All of the players I knew as a youth had retired and been replaced with hundreds of new names, and even new teams—such is sports. At first I couldn’t imagine learning a sea of new names but, nearly a year into regularly following NHL, I now know more names than I would care to admit. Hockey always held curious names, as a youth I learned the over-represented French-Canadian names and their improbable pronunciations. They also felt like very private names; hardly anyone I know follows hockey, and even the generational talents who emerge never make it mainstream like NBA players or NFL players.
the two sebastian ahos
the two sebastian ahos
the two sebastian ahos
I’m sensitive to names, to first names and last names and the spellings of each, to names of car models and brands and the visual clutter of words we endure every day. I started to watch hockey last year, my first true foray into sports as an adult. All of the players I knew as a youth had retired and been replaced with hundreds of new names, and even new teams—such is sports. At first I couldn’t imagine learning a sea of new names but, nearly a year into regularly following NHL, I now know more names than I would care to admit. Hockey always held curious names, as a youth I learned the over-represented French-Canadian names and their improbable pronunciations. They also felt like very private names; hardly anyone I know follows hockey, and even the generational talents who emerge never make it mainstream like NBA players or NFL players.