Word of the Week: ‘Grit’
Last week, NHL general managers scrambled to make some last minute tweaks to their hockey clubs in advance of the trading deadline on February 27th. Some teams were ‘buyers’ looking to shore up for a long Stanley Cup run, while other teams were ‘sellers’ looking to trade in some of their current talent for future prospects/success. And while every team had a different role to fill, it would seem that they were all looking for, or had found, some ‘grit.’
In an analysis of all major daily newspapers in Canada, the word ‘grit’ was found in 662 articles in relation to NHL trades in the days leading up to and following the trade deadline — Feb. 24 to Feb. 28. And a similar search in Google News during that same period revealed another 231 articles. Being a close follower of the NHL, I’m surprised that so many general managers have ‘found’ players with grit…considering that it is such a hard commodity to find (confession: I cheer for my hometown Ottawa Senators who have been accused of lacking grit in playoff run after playoff run). But, I guess when pressed by the media it’s an easy fall-back for GM’s to say that their newest acquisition has that intangible grit. This spring in the chase for Lord Stanley’s Cup we’ll find out who really found what they were looking for.
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