The Two-Line Pass

So today I’m just looking around at old college hockey teams and I come upon a name I vaguely recognized: Ben Lovejoy. Kid went to Boston College and was pretty good from what I remembered, but I kind of lost track of him after he transferred to Dartmouth and out of Hockey East.

Well turns out he’s playing for the Baby Pens now and has his own blog, which is seemingly independent of the team’s website. That’s awesome. I wish more players would do that so we can get stories that are actually funny or interesting, rather than some middle-of-the-road defenseman saying, “Went to practice today. It was really hard but we’re playing good hockey right now and we’re just focused on doing our jobs.” No one cares.

But Lovejoy, in his two posts this season, has been pretty funny. The story he posted Friday was a riot.

A fan made a mixtape called “Songs about Love(joy)” full of songs where the word “love” is used in the title.

Every time the word love was mentioned for the rest of the CD, the song would cut out and a voice would come on and say, “joy.” For the next 8 tracks on the CD, they all did this. It was one of the funniest, and creepiest, things I had ever heard. I was almost embarrassed that someone had taken the time to make a CD like this for me. After listening to the CD (not the whole thing, just skipping from track to track) I took it out and put it in the side panel of my car door where it stayed for a month or two.

Eventually, a teammate found the CD by accident and brought it to the dressing room, much to the delight of all of Lovejoy’s teammates. Danny Richmond has since burned a copy of the CD for friends and family and put it on his iPod.

We really, really need to get some audio of this mixtape.

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