Francis York Morgan's Coffee - Passing the Torch [Reviewed]

[Christmas 138]

 

It's been awhile since I have talked to my coffee. Perhaps it has been too busy tearing up the league the last few years as a defenseman without a lot of raw skill but a lot of heart, or perhaps it has been laziness. It has been so long you all probably forgot about me and my coffee insight. But here I am again. After 8 seasons, it is now the time where I pack things up and move on from my career in hockey. It has been an interesting run. I started in Stockholm and had a couple really good seasons there. Then I moved to Quebec, and while I thought that was the team that was going to be where I retired, it was not to be. I had some good offensive years there but didn't do much else. Then came Calgary. One failed cup run later and I am moved out to yet another team. This one was the Toronto Legion, and I would have my two very best regular season and playoff years up to that point. Two championships later and I am high as a kite.

 

Surprisingly I didn't get to stay to try for a three-peat in my home country of Canada. I moved to Davos in a couple of trades, and now I am in a position where I could win my third championship in a row. A potential MVP. A potential defenseman of the year. And I missed it. A strange irony that the times that I was the least active I had the most success. But I have returned, even if for a short time, to pass the torch to someone younger and with a different kind of fire that in my retiring years I will look forward to watching play in my stead. Another Francis. Another Morgan. But there is something different about him...

 

 

He plays a new position, has a new way that he approaches the game, and has a new backstory. But that is a story for a different time. Right now, it is about transitioning from the old to the new. From a defenseman with some skills but all in the important places to a forward who could blossom into one of the greatest ever if he plays his cards right. And this is something I might have been able to see if I had been looking into my coffee more often. Because I hadn't, I see this transition as a surprise, and it makes my final year very bittersweet because I couldn't take the time to look at all the successes that I had over my career and appreciate what was to come.

 

But what's done is done. I will now make a more concentrated effort to look back on what I did with joy, and once I play my final playoff game during this post-season, it will turn the focus on Zach, who may turn heads despite my inability to do so. And in S52 I will be eagerly anticipating what he can do, because he is quite the player.

 

Isn't that right, Zach?

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Review:

Word count hit the spot.

I can only hope that you come back.

Solid article.

Late grade.