{"id":870,"date":"2014-10-08T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=870"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:51:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:51:20","slug":"the-story-of-bobby-robins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/the-story-of-bobby-robins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Bobby Robins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet Another Update:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0The nearly always excellent Chad Finn<\/a> has a write up of the Bobby Robins NHL experience last night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> I should have included a link to one of the first profiles on Bobby Robins to come out since he’s made the big club, by Dan Cagen<\/a> in the MetroWest Daily News – “A dream come true as Bobby Robins makes the NHL<\/a>“. So between that article and the BDC article\/video<\/a>, you should go have a read.<\/p>\n

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So a player named Bobby Robins<\/a>, a hard-working 32 year old, as they will repeatedly tell you, hockey player has, at long last, made the big club — he’s on the roster for Opening Night for the Boston Bruins against the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n

\"Lace<\/a>
Lace ’em up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started following Bobby Robins last year, maybe the year before, when he hit Providence. He looked just like William Murphy, the protagonist in\u00c2\u00a0Butterfly, a novel<\/a><\/em>. He seemed like an earnest guy, working hard at his hockey career, his life as a family man, and his life as a public figure. I was doing a little bit of research on\u00c2\u00a0those guys who get stuck in the trenches of goon-dom, who languish in the minor leagues, looking up at the feet of the NHL — my own hockey career is far less successful than theirs, so while I thought I’d done a good job of capturing William Murphy as a lifelong minor league hockey player with flashes of the big leagues, I wanted extra color, some inspiration for applying that third or fourth coat of realistic paint to the novel. At any rate, amongst the George Laraques, the P.J. Stock highlight reels,<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Thorty<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Skillsy Hal Gill’s observations on Twitter,<\/a> I found Bobby. After watching the couple videos he has up on his site, which counts as research, to the abject horror of my wife, I couldn’t help but root for the young man.<\/p>\n

[pullquote]I can be curmudgeonly and incoherent with the best of them.[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not writing as a hockey pundit, though I can be curmudgeonly and incoherent with the best of them and am available for hire, so I don’t know how having Bobby Robins on the Bruins’s fourth line is going to work out, but on a personal level I’m rooting for the guy<\/a> and I hope it works out for him and the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet Another Update:\u00c2\u00a0The nearly always excellent Chad Finn has a write up of the Bobby Robins NHL experience last night. Update: I should have included a link to one of the first profiles on Bobby Robins to come out since he’s made the big club, by Dan Cagen in the MetroWest Daily News – “A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}