by Chet Sellers
Yay, the season's over! Finally, the Senators can stop worrying about on-ice distractions and focus on what really matters - using social media to show people how well their summer's going!
We've always tried to use these power rankings to analyze the inner lives of the men we cheer for between the boards, to figure out who they really are in order to give a greater dimension to their heroics. Well folks, we got a real treat this month. If you listen to
our podcast, you'll already know about our admiration for new-wave Swedish documentarian
Patric Persson. Persson's recent cinéma vérité work with Erik Karlsson has been daring and provocative - it's taken a man we thought we knew and peeled away his layers one by one, revealing nuance, shadow, and leave-in conditioner. And it's given us enough material to really start to understand what it means to be an NHL superstar.
So we're going to try something a little different this month. We're not here to celebrate the life Erik Karlsson's talent affords him; we're here to study it. We can take important lessons from Erik Karlsson about what it means to be a star, and in understanding that, perhaps take one step closer to becoming stars ourselves. We think we've figured out what it takes. Let's go!