On se souviendra de Jessi Pierce pour le cœur, l’humour et la joie qu’elle avait pour la nature – et pour la vie.
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dustinyo_
@Wild du Minnesota
On se souviendra de Jessi Pierce pour le cœur, l’humour et la joie qu’elle avait pour la nature – et pour la vie.
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dustinyo_
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Is there a way to read this? I’m not subscribed to NYT
Other than Granlund’s relation with Hudson, this is very telling:
> There’s not an NHL player from Minnesota who she hasn’t interviewed with a smile on her face, whether it’s during the season or the offseason. And as NHL.com’s local correspondent, she often had visiting team responsibilities. With very few outlets traveling, she’d be the first (and maybe only) writer Nathan MacKinnon or Victor Hedman or Jake Oettinger or Sebastian Aho would see and talk to in the room after a morning skate or postgame.
> That’s why so many media relations people around the NHL reached out to mourning Wild reporters on Sunday. They all got to know her deeply. Jessi didn’t just lean against a wall with her mouth shut. She made her presence known and was so darn nice and warm and inquisitive and good at what she did.
> That’s why the PR staff, the elevator operators, the ushers, everyone felt it on Saturday. It was surreal to work during a hockey game while all were so saddened and with an empty seat in her usual spot.
> President of hockey operations and general manager Bill Guerin visited with every writer one-on-one during the intermissions to make sure we were OK and knew he and the franchise would be there to support us.
> John Hynes had the cameras turned off after his postgame press conference and, through tears, told us how much he respected and would miss Jessi, especially their conversations about Mahtomedi — the alma mater she was so proud of — and their White Bear Lake community.
> Hynes, always the coach, gave us a pep talk — one we desperately needed.
Motherhood was the first thing she talked about in her last episode of bardown beauties.the way the kids would crowd the camera. Her joy of motherhood was powerful and she loved being real on camera. A truly unique figure in sports media and to me a feminist icon. It’s so unreal at just how maximally tragic it is, god be with her husband and their father, how unimaginably horrible.
The pictures of Granny and her son are so sweet. I hope she knows how big of an impact she had on this community. She will be so dearly missed.