#Ken Hensley

[velviem]

- Ken Hensley -

Why don't we listen to the voices in our hearts

'Cause then I know we'd find we're not so far apart

Everybody's got to be happy

Everyone should sing

For we know the joy of life

The peace that love can bring

[jt1674]

[nanninga]

Ken Hensley

[longliverockback]

Uriah Heep Sweet Freedom 1973 Bronze ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Dreamer 2. Stealin’ 3. One Day 4. Sweet Freedom 5. If I Had the Time 6. Seven Stars 7. Circus 8. Pilgrim —————————————————

Mick Box

David Byron

Ken Hensley

Lee Kerslake

Gary Thain

* Long Live Rock Archive

[fortheloveofgarythain]

I'm so tired... but look at Gary... 🥺

🥝💚🖤

[closertotheheart]

[mulleswineuniverse]

Uriah Heep - Sunrise

From the album “The Magician’s Birthday” - 1972

[spilladabalia]

URIAH HEEP - Stealin. Live at The Midnight Show, September 28, 1973.

[chirpingfromthebox]

My favorite bits from Minnesota's post-game press interviews after PHWL Finals Game 2

[You can find the entire interview here! Be sure to give them some views/likes/nice comments, because her channel is great.]

At the table were Nicole Hensley, Sophie Jaques, and Ken Klee.

First of all Nicole Hensley looks like she'd much rather be in bed than doing this press session. And I feel like that's the proper reaction to doing press interviews after playing an entire game of hockey.

Sophie Jaques, however, is utterly unfazed.

Anyways! Transcriptions of my favorite parts of the interviews under the break.

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REPORTER: What led to the goaltending change?

KEN KLEE: We have two great goalies so all year we’ve kinda rotated back and forth. Obviously Maddie got hot in the first round, so it was tough to take her out. But we knew we could go back to Nicole at any point and she would be ready to go. And she obviously played fantastic for us tonight. That was the benefit for me all year, is that I had two goalies that were always ready and able to go. I had 1a and 1b. I didn’t worry about who was in at the time. And certainly Nicole deserved another shot to get in there and she played great tonight.

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REPORTER: Sophie, just talk about this game, coming back against your old team.

[that’s not a question my dude…]

SOPHIE JAQUES: Yeah, it was definitely weird playing in here for the first time on a different team, but coming in here we knew we had to get one win on the road and I think we played really well today after coming back from Sunday’s game. And it was really fun.

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REPORTER: Coach and Nicole, if you guys could each kinda explain what you saw around the disallowed goal?

KEN KLEE: Well, I mean we all heard a whistle on the bench. It was definitely a whistle was blown, and then our players kinda stopped playing, then all a sudden we see the puck pop free and then get shot into the net. So that was kinda my take on it. And they said, ‘Yeah, we definitely blew the whistle long before the puck was even free to go into the net.’ So that was kinda what I saw, and that was the explanation I got.

NICOLE HENSLEY: Yeah, I didn’t see anything. I have no clue what happened, so...we’ll take it.

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REPORTER: Sophie, just talk about how you’ve been able to really acclimate yourself to the Minnesota team since being traded from Boston earlier this year.

[Once again, not a question. Maybe this is a common thing for the press to do, but I kinda hate the way it sounds.]

SOPHIE JAQUES: Yeah, it’s definitely been a lot of fun. All the players and coaching staff have been great at welcoming me in and I feel like I’ve been put in a position that plays to my strengths and has allowed me to succeed with the team so far.

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REPORTER: Sophie, any conversations with the players on Boston ahead of this game or ahead of the series?

[The first actual question to Sophie! Wanna guess which one of the 3 “questions” directed towards Sophie Jacques was from a woman and which ones were from men?]

SOPHIE JAQUES: [smiling] Not really. Like, I’ve talked to a few of my friends, but kinda just not talking about hockey as we’re gonna be enemies on the ice.

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REPORTER: Nicole, Ken was just talking about having this great tandem in Minnesota and Kelly Pannek actually talked a lot about the relationship that you and Maddie have. Can you just maybe speak a little bit to- or describe the relationship that you guys have as a tandem here?

NICOLE HENSLEY: Combined with Kelly there, we’re kinda the three musketeers and we do a lot of stuff together and we hang out all the time. I’ve spent a lot of time at Maddie’s house over the years and we’ve always been really close. Since, like 2017 I think, was the first time we played together. We’ve trained together for the past 3 years in Minnesota so we just kinda know how to bounce off each other and know what each other needs when they're in net to be successful. And try to help in any way we can. But at the same time we’re pushing each other all the time and I think it’s a really unique relationship that we’re really fortunate to have.

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REPORTER: How has this experience compared to your past playoff experience and this being the final? And also what does it mean to you guys to be going back home with the series tied?

SOPHIE JAQUES: I think the biggest difference has just been the competitiveness of every single game and the amount of travel. This is the most I’ve ever traveled for playoffs throughout my entire career. And it’s also been the longest series that I’ve ever played in before. So just making sure really prioritizing recovery. And then looking ahead we’re really excited to be back on home ice. I think we really succeed there, so I’m excited for it.

NICOLE HENSLEY: Yeah, I think we’re very used to playing one-and-done and every single game we play is kinda life or death, so it’s been a little bit of an adjustment. You get to go back and correct some things and come out the next day, so I think we’ve tried to use those things to our advantage and continue to do that going in front of our home crowd.

[rastronomicals]

12:45 PM EST December 6, 2022:

Ken Hensley/Metallium - “Gypsy (Live)” From the album   A Return to Fantasy: A Tribute to Uriah Heep (2003)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[fabiosoares67]

[longliverockback]

Uriah Heep The Magician’s Birthday 1972 Bronze ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Sunrise 2. Spider Woman 3. Blind Eye 4. Echoes in the Dark 5. Rain 6. Sweet Lorraine 7. Tales 8. The Magician’s Birthday —————————————————

Mick Box

David Byron

Ken Hensley

Lee Kerslake

Gary Thain

* Long Live Rock Archive

[fortheloveofgarythain]

butt...👀

[hyenabeanz]

Watched a Bally sports North clip of Pannek interviewing Nicole Hensley about new draft picks. She asked about Britta Curl.

Hensley really said with her whole chest she is a good person. Like yeah, I know none of them are going to come out and say "she's an asshole" but her answer was not a diplomatic "her hockey skills will be an asset to our team." It was that, plus the further she will be a positive locker room factor, "she is a good person." Those exact words were used.

I feel like I've been living in crazy land because everyone I've seen is acting like it's a given the water filter's teammates will be equally appalled as we are. That her hateful views will be an outlier.

The reality is probably uglier. And I think that's the part that's hardest to swallow, and why I get irritated at the people I see acting like anyone that can't support PWHL Minnesota anymore is somehow being deeply unfair to every other woman on the rest of the team.

I don't doubt there's at least some people in that locker room who are grossed out. (It'll be interesting to see who doesn't re-sign, and I will always wonder the whys if it's a big name like say... Michela Cava.)

But I think anyone who thinks Ken Klee picked up Curl with zero input from the four veterans on the team at least, especially KCS, is delusional. Even if they don't endorse her views that trans women shouldn't play women's sports, that queers are perverts, etc etc etc., they weren't dealbreakers, like I imagine it may have been for other teams' veteran players. That hurts.

I still am uncertain what I'm going to do. We'll see if I wanna wear the championship hat I ordered when it arrives. I legit do not know right now what my feelings are gonna do.

I don't think there's a wrong answer though, and hope we give each other the grace to do so.

[grantmentis]

According to league sources, Darwitz's departure comes after she clashed with coach Ken Klee, who has the support of several of the team's veterans, including captain Kendall Coyne Schofield. A source said Klee will be acting GM and will make the team's picks at the PWHL draft Monday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul

Klee was coach of the U.S. women's national team from 2014-2017. He has longstanding ties to several players from those teams who are now on the PWHL Minnesota roster, including Coyne Schofield, Lee Stecklein and Nicole Hensley.

Reached for comment Friday, Klee said he is "currently not able to discuss anything about the current situation."