Yes, Hoser is a good hockey player. I just happened to enjoy the poetic justice of him jumping ship and watching the cup get passed around by the people he left. Yes, yes, there are myriad threads about that and I am really not trying to start another, I was just making a joke.
Actually, he reminds me of myself... when I'm at the grocery store in a long line with a bunch of phukwitz ahead of me, and I jump to the next line, only to see the cashier finally rid herself of the lady with all the coupons, then my old line goes REALLY fast, and I am stuck behind some new lady with 38 cans of differently priced cat food.