For those of you that are too inbred to notice, or too stupid to care, the NHL season starts tonight. Why should you care I hear you muttering from here through my computer. The simple answer is that it’s the second greatest of all sports, only trailing the NFL.
The long answer, well it’s just plain long and most of you mongoloid mother fuckers would tune out after about 10 seconds. So instead I’ll give you some video evidence of why you should be excited.
Sports are a huge part of the world today. Almost every major city has a least one major sports team, and many “small” cities have at least one. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry. According to Wiki which got it’s info from forbes.com Sept. of ’08, Manchester United was worth $1.800B, Dallas Cowboys $1,612B, Washington Redskins $1,538B, New England Patriots $1,324B, and are all more valuable than the Yankees $1,306B(suck on that New York). It’s an industry where people devote their entire lives to either playing, covering or following the games.
It’s also something that adds an emotional component to people’s lives. This emotional component can be of the good or bad variety. Fans of the Cubs have to be dealing with the fact that they haven’t won a Championship in a 100 frikken years, and it’s counting. On the other hand, the Detroit Lions fans were overjoyed in 1991 when the team won a playoff game. It was the first playoff game that they had won in 44 years. They Haven’t Won One Since, which allows them to feel the other side and for you to laugh at them. No matter whether you’re on the winning or losing side of a real NFL team, you’re going to feel something at the end of a game.
Now most of us are alcoholics, fat lumps or people devoid of any modicum of athletic ability. That pickup game of Coed volleyball you play every other week doesn’t count, nor does getting off the couch to grab another beer. continue
As you may know, the Red Wings defeated the Blackhawks last night to set up the first back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals rematch, since 1984. The Finals are supposed to commence in 8, yeah 8 days, but the league is working some stuff out with NBC, to try and change that. The finals will Match up Sidney Crosby’s Pittsburgh Penguins and ???Joseph* Johan Franzen’s Detroit Red Wings.
Well, the game was pretty good and was the third one of the series to go into overtime, which is part of the reason the Stanley Cup Playoffs are the greatest championship in all of sports. Back to the topic of Domination. During the game, the Red Wings were killing a penalty, and Darren Helm single handedly went into the Blackhawk zone, played keep away from them and got a shot off. It was so incredible that at the 23 second mark, you hear the announcer, Jim Hughson exclaim, “Bullshit, and he’s got the puck again!”
44 year old journeyman NHL player Peter Zezel died due to a rare blood disorder yesterday. He played 873 games in his NHL career over 15 seasons. He’s best remembered for his time in Toronto where he scored 50 goals and 128 points in four seasons, and helped guide the club to back to back appearances in the conference finals in 1993 and 1994. He had been keeping active in the Toronto community running hockey and soccer camps, as well as making numerous appearances on Off the Record.
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So tonight, more evidence that you should be watching hockey happened. Martin Havlat of the Blackhawks had his head down, and Kronwall caught him with a deadly, but legal hit. Havlat has a history of concussions and likely has another one after this. Unfortunately for the Red Wings, Kronwall was given a five minute major and kicked out of the game. Neither referee called this penalty, or seemed to want to, but one of the linesmen did call it. In the NHL, a linesman can indeed call a major penalty. It’s doubtfull that he will be fined or suspended, but seeing as how the league want’s to crack down on hit’s to the head, you never know. I apologize for the video being long, but it does show multiple replays as well as some boring other stuff. I could have edited the video but…. if you could see me you would see a dissmissive hand wanking, so think about that..
