Yeah, hockey’s over!
Cats: odd things|Tell me, can you be a proper Canadian AND be happy that NHL hockey is over for the season, even if it means a Canadian team gets humiliated by a team from California (I know, I know, more Canadians play on the Ducks than the Sens.)
The NHL does hockey no favours by beating the sport to death each spring. It’s not good for the NHL or hockey to have people begging for mercy in June.
Hockey could learn from soccer. The number of people who play and watch that sport is larger (by orders of magnitude), yet the World Cup Soccer manages to distill its championship down to one month, every 4 years with other championships interspersed into those years.
Dragging a championship out over a period of months, some of which people don’t want to think about winter sports because it weeks away from summer, is bad for hockey. Make it end in March or April.
June 7th, 2007 at 3:42 am
Although I hate thinking about the goalie’s mother every time a puck is allowed in the net, I like hockey. I enjoy watching the playoffs and I don’t even mind that it goes well into gardening season. Our YA’s have never played league hockey but are always up for a good game of pond hockey with the neighbours or some ground hockey in the front yard. Although I’m not always keen about professional sports and all that they bring, hockey is still a great sport to follow.
I see that you’ve linked the NBC online article about the final game. Of course they’re going to say we were “humiliated”. I disagree. Although the Sens missed some great scoring opportunities and lacked defence, I think being in the finals gives this great team the regained credibility and the momentum to push for next year.
If you didn’t like all that hockey why didn’t you change the channel (maybe you don’t have cable)? Or go surfing or blogging, read gardening books, clean out tupperware drawers or something???
June 7th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Rowbear, my husband, (he’s from Quebec, he HAS to like hockey) said that now the baby can arrive because the finals are over.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:22 am
I lost interest in hockey when they got rid of the Nordics and the Jets.
Hockey isn’t fun to watch anymore, although it is easy to laugh at. I mean reallly…the Mighty Ducks!?
Why not the “Minnie Mice”?
June 7th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Dick, how about the Fluffy Labradoodles? I bet they’d be a killer team.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Espanya, you just got yourself a job. Re-name all the teams in the NHL.
Dick, I liked hockey better when it was a Canadian game. And I think it will go back to that again.
YAM, the post is not a criticism of hockey or the Sens. It’s poke to the people who organize the ridiculous playoff schedule the NHL. Even the CBC sportscast guys were talking about it this morning. I think they’ll be scratching their heads after the poor ratings garnered by this series and the ho-hum attitude I keep hearing the CBC sports guys talking about.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Because I’m all about the love, here you go:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=labradoodle
You’re welcome.
June 8th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Speaking of ho-hum — thank goodness those freakin’ seven wonders are finished — BORRRRRING. Even Mark Kelley couldn’t liven it up. ZZZZZZZZZ I’d take the hockey playoffs any day over that boredom.
I love Pier 21, my parents came through there so I’m all about that place — but to make it a wonder of Canada?
June 8th, 2007 at 7:09 am
I’m with you YAM. It’s a shame they didn’t take a more creative approach. Mass content-driven programming has to be carefully crafted in order to work. The 7-wonders, predictably, degenerated in to a festival of trite superlatives that must have got tiresome even to the show’s cheerleaders.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Yeah, and they didn’t even nominate the mullet! BTW, nobody from CBC replied to my email about that…they’re so insecure…
April 10th, 2008 at 8:26 am
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