This just in from the National Weather Service. A category 5 hurricane just hit Edmonton. The city is all but destroyed.
great game tonight!!! i was disappointed, because i was rooting for the oilers. but the game was really good. find a way out of the outdoor life network deal and get back to ESPN.
how many of you guy actually watched the stanley cup playoffs. i'm a casual nhl hockey fan. i will usually catch a period of nhl during the regular season. maybe i will watch an entire game of the playoffs. maybe not an entire game, but most of it. i didn't watch a single game except the last 1:30 seconds.
Even if you're the most casual of sports fan... you cannot help but be intrigued by the INTENSITY of playoff hockey. The physicality increases from the regular season more than any of the other professional sports... and that goes up by yet another factor when you're talking about game 7 of a championship series. The NHL will get back to at least where it was before the lockout in no time... ESPN will make them an offer they can't refuse. Hockey is still big in the north and northeast, and frankly that's the only market ESPN really cares about. Plus, hockey will never die in the big cities like Boston, Detroit, Toronto, New Jersey, and Montreal.
good game. great win by a great team...but it's too bad the cup can't go to a city that actually gives a damn.
I think Canada needs to give up on hockey and do what they REALLY do best, export smokin' hot singers and actresses...
What a game last night. 60 minutes of pure intensity. Those goalies made some badass saves. I am getting annoyed with the technology aspect of sports. It sucks when the networks have technology that can show a missed call 15 minutes after the fact. What's the point other than to get people fired up? Luckily, even though I was rooting for the Oilers, it didn't comeback to bite them in the ass. I think hockey will make a comeback. It has too rich a history to completely die and the new rule changes have really made the game exciting. I don't think I've heard anyone who actually watched the games not say how fun they were to watch. NBC or ESPN needs to make an investment and hope that the game can get back to the popularity levels the sport enjoyed in the 90s. And I really, really, really want a team in Houston.
There is something cosmically wrong with Lord Stanley's cup being hosted outside of Canada, and the Northern US. You would figure the NHL would've learned after Tampa Bay hosted the cup they lost a whole season.
