by Hockey Guru
Random Thoughts for a Monday...
- What's worse than a Monday morning? Being a San Jose Shark on this Monday morning!
- With 2-3 days prior to the start of the playoffs and at least 1 day off in between games - shouldn't there have been ample opportunity to develop, practice and implement strategies for success on the power play? St. Louis and San Jose seem like rudderless ships with the man advantage.
- Is it time to de-canonize St. Louis and San Jose - to simply rename those teams the Luis Blues and Jose Sharks? Vatican rules require the performance of two miracles, and unless they were each to overcome a 3-0 deficit and win their series, I see no evidence of saintliness.
- Who will be the hockey fans of the future? Does the NHL realize that it is turning off future fans by putting the league's fingerprints all over every playoff series? Won't somebody please think of the children? Seriously, the NHL is one-upping the storylines of each series.
- How long before teams add attorneys to the payroll to be on the bench? I can see Johnny Cochran yelling at the refs right now... (or, at least... y'know... before he was dead and all).
- If safety is the #1 objective - why not just play the sport as a video game? Then, the only worry would be about carpal tunnel syndrome (Gaborik would still keep the Mayo Clinic in business, with the purchase of wrist splints, alone).
- It seems to me that players from the past all survived okay - and built up quite a passion for the sport.
In closing, I was so amped up for the first round of the playoffs this year, but the NHL is doing its best to sterilize this thing and keep each series from having any character.
If it weren't for the paycheque, these comments wouldn't even be posted - but a man has to support his family...
*** Wanted to add to the 10-minute misconduct concept.
ReplyDeleteIf the league wants to hand out suspensions - wait to hand them out during the following regular season.
They could have full blown hearings in the off season which could help fill programming on the NHL Network.
Think about the OJ trial - this could be pure genius.
Canadiens were up 2-1 after 3 games last year, not 3-0, Bruins won Game 3 2-1 in OT then Habs won 1-0 in Game 4 to go up 3-1. Bruins then went on to win Games 5 and 6 5-1 and 5-4 respectively before the Habs shut them out in Game 7 5-0
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