I am heartsick. I love the Jackets and the NHL. I went to my first game on March 29 , 1972 in Boston as the Bruins beat the Minnesota North Stars 7-3.
Posted on 02/09/2005 6:37:29 PM PST by SamAdams76
Pitchers and catchers report to training camp in 10 days. You think anybody is going to care about hockey at that point?
Hockey, That's the game they play with rocks and brooms right?
I work with a guy from Winnepeg, and he no longer gives a crap about the NHL.
What is the NHL?
I am heartsick. I love the Jackets and the NHL. I went to my first game on March 29 , 1972 in Boston as the Bruins beat the Minnesota North Stars 7-3.
John Kerry's service in Vietnam is a more interesting subject than hockey.
I love going to see my Sharks but they better get a clue. Golf had a higher TV rating than hockey in 2003-2004. And I'm dead serious.......poor state of affairs for this sport if they don't start getting their sh** together....."just put the puck in the net, EH?"
I think its like soccor on ice, but not as exciting or high-scoring.
What's the NHL?
Are there still hockey fans?
It's Bush's fault.
There's a lot of truth to this. I consider myself among the most avid hockey fans on the planet, and yet my interest in watching hockey diminished considerably once I started playing the game.
Hockey isn't a cheap sport by any stretch -- and it's hard to cough up lots of money for hockey tickets to watch someone else do what I love to do myself.
Really? When is the last time you saw digging in the corners, fights, or 10 goals scored in MLS or the English Premiere League? Soccer is a fine game for the 30 seconds when goals are scored. Otherwise it is a big track and field meet.
But the early 1970s Bruins were just awesome. Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Derek Sanderson, etc. If they didn't go out drinking every night, they might have won 5 or 6 Stanley Cups during that era. And if Bobby Orr didn't blow out his knee, he would have paired with Ray Bourque and they would have been winning Stanley Cups well into the 1980s.
In the early 1990s, hockey fell out of favor with me. The neutral-trap style of play and the sissification of the sport made it into a very dull game.
I quit caring about hockey and pro basketball when the seasons became endless and the regular season was rendered meaningless by the playoff formats.
What labor? Hockey is a game, play. Done by players and not laborers. What is this world coming to. Can we get alone? Eh?
I hear they're both pretty upset.
I grew up in Needham and watched every game on Channel 38 with Fred Cusick calling the action. ( I even remember Don Earle before him.) I still have the LP "Goal Bruins". I've met and gotten autographs from Orr, Esposito, Bucyk, Cashman (he was trashed), Sinden, Rick Smith and Ace Bailey (God Rest His Soul).
Baseball and basketball made me care less with their strikes as well.
Who gives a darn, I'll watch other entertainment.
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