Thought on the impending cancellation of the NHL season

[crule81]

I thought I would really miss professional hockey when the lockout began. Instead, I've found that I really don't care as much as I believed I would. I like the freetime I now have that I used to spend watching professional hockey. I do miss, however, Don Cherry, his ranting and raving, his lectures to the "kids" about how to play the game "correctly" and his "interesting" views of French Canadian and European players (I think most of his opinions on the nationality of players are nonsensical and old fashioned, but one has to give him some credit for standing up to the ultra-PC CBC and surviving).

Maybe I'll miss it more after the superbowl is over. The worst time of the year for me is the time between the probowl and the NFL draft. I wish the football season were longer.

[mgb]

I thought I would really miss professional hockey when the lockout began. Instead, I've found that I really don't care as much as I believed I would. I like the freetime I now have that I used to spend watching professional hockey. I do miss, however, Don Cherry, his ranting and raving, his lectures to the "kids" about how to play the game "correctly" and his "interesting" views of French Canadian and European players (I think most of his opinions on the nationality of players are nonsensical and old fashioned, but one has to give him some credit for standing up to the ultra-PC CBC and surviving).

Maybe I'll miss it more after the superbowl is over. The worst time of the year for me is the time between the probowl and the NFL draft. I wish the football season were longer.

It'll sink in around playoff time.

Still not sure which side is right here. No one is going to win though. The owners think that if they hold out long enough the players will cave in. But I'm not sure about that. And even if the players do cave, hockey will be irrepairably damaged with the fans in the small US markets.

I can't say the CBC is so PC that Cherry has to fight them on stuff. The CBC is quintessentially Canadian in that they make space for him. They know he going to be outlandish, it's ok. Also, we don't have some authoritarian governing body out to fine everything that steps over some demented line, so Cherry can pretty much say anything he wants and the fuss goes away by next week.

[Hypnos]

I never liked NHL ice hockey. I wish they would show international ice hockey on American TV -- less fighting (an utter waste of time), and no stupid blue-line rule.

[cuspuser]

ahem, red-line rule, aka 2-line pass ...

personally i don't really care about the damage done to small market US teams ... there are too many teams in the nhl now anyways - last thing we need is more teams in cities that don't care or understand the game ... they expanded too much too fast ... i don't know what side i support either ... but i know i hate what Bettman's been doing to the game expansion and rule wise - and for me not to be totally against him says something.

[Spartan26]

The NHL season's too long as it is. last season, I ordered the Center Ice Pak that showed the bulk of all the games. Once the playoffs begin it becomes painfully obvious how little the regular season can mean to them at various times. (as if I didn't already know)

Baseball had a good pennant run and post season. Football had some of its more compelling match ups in years. There's some amazing college hoops being played right now, which will make for one of the better March Madnessesesesss.

I love hockey and wish they were playing, but it'll be April before I'm jonesing for it.