UNION WANTS TO END NHL ALL-STAR GAME
01.22.09
The NHL Players Association wants to end the annual All-Pro Thingamabob and replace it with a break in the season to do something else related to hockey.
[The NHLPA] has a grander plan, one in which an annual break in the NHL season would take place every February, and depending on the year it would be filled by the Olympics, a World Cup, an all-star game or perhaps a spectacular hockey convention.
Spectacular hockey convention. Can an oxymoron be three words?
“It would be a win for everybody,” said former NHL goaltender and broadcaster Glenn Healy, now the NHLPA’s director of player affairs. “We’ve got to sell the game.” Part of the selling of the game, to the union, is the World Cup of Hockey, which took place in 1996 and 2004, and is now tentatively scheduled for 2011.
Just keep having the World Cup of Hockey every 8 or maybe 7 years, and there’s no way the fans CAN’T get hooked!
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So there’s one less hockey game on the schedule? Don’t get carried away, NHL Players Association. On the other hand, maybe you should go ahead and get carried away.
2011?
‘Come celebrate the millennium, with Newmanniun!’
any all star game is a fucking joke anyway.
This is such a crappy idea, Gary Bettman thinks they might be on to something.
Ideas for the spectacular hockey convention tagline:
“Hockey, not just for assholes and Canadians anymore!”
“Pay attention to us! Please. Pretty please.”
“At least you don;t have to worry about Ray Lewis murdering you at our games!”
“Hockey, yep we’re still here…in Phoenix and Carolina and Florida and…”
Sadly, I would probably go to said convention.
Wasn’t Glenn Healy the dad in Problem Child?
/if that kid hasn’t killed himself yet, he probably should
It was Ben Healy; Michael Oliver, “Junior,” fell off the face of the planet around 1995.
Hell, I can’t even remember Problem Child except for the fact it had an annoying as hell kid and Gilbert Gottfried.
/you’re now reading all of the comments in Gottfried’s voice
So how about those Kings? 11 goals in 2 games.
Also, they have a black guy now. May be if he goes to Denver and has anal sex with a hotel employee, he could get some publicity.
hey idiot, think about it. The hockey world cup is essentially the same as the olympics. Olympics happen every 4 years and if the WC were to happen every 8 years is like having the event 3 times in 8 years. If they’re gonna do what they what you can bet on the WC happening every 4 years, staggering the olympic games. Therefore it could rotate OLYM-ASG-WC-ASG-OLYM-ASG-WC-ASG. That would be great! The olympic and world cup competitions are essentially 8 superpower all star teams, but contrast the regular ASG because players WANT to play and they play with PASSION for their country.
The shame about hockey is that it is actually awesome live. But on TV it’s just a bunch of mullets chasing something you can’t see.
War Machine is the only one who can solve this issue. I assume we start by fucking the Union. I’ll await further direction. Thank you.
You know how I know a hockey player invented toothpaste? Because if anyone else invented it, it would be called teethpaste.