Hey, remember hockey?
The NHL eliminated 16 more days from the regular-season schedule Monday, and if a deal with the players’ association isn’t reached soon the whole season could be lost.
The league wiped out all games through Dec. 30 in its latest round of cancellations. (via BostonHerald.com)
That’s … basically the saddest thing, and no amount of me editorializing on it can make it better. I’m not Barry Melrose over here, the best I can muster is, “enghhhhh give me hockey back you stupid assholes.” It’s looking more and more like the 2012-13 NHL season won’t exist, so I might as well get comfortable reporting about the Swedish Winter Classic, wherein somebody made international hockey better by adding a bunch of fire to it.
Via Greg at Puck Father:
This year marked the 100th birthday for [Swedish Elitserien hockey team] Brynäs [IF], and the franchise celebrated the moment with Canadiens-esque hyperbolic grandeur: An outdoor game in front of 15,000 fans at Glaveboken Arena vs. Timrå IK, in minus-12 degrees weather — so cold that the players’ water bottles kept freezing during the match.
To deal with the cold, they played some techno music and LIT EVERYTHING ON FIRE.
I think the narrator speaks for everyone when he says, “OOH HO HO OYOYOYOYOYOY.”
New plan: either bring back the NHL, or set everyone keeping us from having it on fire.
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I give up. Since I’ve grown up playing hockey, this is the third time I’ve been told I can’t haz. I still love hockey, but as one of the few season ticket holders for the Coyotes, they’ve lost the other one. Even when I move back to San Jose, it’s gonna take awhile for this to wear off. I’m fed up with this shit.
I agree, I am never gonna stop loving the sport of hockey, I grew up playing it, I was raised being taught that hockey is heads and shoulders above every other sport. It’s going to take a bit of convincing to make me love the NHL again. That being said, if they announced they were coming back Jan 2 I’d be the first there.
Also, do you live in PHX?
I gave up a long time ago. The depressing thing is, even if they were to settle tomorrow and get the NHL going in January, the bullshit clutch and grab hockey that has returned the past 2 years would still be there.
I say this with all the love in my heart, I hope a few teams fold because of this lockout. It’s a joke that this is the third lockout in like 15 years, and that doesn’t include a strike thrown in there. Both the owners and the players deserve to lose money and jobs.
Uh, what time is the Fantasy Support Group? Cause I’ve got some issues.
Meh. More interesting than a Leafs game.
This whole thing is disgusting. I miss hockey just as much as the next guy, but everyone involved in this lockout should be ashamed. I have friends who work at Console Energy and their income is affected by this nonsense. It’s basically 100 millionaires vs millionaires, and the only real people that are getting financially fucked are the working class folks that rely on hockey happening to make a living. I don’t care if those Crosby shirts with “Sid the Kid” ironed on over a photo of Sid in nothing but hockey pants are ugly, those things put money on vendors tables.
I dunno. I just think this whole thing sucks, inside and out.
“Canadiens-esque hyperbolic grandeur” is now my new favourite descriptor.
In other European hockey league news, Miroslav Satan and Zdeno Chara are no longer BFF’s after Chara did his dirty shit and nearly crippled Satan during a Czech league hockey game.