I used to play hockey in Ohio three nights a week, but enough about my sex life. The NHL is about as relevant today as…well…Def Leppard, those rockers that poured some sugar on us back in the 1980s. It’s an apt simile, as that band helped drop the puck on the NHL season last night with a show of their own, which featured a bit of unrehearsed hilarity that spoke more to the everyfan’s apathy toward professional hockey than any dogshit literary comparison I could conjure up here.
Yes, NHL, a has-been band (in your employ, no less) just misplaced the greatest icon of your game, setting the Stanley Cup upside-down on a table. Fortunately, it was on Versus, so there’s a good chance nobody else saw it. Hell, Ufford killed a hooker on Versus in 2006. Or maybe it was a bear. Either way, the bitch had it coming.
