I know I do. This NHL lock-out is starting to be a bit long. I really hope an agreement will be made before Christmas because after that, the season will be close and we will have to wait next october. Comments, opinions?
Hockey is-----was my favorite sport.now i'm over it. I had season tickets for the preds since their first season. Let the players find out what the real world is all about.
I became a big fan of the game (not just the NHL) when the Dallas Stars had successful playoff runs in 1997-8, and won the Stanley Cup in 1999... I stayed up through that 5 or 6 OT game in edmonton, and that's when I really got hooked. I had cheered the Dallas Cowboys on thru their 90's Superbowls, I remember that like a first kiss, but the Stars winning the Stanley Cup was like a first true love. cue the theme from Love Story I'm sad there's no hockey, but I never watched reg season on TV anyway, so I'm not missing much.
I miss using the free tickets one of my customers had. It really sucked sitting in the Luxury box each time I went.... I do miss the game and that is really the only sport I supported.
It's saddening, but I think that there's a new reality series on Comedy Central where NHL players try and do regular blue collar jobs, called "Roenick Does It." Some have offers to be on Fox's Celebrity Boxing.
Bunch of millionaires fighting with a bunch of billionaires over playing a game. They should be thanking their deities that they don't have to work for a living. Lock them out until 2008, I wouldn't care anymore. The players did this once before, that's all the sympathy they get from me. Time to bring up some replacement players from the minors
One of the bummer's is that the Shark's have $18K of my season ticket money. They tie up everyone's money until there is a resolution. If they play half a season, I will get a refund. I think the policy sucks for season ticket holders when events like this happen. PS: Q: How do you know its spring time in Toronto? A: The Leafs are out
Don't be surprised if the entire season is cancelled. This has been brewing for a long time, a few teams are on the verge of bankruptcy and have nothing to lose by sitting out, paying the players would only put them farther in the hole. It is a Catch22 the owners are in however. The value of their teams is in decline or stagnation before the lockout, and only drops further without a product to sell. It is a huge game of chicken between the owners and NHLPA, the only people guaranteed to lose are the fans. I personally hope the players see reality and agree to a salary cap. It currently works in basketball and football, and those are sports that will benefit most from hockey's sitting out this winter. The NHL will take a long time to recover from this, IMO.
The sad thing is the elite players went to europe to play for a lot less money puting players out of work over there.The NHL should pay them what they are making over there if the season starts......which i doubt it will.
Just went to a very enjoyable game by the local minor league hockey team, the Cotton Kings. Good crowd, good beer, good game. The players stuck around after the game, signed autographs for the kids. Can't say I really miss the NHL. Of course if I lived in a NHL city I might. But I figure I would be too pissed at the prima donna darlings to giva crap. For christ's sake, these pinheads get paid to play a game.
Let's rephrase the question... ''Do you miss watching a bunch of spoiled-brat-diva-millionaires play hockey?'' Hell no!!! F*ck em!!!! Let them go out and get real jobs!!
Last month I read in Sporting News or Sports Illustrated (can't remember) about some of the premier players playing in IHL or other lower leagues until the lockout ended. The one mentioned was Mike Modano, and he would have been playing for about $400/game. His comment to that was "$400 wouldn't feed my dog for a month." I guess that was a no. If I were in their shoes, however, I'd probably be the same way. Why risk injury playing for comparatively nothing. Certainly some of the players may be prima donnas, but I was around a handful of the Blues players several times a few years ago, and most of them seemed like pretty good guys. Of course, the money wasn't as big in 1994 as 2004, so even some of them may have changed. Does anyone know if the owners have a plan for replacement players?
me and my friends all agree that the Hockey playoffs are the greatest sporting events to watch on tv. Also, that the Stanely Cup is the greatest trophy in sports history. I am a little pissed that i cant go to any Flyers games, i really enjoy hockey, i think you have to be much tougher than any football player, and you have to have more skill. But baseball is still my number 1 sport.
My sentiments apply to pretty much any professional sports. These atheletes should be counting their lucky stars that they are able to earn a living, doing something that in the greater scheme of our existence, is completely superfluous. In short, I have more use for the local bus driver, than I do for Shaq, the Red Sox's, the NHL and dare I say it...Schumey.
