No NHL --- Does anyone care?

[Freds]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( And here I thought NHL stood for New Holland Loader )</font>

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[bontai_Joe]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Got to say, I'm a big hockey fan. Grew up playing it and love to watch it. However, I've been very irritated by the recent developments and I'm having no trouble finding things to do instead of watching "Hockey Night in Canada".

Anyone missing it?

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Nope.

 

[isucrazy]

Since it seems you would have ta kill me If ya told me, thanks for spareing my life. Have a good one.

 

[dmartin88]

Miss the NHL a lot, wife and I are both fans. Always had season tickets when we lived near a team-- moved back to the Washington DC area in 2001 but couldn't stand to become a Caps fan again. Too much heartache in the 90's with those guys. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Still a Dallas Stars fan-- kept my season tickets there even when we lived in England for 3 years, got back for a 10 or 15 games in the regular season and the Stanley Cup finals in 1999 and 2000. Tough to watch the Devils skate the cup in our building- btw, I liked Reunion a lot better than the new center, lot better atmosphere.

In 2001, through a business connection, I was able to attend a Hall of Fame reception in Toronto and was given a tour of the NHL musem including the back rooms where the stuff that wasn't on display was kept. We came across a pile of goalie sticks in a room and was told to "reach in and pull one out", pulled what turned out to be the stick that Ron Hextall used to score a goal! A lot of fun.

Oh well, they'll be back some time and in the meantime, I saved the price of the NHL Center Ice package for this season.

 

[Knight9]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( With all the expansion in the NHL, it just not the same, plus without Hockey nite in Canada I have lost interest.
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Ron,

I hear you on this one. Hockey Night in Canada was a big draw for me. I love the coverage and the commentators and Coach's Corner (you either love Don Cherry or you hate him - not much in between).

As far as all the rest of the comments about the $$ the whiners are making I can't agree more. We had a local boy here in Edmonton who made it to the NHL by the name of Mike Comrie. He was all over the news telling everyone how his only dream was to play for the Oilers. The Oilers drafted him and he became a bonified Oiler. He was a crowd favorite and all of Edmonton loved him. He had a good year and was going to be a real asset to the team. Then he got greedy. Wanted more money. Being a small market team the Oilers couldn't pay it. He left. Now he gets booed everytime he touches the ice in Edmonton. Sour grapes by the fans? Maybe....but how much money does a guy need to play a game?

Kevin

 

[dmp437]

Missing it? Nope.
Was a big Re Wings fan. Went to games, autographed jerseys, pictures, the whole bit. Seen the strike coming so we unloaded all of our Red Wings stuff. Now the NHL can get stuffed. We'll never go to another game and don't care to watch it either. The players (and their union) don't care, why should I?

 

[slydog]

I played football all through Jr. High and High School and I really loved it. But It wouldn't upset me too much if all team ball sports fizzled out tomorrow. I don't understand how people get so involved with any of it, or why the life consuming preocupation so many people have with it.

 

[thcri]

Not to bring up an old thread but Hockey is canceled for the year. I personally could care less. It is very frustrating that these people making as much money as they are could care less about the workers-concession stands-parking-tickets-and all else that goes into a hockey game. If they only knew how many people they sent home without jobs because of their "me attitude". And don't get me wrong it is both players and owners.

Ok I vented, don't know why as I didn't much watch hockey.


murph

 

[PineRidge]

Ken I'll second that!

Besides it now takes real $$$$$ to take your family to any of the games anyhow.

 

[Av8r3400]

Why did it have to be hockey?

It should have been basketball!!!!!
(I hate basketball)