Worst case scenario for the NHL Finals

Anaheim/Carolina... I'll turn off the TV, and go on with my life. I'll hope the Ducks win, I'll tune in to a Andy MacDonald triple deke to win it all... I hate Carolina, like I hate Phoenix, and Colorado for stealing other cities teams and jumping on the bandwagon. It should be the Hartford Whalers, then I might give a shit.

Buffalo has been around since the invention of the calculator was along the lines of science fiction. They may deserve it.
Edmonton has a storied tradition of Cups, win, lose, another banner goes up, and the fanatical fans continue.

Hartford vs. the Ducks?

Maybe in 1993 this was a story line. The NHL could kiss their viewer ratings down to less than 1.7, less than 0.7, less than 0.0007 households. Because nobody would give a shit. Canada would go golfing, Buffalo fans would retreat to their real homes in Toronto, and bandwagon season would begin.

Funny how a change of names can do that. And how Quebec will never forgive Gary Bettman for it (1995 Avalanche were really 1979-1994-95 Quebec Nordiques)

Imagine having to watch another city celebrate almost 20 years of effort?

That's the reason the Hartford Whalers might win the cup this year. Will it be because of former Whaler Chris Pronger pumping that bitch around? Or former Oilers - Doug Weight (CAR), Mike Grier (BUF), Jochen Hecht (BUF), Todd Marchant (ANA)....... or Ryan Smyth, Georges Laraque, Ethan Moreau, Ales Hemsky, Jason Smith, Rem Murray... (EDMONTON OILERS).

One former Oiler of those years of Dallas smoking Edmonton out each and every year, will hold the Stanley Cup. Who?

New NHL Message Board

It's in a primal stage, as upstart as possible at the moment I write this. But there seems to be only one "hockey's future" that covers all teams, sections for all the NHL. And they do their job, it's just compact full, and hard as hell to register there - as they are so busy to keep up.

In the meantime, the new upstart one is at this address. Every team in the NHL, all hockey all the time. Nothing away from hfboards, but I'm sure they'd be sick of the monopoly they have too and the hassle of millions of NHL fans looking for a place to talk.

http://staze.forumup.com/index.php?mforum=staze

The Edmonton Oilers

What a fucking run, I don't want to dig deep into this because I'm a big person on karma and starting to get too excited on a team. Always a huge let down to be followed.

But amazing shit, Detroit, San Jose and no end in sight. Shit, shouldn't have said that, because as a long time fan of the team - I know at any split moment with these boys the wheels can fall off.

Case in point my mini pack tickets this year, and watching them lose horribly to St. Louis. The Dallas Stars flashbacks come to mind, it isn't over any time soon. Just hang on as long as possible.

Wanted to give the old "I told you so" about my boy Mike Peca.
Game day reviews to follow for both series, I watch it all.

Sabres are deadly.

Kings Hire Marc Crawford as Head Coach

So the Canucks let the two best things that happened to them since Pavel Bure leave with no compensation, or regard. Brian Burke, biggest mistake in franchise history - Anaheim anyone? And now Marc Crawford, one of the NHL's brightest coaches.

Congrats to the LA Kings, on the hire of a young Stanley Cup winning coach that can whip that piss poor team into shape.

I guess the Canucks got tired of "contending" for the Cup, and figured they may as well contend for the lottery draft every year. Who were they kidding anyway? They'll never win the Stanley Cup, why try?

Barry Bonds Ties Babe Ruth

Non-hockey but sports worthy.

Barry finally hit #714 of his illustrious career. A great feat by any stretch, by any player. The steroid thing might get in the way, but roids alone cannot make up for the ability to hit inside curve balls, changeups, cutters, 100 mph fastballs so close to the knuckles, the rest of us would have hooks for the rest of our lives.

Barry Bonds is a great player. Of course, I put up the Pirates picture, because if that skinny freak can do it. So can you. And who knows how many thousand of homeruns his Pirates HR buddy Bobby Bonilla would be at now if he was on the junk?

It's still Hank Aaron, who won't be touched without Barry on the roids. The forgotten man in all this, and the greatest HR hitter of all time.

Fuck Babe Ruth, Fuck Barry Bonds.

Nothing to do so, I'm back.

Of course, now there is nobody that checks this shit anymore. But half the reason to start it was because I didn't care for that. Just to kill time.

Now, again, I have time to kill. Long weekend in Alberta, and it was time for the usual May Long get together with the boys from highschool and have our annual drinkdown-hit on women-fight random people campout weekend.

Arrived, the shit was a muddy mess, freezing cold and ready to rain more. A day of that and the contemplation had to set in, a few of them decided to try another area of Alberta, a few decided to stick it out... and I being the genius of them all, headed back to the City of Champions in time for Game 2. Nothing, not even the wilderness hippie parties of 2000 people can beat Whyte Ave about now.

So I have a cooler full of beer for 4 days, nowhere to go yet, and things to bitch about.

The blog returns.