NHL Gets What it Paid For …
So after close to 1,800 or so games played this season in the NHL and a great Cup finals — not to mention a year without any cup winner due to the lockout/strike — the Stanley Cup is presented at the end of game 7 last night and NBC covers about 4 minutes of it before they cut away and end the telecast. I think 5 or 6 Hurricanes had hoisted it and skated aimlessly in a small circle before the network put tha cabash to the feed.
Wow … that’s a kick in the teeth for all US fans.
I have never seen that type of coverage … Poof, game over and telecast over. Cup finals Game 7 … Gone in 4 minutes after they present the cup.
This league is strange. Seems like they enjoy fucking fans. Not that most of the simple SOBs in Carolina would know — same ass clowns that applauded for Bettman last night (likely many were waiting for the checkered flag, a car to do donuts in the infield and someone to pour milk over their head) — but for the first time in decades the cup was not skated around the rink for fans to take pictures etc. Instead, the ice was flooded with players families, grandparents, fourth and fifth cousins by marriage or just Hillbilly lovin’ gone bad. Save the family members for the parade and summer cook-outs or the dressing room. The ice is no place for them if it tables skating the cup around: you owe the paying customers a glance and picture ops.
Selfish bitches. Whoops, almost forgot that the fans mean little. Another tradition up in smoke. Next year I can see them wheel Mickey Mouse and Goofy out to hosit the cup as apaid plug for Disney. Cue Ted Nugent with the flaming arrow if that happens.
Plenty of full post game coverage and clips inside Bully today from a true hockey network: CBC. It’s too bad the NBC flushed the post-game down the toilet for what was a surprisingly entertaining series once the refs put the whistles away.
June 20th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Your ignorant rantings and prejudices do not hurt today, nor ever again. We have the Cup. And you don’t.
And nobody in my section was applauding Betteman. We were giddily anticipating the Captain lifting the Cup. You know, the guy Philly let us have for Primeaudonna? Yeah, we were cheering for him.
June 20th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Hey stooge: What was written was saying that you were jipped out of one of the best traditions of winning the cup. Y’all are too ignorant down there to know it, as I stated.
Congrats on the cup. Just think, if it wasn’t for the NHL’s best farm team — The Flyers — you likely wouldn’t have won it, nor would Tampa. Send your thank yous to Bob Clarke and his assorted cronies.
I was cheering for Rod Brind’Amour when the RBC Center was still just a rib shack. So relax killer, and learn how to spell the commish’s name and then put together a rant.
You have a building that holds 19,000 people down there and you’ve been at 70 percent capacity or less for years … some years 50 percent capacity. Hopefully a cup will change that but I doubt it.
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:47 am
It’s spelled “gyped” … as in “gypsy”.
Remember back in the 80’s the Islanders would actually skater AROUND the ice with Cup? All those people on the ice … is this the NBA … whats with the entourage? And all those cables on the ice. Skating in tiny little circles, stupid … yeah, hopefully this isn’t the death of a good tradition.