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I don't know much about hockey, but...
I'll be the first to admit I know as much about hockey as Ben Roethlisberger knows about bathroom etiquette.
I don't watch anything hockey related until the puck drops for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I can identify one penalty (icing) when it happens and I can pronounce (maybe) the names of four players on the Red Wings' roster.
I do know this much, though: after the first two days of the Cup playoffs, with all the early-game upsets that have taken place, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has to be having serious anxiety issues.
The winners of the President's Trophy - the Washington Capitals - dropped game one at home Thursday night against Montreal, 3-2, in overtime on a night where the best player in the league, Washington's Alex Ovechkin, was held without a shot on goal for just the fourth time in his career.
The reigning Cup champs, Pittsburgh, which features the league's most marketable player, Sidney Crosby, on Wednesday fell behind, 1-0, to Ottawa.
On the other side of the bracket, the San Jose Sharks, the One Seed in the West, lost their opening game to Colorado.
And the Wings, opening the playoffs on the road for the first time since cell phones were as big as laptops, lost in Phoenix late Wednesday.
It's too early to say each of these squads is in trouble, but for the league's sake - and Bettman's heart health, all four need to turn things around quickly.
I don't watch anything hockey related until the puck drops for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I can identify one penalty (icing) when it happens and I can pronounce (maybe) the names of four players on the Red Wings' roster.
I do know this much, though: after the first two days of the Cup playoffs, with all the early-game upsets that have taken place, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has to be having serious anxiety issues.
The winners of the President's Trophy - the Washington Capitals - dropped game one at home Thursday night against Montreal, 3-2, in overtime on a night where the best player in the league, Washington's Alex Ovechkin, was held without a shot on goal for just the fourth time in his career.
The reigning Cup champs, Pittsburgh, which features the league's most marketable player, Sidney Crosby, on Wednesday fell behind, 1-0, to Ottawa.
On the other side of the bracket, the San Jose Sharks, the One Seed in the West, lost their opening game to Colorado.
And the Wings, opening the playoffs on the road for the first time since cell phones were as big as laptops, lost in Phoenix late Wednesday.
It's too early to say each of these squads is in trouble, but for the league's sake - and Bettman's heart health, all four need to turn things around quickly.
Labels: Alex Ovechkin, Detroit Red Wings, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, Sidney Crosby, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Washington Capitals
posted by Jason Carmel Davis at
10:40 AM
2 Comments:
I don't wish death upon Bettman, but if is health prevented him from being being the league commissioner anymore I honestly wouldn't care.
I can understand that. He hasn't done much to bring more fans in. I thought it was funny that ESPN doesn't even show hockey, but a couple nights ago, the Cup was in the studio for an airing of SportsCenter.
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