Hockey fans everywhere..
 

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:33:50 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Don White wrote:
"Dan" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:59:57 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


What about that local boy Sidney Crosby?
As predicted a couple years ago... he's at the top already.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...milestone.html

Hockey sucks - get over it. :)
What! I could understand some of the other characters in here saying
that...but a New Englander????
Shame on you!
Check with your buddy Krause. He doesn't enjoy/get any sports.
You must have missed his posts about attending New Haven Nighthawks hockey
games in their old arena. In those days the American Hockey league was one
step below the NHL.
Ha! It was the New Haven BLADES, Eastern Hockey League. One step up from
high school.

Dan, of course, has his thumb up his butt again, which is one of the
many reasons why he is a permanent resident of the Bozo Bin.

I "enjoy/get" all sorts of sports, but I don't include among these
professional football or NASCAR circle-jerking. The more commercialized
a sport is, the less likely I am to bother with it. Pro football and
NASCAR are totally driven by corporate interests. Screw them and their
corporations.

When I lived in Detroit, I attended the occasional Redwings hockey game.

In a way, I kind of agree with you about NASCAR - there's something
wrong when all the cars look the same and the multi-car teams make all
the splashes. Used to be you'd get some great side-by-side racing and
you could actually tell the cars apart by their body styles.

I liked it much better in the old days when guys like Dick Trickle and
Dave Marcus, the original Tide team, Childress was running one car -
it just made it much more interesting.

Personally, I think the multi-car teams should be banned - no more
than two cars in any racing stable and no cross pollination of
technical data - you races with what youse gots. :)



The sad thing is, I attended two big races at Daytona and I thought they
both were boring in the extremis. Wow...cars running in an oval, turning
left. Big woop. I used to see that at Savin Rock in West Haven when I
was a kid on the 1/4 mile dirt track, and that was a lot more fun.

Hockey fans everywhere..
 

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:33:41 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Hockey still sucks - it ain't like it used to be.

I think they need to go back to the original 16 teams and collapse the
talent pool so it becomes a successful niche sport - which is exactly
what it is.

Oh, and stop with the no fighting crap.

And get rid of Jeremy Jacobs and get an owner for the Bruins who
actually cares about the sport instead of the money.

There - you heard it here first. :)

Hey, I like hockey, but I can't think of any sport that has been managed
so poorly. On a league level, the NHL sucks.

Hockey fans everywhere..
 

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:09:04 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:33:41 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Hockey still sucks - it ain't like it used to be.

I think they need to go back to the original 16 teams and collapse the
talent pool so it becomes a successful niche sport - which is exactly
what it is.

Oh, and stop with the no fighting crap.

And get rid of Jeremy Jacobs and get an owner for the Bruins who
actually cares about the sport instead of the money.

There - you heard it here first. :)

Hey, I like hockey, but I can't think of any sport that has been managed
so poorly. On a league level, the NHL sucks.

You got that right.

Hockey fans everywhere..
 

Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote:

"Dan" wrote in message
...

Don White wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:59:57 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


What about that local boy Sidney Crosby?
As predicted a couple years ago... he's at the top already.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...milestone.html


Hockey sucks - get over it. :)


What! I could understand some of the other characters in here
saying that...but a New Englander????
Shame on you!

Check with your buddy Krause. He doesn't enjoy/get any sports.


You must have missed his posts about attending New Haven Nighthawks
hockey games in their old arena. In those days the American Hockey
league was one step below the NHL.



Ha! It was the New Haven BLADES, Eastern Hockey League. One step up from
high school.

Dan, of course, has his thumb up his butt again, which is one of the
many reasons why he is a permanent resident of the Bozo Bin.

I "enjoy/get" all sorts of sports, but I don't include among these
professional football or NASCAR circle-jerking. The more commercialized
a sport is, the less likely I am to bother with it. Pro football and
NASCAR are totally driven by corporate interests. Screw them and their
corporations.

When I lived in Detroit, I attended the occasional Redwings hockey game.


I rank hockey right there with soccer. After three hours the final
score is 1-0. Football and basketball at least have constant action
that involve teamwork, skill, and planning.

I'm surprised Krause is trashing two sports that are so tied into labor
unions - players, sponsors, and advertisers but he is a proven hypocrite
when he chose to buy certain brands of vehicles and boat motors.

Hockey fans everywhere..
 

"Dan" wrote in message
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I rank hockey right there with soccer. After three hours the final score
is 1-0. Football and basketball at least have constant action that
involve teamwork, skill, and planning.
snip..


Football??...constant action??
You'd better toss that crack pipe before you become addicted.

Hockey fans everywhere..
 

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:39:42 -0500, Dan wrote:


I rank hockey right there with soccer. After three hours the final
score is 1-0. Football and basketball at least have constant action
that involve teamwork, skill, and planning.

Basketball and hockey are quite similar. Both require teamwork, skill,
and planning. And, while I enjoy a good football game, constant action
is not involved. In that same three hours, what do you have? Maybe 20
minutes of action? Figure @ 120 plays at @ 10 seconds each?

Hockey fans everywhere..
 

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:30:05 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:39:42 -0500, Dan wrote:


I rank hockey right there with soccer. After three hours the final
score is 1-0. Football and basketball at least have constant action
that involve teamwork, skill, and planning.

Basketball and hockey are quite similar. Both require teamwork, skill,
and planning. And, while I enjoy a good football game, constant action
is not involved. In that same three hours, what do you have? Maybe 20
minutes of action? Figure @ 120 plays at @ 10 seconds each?

And look at all the actionin the Duke/North Carolina game yesterday.
1:29 to go and it took 27 minutes.