From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: FLYERS notes 4/1
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:33:09 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson



Geez - sarcasm goes over real big in this group eh?


In article <POPOVICH.92Apr6105816@morningside.cs.columbia.edu>, popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich) writes:
> > think of how bad things were back then - no strikes, no whining players, no
> > cup in Pittsburgh, a national TV contract.... horrible stuff - now give
> 
> And what's wrong with the Cup in Pittsburgh?  It took its sweet time
> getting there; 23 years without it, almost half as long as the Rangers
> have had to do without.

 The cup looks OK, it just seems tarnished in some way when held by
a penguin...

> > me the cup in a mickey mouse hockey city, whining stars with bad backs, and
> 
> So I suppose Tucson is the center of the hockey universe!?  :-) Yes, I

Tucson isn't the center of much, although I have heard it called the ass**le
of the universe once or twice..

> As for Mario, BTW, I think
> it's ridiculous that he has somebody else tying his skates for him,
> too.  But if it actually helps keep him playing the game, and maybe
> even winning another Cup, then I'm all for it, no matter how
> ridiculous it may be.  The team is protecting a multi-million-dollar
> investment.  

Well back when I was a boy (yuk yuk) hockey was a man's game - played by
real men and watched by real men - not this new-wave quiche-eating,
whining, "oooooh my back hurts" "ooooh the refs aren't fair to me" type
of player, of which the Penguins have many.... I can remember players
playing for weeks with amputated limbs - no whining no "oh please help
me put on the prosthesis, no "he speared out my eye!" - nothing - just
plain old, hard-nosed hockey.

> Which cities, may I ask, would not be "mickey mouse"
> hockey cities to you?  

 San Antonio and Yuma for two - oh I don't know, how about Boston, Chicago,
Montreal for starters? and if you push me for more I'd go with Toronto,
Philly, Detroit - but Pittsburgh??? Geezuz give me a break - everytime I
see those "fans for a whole year now" I wanna puke - you'd think the NHL
had no history before the Penguins won the cup or Mario hit the ice bag.
I keep waiting for them to break into a chorus of "We are Family" or hold
a frozen Tofu eating contest (I guess LA has the rights to that kind of thing).


> Would you prefer a six-team league?  

 Yes. Maybe 8 if I was forced, and teams would be forced to keep their
original color scheme also - none of this changing from wussy-blue to
the black and gold of the Bruins, or from laughable purple and gold
to gang-bangers black and white just to increase hat sales. and another
thing, this 3rd man in rule has to go - geezuz, why bother starting a fight
if someone can't jump in and save your ass? I say put the game back on
network TV and let the kiddies watch players knock the living crap out
of each other for 2-3 hours on a Sunday.  I'd also enforce an extra 5 minutes
to anyone who doesn't voluntarily remove his helmet once the gloves are
dropped - you lose some very good fighters for days due to cuts from those
damn things.... I want to go back to the days when a kid could go into
any local library in the civilized world (New England) and find a copy
of "Blood on the Ice" filled with glossy photos of their favorite goon
pounding or getting pounded by someone else's favorite goon....

				gln