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Blame The Americans
by Paul on 12/09/07 at 11:55 AM ET
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from Pat Connolly of the Daily News,
On the one hand are the hockey purists and more learned observers found mostly in Canada who like the game played hard and clean at high speeds.
On the other hand is the vastly larger number of American fans less enthused about game quality than physical violence, with insatiable appetites for bare-knuckle brawling.
With only six Canadian governors out of 30 sitting at the NHL board making decisions concerning the direction of the league, guess which side wins?
A prime example of how influential one governor can be is Bettman confidante and boardroom bully Ed Snider, owner of the Philadelphia Flyers, the team that has reinvented itself as the 1970s’ Broad Street Bullies.
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This guy should hang ‘em up. He was part of the clan that ripped the NHL for becoming too soft in order to appeal to American TV audiences.
Sorry pal, can’t have it both ways
Posted by Bruha on 12/09/07 at 01:59 PM ET
U.S. lust for violence? Wow.
Canada is great. U.S. sux. It’s tiring to read this everyday. We get it.
Posted by Uncle Sam from USA on 12/09/07 at 04:03 PM ET
Great point about the Flyers suspended players being Canadian.
On another note, Connoly starts by saying he wants the violence out of the game, yet ends by saying that the players should police themselves. Do we have another advocate for removing the instigator rule on our hands? Nice!
Posted by siggy on 12/09/07 at 08:40 PM ET
Yes, yes, it’s the American’s fault.
And Bobby Clark is from Flin Flon, which was obviously a secret military base from with American launched the destruction of Canadian hockey.
And, Todd Bertuzzi is an American CIA agent out to destroy Canadian hockey, and hence the morale of the entire country, by creating violence inthe NHL.
And one of the biggest promotoers of violence in the Canadian media, Don Cherry, is an American double whose sinister goal is to falsely suggest that Canadians love their sport brutal and violent.
Or, is it that violence sells as well, if not better, in Canada than the USA.
Posted by not amused in USA from USA on 12/10/07 at 02:15 AM ET
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While I agree with the main point of the article, the jingoistic BS that prefaces it is ludicrous.
Connolly doesn’t bother mentioning that four of the five Flyers suspended this season are Canadians, or that their coach is Canadian. But I’m sure they’re just dragging the game through the mud to appease their oafish American audience.
Looking around the league, it seems to me that most of the so-called goons are products of Canadian junior hockey. And strangely enough, fighting is banned in U.S. college hockey. Tell me Pat, what kind of calculator do you use to make those points add up? Made in the USA, no doubt…
Posted by shep from california on 12/09/07 at 01:47 PM ET