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Crosby Can Draw Attention To The NHL
by Paul on 05/20/08 at 12:04 AM ET
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from Mike Celizic at NBC Sports,
It’s not like hockey is poised to blow baseball or the NBA out of the water. But Sid the Kid and the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to play for Lord Stanley’s big silver punch bowl, and that’s already the best thing to happen to the game since Mark Messier took the New York Rangers to their first Cup in 54 years back in 1994.
It’s always been the greatest game nobody watches, better even to these eyes than that other great game nobody watches — soccer. But now, thanks to Sidney Crosby and the young and exciting team from Pittsburgh, there’s interest and buzz and — if you can believe it — a growing TV audience.
When Detroit eliminated Dallas on Monday night, the NHL has everything it had been hoping for ever since it canceled an entire season and almost committed labor-relations suicide three years ago.
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My thoughts exactly.
Please stick to baseball, HatGuy!
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/20/08 at 04:51 AM ET
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Oh dear, someone let HatGuy talk about hockey.
Yikes.
Posted by HockeyJoe from NY on 05/19/08 at 11:20 PM ET