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Dull West
by Paul on 12/08/06 at 08:07 AM ET
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from The Spin, the blog of Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
Of the top eight teams out west, only Minnesota, really, is a particularly interesting team to watch.
Anaheim, even with the fabulous Teemu Selanne, is very good and brutally efficient, but also deadly dull. Dallas puts my feet to sleep. Detroit, once the most exciting, skillfull team in the game, is now a snooze to watch. Calgary is fast and energetic, but it’s about defence and Mikka Kiprusoff most nights.
Even Vancouver, formerly a vibrant and often controversial team, has now gone vanilla.
It goes right through the conference. Dull, dull, dull. No wonder nobody wants to watch the back end of Hockey Night in Canada’s Saturday double-header anymore.
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All those great young players came from early draft picks, which Pittsburgh and company “earned” by being the worst teams in the NHL for decades.
Posted by w2j2 on 12/08/06 at 09:23 AM ET
It’s funny. People talk about trying to generate interest in the sport and then you have articles like this. If the hockey media is going to produce articles talking about how dull the game is, how do they expect interest to increase in the league. I suppose it’s unfortunate that every city can’t be like Toronto and have a ninth place team!
Posted by Mac from Canada on 12/08/06 at 10:40 AM ET
Yes, Mr. Cox, it’s really hard to watch a team playing “team defence” by using puck-possession hockey and keeping the puck in the other team’s end of the ice to play defence…
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 12/08/06 at 02:55 PM ET
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Anaheim, dull? What the hell has he been smoking?
They are exciting as hell to watch, guys like McDonald, Kunitz and Perry who could have long careers are very entertaining too watch..
Same goes for San Jose, they play a high tempo game and its the farthest thing from dull.
Cox should stick to writing about the Eastern Conf and leave the West to the writers who know what they are talking about.
Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 12/08/06 at 08:57 AM ET