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Give Me Hockey - The On-Ice Kind

by Paul on 03/12/09 at 08:20 AM ET
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I wrote a few days ago at NHL.com that I was thankful the trade deadline was over and now we could focus on the game, the game that is played on the ice.

I don’t know about you, but enough fighting talk, headshots talk and Bettman taking on Laraque talk.

Enough salary cap questions for next year, enough Jagr and Radulov may return talk, enough of everything not related to the games being played on the ice.

All the other stuff can wait until a team captain raises the Stanley Cup over his head. 

It is time to turn our focus on the game that is played on the ice.  I have had enough of coaches battling with media, GM’s with their multiple opinions and all the other stories going on behind the glass.

Focus everyone, focus on the game- on the ice!

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Great post.

I think the hockey media in general needs to realize that, while deadline day may be the most watched day of the year, it’s not because we prefer the off-ice portion of the sport to on. 

We love deadline day (and June 1st) because it fills us with hope.  Even though an avalanche fan knows his team won’t suddenly become a contender, they think, “You know, if we can just land Malkin, Lungo and Bouwmeester like Eklund is saying, we can turn the corner and save this season!”  Hope is intoxicating.  It’s the sugar rush for a hockey fan during the long-season doldrums, but the real pleasure for almost all of us is what happens on the ice.

Whenever they figure that out we’ll have come a long way toward making the NHL as well-covered as the NFL.  Let’s just hope the NFL’s advertising-dollar-driven-play interruptions don’t follow!

Posted by shanetx on 03/12/09 at 09:17 AM ET

Yes, you echo my sentiments as well. However, many of the articles you feature on this site are exactly what you say you’d like to stop hearing about (not intended to offend you by that statement - just constructive feedback).

Posted by NotMe on 03/12/09 at 11:19 AM ET

NotMe, I uderstand what you are saying but I do limit the articles on KK if it gets too heavy on a certain subject. 

I have done that in the past with Forsberg and Sundin stuff and have very much limited the pointers to all the fighting talk in the last few days.

Enough is enough and from past experience, fans get real tired of too much of the same thing very quickly.

Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 03/12/09 at 11:24 AM ET

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