brooks made a great vaild point on how pens got the benefit of the calls during the playoffs…

Posted by FlyersFan on 06/15/08 at 12:53 PM ET

Wouldn’t you think the NHL might once host the awards show at Radio City ... just once?

Why not?  Everything else has left Canada, might as well shift the awards and the war room and give the hell up.

Why is it every time the NHL acknowledges its Canadian roots (unlike other major sports leagues, the “N” here doesn’t stand for the US), some American get his knickers in a twist?  Your inferiority complex is showing, Brooksie.

Posted by Doogie2K from Calgary on 06/15/08 at 02:09 PM ET

I think it would be neat if it rotated among the Original Six cities - it would still move out of Toronto from time to time, but give a nod to the history of the game.  Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, and New York would all be able to put on a decent awards show.

(Maybe in Detroit they would have someone check the spelling of the awards winners!)

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/15/08 at 02:35 PM ET

I really don’t think it’s an inferiority complex. Brooks’ comment reminds me of that old cartoon map of “A New Yorker’s View of the World” (I think it may have originally appeared in The New Yorker), where NYC and its landmarks are front and center and everything outside the city recedes almost immediately to a miniscule scale. In any case, it appears that Brooks has officially christened Toronto as part of “flyover country” along with the rest of us.

While I think Baroque’s idea has definite merit, I’m perfectly fine if the awards stay in TO. After all, that’s where the HHOF is (at least until Brooks gets his hooks on it). 

Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 06/16/08 at 09:03 AM ET

It wasn’t the NHL that had the all Canadian content it was the CBC. Most Americans haven’t noticed the increasing hostility to all hockey outside of Canada by the CBC, other Canadian media and fans. Don Cherry’s boohooing about euro hockey, the harangue about Hamilton or Winnipeg or some such nonsense that all teams should be in Canada. The Our Game rantings by Molson brewery or the shrill Bring the Cup Home montra every playoff season. They can’t stand that the rest of the world plays the game and are getting better every year. They can’t stand that Americans were picked in the draft 1 and 2, they can’t stand that a Captain from Europe lead a team to the Stanley Cup, because they believe the nonsense that no one else has the “heart” to win championships, it goes on and on. Before some of you up north go nuts, I didn’t say Canada isn’t good at hockey, I didn’t say Canada doesn’t love the game, I didn’t say you don’t still have the most players in the NHL, all I said was enough Canadian whining, shut up, play the game and get over yourself.

Posted by Tero from Tacoma on 06/17/08 at 12:52 AM ET