Are you ticked off at hockey?

[. ._]

I want to watch the news at 10:00 and there's another damn hockey game!

I DON'T CARE!

I know I'm a mutant in this regard. Maybe you can tell me why hockey is so important to my life, or your life, or life in general.

Politics and weather affect me more than some guys skating around hundreds or thousands of miles away from me.

It is only at times like this that I do not support the CBC. This troubles my socialist nature.

-istp

[Just another canuck]

There are 1000 other news sources, pick one... and it's also repeated at 11:00, 12:00, the morning news, the paper. A hockey game can only be live once.

Politics and weather affect me more than some guys skating around hundreds or thousands of miles away from me.

Think of all the fans that it does affect and who are watching... what do you expect CBC to do, interrupt the last five minutes of a hockey game to show the news? Seriously, is that what you think they should do?

Didn't the news just come on right after anyway?

GO PENS!!!

Edit - Don't worry istp, one more series... it's be over soon enough.

[Nark]

Are you even Canadian?

[Donald]

Well at least you don't have to listen to Harry Neale go on about how much he loves the Leafs!

[Doc]

Hockey. Tim Horton's. Hockey.

It's considered anti Canadian to say something in the slightest way negative about hockey.

I've seen some pretty good hockey. The Russians were over in the mid '80's. They played a series in Hamilton, at Sheila's arena. The best hockey I've ever seen. Number 99 and 66 on the same team!

They don't play the game like that anymore. At least, not during the regular season. The last two weeks have been pretty good. The first round of the play offs were, the usual yawner. Too many teams in the play offs. It gets good in the last three rounds. That's about it.

The regular season is way too long. I don't think we should be playing hockey in June.

The Calder Cub series is good hockey. The National women's team is a study in unsportsmanlike behavior. Running up scores to make other teams look like crap. That's not hockey. It sends a message, that it's Okay to "beat up" on lesser teams. I'm glad the Yanks handed them their asses this year.......they needed the wake up call.

The Stanley Cup is the most difficult trophy in professional sport to actually win. I get really interested in the last couple of play off series....till then, I'm jaded. Season is too long.

And, the Leafs never win.

The END

[Slats]

There are 1000 other news sources, pick one... and it's also repeated at 11:00, 12:00, the morning news, the paper. A hockey game can only be live once.

Politics and weather affect me more than some guys skating around hundreds or thousands of miles away from me.

Think of all the fans that it does affect and who are watching... what do you expect CBC to do, interrupt the last five minutes of a hockey game to show the news? Seriously, is that what you think they should do?

Didn't the news just come on right after anyway?

GO PENS!!!

Edit - Don't worry istp, one more series... it's be over soon enough.

Best post ever!!! Especially the part about the PENS!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice sweep tonight by the way!

I used to care about politics and weather until I moved to the North where I soon learned that what I see on the news has absolutely nothing to do with me and they don't report on my weather, so absolutely none of it affects me in the slightest..........however I always loved hockey especially the battle of a hard-fought playoff series. Anyone who watched the recent Penguins/Capitals series saw some of the greatest playoff hockey in a long, long time.

But I suppose some people just don't appreciate sport the same way that others do. After all, I don't really like anything but hockey. Sure I can watch the Superbowl or Grey Cup or World Series, but I guess I just don't watch enough TV for it to bother me when these things pop up and interrupt regular programming.

Besides......hockey is the greatest sport EVER! Once Detroit finishes off Chicago (too bad, I'd much rather see Chicago win), it should be an interesting Stanley Cup re-match between them and the Pens....I think the Pens are in much better position to compete with Detroit than they were last year. Here's hoping Marian Hossa regrets his decision to bail! Crosby, Malkin, and Fleury are rolling! GO PENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Four1oh]

Hockey? What hockey? Fishing season has started!

[fortis risk]

The hockey season is just too freakin long. Who wants to stay in the house and watch some millionaires on ice when I could be outside enjoying spring/summer myself.

[Just another canuck]

Hockey's season isn't even that bad... it's stupid ass baseball that needs to be shortened up. Hockey is only 82 games, whereas baseball is 162 and it's ridiculously boring. The World Series just ends and two weeks later pre-season starts... ugh!!!


I really like hockey so I'm okay with it... but if anything, they should start the season a couple weeks earlier and make the first round of the playoffs best of 5. And less breaks between games... if you, as a team, run out of gas... too damn bad. But I think if they just start a 2 or 3 weeks earlier, that would be enough. It would already be over with no change to the season and personally, I'm craving the hockey by September so I think it would work out good.