My Condolences to Vancouver
by The Ram on May 15, 2010 12:12 PM PDT
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PrintI'm sorry for your losses. I really thought Roberto Luongo was finally shedding that moniker he had. He was really looking good that first game and the Sedins were looking like they were getting in there groove again. But alas, game 1 was just a fluke. The big bad Black Hawks has showned to be too much for lil' ol' Canucks to handle. The way the Hawks crashed the net several times was a thing of beauty and old style hockey. They really roughed up Luongo and their defense. The real MVP of that series was Dustin Byfuglien on his play and scoring. He was a monster on ice. They tried to rough him up at times, but it only anger the beast even more. The last thing I'll say is I wish the Los Angeles Kings would of done the same thing. See ya next season "Softy", HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HAAAA!
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Dear British Colombia,
I would have said sorry had not I visited your blogs. Thought you were something special, huh?
“…is our year"… "Boo, ho, ho, whole NHL is against us"… "…stealing our game" … "… former King reviewed the kicked goal" … more "It’s us against the league"… and "…so good the Kings couldn’t beat us with the refs on their payroll…” Yawn.
What were you smoking in B.C.? Was GM Place serving Spaten and Elephant Beer in place of Molson? Now that you’re off your high here is what you missed:
Based upon opponents #1 in the Northeast was no better then #3 in the Pacific. Watching B.C. vs. Windy City I kept flashing to the last Kings-Hawks game, it was deja vu in a Canuck jersey.
In Round 1 a no defense Club beat a Club stocked with out of gas vets. In Round 2 a no defense Club got reality handed to them, period. The only measure of difference between B.C and L.A. was which team mother suffered more; The Ginger Twins’ or the Kopitar Monster’s? O’Donnell’s or Samuelson’s?
Your “scoring champ” played Edmonton and Calgary a million times last season. Give me a break, Harvey Fierstein could have picked up points in those cities.
Even uniforms and home ice mentalities were a toss. Both looked quite stylish in white but the dark uniforms are fashion crimes! B.C. fans lamely wave white flags of surrender while in L.A who the hell fills a sports arena with people dressed in black, the Taliban?
Next season Staples can provide fans with Purple Pullovers adorned with stylishly large McDonalds logos on the front and back and matching Purple Hamburger Hats accented with a Forum Gold cheese slice!
Hope you enjoyed your glimpse of the Windy City. All the best in the future, see you next year. And, don’t forget to bring Roberto!
Your friend and recovery counselor,
USHA #17
Taliban Rivals
Like the Taliban the Jackson Family can also fill Staples with fans dressed in black.
Hey-o!
And we have a zinger!
Seriously, whatever sympathy I may have for Vancouver fans is more than offset by that supernova-like burst of paranoia over the kicked-in goal call on Sedin. Yeah, yeah, talk all you want about how it’s only a small number of crazy fans and Vancouver press saying that stuff. But here at JFTC, we got some visitors the next day who went on about how they don’t buy into that conspiracy stuff, mind you, but they could understand how people think that way! In other words, they should have been sane enough to know better than to question the integrity of the league (and Mike Murphy in particular), but they enabled the insanity by defending it.
And no one — NO ONE — was man enough to come by after the series was over to admit that they had been silly, that it was obvious (at least in hindsight) that the league had no plot to throw the series to the Kings. For that matter, I have not seen any Vancouver fan publicly recant and admit that they were wrong to propagate an insane (and I do not use that word lightly) conspiracy theory.
What continues to stick in my craw is simply this
I actually bothered to look at the so-called evidence of Mike Murphy’s bias. It was a little puff-piece interview for the Kings website, “Five Questions With Mike Murphy.” It had as much substance as a wisp of cotton candy. It was like those filler articles you used to see in game programs, but even lighter.
Yes, he said he thought it would be nice if the fans in LA were finally rewarded for their patience with a Stanley Cup. But think about it: What else was he supposed to say? “The Kings are the black hole of the NHL and it is their doom that they should know naught but failure and misery”?
In other words, he knew his audience. And, as a representative of the league as well as a Kings alumnus, he said the diplomatic thing. End of story.
Even if you think he should have bent over backward to be neutral and avoid possible appearances of conflict of interest, think about this: lakings.com, working on a harmless little filler piece, asks Mike Murphy a question about the fans in LA and the Stanley Cup. And he says something like, “Well, as a league official who has to maintain the appearance of impartiality, I don’t think I should say anything that would give the impression that I favor one team over the others in the league.” You might as well have made the headline, “Mike Murphy: Asshole.” And he should have been fired the next day for screwing up an easy chance to spread a little goodwill in a major media market.
Zing
…felt the Fierstein line was pretty good!
The ever so slight toe movement rendered any decision the right decision. Enough to be a redirect or a non-call. That simple. And it wasn’t a small number of fans, calmer Vancouver Blog Heads and even the press got caught up.
I thought both Clubs should have lost in the first round but a few rule changes would be needed so scratch that idea.
Think, LA could have gone home, built two hotels downtown and moved on.
Vancouver could stew in salmon sauce, draft a player named Kennedy while the twins could pleasure Donatella Verasce, jump to Italian league and play no check hockey against the French (Donatella hates facial bruising).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatella_Versace
With that said, it’s interesting to think back to the competitive smack talk in the Kings-Toronto series back when and compare that to the crap talk in the Vancouver-Kings Series. Its like a bunch of babies.
Why is it?
That the Canadian teams have this “It’s us vs. the league” mentallity. From what I hear and someone correct me if I’m wrong, the Canadian teams are paying far less revenue than the American teams because of their economic system and get an equal amount of revenue back from the league. And yet, they felt that because of this, the “league” is trying to prevent them from winning the Stanley Cup ever again.
Seems Like All Things are Equal.
I am not an expert on this but think there are two issues.
Outside of filling the arenas there is market size. The league has a policy favoring areas with larger market shared then those offered in Canada.
Then there is the matter of robbing Canadians of their National Pride.
Start here. The Quebec Junior league was once the cats ass of player development. Only the best came out of that league. What if a club had automatic first pick of the best player in the Quebec League? Every year? Like Montreal did? They say, legends aren’t born, they’re created. They also say legends die hard. Once this policy was changed except for the Kings series there has hardly been a peep out of Montreal.
Shoot Montreal was reduced to fielding, horror of horrors, Russians. Russians in the papers, Russians on their ice, Russians in their fabled locker room. Yuck! Boo hoo, the league hates Canada. And did I forget to mention, they dumped Roy?
Well, bet I am wrong. And I am certain others have much better explanations, historical perspectives and a much better understanding of the business of hockey but thats my take.
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