NHL Eve
It’s the eve of the long-awaited return of the NHL. I gotta tell you–I’m excited. I was pretty bitter through the whole labour dispute, but I’m pleased that the planets have re-aligned and that hockey has returned to Our Frozen Nation. In celebration of the NHL’s return, I give you the most boring thing I could find. It’s a transcript of a conference call among league officials and GMs:
Players are bumping and grinding and pushing off in front
of the net all the time. But you cannot pull a player with a hook away from
the puck. And you can’t cross-check a player anywhere on the ice now where
it’s done to punish.
Players are what? Regardless, if you survived that, I’ll reward you with this nifty highlight video, courtesy of Theo.
On a related note, I didn’t say it here, but I said it elsewhere: the CBC lockout would never survive the start of the NHL regular season.
In a bittersweet turn of events, I’ve got to go see Feist tomorrow night at the Commodore. So, I guess I’ll be taping the game.
UPDATE: Here’s an amusing series of flash pieces about hockey. If I were guessing, I’d say this was a viral marketing campaign hatched by the NHL to bring people back to the sport.
