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Colin Campbell is going to need some Excedrin after reviewing the Calgary Flames-Detroit Red Wings Game 5. The two teams have been pretty “chippy” but the third period erupted into a nasty black eye for the league with a repeat of the Chris Simon stick-swinging incident. The third period festivities started when Red Wings defenseman Brett Lebda tried to hip check Flames Center Daymond Langkow and both wound up on the ice in a tangle. Langkow then got to his knees, and holding the back of Lebda’s head with his left, swung a viscious sucker punch with his right to Lebda’s face. Lebda went down with a concussion and a two minute penalty for clipping. (remember: Gary’s Rules.) Langkow received nothing. With four minutes and change to go Red Wings forward Todd Bertuzzi and Flames defenseman Dion Phaneuf tangled and the Wings forward wound up slamming Phaneuf to the ice. Both went off with game misconducts. It gets better (or worse). Trying to preserve his star goalie for Game 6 in Calgary, Flames Coach Playfair (wow, that name is ironic) inserted back-up net minder Jamie McLennan late in the game. Mac was in for a whole minute when he decided to take batting practice with his stick on Red Wings forward Johann Franzen’s midsection. (Jamie must be a Chris Simon fan.) Bye-bye Jamie. To make matters worse, with 43 seconds left in the game Flames Captain Jarome Iginla first hooked then cross-checked Wings defenseman Mathieu Schneider. Detroit announcers (perhaps a little biased?) commented that the Iginla penalties were so viscious that a suspension may be forthcoming. The last five minutes of this game was ugly and the league will be reviewing more than one incident for further discipline. One would hope that Jamie’s hack will take him out for the rest of the playoffs and carry over to next year. And who knows, Jarome might have to sit out a game. What will Gary’s disciplinarian do?
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The 2007 NHL Playoffs Conference Quarterfinal schedule has been released, along with the television coverage schedule of the games.
And once again, Gary Bettman and the NHL are screwing over Canada. As William Houston of the Globe and Mail reported today, the league (Bettman) has scheduled all but one of the Canadian playoff games for the afternoon, which is not a prime time slot for CBC television coverage. The reason for this? Bettman wants to have the Pittsburgh/Ottawa game (or Sidney Crosby) shown on NBC TV in America, in an effort to target and increase the American audience. Hello?!!! We have already commented on how terrible NBC’s coverage is (see “NBC Hullcrap”), and according to Houston, NBC’s regular season viewer numbers were down this year. And Mr. Bettman, please get over the idea that one player - Sidney Crosby - is going to sell the game for you and turn all kinds of Americans into hockey fans. The NHL is not the NBA, and Sidney Crosby is no Michael Jordan.
You may be thinking, “oh, big deal… Canadians will still get their hockey, and CBC will be okay.” Well, to top this all off, CBC and the NHL just recently signed a new contract that has CBC paying the NHL $100 million per year over the next six years… 600 million dollars!!! You would think that Gary Bettman and the NHL would be very grateful for this, and have the decency to give CBC some preference and say in the scheduling. But no, just the opposite happened… the head of CBC sports, Scott Moore, had to call Bettman to voice his opinion about how the Penguins/Senators game should be in the prime time slot on CBC… a request that fell on deaf ears.
Sing with me now… “go on take the money and run… go on take the money and run…”…
I think it’s time Canadians start protesting. Write letters to the NHL and Gary Bettman telling them how mad you are about how they have abandoned and mistreated the CBC, Canada and Canadian hockey fans. Maybe we should spread the word in America for people *not* to watch the Pittsburgh/Ottawa game on NBC Saturday. Then wait for the look on Gary Bettman’s face when he sees the TV ratings, and wonders what went wrong.
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Charter Communications is set to drop the VS. channel from its lineup just prior to the start of the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs. This will deprive approx. 6.8 million subscribers from tuning-in to Cup action. That must equate to several thousands of hockey fans LOST! Just a few short weeks ago our not-so-bright Commissioner extolled the value of the NHL on VS. with quips such as VS. is “headed in the right direction” and cited an increase in THEIR viewership. Well, its looks like hockey viewership is headed the other way with Charter’s axing of Bettman’s beloved channel. Given the poorly-staged (see previous post “NBC Hullcrap”) 3 games-a-year NBC contract, the loss of Charter’s VS. fans, and the decrease in game attendance, the commish must be smoking crack to think that his moves are improving hockey. (He reminds me of another leader with his head in the sand.) Apparently the owners are waiting for year-end receipts to be counted before they ask “What has Gary done for our TV ratings?” Any other sports commissioner that had had such a poor performance would have been long gone by now.
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If anybody caught the early-bird Columbus-Detroit game on NBC yesterday then I’m sure you must have missed the play-by-play from the commentators. That’s because there was almost none called. Instead it was the Brett Hull Ego Show. Hull motored on and on about nothing and even admitted “I’m bored”. So was I about five minutes into the game. The crap that he dished out about players and coaches was to say the least disconcerting. Pavel Datsyuk, a star Detroit center who becomes a free agent this summer, was tagged by “Hully” as having no chance (”none”) of being resigned by Detroit because he doesn’t like the coach and wants to play with his “best friend” Ovechkin in Washington. On the Wings reports that Pavel is building a new house, has community obligations, and has even said he wants to stay in Detroit. Hull later called Detroit defenseman Danny Markov a “perv” for reasons unknown. Perhaps Markov, a former Predator, checked the slow and aging forward a little too hard one time and his only way to retaliate is by name calling. Hull went on to slam Columbus players when he said it will be “years before they can compete”. Hull was given extra air time after complaining (as always) to NBC producers about too little air time. Hull said “I have a lot to say. But in 20 seconds, you have to be some sort of English lit professor to do it with any style or bravado.” Unfortunately he’s all bravado and no style! And Brett, you’re no lit professor even with 3 hours to spew from that hole in your face. If anybody new to the sport was watching yesterday’s game I doubt that they would return to see another game. They certainly didn’t hear any play calling nor know why a penalty was called or even why a whistle was blown. Hullcrap; I can do without it.
And the big news last week: The NHL signed another contract with NBC…Yes sir Bettman, I’m so glad you keep improving the way the game is marketed (please note the HUGE dose of sarcasm).
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