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Q. In the NBA, in the years of Michael Jordan, there's always that super team that everybody's gunning for. I don't know if it helps ratings, helps interest.

COMMISSIONER BETTMAN: You know what my view on all of this is? You know, it is what it is. You know, I was in Philadelphia last night. A number of fans, some from afar, were suggesting that we have a rooting interest. I think all of you who know me know we don't. We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

And the stories that will unfold will unfold depending what happens on the ice. You know, it's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.

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"I did not have sexual self-relations at the thought of the ultimate victory of that hockey team"
>> Anonymous
wut
>> Anonymous
wtf are you talking about
>> Anonymous
Gary Bettman desperately asserting to the international media that he dosen't get a massive erection at the thought of Crosby winning it all.
>> Anonymous
NO. Don't fucking kid yourself "NHL Hardcore fans". You don't want to see good hockey. You just want to see Big market big name teams. A Detroit/Pittsburgh SC makes you wet. No one outside of Philly or Dallas wants to see anything else.

Mr. Bettman, don't kid yourself either. You ratingsfag.
>> Anonymous
Who the hell is Bettman?

Oh, hockey. That's why no one knows. Or cares.
>> Anonymous
guess what?

as a HOCKEY fan, i want to see a wings/pens cup too

philly is playing like shit and so are the stars


the wings in the cup is old-time classic hockey. and the pens are supposed to be the next-generation. it'll be interesting to see

gb2/x/conspiracyfag
>> Anonymous
I MISS THE DAYS OF THE NEUTRAL ZONE TRAP

BETTMAN, BRING BACK THE TWO-LINE PASS RULE
>> Anonymous
>>100972
If you're being sarcastic, you're a fag. Real hockey means having to carry the puck up the ice.
>> Anonymous
>>100950

Flyers are hurt, and Dallas played well last night despite the zebras keeping them in the game.

Detroit/Pittsburgh will be an obnoxiously boring series. There won't be any sort of shoot-out, end-to-end hockey. Both teams are going to try and choke each other in the neutral zone because that's how each team's system plays defense. We'll be watching ineffective break-out after ineffective break-out until someone manages to draw a penalty.

Then we'll see pass, pass, pass, pass, pass, ONE-TIMER, save, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass.

Congratulations, you're watching soccer on ice.
>> Anonymous
The new nhl rules are the cancer that is killing hockey. They want more offense? Go to an international sized rink. Don't create and enforce more rules which only disturb the flow of the game. No one wants to watch PPs all game.
>> Anonymous
>They want more offense? Get more international rosters.

Fix'd. It was the grind-it-out, defensive-based North American play that Bettman hated so much. So many star players are European, but the rank-and-file NHLer is still American or Canadian.
>> Anonymous
>The NHL and cable TV partner Versus are talking about introducing "puck-tracking" technology as early as the 2008-09 season, executives from the network and the league told USA TODAY.
>> Anonymous
>>101016

I don't know which is worse: that glowing pucks are coming back, or that the NHL will still be wasting its time on Versus.

Remember when ESPN used to show hockey?
>> Anonymous
>>101021

Yeah, it was OK, still not as good as anything in Canada, but I'll take that over Versus any day.

And are they really going to bring back the glowing puck shit? I mean, it's cool if you are a youngin because its all shiny, but if you can't follow the puck, you're an idiot. The ONLY cool thing about it was if the puck went into the far end of the bottom side of the boards, you could see the puck. Other than that, was kinda meh.
>> Anonymous
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>>100997

lolsup
>> Anonymous
>>100997It was the grind-it-out, defensive-based North American play that Bettman hated so much.

So it was the hockey part of hockey that Bettman hated so much.
>> Anonymous
>>100995
I'd love to see a wider (international) ice surface, everyone will get an extra fraction of a second to think things out and neutral-trapping the fuck out of the opposing team will be less effective. Also, fuck doling out pity-points for overtime losses, keep it all-or-nothing. IF they absolutely HAVE to keep in that bullshit shootout format, extend the 4-on-4 overtime to 10 minutes instead of 5 so that momentum actually has a chance to go somewhere.
>> Anonymous
It would be fucking ridiculous to bring back glo-puck in the same year that everyone gets HD.
>> Anonymous
lol, at least they aren't resorting to Transformers battles like... was it FOX sports? in order to hold peoples' interest.
>> Anonymous
>>101411
you did NOT just diss the fox bots

they were awesome in hockey and awesome in football

but yes the glowing puck was for HURRRRRR WUTS THAT GOSHDARN HOCKEY SPORT CALLED fans

although it was sweet to have the MPH in the corner for a beastly slapper
>> Anonymous
>>101406
agreed. although I think shootout should be taken out entirely. 10 min. 4 on 4 overtimes, and that's it, and if you lose, no points rewarded because---you fuckin lost the game
>> Anonymous
>>101410
BRING BACK THE GLOW PUCK, AND MAKE THEM PLAY IN THE DARK !!!!!!!!!!!11111
>> Anonymous
>>101406

Agreed tenfold. The point for an OT/SO loss is gay, and the shootout is even gayer. Why even play the 4 on 4 OT period then?