Sunday, February 04, 2007
No Wonder...
From the Boston Globe:
Not team owner Jeremy Jacobs:
Look, if it's true that last week's NHL All-Star Game drew fewer viewers than "The Andy Griffith Show" on "TV Land", then it's time for the league to rethink the twenty years it's spent trying to turn ice hockey into badminton.
What, exactly, was so wrong with the way the Big, Bad, Bruins played hockey? It's simple: the plane pulls into the gate, they tumble out onto the tarmac drunk, go to the rink and beat the pants off the other team, then beat up the other team, go out to "dinner", get back on the plane and move on to the next town.
Where's the problem?
- Bruins captain Zdeno Chara, his dietary discipline enough to make a Trappist monk scream, admits he occasionally breaks training in the offseason and allows himself a glass of wine. "Japanse plum wine," said Big Z. "Nice. Sweet, and light, a little pink."
Not team owner Jeremy Jacobs:
- "I don't know what it is," said Jacobs. "It's this letdown, like something happens to their psyche. Maybe they're squeezing their sticks too hard, I don't know, but it's like they're not having any fun."
- An exasperated Phil Watson, once Worsley's coach in New York, one day moaned, "How can we win when our goalie has a beer belly?"
The unflappable Gumper, when apprised of his coach's remarks, said, "That just goes to show what a dope we have as a coach. Everyone knows I don't drink beer -- just whiskey."
Look, if it's true that last week's NHL All-Star Game drew fewer viewers than "The Andy Griffith Show" on "TV Land", then it's time for the league to rethink the twenty years it's spent trying to turn ice hockey into badminton.
What, exactly, was so wrong with the way the Big, Bad, Bruins played hockey? It's simple: the plane pulls into the gate, they tumble out onto the tarmac drunk, go to the rink and beat the pants off the other team, then beat up the other team, go out to "dinner", get back on the plane and move on to the next town.
Where's the problem?
