| 15 March 2010
Hockey season is finally upon us. But damn it, weekends exist all year round. And just because the NHL has decided to schedule games on said weekend doesn’t mean our schedules are magically freed up for 24/7 snark. We’ve got basements to clean, and our respective mothers learned everything they know from Mike Keenan. So on Monday mornings, you will get a recap post and a picture of noted thespian Terry Kiser. Enjoy.
Just when things seem to be getting better for hockey, Brian Campbell's face has to go and ruin everything.
Look at the momentum the sport had been accumulating: a strong Olympic showing that culminated in North Americans playing North Americans, a frenzy of a trade deadline with huge superstar-caliber names like "Corvo" and "Pogge" switching teams, and nationally-televised games on weekend afternoons. And with the game's most exciting scorer - Alex Ovechkin - on the docket for yesterday's showdown in Chicago - the advertisers were no doubt lining up to get some commercial space. COVET.
And then?
Ovechkin boards Brian Campbell's face, earning him an ejection and an early United Center shower.
Now as much as I like seeing more ice time for Boyd Gordon, there's college basketball on other television channels and my television came with one of those remote control contraptions that allow me to watch other programs without getting up. Ovechkin got a major penalty, a game misconduct, and Campbell didn't even get whistled for the retalitory trip sending #8 to the ice as well.
Life isn't fair.
Now Brian Campbell's face may have killed NBC's ratings, but it kill Chicago's other nemesis from the weekend. Don't remember? Huet does.
CHRIS PRONGER IS LIGHTNING ON ICE.
We write a fiction blog, you know.
