OK. I've written on this three times now. I can't help it. I grew up in Detroit....Hockeytown. I grew up listening to Don Cherry on Hockey Night In Canada every Wednesday evening on the Canadian Broadcasting System (CBC). He was outrageous back in the early 70s!
I'm one of those hockey nuts (a Wing Nut, you might say) who actually purchases the National Hockey League package from Dish Network. I'm one of the few who pay pretty good money to watch the games as I'm lining the coffers of the league. So I'm overboard. That's why I've written three blogs on this issue.
I sit here dressed in black, mourning the loss of the hockey season and nurturing my hatred towards the owners of the NHL teams. What Schmoes! They cancel the season and three days later tell the Players' Union that there can still be a deal to revive the season and mention that their salary cap offer can move up to $45 million from their "final offer" $42.5 million. When the players arrive, they find the owners sticking to the $42.5 million salary cap and renegotiating an even better deal for themselves.
Make no mistake, the owners did not want a season this year. They are out to break the back of the Players' Union. Unfortunately, in their unholy quest, they have managed to break the game as well.
I used to be a Tiger's nut. I can tell you all of the starters for the 1968 Tigers (I was 8 then). Every year I followed them without regard to talent, and, believe me, there were many lean years that I would watch every minute of a 9-inning game when the Tigers would get beaten like a rented mule. Since the 1994 strike that cancelled the World Series, I have not watched a single game for 9 innings on television. I can't name 5 Tigers on this year's squad.
In short, the baseball strike caused my passion for the game to expire. I'm afraid that hockey will run the same course. Certainly, the millionaires who run the game and play the game have lost sight of the people that cause the game to work....the fans. Enough said.
Blawgerman
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