Time for Canadians to Turn Their Backs on the NHL

I have been screeming this for a while, but it is now a reality. Every Canadian, every single one, should turn their back on the NHL.

Don't watch it, don't talk about it and don't fucking pay to see it.

The CBC should drop its contract and we should all look for something else.

Why? Well unless you are a fucking idiot, it's because the league clearly does not want us or our business. Unless you are a gifted kid from Montreal or a towering defenseman from Saskatchewan the Gary Bettman NHL HATES YOUR FUCKING GUTS.

This whole second round of snubbing Basille should be the last straw and a great chance for alarmists to stand up and say "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO!".

The good part of the news is that here is a chance for all of us to look inward. Fuck international hockey, we invented the goddammed game, but they'll only let us play by their pussy rules. Fuck games against florida or California or Texas or North Carolina. Fuck it all.

The time has come for the Basilles of Canada (and we have enough) to start a real Canadian hockey league, go back to the rules from 1984 and lets play some fucking hockey together.

I want to see a team of tough guys from Halifax, some skill from Quebec City, the big boys from Saskatoon and Regina. I want all of us to welcome back Winnipeg. All of us know how many teams Ontario can support and it isn't 2, try 4 to 6. Let's try and wake up Victoria and see if anybody else in BC wants to finally admitt they don't actually live in Vancouver.

This country can easily support 16 teams. What's that your saying? 16 teams, that sounds like a pretty good league right there.

Exactly! Fuck the NHL, they are finished with us, let's be done with them. Let's see how there precious league survives without FANS WHO CARE.

The NHL has now denied the city of Hamilton a team 5 times since 1992. 3 rounds of expanision and 2 attempts at transfers. FUCK THE NHL because Hamilton is just the proof that no Canadian city regardless of population or circumstance is going to get a team before every loser WHA castoff gets a run at it, and even then we'll have to pay double.

They can't sell us on TV and they don't want to try. How they can get America to cheer for Green Bay, but can't sell Toronto Montreal is beyond me, but there you go.

So I am askign all of you out there to turn your back on the league, support the game at the Junior level until the Basille's, Westin's and others decide to do the obvious and sell Hockey to Canadians.

Hockey Hall fo Fame

So the list is too long. There aren't enough spaces. Too many good guys are waiting or are eligible for the first time.

Thank god there is some concensus.

Messier, Francis, Stevens and MacInnis.

WRONG WRONG WRONG.

I fucking hate Messier, but he has to go in. No If's And's or But's. If Lemieux goes in the first time he pretended to retire with no wait, then Messier should have been extended the same courtesy. Plain and simple, the day Mess said no more, he should have been in, no election, nothing.

Francis has to go in because he is second to Gretzky all-time in an offensive category, Assists. Plain and simple if you lead the league all time in anyhting....

Understand that Gretzky is so far ahead in the record books second place is really first.

...You have to go into the hall. That means goals, assists or points you are in. Mess is points, Francis is assists, boom they are both in.

As for Stevens and MacInnis, no fucking way. Sure you can put them in the hall, but no way do they get in before the list of guys waiting already. Sorry, no dice, no debate. Until Dino Ciccarrelli gets in, the fucking door is closed.

Stevens hit really hard so he belongs in. What kind of bullshit argument is that? He ancored the defense so he gets in. I wonder what Neidemyer would have to say about that? He won all those cups. Yeah, he did. Here is a defensman with absolutley no offensive upside, playing on the most well coached defensive team of all time being given credit for winning cups. Sure he was a big part and a defensive leader and a great dressing room guy, but in the grand scheme of things how far is Stevens from Ken Danyko, and does that mean Danyko gets in too?

Answer, Stevens skated better than danyko, but that is about it. Fuck Stevens, he is barely a hall of famer, but even then, he is about 50th on the list of guys who are getting screwed over every day. In the last 10 years of Stevens career he averaged...AVERAGED 25 points a season. Without the years witht he capitals where they were SHIT he would have 500 career points. Wooop a dee DOOO.

As for MacInnis, he was good and I understand he ended up 3rd all time or some bullshit on Defensmen scoring. He had 100 points in a season once, but remember this guy played for 9 or ten seasons on one of the best offensive teams of all time. Not the Oilers, the Flames. Twice in his career he suited up with 7 past, present or future 50 goals scorers. That has never happendd before to anyone, not even Gretzky. When you have forwards on your team that include Nieuwendyk (51 twice), Roberts (53), Fluery (51), Loob (50), Mullen (51), Bullard (48 with the flames 50 with the Penguins), MacDonald (60), Hull (26 wuth the flames, but you know the rest). All of whom played during an incredible 5 year window, I defy you not to show some offensive flare.

He was a good defenseman, not one of the all time greats, he was the Brad Park of his generation, and he had a hard shot. Big fucking deal. Ray Bourque had an accurate shot. Who had more goals, assists and obviously points? Bourque. Bigger question, in his entire career, how many 50 goal scorers did Ray Bourque play with.... the answer is a surprising 10. Of course of that ten you have to count the incredible Bobby Carpenter (12 years removed), the crack addicted Kevin Stevens (never played a decent game), the FINISHED and I mean DONE Charlie Simmer and Joe Mullen, the most and least impressive 50 goal scorer of all time Al Secord, oh yeah you all remember him. Of all the 50 goal scorers to ever suit up with Ray Bourque only 3 have ever scorer 500 goals and he had a cup of coffee with each of them (Sakic, Anderchuyk and Mullen). He enjoyed the services of Middleton and Neely for a number of years, but regardless of who was in front of him, he was the man.

The point? Well in his prime MacInnis played with some magical goal scorers so his point totals are a bit heavy on the other hand Ray Bourque was the best player, not defensman, player, on every team he ever played for, except his last season and a half, and he still scored more points than any defenseman in history. The only other position player that can boast that is Wayne Gretzky.

What I have done here is compare a top ten defenseman of the 90's with the greatest of all time, not really fair, but he doesn't come close in points, awards or anything else, so how can he hang next to him in the hall?

Okay so who does make it?

I would put Gilmour in. He was great with St.Louis, Calgary and New Jersey. He was as good if not better than his press in Toronto so it is a no brainer that with his point totals he is a lock.

I would also put Oates in. He was quiet and overshadowed, but he was always the best player on the ice. If Canada invited Oates to the first World Cup of Hockey the US doesn't win. Not that they did win with that Canadian turncoat scoring a goal with a high stick, but whatever, with Oates in his prime as he was, Canada wins.

Side bar: unfortunately if Canada had three Bruins: Tocchet, Oates and Bourque, Canada wins by about 10 nothing. Instead the American Bastardization of the Canada cup will always be remembered as the year the Americans cheated.

As for Oates, he made 50 goal scorers. Hull may get 50 without him, but he doesn't get 70 and 80, Craig Janney helped prove that. Janney was a great playmaker and he could only just get Hull to 50.

If for no other reason Oates should get in for the 92-93 season. The Bruins brought him in the play with Neely. Neely went down and it was obvious he wouldn't be back for the season and Oates took it upon himself to be the playmaker and goalscorer for the Bruins. 45 goals, 97 Assists he was the best player I have ever seen in a single season except for Gretzky. As a Bruins fan, I guess it would be on par with the O'Reilly 90 point seson in 77-78. Oates is a career 20 goal man, for him to get 45 was ridiculous, never repeated but very impressive from a selfless player who finished with 1400 points and 1000 assists. He is in.

I already made a case fro Dino and of course for ANDY FUCKING MOOG. Until any of the above get in, and even Phil Housley, there is no way Stevens or MacInnis belong in the hall.

BONO / GELDOF SHUT THE FUCK UP

I have been gone a while, those fucking summertime blues. What was I to do, how would I make it back into the swing of things. Sure I got mad from time to time, but I just couldn't write about it.

Then...BANG

Two fucking Irish thugs, Bono and Bob Geldof blast Canada's aid to Africa.

Canada set a target to double aid by 2010 in 2005 and is on target to do just that, but these fucking fancy boy pricks decide that a new deal is needed.

Ever hear the one about feeding pigeons or giving to beggers? If you do, they just come back for more. Canada has always and will always be a giver and yet two fucking rich rockers think that Canada should give more.

Bono, in case you have forgotten, is a tax evading cheat, who moves his money and his "home" regularily to avoid paying taxes. Then of course he turns around and demands that goverments do more to help other countries. It would be a hell of a lot easier to "do more" if the country's rich people stopped hiding their money and paid their fucking taxes.

On a personal attack level, I don't think it is a coincidence that everyone associated with Geldof has committed suicide.

More importantly, this announcement or condemnation of Canada only came after of Prime Minister refused to meet with "Bono" when he was their to meet with actual leaders. He said that meeting rockers was more Paul Martin's style. That is fucking great and absolutley true. So Canada becomes a target of the Musical IRA because our Prime Minister would rather meet elected officals than front men. WOW, those self righteous cunts.

Hey Aids is a bitch, poverty sucks, but it is not an issue to be dictated by a know nothing singer from a has been band, better yet two has been singers.

Liking people from Alberta is tough, but I am starting to Like Stephen Harper more and more (Born in Ontario, now I guess we know where the sense comes from).

The fact that these two so-called anti-establishment assholes are strutting around threatening world leaders, one in his poser leather jacket and sunglasses, the other in his jean jacket, using their huge unearned influence to attack elected officials from countries THEY DON'T LIVE IN is fucking criminal.

The press is entirely to blame in this situation. Just because you like a band doesn't mean that the lead singer should be called upon to discuss the issues of the day. Run for fucking office if you truly believe you have something to say. It has been done before, in an odd coincidence by another bono, er I mean Sunny Bono. Other examples Arnold, Jesse Ventura, Clint Eastwood ETC.

Put up or shut up

FUCK OFF BONO

FUCK OFF GELDOF