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Post by minx on Jun 27, 2022 8:25:10 GMT -5
I know y'all don't watch hockey, but you really should - much more entertaining than football and baseball.
Anyway, last night was game 6 of the SC final. Do or die for Tampa Bay - they were going for the holy grail - a threepeat - three consecutive cups. Meanwhile Colorado was shooting for their first cup since 2001.
Going into the 3rd, it's 3-2 in favor of Colorado. These games have been blockbusters - non stop action and fantastic plays.
Then, nada. I have never seen a team's offense collapse so completely. For the first 10 minutes of a 20 minute period, Tampa (an offensive powerhouse) had ZERO shots on goal. Zero.
I think they managed 3 shots the entire period. It was just stunning.
Was a good series though. Now no hockey until October....
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Post by k9krap on Jun 27, 2022 23:55:49 GMT -5
Actually, I don’t watch sports much at all anymore. It’s amazing how depression changes one’s interests. Completely. Well, not changing but it takes them away. Completely. Tom leaving New England pretty much ruined football for me, although I did watch some Tampa games. Only if it was convenient, I.e., if it was a late or night game. I used to make sure I was present for all the pregame hoopla. I participated in an online chat group during NE games. It was so intoxicating. Now, blah. I hate that Brady is back. It upsets my ennui. 🤣🤣
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Post by minx on Jun 29, 2022 8:33:49 GMT -5
I have to say that I look at Brady as one of those athletes who don't know when enough is enough.
Rather than stepping away while he's on top, he's going to be another Brett Favre, where we all watch his sad decline. It's a pity, but what can you do?
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Jun 29, 2022 9:52:38 GMT -5
I was an avid fan of the Caps and hockey at one time. We regularly went to Cap Centre to attend the games. They weren't always a great team but they were always a good one. However, we went to see our Caps with Bondra, Gardner, Stevens, Dino Cicarelli, Dale Hatcher, and Dale Hunter.... and the list goes on. And whenever I wasn't at the game the game was on the tv at home. Always. Then they got rid of, in a very shitty way, Peter Bondra. He was and still is my al-time favorite hockey player. Rod Langway is solidly second. I lost interest in NASCAR when they put restrictor plates on the cars and the final straw was the beauty pagent they started with the drivers. Literally having them do the catwalk before the races. Nope. Done. Abe Pollen(SP?) ruined basketball for me, which I also attended many games, when he renamed the team. And then came Dan Snyder. Losing wasn't half as much an issue as when it first came out about Cheerleader-gate and how they were sanctioning pimping out the cheerleaders in Costa Rica during their calendar shoot. Nope. Done. Renaming that team means absolutely nothing to me.
Now there's baseball, which I still watch the NAts every day. They suck out loud and if they get dusted, we just watch something else that day. But it is beginning to urk me that there are baseball players and other athletes making 100s of millions of dollars like they cured cancer or something. Jaun Soto will very likely be the highest paid baseball player ever and his new contract with the [Yankees] will be well over 400 million.
So pro sports in general is fading from my interests as we proceed to make multi millionaires out of people who can throw a ball or hit one, or make it go in a hole, etc.
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Post by minx on Jun 29, 2022 16:16:48 GMT -5
Bondra and Kolzig were victims of the entry of the salary cap era. They were in the final year of their contracts and the team needed to dump salary to sign younger players. Both agreed to go to other teams to help do that. But it was really shitty that it had to be done in the first place. Dale Hunter was in the final year of his contract too, but he asked to be traded because he knew he wasn't going to sign a new contract once his current one was up, so he asked them to trade him somewhere that he'd have a chance of winning a cup. He went to the Avs at the start of their cup drought in 2002. Back then, we shared a season pass with three other people at the old Cap Centre. We had seats at the glass next to the penalty box and they were glorious. Guy who owned them bought in when the team started in 1974. In 1995, the Verizon Center (then the MCI center) opened. His ice level seats became the front row of the 200-level seats, and he was offered an opportunity to get the old seats back at a 'significant' discount. He rightfully called bullshit on that deal and didn't renew his tickets. From then on, we had to watch in the regular seats like the rest of the peasants
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