Hockey

Congratulations,PK!

bekayne wrote:

The NHLPA started in 1967. As late as 1969 Gordie Howe was making only $45,000 per year. Check "Sample salaries from earlier seasons" on this page.

My point is and was that up until the late 80's or early 90's, salaries were nowhere near the ridiculous average salary a player makes a year now. Even if $45 000 a year was considered a 'high salary' in 1969.

The NHLPA served a purpose when it was created. It's now a fucking joke and a mockery of unions in general. I can't speak for everybody but if 'working' (playing a game) 6 months a year for a few million a season is not good enough for you and you must strike to 'feed your kids' , I strongly recommend you get a real job and find out what it's like for the rest of us. Especially hockey players because 90% of them hardly have a high school education. Be happy what you've been blessed with. Go whine and cry in a pile of money and fuck off.

kropotkin1951 wrote:

hi kropotkin. Why did you make a blank comment in this thread? Is this an error mistake? Or something more?

Go Bruins! 

But I'd put my money on a Tampa vs Las Vegas Stanley Cup final. 

I'll also be checking out the Flyers. 

Leafs and Jets all the way!!!

I find this thread odd and out of place here on rabble/babble?

but before I go much further, who cares if a Canadian team wins the Stanley cup? Or for that matter who cares for high ticket sports entertainment?

i thought that there was a consensus here that the 1%are causing a drag and drain on the well being of our society, well that’s what’s professional sports is all about, extracting huge hard earned money and vital attention from people and returning next to no value! Just hype. 

If say the leafs won the cup do you know what would happen to me? Nothing. 

Now here’s some sweet hypocrisy. When Portugal is in the Ueropean or World Cup, I put up my Portuguese flag in the front window of my house and I pretty much become a soccer/football know it all over night! Watch all the games I can and when they win somehow Portugal is better than everyone else beyond just the game. 

And when they lose, it’s just a game that people waste their time on.

It seems that pro-sports satisfies the tribal nature embedded in our psyches which makes sense since us homo sapiens were tribal for most of our evolution.

It also seems to me that for many people politics also fulfills the tribal nature embedded in our psyches. It seems that many people identify completely with one party and detest all the other parties even when they support many of the ideas and philosophies of the other parties. I think it would be better if people supported parties less and issues more.

That being said, the Yankees represent the dark side which is why I like them. They're the Dart Vader or The Dark Lord Sauron of baseball!

Panem et Circum

Although the NHL is in Toronto, they depend on American TV ratings for most of their cash. If Canadian teams get too high up in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the American TV fans switch off.

Thus it is in the NHL's interest that Canadian teams crap out as early in the playoffs as possible. P.K. Subban said as much when he left Montreal. "I want to win a Stanley Cup". If you can't win a Stanley Cup in Montreal for decades, where else in Canada can you win it?

During the season, Americans do like seeing Canadian teams getting beaten when they go on tour in the US. As far as American hockey fans are concerned, the "National" in the NHL means the US. Canada is just there to be made fun of, eh?

Many people into games in Canada are also into gaming, and playing the 6/49. For a very small amount of money, they can buy a dream for a week. When they lose the lottery, they can replace the dream with another ticket. 

The idea of a Canadian team winning the Stanley cup is like a lottery ticket dream. You can keep watching Don Cherry in his dog barf suits, and the hockey pros who are visibly embarrassed by the realization that all they are doing is filling up space and time for money. That is buying the ticket, but you don't have to pay. All you have to do is watch all these commercials from great Canadian corporate citizens whose profits continue to be impressive, and keep your eye on la rondelle. That way, Dog Barf Cherry can have a new suit every week!

And yes, I would be willing to bet that Don Cherry is supporting Doug Ford Jr. in the upcoming election in their colony. As a person who has knocked on many thousands of doors for political purposes, I can verify that if a person has a sports logo on their front window, they are almost always a Conservative/Reformer of the Mike Harris kind. Leafs Nation! Ford Nation!

So I am kind of suspicious of sports talk in a supposedly progressive forum. For thousands of years, the powers that be have used sports to distract people from their plight. The first Olympics was held in 773 BCE and ran until 393 CE. The Colosseum was able to accommodate thousands of attendants, all with a reasonable view of the playing field. This design remains more or less unchanged in almost 1,950 years.

States and municipalities gladly hand over hundreds of millions in each individual case for a new sports arena. If there were no sports rivalry, the rivalry would be based on something they fear.
 

Congratulations to the spanking the Bruins gave the Leafs. 1 down, 3 to go. In the words of Douche Cherry,it was a beauty.

Montreal still remains as the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup. As it will always be.