Thursday, December 4, 2008

Sometimes.......

.....when a hockey teams fortunes start to go sour, a team member with drop the gloves in ordre to inspire his teammates.  Given how my fantasy hockey team is playing, maybe this is called for

 

 

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9 comments:

  1. AngieDecember 4, 2008 at 11:43 PM

    senseless violence, what role models for the children these athletes jerks are.

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  2. matt prittDecember 5, 2008 at 5:06 AM

    But we love senseless violence, hockey lost popularity when they tried to legislate the fighting out of the game now once again pretty much every team carries a "goon" even if it is just to protect the rest of the guys on the roster from having cheap shots thrown at them.

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  3. AngieDecember 5, 2008 at 5:54 AM

    I'm curious, is this shown on prime time?

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  4. matt prittDecember 5, 2008 at 6:23 AM

    Actually hockey in the states does pretty poorly in the overall TV ratings, it is far more popular in Canada. That being said, it is carried some nights on the cable channel Versus nationally (though Versus has problems even getting added to many cable packages) and some of the games are carried on Yahoo sports, but unless you are a geek like me, you most likely wouldn't even know that, because they never publicize that fact, usually it does better in local markets on local outlets, such as here where many of the Penguin games are carried on FoxSportsPittsburgh, a local cable channel. Later in the season NBC starts carrying nationally televised games on either Saturday or Sunday afternoon, they usually start airing them right around the end of the football season in Jan., with the first game being the Winter Classic, a event recently created by the NHL where one game a year is played in an outdoor venue. Last year it was the Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres in Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, this year it is the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings from Wrigley Field in Chicago.
    In Canada however, they have Hockey Night in Canada, which is a national broadcast of a game, though off of the top of my head I don't know how many times it airs a week, but it is offered in prime time on a national scale.
    I should note that the above video is a compilation of about 30 years of hockey, they are clips in there from the 70s, 80s and 90s, it isn't like that 5 minute picture is all fights that have happened this year, some of the teams in the clips no longer exist, such as the Quebec Nordiques, who relocated to Denver and became the Colorado Avalanche and others aren't even NHL clips, but clips from amatuer hockey games.

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  5. matt prittDecember 5, 2008 at 6:42 AM

    The video may have worked, my team had 3 goals, 5 assists, 4 power play points and 6 penalty minutes the night after I posted it.

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  6. AngieDecember 5, 2008 at 7:32 AM

    whatever works lol

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  7. Leslie DianeDecember 5, 2008 at 2:19 PM

    Why would they need to take their clothes off to fight? Not that I'm complaining mind you dudes wanna get naked and wrestle around I'm game to watch :-D lol

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  8. matt prittDecember 5, 2008 at 4:45 PM

    Most likely it is to avoid the dreaded "sweater punch", where one of the combatants literally pulls his opponents sweater over his head, leaving him all but defenseless and then proceeds to wail away on him. A quick video demonstration of the sweater punch.

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  9. Leslie DianeDecember 5, 2008 at 11:08 PM

    I still cant believe they jus sit back and let them throw punches and not step in and stop it...only in hockey.

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