Dear NHL, this is why your Fourth

Dear NHL,
 I LOVE YOU JUST THE WAY YOU ARE!!!!! That's what all us hockey fans are saying, why don't you care about us? Why do you care about the non NHL fan? The talk has started up again that many GM's think that they need to shrink the size of Goalie gear. Why? To increase scoring? Why cant we just leave it alone. There are 2 reasons why scoring isn't up this year, first, maybe the goalies are just that good, or that skaters aren't scoring. I mean here are the top 5 Goalies according to GAA, Ben Bishop with 2.06, John Gibson with 2.07, Brian Elliot with 2.14, Jonathan Quick with 2.16, and Cory Schneider with 2.17. All respectful numbers, that means they allowed around 2 goals on average this season. And I know, what about goals, well Alex Ovechkin has 42, Patrick Kane has 38 (more on him in a bit) , Jamie Benn has 36, Brad Marchand has 34, and Tyler Seguin has 33. So you can't say that its either of them. So why is Bettman so insistent on changing this? More on that later I have a theory.

Next is the World Cup of Hockey, while this idea does sound good, it has the ability to end in disaster. The reason I say this is the dammed format. Team America, Team Canada, Team Czech, Team Finland, Team Sweden, Team Russia,Team North America and Team Europe. Ummm what constitutes team North America? OH that's right, under 23. So thought you'd get to see Connor McDavid with the maple leaf on his chest, Sorry hes only 19. Jack Eichel with "USA" across his chest, think again sweet heart, he's 19 as well. And Europe? What is Team Europe, well how about every country not named Russia, Czech Republic, Sweden or Finland. Thats right, players like Zdeno Chara will have to play on Team Europe, even though Slovenia can field a team, they change their mind and decide that they want to have all those teams that never have a chance to win be on one team.

And Lastly how you handle Patrick Kane. Ah yes, the party boy, hailing from Buffalo, plays for the "hottest" team in the league. Who has had a crazy off ice life the past few years. Lets see, hes assaulted a Cab Driver, and over $.20. Two dimes, 20 pennies, 4 nickles, that's ridiculous Kane, but still he was never convicted. But the key, the big picture that the NHL failed to handle properly, was his most recent allegation of Rape. Kane was accused of Raping a women back in the off season after winning the Stanley Cup. During the said investigation the NHL didn't do anything to penalize him, they didn't reprehend him. NOTHING!!! The only group that was smart enough to penalize him was EA by removing him from their CRAP game. And after its all said and done what does he say? "I did nothing wrong". Kane here's the thing, it doesn't matter what you did, You need to grow the hell up. And so does the NHL, they did nothing to try and distance themselves from the situation. The only press release I can find with a quick google search is this one right here. AND THATS FROM THIS YEAR!!!!!!!

So in conclusion NHL, you are Forth for a myriad of reason, but THESE that I listed, only scratch the surface.

Sincerly,

All Disgruntled Fans in the League

P.S. my theory on why Bettman insists on shrinking the goalie pads and widening the nets, MONEY

TherriNOT

Michel Therrien

Greg Wyshynski reported it here, Michel Therrien will return for the next season, I REPEAT, Therrien will be back next year. The light at the end of this crap storm of a season, was bright, Pricey is feeling good feeling great, might even return soon (although I wouldn't risk it). The College Boy is in the race with Chucky for the Hab's scoring title. Then this hits me, all over Twitter.

Therrien Dissected

And I mean this in the sense of, lets see if we can try to understand what his plans are. We could attribute Prices injury back in November to him, I mean, come one he was rushed back from injury. I know it, You know it, that elderly Quebecois Hab's fan knows it, and since they are not revealing the injury, I shall use my powers of deduction to find out the injury. MCL, more specifically the MCL, Medial Collateral Ligament, was torn, in his right let, note that the right leg is what Krieder hit, in the Conference Championships 2 years ago. Then there's Tinordi, who really never played a good set of games for the Club.

The Future

 Is there any way that Therrien can save his blessed insurance? Maybe win the cup, maybe not drastically injure another player by rushing recovery. So what can we the faithful do? Maybe just find a way to numb anytime he's interviewed. I know for me that since I don't get to see or hear him talk unless I pull up the Hab's website. I guess as long as he's making Bergivin happy, were stuck being miserable.

Quoi de neuf?

The Habs start the final push for the end of the season. This includes 13 games, 7 home and 6 Away.  3 against the Panthers, 2 against the Wings and Lightning and one game each against Buffalo, Ottawa, Calgary, Anaheim, the Rangers, and the Hurricanes. At the time of this post, the Hab's sit 32-31-6, 6th in the conference South of Ottawa and North of Buffalo and toronto. And 5 seats back in the Wild Card. This has been a season I'd like to forget. For the Playoffs my Camp is "Anyone but boston" in the East. And in the West, "DALLAS! STARS!" or "Anyone but chicago". Honestly, I'd like to see Jagr lift the Cup again. He has worked hard for this long career.