People have read my vision of the hockey apocalypse and have commented on it, done surgery on it, and probably drank over it. With the reports coming out about Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin playing in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi no matter what. I figure how much funnier can this get. Did he just say funny? He sure did and meant it too apparently.
Combine my vision with Buddy Oakes’ portion of it and you get a dark, sadistic view of the futuristic NHL. Now this is not the Futurama vision….just a few years ahead. But I will admit this is about as funny as the guy who autopicked first in the draft and got Ovechkin then proceeded to make bad pick after bad pick. Yes this was a fantasy experts’ dream on what NOT to do.
Back to the apocalypse. Jim Balsillie has agreed to let Phoenix stay in Phoenix for this year even if he wins the auction. Everyone knew this was coming and yet it took until September 23rd to figure this all out. The regular season starts in 8 days. Someday there will be an actual decision made on the winner of the auction. Forgive me if I will not be holding my breath over it anytime soon in anticipation.
Speaking of things that just will not end. Peter Forsberg even has ties to the apocalypse. Imagine if he ever plays a whole 82 games in the NHL…what it would do. This guy has more aborted comebacks than another Swede who just cannot make up his mind. So one tries to play and cannot and the others plays but does not know if he wants to play. And you thought indecision was not a leading cause of a potential apocalypse but yet you were wrong.
Indecision is the number one reason why we are where we are in the hockey cosmos. Paul Kelly still has a job if not for it. It is also the reason why we have hideous third jerseys and players who would rather play in the KHL because of owner greed and just idiotic contracts. Then you have an NHL that takes weeks almost a month to investigate them. Talk about an extended vacation or just some very lax people.
I just get sick of the same people with the same rumors that turn out to be BS all the time. Stop recycling please. Its the one time where recycling is a BAD BAD thing. It is another reason why we are heading toward the apocalypse. Worry about recycling your plastic bottles and not your 4 year old story to make a deadline. Come on journalists and bloggers too…would a little extra integrity be so much to ask for?
So the basic gist of the story is the hockey cosmos is all fubar right now but there is some hope. Do you know why? Because starting next week there are games that count and as everyone knows hope springs eternal until the season ends of course. Just keep that in mind. Happy hockey watching.
