Also, check out this hysterical article by the Sports Guy detailing the NHL Hockey Draft this past Friday. Here are some of the highlights:
4:22: Here's a cool wrinkle for the first round: Before every pick, each GM walks up to the stage flanked by four cronies, then stands in front of the podium and announces his pick. Imagine if the NBA did this and we could see the likes of Elgin Baylor and Kevin McHale announcing their own picks? Can we make this happen?Seriously, what's not to love about the NHL?
Anyway, Chicago GM Dale Tallon is "proud" to introduce tiny Patrick Kane as his No. 1 pick. This kid looks like an altar boy. I'm not kidding -- he actually looks like an altar boy. I hope his tremendous upside potential involves puberty. More importantly, what the hell happened to the NHL? As if things weren't already bad enough, the league's No. 1 overall pick is an undersized American who looks like the third singer in a boy band? Can we start sending them FEMA money or something?
4:27: Flyers GM Paul Holmgren looks exactly like Juergen Prochnow. I don't know what this means. He uses the No. 2 pick on American LW James vanRiemsdyk, whose last name sounds like a Dutch porn movie. Does every NHL lottery pick look like an extra from "Dead Poets Society" or was it just these first two?
4:28: Announcer No. 2 tells us, "He's a good, strong, solid NHL player, and, uh, they've got a good player here." These are the moments when you appreciate Mel Kiper Jr. They don't happen often. Still waiting for graphics telling me the names of these announcers.
4:31: All right, we've officially reached the point when this draft is much funnier on TV than it could ever be in print. We just had this exchange:
--Announcer No. 1 (excited): "[vanRiemsdyk] developed really quickly, he really came on in the past year. How long has he been on your radar?"
--Holmgren (monotone): "Uh ... [thinking] ... for a long time."
By the way, I'm not enamored with the Flyers draft. It seems like someone must have let Clarkie in the war room because just about every kid they drafted was an overgrown North American kid. I guess Homer missed the memo that the NHL is now emphasizing speed and skill.
2 comments:
hockey blows.....the majority of guys watching(about 50 people)
are 5' 6" 140 lb pu$$ys screaming "yeh, hit him!" while watching the fights...meanwhile they couldn't even go to the game without their wife sittin next to them.....
That was 6 minutes full of hits that would have left Michael Irvin and Tom Jackson with a brain aneurysm if they happened in the NFL with a safety or LB'er pummeling some unsuspecting WR coming across the middle and were part of the Monday Night Countdown "jacked up" segment.
By the way, due to my ever increasing girth, I might be really skewing that average.
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