They ruined the NHL for me

I've been a long time Philadelphia Flyers fan. Always have been. But recently I think the sport has left me behind. First off, I cann't get Outdoor Life Network on my Dish. It's part of a pissing match between Dish Network and Comcast. Second, even if I had a NHL season pass, the extra games I would get would exclude Flyers games that are blacked out because "I could get them in my market". Yeah, only on Comcast cable. Forget about it.

Second are the new rules which eliminate a lot of the hard checking and physicality that made teams like the Flyers.

That is evident in the current Stanley Cup series against the Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres are a fast skating percision passing team. A team much like the Sabres' "French Connection" team of the 1970s. The flyers did then what would be against the new rules now. Check the shit out of them. The Flyers's philosophy was to make it like skating in a closet for them. Who can pass if they are getting the shit beat out of them.

I guess whiney crybabies like Mario Lemieux won over old timers like Bob Clark in respects to how the game should be played.

Posted by psugrad98 at April 25, 2006 06:28 AM | TrackBack