[Tournament] You are the commissioner of NHL Hockey: How do you save the sport?

Maybe not to you, but hockey is the best it's been in years. Of course, living in the fucking desert, you wouldn't hear to much about that, would you?

Plain and simple: Hockey is a northern-centered sport. No one in the south gives a fuck about the sport, that much is evident by the empty seats plaguing a lot of southern playoff franchises. Up here, though, just on the very tip of hockey's fanbase, support is the best I've seen in my life. The Penguins are playing exciting hockey, and the whole city is enthralled.

It's a shame to say it, but I think it's about time the NHL retreated back into the frozem confines of the north. The south was given their chance, and it nearly cost the rest of us a fine league. Time to pack it up and come back home, to where the real fans are.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

I suppose, but I think my situation is more closely related to Joe Fan. The ratings tell me so, at least.

No, I never see Sydney Crosby on anything. I get Sports Illustrated and can't recall any ads with him or any hockey player in it. I watch Sportscenter a couple times a week and I watched most of the first and second rounds of the NBA playoffs. Granted, ABC/ESPN didn't have anything to do with the NHL this year, but I don't recall seeing anything about hockey at all outside of Versus/NBC. I don't even remember seeing an advertisement on NBC for a game that they were broadcasting.

I just went and got last week's SI, which had a story about Anaheim about to win the series, and the only ad related to hockey, even next to the three page story, was one for Verizon which had no players on it and was just advertising you could get the NHL on VCast.

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

No, I never see Sydney Crosby on anything. I get Sports Illustrated and can't recall any ads with him or any hockey player in it. I watch Sportscenter a couple times a week and I watched most of the first and second rounds of the NBA playoffs. Granted, ABC/ESPN didn't have anything to do with the NHL this year, but I don't recall seeing anything about hockey at all outside of Versus/NBC. I don't even remember seeing an advertisement on NBC for a game that they were broadcasting.

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

No, I never see Sydney Crosby on anything.

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

Sydney Crosby

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

Sydney

Usk.

There's nowhere I can't reach.