January NHL Game Thread
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On top of that the open ice allows the stars to really showcase their skills. Its fun, I like that it is being treated like the exhibition game it is and not in the "THIS TIME IT COUNTS" way.
I missed most of this, got it on in time for the last period. That was pretty awesome.
John Scott for MVP!
John Scott for MVP!
Awesome, they lift Scott up!
I love everyone extending a big FU to the NHL the day after Bettman gets extended.
I love everyone extending a big FU to the NHL the day after Bettman gets extended.
That may have been the best all star game I've seen in any sport. I mocked the entire concept endlessly, and could not have been more wrong.
First Luongo does his thing and makes me love him. Now I'm happy for John Scott.
Who am I? What is this?
Who am I? What is this?
To be fair, before this week, what did we know about the guy? Big goon that's averaged a team a season. That's it.
This week, we've learned that he has a growing family. That he scrapped through four years at Michigan Tech, and is absolutely a smart person. That he loved hockey so much that he risked a comfortable life at home to scrap some more in the AHL. That basically, most guys that played with him love the guy, borne out by the Sharks all-stars getting Daryl Sutter to put the three of them together.
We also were refreshed on a few things that we already knew. That the NHL is ridiculously tone-deaf to its fans, working way too hard to shut out Scott when all it did was create the kind of backlash that this league is all too familiar with. That when push comes to shove, the league office will always do the heavy-handed, asinine, and money-minded thing (that last one isn't always the wrong thing, but as Olczyk just pointed out a few minutes ago, this is an exhibition; it's supposed to be fun). In fact, the person that looks worst in all of this is Don Maloney, who traded a fan favorite to a team that he knew had no use for him in exchange for a lottery ticket prospect and an 'attaboy from the league office.
The crappy thing is, John Scott will only have the car, the bonus money, and the memories after tonight. Once the sun rises tomorrow, he's a father of 2, soon a father of 4, having to eke out a living in St. John's, 4000 miles from Glendale and 1500 miles from home in St. Catherine's. He'll almost certainly be away from his wife when she gives birth in a few days, forced to travel to dusty little towns like Utica, Rochester, and Springfield, just because he didn't fit the NHL's definition of All-Star. Well, he's an All-Star Game legend now, in no small part because the league made him a martyr.
If "ekeing by" is a $575,000 a year salary, I'd hate to see what me living paycheck to paycheck with my family is.
The reality is you don't make a career and play in the NHL without skills that most who have ever tried to play can barely dream about. The league and their shills underestimated just how amazingly good one of their "worst" is, and in so doing missed the better story. But they got lucky, in spite of themselves.
He's not on a two-way, is he?
Nope.
Well, let's go with the fact that Newfoundland isn't Arizona in winter and that sucks enough. Plus the intimation from his wife is that she's living in Quebec, which is weird too.
Nope.
Well, let's go with the fact that Newfoundland isn't Arizona in winter and that sucks enough. Plus the intimation from his wife is that she's living in Quebec, which is weird too.
See, the funny thing about all of this is, if the NHL just has their chuckle, lets him go, then crafts the fan voting to be less inclusive next year, this story dies and Scott's still some chucklehead that can't play in the NHL. They made this story all by themselves, and if I thought they had a Machiavellian bone in their entire office, I'd almost swear they did it intentionally and that Scott was in on it.
Miracle, everything you say is absolutely true.
I'm honestly kind of terrified that there is soon going to be a story pop up telling me that Alex Burrows saves kittens, trains them to be ferocious guard lions, and passes them out to homeless orphans on his days off, though.
I'm honestly kind of terrified that there is soon going to be a story pop up telling me that Alex Burrows saves kittens, trains them to be ferocious guard lions, and passes them out to homeless orphans on his days off, though.
If you have a service provider or access to a login for one, NBC Sports Live Extra should have replays until they become widely available on YouTube.