Three BIG Hockey "STFU'S"...

Three quick observations on last night's hockey game, directed at three different people...

#1- To Marty Brodeur... Marty, it's not at all cool to throw your teammates under the bus after the game... ESPECIALLY considering that YOU lost us the game!! Your bonehead rookie moves COST US TWO GOALS, plus the empty-netter which wouldn't have happened if we were WINNING by a goal, like we should have been, instead of LOSING by a goal, like we were, thanks to YOU! To say to the media after the game that you thought you made a "couple of saves" that should have "turned things around" but your teammates blew it by taking penalties is RIDICULOUS... and would be even if it wasn't YOUR fault, not theirs!! The fact is, Ryan Miller outplayed you! Roberto Luongo should play the rest of the tournament, Marc-Andre Fleury should back him up, and YOU should SHUT YOUR PIE-HOLE!!!

#2- To American Sportscasters and sports-talk radio anchors... your team did NOT "outplay" our team... your team is not "better" than our team... ONE PLAYER... your GOALIE... was better than our goalie. Have a look at the stats... shots-on-goal, scoring chances... we outplayed you TWO-TO-ONE... and if your goalie continues to steal games for you and you manage to make it back to meet us again, we will OUTPLAY YOU AGAIN!! Hopefully THIS time, Roberto Luongo will be in net and we will BEAT YOU... it's STILL OUR GAME... GET OVER IT!!

#3- To Gary Bettman... PLEASE give up your futile and destructive mission to make hockey relevant in the United States and step down as NHL Commissioner. Last night's game was arguably the biggest sports story on the PLANET on the weekend and CERTAINLY the HIGHLIGHT of the Olympics. Yet HERE is how important hockey is to Americans... their Olympic network, NBC, decided that ICE DANCING was more important to show on the main network, relegating the hockey game to their cable network, msNBC, which not everyone even HAS in the States! It would be like showing it on TSN2 here in Canada instead of CTV! Bettman, you've RUINED hockey with your America-centric decision-making throughout your tenure. You've OVER-STAYED your welcome, and it's clear your efforts to bring hockey up to the popularity level of the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball in the States have not worked, and, indeed, are FUTILE!! If LAST NIGHT'S epic matchup wasn't worthy of network coverage, the Americans will NEVER hold hockey in any kind of esteem. Watch how much NETWORK coverage Tiger Woods' first tourney back receives... if you can't best GOLF (arguably the most BORING television sport in HISTORY), then you've lost... now SHUT UP and GO AWAY so we can get our Canadian teams back from the half-assed mid-sized American markets you WHORED THEM OUT TO!!!!

...stay tuned... some day I may tell you how I REALLY feel...