| The NHL is suffering from low ratings. While | | | | Gretzky coaches the team and owns part of the |
| they pay untalented underachieving players | | | | Phoenix Cayotes. |
| millions of dollars, no one is watching. | | | | |
| | | | The NHL has lost its fan base and has become |
| The only networks covering the sport are OLN | | | | a "who cares" sport. When someone tells me |
| and NBC (On Saturdays). The NHL is a fifth | | | | that there's a playoff game tonight, I say |
| tier sport that trailed NBC's poker series | | | | "who cares". |
| for the week ending 05/07/06 according to | | | | |
| Zap2it ( | | | | This league means nothing to me anymore. |
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| This is sad. The NHL players and owners feel | | | | The NHL used to be a league of superstars who |
| that NHL players deserve multi-million dollar | | | | were passionate about the game. Winning |
| contracts, even when NBC's poker series rates | | | | meant everything to those players, even |
| better. This is supposed to be the NHL | | | | though their salaries weren't that great. |
| playoffs. Why aren't the ratings higher? | | | | |
| | | | The current so called professional hockey |
| The simple answer is that NHL boss Gary "NBA" | | | | player doesn't give a rip about the game or |
| Bettman has destroyed the game. This guru | | | | its fans. They care about the greenback and |
| took hockey away from its roots and the | | | | the greenback only. |
| people who loved the sport and took it to the | | | | |
| sunbelt of the south. | | | | When these goons have finished counting their |
| | | | loot, they can be seen fighting with another |
| His plan hasn't worked and he's alienated the | | | | so called professional hockey player. |
| true hockey lover like myself who'd rather | | | | |
| watch North Dakota play Minnesota in a WCHA | | | | So what you have left is a greedy player who |
| college game. | | | | is more concerned about roughing it up with a |
| | | | fellow player, then actually playing the game |
| Bettman destroyed professional hockey in | | | | of hockey. |
| Winnipeg. Like other Canadian cities, | | | | |
| Winnpegers are hockey lovers. | | | | Who's to blame for this? Like any |
| | | | organization the blame must fall on the |
| The Winnipeg Jets moved to the retirement | | | | leader. Since Gary "I made the wrong Bet" |
| capital of the west, Phoenix Arizona. This | | | | Bettman runs the NHL "snooze" show, he must |
| little plan has failed, even though Wayne | | | | take the blame. |