Well, it sure looks like NBC was a great choice for NHL hockey. This past Sunday, with the Ducks and Red Wings set to go into overtime, NBC decided to switch over to something more exciting: horse racing!
That’s right. And it wasn’t even race time yet. It was the Preakness pre-race show! Hmm. The NHL Western Conference final vs a horse racing pre-show . . . Dave Hodge must have tossed 10 pencils behind his back!*
It’s bad enough that play-by-play guy, Mike Emrick, uses expressions like “padded down” (leg save) and “waffle-boarded” (blocker save). Now the great game of hockey gets pushed aside for midgets on horses going in a circle.
What next? "We are now going to leave game seven of the Stanley Cup final now for the preliminary match of the southeast regional crokinole championships!"
Okay, moving on to even stupider (it’s a word if I say it is) stuff: the NHL finals don’t start until Monday. That’s right: a six-fricking’ day lay-off. I’ll be thinking football by then!
Today is Wednesday. I could have lived with Saturday, always a good night for hockey.
What’s the deal? Is there a dog show at the Honda Centre?
And I thought the NBA playoff schedule was hard to follow.
*(for those of you who are too young to remember, CBC cut from a game once, way back when Dave Hodge was with them. An unimpressed Hodge voiced his disappointment in CBC and tossed his pencil in the air in frustration. Shortly after that, Hodge was sent packing by CBC.)
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