Blame Canada…

Does anybody really care about the NHL? I was perusing the newspaper last week and randomly discovered that the NHL is already in the second-half of its season. I was even more dumbfounded when I found out that they actually played their All-Star Game a couple weekends ago. I spend a lot of time watching Sports Center and I swear they never mentioned anything about it. Come to think of it, I heard more about Tom Brady’s frequent trips to New York to visit one of his baby mommas (what happened to the other one anyway?) than any news about the NHL. Now, I must admit that I don’t particularly care for hockey, and I’ll only “glance” at a hockey article when I run out of other material on the “throne,” but hockey to me is the equivalent of women’s basketball— there are only like 10 people who actually love it. Even ESPN agrees. They have no nightly program dedicated to Canadian Ice Jousting like they do with shows such as “NFL Live,” “NBA Fastbreak,” and “Baseball Tonight.” I think hockey will become the first sport to have all its games broadcasted exclusively on the internet, and even then I’m pretty sure Subway Chatter will have more internet traffic than anything the NHL puts out.