As Chuck Wipple astutely pointed out a few weeks back, there’s about as much interest in hockey these days as there is in women’s basketball. Though, for the record, if this was the kind of action going down at WNBA arenas across the country, “chick ball,” as I like to call it, would be America’s new favorite pastime. (Disclaimer: the players would have to look like this too, obviously. Sorry, just looking for an excuse to show that picture again.)
Anyway, this isn’t the first time someone’s used hot chicks to get people interested in hockey, so now that I have your attention, let me be the first to tell you that your New York Rangers have been the NHL’s hottest team since January 20th, winning 15 of 21 outright, while notching 33 points altogether in that span. So after languishing anywhere between 8th and 11th place for the better part of the season’s first few months, the Rangers now find themselves 3 points out of first place in the Eastern Conference with 11-games left to play. Sounds like a playoff run to me. Granted, I still expect the Pens to knock us off in the Conference Finals (I’d explain why, but I know you don’t care), but at least the Blueshirts will be playing some meaningful hockey in May for the first time since 1997. And while you may not give a crap now, you will when watching the Rangers becomes the hip thing to do like it was back in ‘94. So treat this little Ranger update as a PSA of sorts and jump on the bandwagon before your buddies do sometime in the next two months. Still not interested? Well then make yourself useful and start petitioning the WNBA competition committee for matchups like this.
PS– Here’s a bonus pic of a another cutie I found while doing my hockey “research”.
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