Wednesday, October 5, 2005

IT'S BAAAAAAAAACK.

The NHL is back, in case anyone was wondering. There are some new rules, but Barry Melrose still has the same old mullet. I was hoping Martha Burk's opposition to the new ads would force them to show the games without commercials, like the Masters a few years back, but no such luck. They do have a new logo, though, which I wouldn't have noticed unless the website was so proud of it.

Old vs. New:


So that's what they were doing for the past year and a half! Oh yes, that's much better! Silver and black instead of orange, and the letters are angled upward, the direction the league wants to go! It's basically a spit-shined version of the the old logo, like they removed the rust and went to town with the silver polish. But all I can think of is "Raiders". Anyway, a better logo should translate into a better on-ice game, right? They probably paid an advertising agency a bazillion dollars for this. Bottom line: your old hockey jersey is now obsolete, because it doesn't have the NHL logo on it.

Remember to tune into OLN (Obscure Little Network) tonight, if you can. OLN: The Channel You Didn't Know You Had. Oh wait, I don't have it, so I'll be watching the New Jersey Devils vs. the Pittsburgh Crosbys on FOX Sports Net, before that gets blacked out too.

(A Lemieux vs. Brodeur shootout wouldn't be a bad way to start things off . . . )

1 comment:

Jeff K said...

My early review of the NHL: TOO MANY PENALTIES! It seems like the referees really set the tone in these games, as there were way more 5-on-3 situations in one game than I ever remember seeing (I was flipping between Isles and Devils). In fact, the Devils had more penalty killing/power play time (31:00) then full strength time, due to the Penguins 11 (eleven!) power plays. Yikes. But in the long run, this will be a good thing. It may take a while to make the players realize that they have to SKATE BACK if they get beat, and not hook, grab, trip or interfere.

The best thing was seeing Brodeur make long passes through the neutral zone, something that we'll probably see a lot of because of the removal of the 2-line offside pass rule. In fact, they actually have been working on this in practice. What's the record for assists by a goalie?

I did see the first goal of the season: J.P. Dumont for the Sabres, as he beat DiPietro of the Isles.