Have you ever been to the Mellon Arena?NataSatan666 said:Good I'd like to see the amatures playing anyways.
Steve L said:Have you ever been to the Mellon Arena?
RangerBoy said:Screw the NHL players in the Olympics.The biggest waste of time.The NHL received no benefit from sending players to the Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002.1998 in Nagano was a disaster.2006 in Turino is a six hour difference from the eastern time zone.No more NHLers in the Olympics Shut down the NHL for three weeks was and still is foolish
Riddarn said:BLONG7 said:Personally, I don't think the Pro Players belong in the Olympics...Amateurs only IMO...Too bad there are no real amateur leagues of significance left in europe. We'd have to fill out our team with plummers, policemen and unsigned high school kids..NataSatan666 said:Good I'd like to see the amatures playing anyways.
Amateur sport vs professional sport...??? I always thought that the olympics were about amateur sports...drugs not included...Gurj said:
The amateur/pro thing in the OG is a dead issue, I don't get why people keep bringing it up... The point of the Olympics is to bring the best in the world together to compete, so finally introducing professionals was correcting a wrong...
Epsilon said:People make it sound like the only pro athletes in the Olympics are hockey and basketball players...
My thoughts as well.Epsilon said:People make it sound like the only pro athletes in the Olympics are hockey and basketball players...
Boucicaut said:Who cares about the benefits NHL gets or doesn't get, sympathy for them is wearing thin. People want to see the highest possible level of international hockey being played. Nagano was a disaster?
Shutting down the NHL for three weeks is not a big deal. The NHL and the players seem to have no problem shutting it down for an entire year
RangerBoy said:Excuse me but the 1998 Olympics in Nagano were a disaster.The games were played in the middle of night in most of North America.The NHL is an North American league.It did not benefit the NHL at all.Maybe some Czechs got but who really cares about that.When the games started at 1:30am in the eastern time zone,nobody watched the games.What financial benefit did the NHL receive from sending the players to the Olympics?
It's as simple as that. And i don't know how it is so difficult for many (as it seems) to understand.Boucicaut said:It is a perfect opportunity to showcase the sport at it's best to a global audience, and get new people and countries interested in the game. Three weeks of lost NHL time is nothing in comparison.
NataSatan666 said:Good I'd like to see the amatures playing anyways.
kidhander said:Ok...try to put yourself in my shoes: i'm an italian hockey fan and i'm from turin...yes, from turin, the olympics town.
I think it's easy for you americans/canadians, who get nhl everyday and who can see a live nhl match almost everyday...it's easy for you to wake up, go to school/work thinking "in 7/8 hours time i'll see colorado avalanche vs new jersey devils 3 yards from the ice and after the game i'll get an autograped forsberg's jersey". It's really easy...
But for us italians...that's the unique opportunity in a lifetime to get some nhl action, there wont be any other nhl game in italy in my life that i could see at the stadium, the only opportunity to have nhl big stars in my town and try to see em and maybe talk with em in my whole life, and i cant get it because of what??