The Funny Farm

It's Official

Game Off! NHL season canceled. For the second time in over one hundred and ten years, the Stanley Cup will not be awarded. The first time, World War One had just ended and a significant portion of the population, including most of the players in the series to award the Stnaley Cup were really sick from the flu (and one of them that we can remember off the top of our head - yes, he was a Montreal Canadien - they're everywhere in hockey history and nowhere to be found in the playoffs for the last ten years - died of pneumonia brought on by his bout with influenza). So, after playing four games, the series was canceled with each team having won two games in a best-of-five series. That's right, kids - the only other time the Stanley Cup was not awarded, they played every game but one that season. So, in the history of professional hockey, we have one Stanley Cup final series left tied 2-2, and one season with no games played because the greedy owners and the greedy players couldn't decide how to divide the spoils. We hope that Bettman and Goodenow are banned from ever being associated with the NHL again. Corksockers...

And, speaking of which*, we always wondered where Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute went. Apparently until recently he was a male presstitute for the Giggling Murderer. Way to go, Fred!

* - like, beauty segue, eh?

Posted by (: Tom :) at February 17, 2005 06:56 AM