Winter Classic was already spoiled

by on November 2, 2012 in League News - 931 Comments

Winter Classic was already spoiled
Photo: Paul Sancya/Associated Press
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With no negotiations taking place in the past week-plus and a $250,000 payment due to the University of Michigan Friday, the Winter Classic officially got the axe today.

For me, the Winter Classic was spoiled the moment it became apparent the two sides were willing to cancel games and use the fans as a pawn in their greedy game. Say the season came back in time to save the Classic – would it have felt right jumping right back on board and supporting the league in its biggest event of the regular season?

Down Goes Brown nails it with this series of tweets:

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  • Burtonboy

    We will see I guess . I’m not sure about Fehr . After the baseball strike I simply don’t trust him. Nasty piece of work IMO

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  • Dangle_My_Berries

    im gonna have to take a look, sounds like a whole bunch of media bickering. I love when people in the industry go at eachother lol

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  • peterbleafs

    Man those Marlies suck ass so far this year.  Their only scoring forward is an old guy who will never play in the NHL and every other forward has under achieved.  Losers…looks like our future is well in hand.

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  • Doorman,s Bettsy

    Sad to say:  But Doorman is still Working!  Fucking Lotto!!!

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  • Bob’s your uncle

    lol  You got gypped. 

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  • Doorman,s Bettsy

    Lol.  I thought for Sure this time!!!  lol.

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  • Mortar

    Stop reading Eklund like it is the God’s truth.

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  • WhowontheUckingame?

    why cant i ever find the  fucking score to a marlies game. where do they post the box score or some kind of result.

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  • The_Irv

    Its awesome to see Rielly is leading the WHL for points amongst defenceman (Myles Bell is apparently actually a forward this year and they haven’t switched him over on the WHL website).

    Best part about it is that he is outscoring players like Ryan Pulock who is expected to be picked high in this years upcoming draft. Despite the draft year, they are only a few months apart, and it is easy to argue that Pulock, despite being younger has actually had more development by playing a full year last year. Rielly is an offensive stud. He may not stay at the top in point production, but I wouidn’t be surprised if he is near the top for most of the season.

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  • The_Irv

    I find it at http://www.marlies.ca and the most recent game is posted as the first story… However I can’t find the box score with the game stats or anything which is kind of annoying…

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  • ingy56

    Uhhhh, the Marlies website perhaps?

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  • The_Irv

    Never mind, right below the first story it does have game sheet you can select

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  • ingy56

    The link to the game sheet is right there, lots of stats. 

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  • 4evrblue

    HA!!

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  • The_Irv

    Yup

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  • Burtonboy

    Can’t get enough of watching this kid play 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vDucFsZNmo0#!

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  • OBIE

    Eliot Friedman believes these are the teams that at taking a hard line in stalling a new CBA agreement:

    Anaheim, Columbus, Florida, the Islanders, Phoenix, St. Louis, Washington and Dallas

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    DGB sums my feelings up well…..sad so many of us are becoming apathetic to the entire situation.

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  • 4evrblue

    something tells me he likes to play a team game lol
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    good kid, good interview.

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  • Doorman,s Bettsy

    So;  Does Dumb and Dumber get a deal done; or do we see the whole year go down the drain???

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    Naw the deal is close to being done.

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  • Doorman,s Bettsy

    I hope so!  Cause my wife is threatening me with something Bad!  I know it!!!

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  • MSM

    In ’94 the deal got done In Feb. and they played a 50 game season. It’s early.

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  • TheCanucksnaphook

    Between him and Gards who do you think is the better skater?  They are both smooth as puppy shit.

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  • ingy56

    The thing is though, I get the sense this time that the general level of apathy towards the NHL and this situation is at much higher levels than in ’94. They need to get this done sooner than later. 

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