Forums > Social Chat > Officialy, its done.
Login/Join to ParticipateMember
97 posts
Location: Kamloops BC, Canada
i'm really finding this hard to stomach. i was born a hockey fan and with the 2005 season being officaily cancelled i can't but feel that a little peice of me has been cancelled with it. there will be no stanley cup playoffs for me and my friends to watch this year. no beers to be drank in victory or loss. the annual calgary migration(final calgary game of the season me and my friends go to) will not be made this year. hockey is a way of life here and one of the defining points of our culture. and now its gone.
https://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2005/02/16/Sports/noseasontest050216b.html
"Not all who wander are lost. "
J.R.R. Tolkien
515 posts
Location: Cyprus
The thing is if they dont sort it out then there is a good chance that there wont be a season in 06 either
Which could set back the NHL and its members in so many ways. Your right it really does suck...Go Penguins go! Henry Hill - 'One day the kids from the neighbourhood carried my mothers groceries all the way home, you know why? It was out of respect'...
ahmet_20valve_ahmet(at)hotmail(dot)com
Hope all is well : )
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
That's sad. Even as someone who knows and cares nothing about any sport personally, I can see how sad it is.
Hope things get sorted out, sorry you have to miss this years season.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Maybe people will be inspired to play sports more than they watch them!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
oh
my
god
You're kidding. I'm not in Canada for the year, and won't see any Canadian hockey... but this is a stab in the heart! This is terrible! A tragedy!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHH *promptly flips out... again* How could they do this?!?! Why must money corrupt everything?!
Hmph... Is there any article as to WHY they want so much money???
this is a great loss to the whole country
to all those recovering from a great shock.~ Bobo
wie weit, wie weit noch?
fragst mich, wo wir gewesen sind...
du fehlst hier
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
Written by: ...Lightning...
Maybe people will be inspired to play sports more than they watch them!
Yeah... but they won't! It's the spirit of the game that people watch it for. And now there is none. No game. No spirit. No one will want to play them any more than before. If anything, watching the games would be inspiration to play hockey
~ Bobo
wie weit, wie weit noch?
fragst mich, wo wir gewesen sind...
du fehlst hier
515 posts
Location: Cyprus
Going to the games as a kid an watching the netminders in awe was what inspired me to start play. Will no body think of the children!
But the reason they want so much money is that they are greedy, not content with playing the sport which they love and being paid more money in one year then i inevatably will in my lifetime and not content with the superstar status they can achieve. Sorry but professional athelethes can be jerks and so can the federations that support them, such as the NHL
Henry Hill - 'One day the kids from the neighbourhood carried my mothers groceries all the way home, you know why? It was out of respect'...
ahmet_20valve_ahmet(at)hotmail(dot)com
Hope all is well : )
Plenty of Canadians who couldn't really care less! Like we need an excuse to sit around a tv and drink beer!
How much sympathy can you have for million dollar players who just want more? member
121 posts
Location: USA
Its not just Canadians who care about this. Im American and i felt like i was going to die when i heard about no NHL. My hockey season just ended last night and i usually sit down and start watchin pro hockey when its over, not this year
personaly i would play and not care how much i got paid, if i was pro, being able to play hockey past highschool and college is what most hockey players dream of, i know that i would pay other people if i could go on playing long after my college career was over. anyone else feel that way or am i just a hockey nut? If you're a pyro and you know it, clap your hands! 
Similar Topics
Using the keywords [officialy done] we found the following existing topics.
- Forums > Officialy, its done. [8 replies]
Show more..
© 1998 - 2025 Home of Poi
All prices converted to United States dollars using XE.com