Word: nhl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Look at Brian Farrell '94. Coming off a stellar senior season in the Harvard hockey program, he was given a tryout by his favorite professional team, the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL. As a non-drafted free agent, his chances were slim and none of making the big-time so soon, and yet he startled a lot of people in camp, even making the Penguins' final West Coast road trip of the exhibition season...
...hockey season means no debating the merits of Lacher and Ryabchikov in the Bruins' goal, no evaluations of the Penguins' iineup without Mario (and with Farrell?), no wondering how Minnesota can not have an NHL, team and how Texas and California can have four between them...
...stupidity of the NHL is unbelievable. It has always been the fourth favorite of the professional leagues. Then last year, it has the greatest playoffs in years--people in California actually cared about hockey...
...this is a symptom of sport, not just soccer. Roger Neilson nearly led the expansion and relatively talent-barren Florida Panthers to the NHL playoffs last year by emphasizing the clutch-and-grab tactics of the neutral zone trap and banking on good goal-tending (i.e. John Vanbiesbrouck) to save them when the trap failed...
Flux. All these leagues (I didn't even have room to knock the NHL) are taking advantage of their fans, stupidly, childishly, selfishly, in the process leaving themselves in a state of flux from which they may never fully recover...