I'd go to Sam's funeral. I wouldn't go to Walsh's.



Symba 1. Walsh 0.
- weirdoh

I'd go to Walsh's...

To take a piss down his dead mouth

I'd go to Sam's funeral. I wouldn't go to Walsh's.



Symba 1. Walsh 0.
- weirdoh

I'd go to Walsh's...

To take a piss down his dead mouth

http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/20084/lockout-would-denigrate-winter-classic

The NHL and the Red Wings don’t want to host a tainted Winter Classic. Nor do the Wings want to host a scaled-down version of it.

Which is why, even though the league would still have time to build up the infrastructure needed for the Jan. 1 game if there’s a collective bargaining agreement in place by Nov. 30, the Wings don’t want to be part of slapping together a half-sized version of the two-week festival it originally had in mind.

This is way more than just the actual game in Ann Arbor, Mich., between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Red Wings.

It’s also about a celebration of the game in downtown Detroit with a second outdoor ice sheet at Comerica Park hosting an Ontario Hockey League doubleheader, an AHL game, two Leafs-Wings alumni games and other youth hockey games. It’s about more than a quarter-million fans turning through the turnstiles in both stadiums among all the events the league and Wings had planned.

It’s about the legacy that Wings owner Mike Ilitch wanted to leave behind with this event. The Wings under his helm have been the model franchise in the NHL for two-plus decades. They had plans to raise the bar on an already through-the-roof event.

It was going to be the best Winter Classic ever.

Ilitch and the Wings want it done right, not hurriedly cobbled together a month from now when perhaps there’s a new CBA with zero opportunity to have promoted it since Sept. 15 when the lockout sucked the life out of the event.

While the Wings may never admit it publicly, Friday’s cancellation was likely a moment of relief. If the NHL is back next season in full form, its labor troubles behind it, there will be a game at the Big House between the Leafs and Red Wings, plus the kind of festival of events at Comerica that the Wings wanted all along.

We’re all just going to have to wait one year longer for it.


But when it comes to Friday’s cancellation of the Winter Classic, it was the right move, and the only move.

This season is going to be a sham either way. Let’s not denigrate the Winter Classic with it.
- Losman

Well seeing how it's their second Classic in 4 years, who cares what they like or want...

The difference is that you aren't a top worldwide talent in a big money profession. No offense.
- BulliesPhan87

no offense taken , you are correct...and my boss is also not the owner of a billion dollar franchise...