Sportsfrog.com

I can’t tell for sure if this is just a pure, Canadian Press hatchet job on the city of Anaheim – or on the OC in general – but it’s hard for me to believe that an article with Jay Leno-like ‘person on the street’ interviews is an accurate depiction of whether or not the “Stanley Cup final not making many waves with most residents in Anaheim area”.

The author writes:

Finding anyone who knew the NHL championship was even happening proved challenging.

Really?

I ask because I lived in Tampa during the Lightning’s 2004 championship season and I was more than impressed by the way the city, the people, the media, and the businesses all lined up in support of the team. Everyone was talking about them at work. There was all kinds of ’special coverage’ on tv. Even my boss let me leave early on gamedays.



So while it’s not at all hard for me to believe that there are some people who are walking Orange County that really think this…

“I predict Ottawa will win it in three.”

…it is easy for me to think that the Canadian Press is just pissed off there’s a really good chance that for the third season in a row, Stanley will be tanning himself this June.


Someone once sang ‘you are not what you own’. I’m officially rooting for Anaheim now out of spite. Pronger be damned.

Game two is tonight at 8pm EDT (5pm Pacific!!!), in Anaheim – peace and blessings upon them.

UPDATE: I got that story straight from an nhl.com rss feed, but while looking around the web for other news, I see that there seems to be a full war between the press underway. James Mirtle has a wrap up here.