New Year's Day Upset
I watched more NHL than college football yesterday.
What happened in Buffalo with the outdoor game in Rich Stadium between the Sabres and Penguins with 73,000 in attendance and snow falling? Cool. Extremely cool. Shockingly cool from a league that has made as many mis-steps as the NHL has since Wayne Gretzky retired.
So, props to the NHL and NBC or whoever it was that came up for the idea for that game yesterday. (Pens win in OT in a shoot-out) Nice counter-programming, as it turned out.
For actual game analysis in these parts, head to the Swamp where a decent thread broke out - check it out on page five for great game pictures from Swamp hall-of-famer Diamond who was lucky enough to be in attendance (or wait for Oiler to get somthing up in these spaces). As an extremely casual hockey observer, the best I can offer is this:
The NHL would do well to push Sydney Crosby as fast as it can to be the face of its league. Not only is his play the equal to the hype and reports, he interviews extremely well.
