{"id":208,"date":"2005-02-05T14:05:26","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T19:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2005-02-05T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T19:05:26","slug":"damn-he-called-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/02\/05\/damn-he-called-it\/","title":{"rendered":"damn, he called it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Simmons nailed it <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmons\/050204\">right on the head<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And we are all victims of a once-likable league that screwed itself up beyond repair, the same way you screw up a relationship by drunk-dialing too many times. The NHL made two unforgivable mistakes: expanding more recklessly than Krispy Kreme and paying their players way, way, way too much money. It was a lethal combination of greed and sheer stupidity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I really am sorry there will be no more hockey this year. Here&#8217;s to hoping that the league dies, and we adopt the regional, European model of hockey. 5-10,000 seat arenas, officating that encourages skating and style over obstruction and goonery, low salaries, and a love of the game. Dear NHL and NHLPA: rot in hell, and don&#8217;t come back, for the love of the <em>game<\/em> (that thing you folks all seem to have forgotten about).<\/p>\n<p>You were never as big as you thought you were, and if you can&#8217;t see it now, you deserve to be selling used cars in Aurora, IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Simmons nailed it right on the head. And we are all victims of a once-likable league that screwed itself up beyond repair, the same way you screw up a relationship by drunk-dialing too many times. The NHL made two unforgivable mistakes: expanding more recklessly than Krispy Kreme and paying their players way, way, way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}