[spiderarms]

Originally Posted by RAMBO

Gonna try and shed some optimisim here..
The Goon was born...and he can be reborn.

It takes one team, to stand up against the Bettyman regime.

One team that does not care about the PIM Package, or has a coach that will sit a player for taking a #@~!#@% minor penalty in a game that is one giant powerplay anyway.
A minor penalty is like hitting a foul ball in baseball.

Hopefully one team is somehow rubbed the wrong way, and they say the hell with the league, the hell with losing, and they goon it up.

Wishful thinking, but I bet people would pay to watch that team, and this BS is a business whether we like it or not.

You have touched on one of only three ways possible to put an end to this charade called the NEW NHL Hockey. If just one team, any team, bucked the SYSTEM (DISNEY ON ICE), others might follow suit if they saw the results as positive in attendance with the fans and in PR reaction. How would this happen?
Well what if, just one team spent a series of games, loaded with a lineup of tough guys called up, getting penalty after penalty for obvious aggressive actions and in the process lost by ridiculious scores. Don't you think crys from fans and the MEDIA alike would claim that this team is being unfairly treated and made an EXAMPLE of ? Wouldn't this get them "SYMPATHY" and claims that they have no competitive way to win. This is what the NEW NHL does not want, A SURE LOSER!

Another way that I see is for THE GARY BETTMAN BOBBLEHEADS (NEW NHL SUPPORTERS), to STOP BUYING ANYTHING NHL!!! LIKE CENTER ICE PACKAGES!!! Be willing to sacrafice 1 to 2 years of NHL hockey so that the LOSS IN REVENUE will force the NEW NHL to change!!! Otherwise why would they change? They have your money and thats all they care about.

The third way is for ANOTHER LEAGUE to emerge to fill the "VACUUM" for lack of INTENSITY, BODYCHECKING, PASSION, RIVALRIES and FIGHTING!!! The idea of LNAH on SPIKE TV interests me and I would support that or the " PROMOTION" of any league that would pressure the NEW NHL to change.

Lastly, I think it PATHETIC to read the "YOU SEE THEM BRAWL" thread on this site and how the BETTMAN BOBBLEHEADS are BEGGING for fights, ANY FIGHTS and are so starved for ACTION, out of share BOREDOM, that they get excited over ROUGHING PENALTIES and any LOUSY FIGHT that is thrown at them. All the while, BETTMAN and his cronies are laughing as they take their MONEY to the bank. To these posters, I have SWAMP LAND IN LOUISIANNA THAT I WOULD LOVE TO SELL TO YOU, YOU WOULD ALL BE GREAT CANDIDATES TO DO BUSINESS WITH!!!