It Was Standing Room Only At Game 1 Of The World Cup Of Hockey Final
You see? This is why you can’t host the World Cup of Hockey in Brookl–wait, what? The World Cup is in Toronto this year? Like as in the most hockey crazed city in the world Toronto? Well surely this has to be some sort of mistake. Maybe it was a beautiful night and everybody was just outside of the ACC for the viewing party? Yeah, that’s gotta be it.
Wait. Nevermind…
Well… I don’t know. Maybe a lot of people in Toronto work on Tuesday nights or something?
I said this earlier today but last night’s game was just pretty damn boring overall. Not compelling in the slightest. And I guess that’s the risk the NHL took with making the European Bastard Squad. It’s not like Europe and Canada have this long withstanding rivalry that is going to put asses in the seats. Maybe Team USA deserves some of the blame here for playing like a bunch of fuckwads last week. But you’re just not going to draw a huge crowd when the final match up is a perennial power house vs a team that literally never existed before this year. It looks like the plan for 2020 is to go with 8 different countries and let Switzerland and Denmark take the place of North America and Europe. Which won’t make too much of a difference but at least neither of those team will make the final and you’ll be able to see some sort of combination between Canada, Russia, the US, Sweden and/or Finland. But yeah. Now I guess we hope that the tournament ends tomorrow night so that hockey doesn’t have to get embarrassed in the ratings while trying to go up against college football again on Saturday night.
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