Does Anyone Really Care About the NHL Anymore?

Does anyone really care about the NHL, or that Sidney Crosby, the adopted son of Bill Cosby, (that was a little joke, ha, but it's not true) is out for up to eight weeks?

I know I don’t! The NHL is brutal, and now this injury to its best player and biggest superstar just puts an exclamation point on the half-ass 2007-08 season.

I am from Buffalo and I'm not going to lie, for the past two years everyone in this area (particularly western New York) had a huge boner for the Sabres, because we were good.

I was a Sabres guy, but not until May (for all of you who are wondering why May, that's when the playoffs start in the NHL.) However, during the regular season for the past two years I could care less, although there were people here that were going nuts for the Sabres.

At one point last season the Sabres had the No. 1 selling jersey in the NHL: Goalie Ryan Miller, who is a very nice guy. This is understandable and everyone jumped on the band wagon.

My point is that if you were not from Buffalo, you could not name four guys on our team, which was the best team in the NHL last season.

If I were to say, name four guys on the best teams in the three other major sports (football, basketball, and baseball) I would bet alot of money that says you could spout off plenty athletes on the Patriots, Red Sox, and Spurs.

That is my point; the NHL does not market its teams or players very well anymore. I mean now they have some really good players that can be marketed to do a whole lot for the sport and hopefully bring it up to where it used to be.

The NHL is right above soccer in American fan interest and we all know how much we care about soccer in America.

The recent outdoor hockey game between the Sabres and New York Rangers was amazing.

I did not go but from the stories I heard, people were going nuts despite the fact that we (the Sabres) lost. But there were people tailgating and just going shit crazy.

Now if the NHL would use this to its advantage, it could regain a fan base. Let's say the NHL did that once a month on say a Sunday night; the ratings would go through the roof. This blog is for all you NHL fanatics out there, all four of you. Let's think of ways to get the NHL back to its glory days because I used to be a fan back when NHL 94 was out for Sega Genisis.

P.S. Lets see some more fights! BELIEVE IT!