It's understandable, his "greatest sports moment" was 18 years ago when his team won the Cup. Since then they've been throwing money at their problems without results.
Please stop writing articles concerning the NHL. I'm embarrassed for you. You're like the generic version of ESPN in your hockey analysis. It's painfully inaccurate, ignorant, and entirely opinion-based. It's like you don't even try; somebody with zero prior knowledge of the game could spend 20 minutes on Google and Yahoo Answers and put together a better comprehensive piece on the NHL than you have to date.
Just stop, you're completely incompetent. Stay on Kobe's nuts and stay off the ice.