Holy smokes. Assuming that this story is more or less true – http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=287230 – the EA Sports curse came home to roost awfully quick, and in spades. The Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane and his cousin, accused of assaulting a cab driver over 20 cents? It’s simply unreal.
I would feel like my last blog was a heckuva “called shot”, except that the curse stuff was of course tongue-in-cheek.
What’s the best way to top off a crappy postseason? Well, if someone offers you a headlining gig for EA Sports’ NHL 10, you count your lucky stars that someone out there knows nothing about viewing or measuring performance. Or you could go the path of a pointless arrest.
You’d be looking for most players to be peaking, going into their age 21 season. Patrick Kane could be an exception.
**This would be the time to wonder who got the literal and figurative “black eye” in this episode.**
**I wish I could get a collector’s copy with Kane on the cover, but you’ve got to believe EA Sports is going to release with a different golden boy.**
Not defending Kane in any way – it was a punk move by both him and his cousin – but I also read where the cabbie had locked the doors on the two of them, so could that have been an instigating factor?
All over 20 cents!
the cabbie said he locked the doors because he thought they’d run off without paying him, which I guess happens all the time with college students. It looks like they’ll settle it out of court and the league will probably just sweep this whole thing under the rug.
You can bet if it was Mike Vick and his idiot brother Marcus beating up some old cab driver down in Atlanta he’d be suspended by the NFL for half the year and probably cut by his team. I just wish the NHL would look after it’s image the same way the NFL does.
The NFL doesn’t have image issues on the same scale as the NHL. I remember a story a few years ago about how the 18% of the players on the Baltimore Ravens roster were convicted felons. I also remember that nobody was particularly surprised that was the case, and even jokes being made that 18% was probably the league average. If somebody told you 18% of the Pittsburgh Penguins had any convictions other than traffic tickets, would you believe them?
The NHL has a different set of problems that take precedent given the relative lack of attention their player pool receives from law enforcement, such as why they thought it would be a good idea to put a hockey team in the desert.
OK, that makes sense then why he locked the doors.
The lack of attention from the television viewing public is probably their worst problem. If the NHL had ratings anywhere near that of the NFL or NBA, the Kane story would have had more legs. But when nobody cares about the sport, the same nobodies care about the players’ off-ice extracurriculars.
Nobodies like us!