Thread: More hockey ignorance by the Worldwide Leader In Sports Not Called Hockey

Don't leave out the Elder Statesman in all this crap.
Chris Berman all by himself is a steaming dog-pile, add him to rest of the ESPN lameness and the network is just about unwatchable 24/7.

It's like anything else, when you become the top of the food chain you no longer have competition to drive you. They have let faces like Dan Patrick go to be replaced by crapmerchants like Colin Cowhead, jayzus, it's one thing to ignore hockey, it's another entirely to crap over it at every opportunity. Steven A Smith...Cold Pizza...so many many things wrong. It shouldn't surprise anyone really. Too much success is it's own punishment. The NHL should ban any player access. But Bettman is soft so that won't happen. Hopefully NBC SPORTS NETWORK will be the new model with Hockey as it's centerpiece.

I barely watched it and haven't since NHL2nite ended...

January
6 - Tom Cavanagh
17 - Vernon "Tex" Kaiser
25 - Arto Javanainen

February
10 - Fred Speck
22 - Jerome "Jud" McAtee

March
10 - Mikolaj "Nick" Harbaruk
13 - Rick Martin
19 - Peter Laframboise
22 - Jean-Guy Morissette

April
3 - Mandi Schwartz
7 - E. J. McGuire
29 - Jim Cunningham

May
3 - Paul Ackerley
7 - Eilert Määttä
13 - Derek Boogaard
24 - Barry Potomski

June
22 - Harley Hotchkiss
26 - Barry Wilkins

July
11 - Jaroslav Jiřík

August
10 - Oldřich Machač
15 - Rick Rypien
Joseph Ronan

22 - Thomas Syme
31 - Wade Belak

September
7 - Vitaly Anikeyenko
Yury Bakhvalov
Aleksandr Belyayev
Mikhail Balandin
Aleksandr Vasyunov
Josef Vasicek
Aleksandr Vyukhin
Robert Dietrich
Pavol Demitra
Andrei Zimin
Marat Kalimulin
Aleksandr Karpovtsev
Aleksandr Kalyanin
Andrei Kiryukhin
Nikita Klyukin
Igor Korolyov
Nikolai Krivonosov
Yevgeny Kunnov
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Stefan Liv
Jan Marek
Brad McCrimmon
Sergey Ostapchuk
Vladimir Piskunov
Karel Rachunek
Evgeny Sidorov
Karlis Skrastins
Ruslan Salei
Pavel Snurnitsyn
Daniil Sobchenko
Ivan Tkachenko
Pavel Trakhanov
Igor Urychev
Gennady Churilov
Maksim Shuvalov
Artyom Yarchuk
Andrey SolontsevIgor Zhevelov
Sergei Zhuravlev
Vladimir Matyushkin
Yelena Sarmatova
Nadezhda Maksumova
Yelena Shavina

12 - Aleksandr Galimov
16 - Roger Belanger
18 - Earl Cook

October
5 - Peter Jaks
20 - Ronald Amess
30 - Serge Aubry
31 - Sven Tumba

November
5 - Hannu Haapalainen
9 - Roger Christian
Patrick Steel
13 - Kyle Fundytus
16 - Eddy Palchak
19 - Pete Leichnitz
25 - Fred Etcher

December
5 - Gregg Madill
12 - Heinrich "Heini" Lohrer
23 - Bill Klatt
27 - Johnny Wilson
27 - Tyson Sievert

also, as an aside. ESPN(tv) might neglect hockey to an incredible degree, but their .com coverage is great.

I realize that ESPN stands for Every Second Promoting Network. Which means they overinflate the importance of any sport they broadcast & ignore what they don't. That's no excuse for this. Maybe they're not going to recognize every obscure player but when Hall of Famers, current or recently retired enforcers, and A WHOLE FREAKING TEAM dies, they should be mentioned.

http://i.imgur.com/G1Fj7.jpg

Well, it took a **** ton of people writing to them, but ESPN will be revising their segments when they are re-run on 12/29 and 1/2

Originally Posted by waterboy100

http://i.imgur.com/G1Fj7.jpg

Well, it took a **** ton of people writing to them, but ESPN will be revising their segments when they are re-run on 12/29 and 1/2

Should NEVER have been left out in the first place, absolutely disrespectful to the players and their families. I thought ESPN had more class than that.

It's official: ESPN can eat a bag of dicks.