Brodeur and Avery: A Love Story

I'm halfway back to enjoying watching hockey again. The Devils/Rangers series had my energy split between unadulterated love for the Devils and ferocious, consuming hatred of the Rangers. Now that my Devils are done for the season, I can focus solely on using my mind bullets to telepathically sink the boys in Blue.

This also means a hiatus to the on again, off again romance we have seen between Devils' goalie Marty Brodeur and Rangers' forward Sean Avery. The honeymoon ended when, during the traditional post-series hand shake the two skated past each other without so much as kissing fingertips, or offering a parting glance. Avery did however call Brodeur, "Fatso" in a post-game interview.

Avery's comments in the post game interview cast him no better light than Brodeur. But, this is what I have come to expect from Avery not just by the nature of his role, but because of his past behavior.
Having said that, Brodeur's achievements come with expectations that he hold himself to a higher standard.

The whole point of the Hand Shake is to show that what happens on the ice stays on the ice. A show of good sportsmanship. Tonight, Marty did not participate. I find it unfortunate that he did not as I would like to look back at him as a gracious loser. If he's not, he's not. Call it classless if you want since that seems to be the all encompassing buzzword.


Other notes:

John Madden gets stoned by Lundqvist on 3rd Period penalty shot. For the love of JEEBUS! Do the Devils even use scouting reports? Hint for Rangers' second round opponent, SHOOT HIGH!!

30 Rock: NBC pimps the NHL

For anybody that watched 30 Rock tonight (if you missed it, the episode "Subway Hero" should be up shortly here: http://www.hulu.com/30-rock), there were craaaazy hockey references.
For a show that has rarely mentioned hockey it was rather odd to have the Stanley Cup appear out of nowhere.

What possible reason could this be? Oh right, THE NHL ON NBC!!!! It worked though as 30 Rock is notorious for not hiding it's commercial sponsors and the way NBC worms endorsements into its programming.

Some of the plot-lines could be used as metaphors:

Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) as the new hip face of the Republican party: Is the NHL trying to woo fans who have no desire or reason to be interested in hockey?

An old entertainer shows the good ole' days weren't as good as we thought...just ole: Do we glorify hockey's past?

Main character gets back together with pedophile ex: Yeah, I'm not touching that.

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