Down In the Pitts
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Down in the Pitts
<Tab/>It would be easy to say that the Pittsburgh Penguins are quite simply the personification of everything that is wrong with the National Hockey League right now. And that wouldn't be too far from the truth, either. But if you were to mull over why, in the last few years, this impoverished team has been forced to trade its top talent for prospects and money, and …
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…there is no one left to blame. It's not the fans, an absent entertainment factor in the game itself, not the collective bargaining biting at the heels of NHL administration, and not the Pittsburghs of the league, for, famously, "we are no stronger than our weakest links". But if the NHL is so desperate to find a place to store its mislaid blame, there's nowhere left for them to look now but in the mirror.
…there is no one left to blame. It's not the fans, an absent entertainment factor in the game itself, not the collective bargaining biting at the heels of NHL administration, and not the Pittsburghs of the league, for, famously, "we are no stronger than our weakest links". But if the NHL is so desperate to find a place to store its mislaid blame, there's nowhere left for them to look now but in the mirror.
