CBC is going insane on this Monday!

Well what is the CBC going to do? This is the 2^nd year in a row that their beloved maple leafs have not made the playoffs. I usually like Don Cherry and his words of wisdom, but you could see in his eyes Saturday night, that he just didn’t have the confidence that they would make the playoffs. He was begging and pleading for NJ to play Marin Brodeur instead of resting him for the playoffs. He was giving excuse after excuse that they should play him and not rest him. Then he states after Calgary is in the playoffs that they should rest Kiprusoff, because they are in the playoffs and don’t need to win Sunday night.

What’s up with that? You know that Cherry and the rest of the CBC will be crying that NJ didn’t give 100% on Sunday and that they screw the leafs etc. etc. CBC needs to end their love affair with the leafs, it is totally sickening. The leafs are on national TV every single Saturday night and that is NOT right. Nobody outside of Toronto could care less about the leafs, yet they shove them down our throats. Ottawa has had the #1 team in Canada for years, yet they are hardly on TV, the leafs haven’t don’t anything of note in the past 40 years, haven’t made the playoffs in 2 years and they are still rammed down our throats.

Of course it’s not going to matter, Bob Cole and Harry Neil will still talk about the leafs no matter who they show. So it will still be a leaf game. But this is the year 2007 now, not 1967. There are 6 teams in Canada, not 1, so please get over your love affair with a team that could care less if they win or lose.

The common person in Toronto can not afford a ticket to the game, they are all bought by corporations, thus they are sold out every game, whether they win or lose. The leaf owners, management and players know this, so they don’t care if they win or lose. They are going to be on TV every Saturday if they win or not. So the CBC in their new agreement with the NHL, must make a change and not have Toronto on every Saturday night. Montreal and Ottawa have a lot more to play for and deserve to be shown, just like all the West teams.

That’s my point of view

Darren