One of the bigger downsides to hockey is that with no games to be played, I am paying a lot more attention to politics than I should be. The bigger travesty is that neither candidate is running on the false promise of returning hockey to the arenas of major cities in America and Canada. I grew up in the belief of the American political system, that every candidate should promise way more than can possibly hope to achieve in at most eight years in the Oval Office and deliver a small warped percentage of the things they said they would. In this instance, Romney and Obama could have stated that the NHL will be back with an 82 game schedule, the Winter Classic will be a five team round robin featuring the Caps, Pens, Canes, Flyers, and Devils, and all waffle cones will be free on one's birthday. The clear follow-through from this could have been: a 66 game schedule, a Winter Classic, and waffle cones will still be available.
I am disappointed in this year's candidates who did not feel the need to appeal to the lost and broken hockey fan. You should have been skating on the ice, kissing little baby goalies, and swaying us with astrology-esque rhetoric that stated that hockey will return under my tutelage. I guarantee it. It just occurred to me that you could have marketed this as another "Cold War", joining forces with the History Channel to sell more documentaries. Shame on you, politicians. I will now be getting my false hope from James Bond and World of Warcraft. Thank you.
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