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Olympics Rained Out, Wings Play On

04/03/2017 at 6:25pm EDT

Rainy afternoon/evening in Chicago so the beginning of the season for an aging, star-studded, Ilitch-owned team is delayed.

The shrew has decided to decree the NHL will no longer participate in the Olympics.

I almost typed "impotent shrew" but changed it because that little guy is far from impotent. He may not run the most popular league amongst North American professional sports, or even the fifth most popular, but he's the most powerful commissioner in sports, comparatively speaking.

Gary Bettman gets what he wants.

You can say he does the bidding for the owners, but I don't buy that. He has visions and he sees them through, using whatever means he has to. Expansion, re-location, hard caps and conference re-alignment at his own midget pace.

He takes his whims and his biases and he twists them until the owners believe that what he wants is best for their wallets.

He honestly enjoys sticking it to the players and the fans have never, and will never, be a consideration.

Whatever. The Olympics next year are not on my radar. Too far down the road.

A handful of games left. You can use those days to read the constant articles coming from the Holland PR machine reminding us that Tick Tock has one year left on his contract and he has no intention of stepping down or moving up. Blashill, too.

Oh and for those of you holding out hope that Holland will be fired? I can't actually believe any of you even have that wet dream, but if you do...he's not going anywhere because his fingerprints are all over the Big Pizza Pie of an arena and Chris Ilitch needs him to commandeer its opening.

Fucckkkkcckkckckckckckcckckk.

I was hoping baseball would wash all this away but instead stupid Chicago weather ruined the plan.

Damn you, nature.

It's a Live Blog, bitches.

LGRW and FKH ASAP (lolzzzz).

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