Sports is an entertainment business. The four major ball series in North America in particular (NHL, NBA, MLB and NFL) have built huge show elements around their product. Match events are much more than a fight for league points.
However, the situation does not change where there is a struggle for victory: there is relentless competition on the ground.
Entertainment and competition sometimes get mixed up, especially in North America because the show is so strongly present. Part of the sport community lost its mind when the Philadelphia Flyers decided to leave the defender over the weekend Keith Yandlen outside the playing line-up.
The Canadian Defender’s historic 989 consecutive match pipe broke bluntly on spectator assignment.
Philadelphia, who fell to the tail of the series, was said to have treated the player badly. Why break the record tube in a situation where the team no longer has a bet? Yandle would have completed a thousand matches this season.
In this situation, one should rather ask why the Superman Tube didn’t cut back last season in Florida when Yandle was hockeying there.
Yandle is an extremely loved person around the league. The cold fact, however, is that for the second year in a row, he is by far the weakest link on his team.
A player who is more dodging hits than would try to give them. He shouldn’t have had anything left for a moment in the lineup of the NHL team trying to win. Yandle’s power stats are 39 hits in the frost.
It is wrong for the other team to have a player in the line-up in the name of a mere sports romance. It is also wrong to try to manipulate and organize NHL records in this way past competitive sports.
Earlier in March in Arizona Phil Kesselin (969 consecutive NHL matches) the Superman Tube was also kept alive in an incomprehensible way. The coyotes played in Detroit, where Kessel played only one shift to keep his tube running. She then flew back to Arizona in a private plane to support her wife, who was about to give birth.
No NHL records are meant to be made in this way.
Did not hold the top spot in all-time superman statistics for a long time Doug Jarvis hung along with pity throughout the NHL. Hartford actually cut the Jarvis Superman Pipeline in the fall of 1987 by sending it to the farm. There, the Canadian player ended his career.
The NHL must stop building and recording plastic records in the name of star cult. The entertainment element and great stories are part of the sport, but not at the expense of the competition.
The best NHL organizations completely separate entertainment and sports. Take, for example, the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Penguins do not exist because they are superstars Sidney Crosby should bask in the headlines, win point exchanges and play prizes. Crosby has won the points exchange “only” twice, even if there were more ingredients.
It’s all about the success of the team and how the captain can help other players reach their best. This makes Crosby a great leader. The three Stanley Cups won between 2009 and 2017 tell us about the values of the club and its captain.
Even this season, Crosby has quietly led his troops to the top of the Eastern Conference.
Mike Sullivan piloted and led by Crosby in Pittsburgh, one’s solos would never give their own record at the expense of the team.
In Pittsburgh, 300 miles west of Philadelphia, sports are used to keeping everything at the heart of it all. And that’s why the roof of the club’s home hall is full of championship pennants.
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