The Anaheim Ducks have taken a 2 games to none advantage over the Ottawa Senators in the Stanley Cup finals. The home crowd, the 33rd consecutive sellout, got everything they wanted and more. The Ducks won 1-0, and the winning goal game in the last few minutes of the third period. Anaheim is hoping to reverse their fortunes this year to make up for when the New Jersey Devils snatched the Cup out of their hands a few years ago in seven hard-fought games.
Ottawa is currently the darling of the Canadian fans, and should they come back and win Lord Stanley's Cup, they would be the first team from north of the border to win since the Montreal Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings in 1993.
Hockey, unfortunately, is being given the bum's rush in America because the only station showing their games nationwide is the extremely hard to find VERSUS channel. My cable supplier just added Versus this year, but you have to update your system with a special tier that has some lousy channels on it in order to see it. From this point on, NBC will be broadcasting the remaining Cup games. Maybe if the ratings are good, we can get more NBC broadcasted games next year.
Hockey was also greatly damaged by the lost season a couple of years ago after of the usual primadonna posturing that resulted in a lockdown because hockey players want to be overpaid like football, baseball, and basketball players, and hockey just doesn't have the following needed to command those salaries.
The ticket scalpers, on the other hand, did OK, with seats near the ice going for as much as $5000 per game in Anaheim.
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