Evgeni Malkin escapes Russia via Finland/Canada

The issue isn't whether it's a big story (relative to a minor sport), but rather your compulsion to provide speculative minute-by-minute updates on this board.

I believe the NHL season starts in October. Training camps open in September. There's time to get things worked out, you know?

 

Is there? The Russians have been playing around with the IIHF agreement for two years.

 

:-X :-X :-X

Constipated men give less of a shit than 99.44 percent of the American sports-loving world.

 

Yes, because the "offseason" has really stopped the NFL from taking time to work things out, right? :
Scale back on the coverage? Harrumph! Can I get a harrumph?

 

Harumph.

 

fuck, smash, if you dont like it, dont read the thread.

yeesh.

 

And, of course, there's a direct parallel between interest in the NFL and NHL, isn't there.

 

Anything you've heard on the issue, dad?

 

Dude, seriously. Hockey fans are interested in what is happening with the Malkin issue. OK?

 

The fucking thread shouldn't even be here. This is the kind of obsessive fanboy shit that belongs on hockey fan boards.

 

Dude, seriously, there are 38 hockey fans, and they're not reading this board for guesswork updates.