Filip Bondy of the NY Daily News Needs to Grow A Penis

Dear Mr. Bondy,

I just finished reading your article on the NHL hockey game last night between Rangers of New York and  the Devils of New Jersey.

With just the opening sentence you have managed to show how narrow minded and ethically shallow you are in regards to your profession.   That sentence is also the only sentence that you injected an opinion in the entire article.  After the first sentence its really just boiler plate play by play.

Yet in just that one sentence you have basically brushed the NHL as this league that moonlights as the old Worldwide Wrestling Federation (WWF).

You called it a niche league.  The only thing niche is your readership.  

Ritual violence?  Morally wrong?   We live in a world where MMA Fighting is growing in leaps and bounds.    Where is your article lambasting that?   In my opinion that is one of the things that is patently and morally wrong with America.  But the only thing I hear you calling for an end of is The Lambeau Leap.

In that one sentence you just nonchalantly paint the NHL as a boorish and thuggish league.  You do not go into much detail about the history of Devil/Ranger games, especially the recent series.  You really do not provide the reader with any information about how and why everything transpired last night at puck drop.

You also do not provide the reader with any in depth thought process as to why you think it is a "niche league" or why it is "morally wong."   In your profession sir, you have an obligation to the reader to provide useful information on the material you are covering.  Not recklessly throwing out very generic and very narrow minded lines without backing up your thought process.

By doing so you show me your just like me.  An average blogger who can be dangerous because he has a platform.  Not a journalist.

Click these links to see how you should of reported on last nights game.

Blue Shirts Blog

Ranger Rants

Sincerely,

A Nerfherder from Long Island 

New York Ranger Fans Should Erase Last Night's Game from Memory

Last night was a fluke.  An aberration.  What happened in the first 5 minutes of last night's game against the Chicago Blackhawks does not happen to this Ranger team.  

But it did.  And us fans should just wipe it from our memory.  Our team is allowed to have this one.  Granted, it was only the worst 5 minutes this team has played all year.  But considering where they are and what they have accomplished this year, they have earned a pass.

Also considering for the next 55 minutes, we won the game 2-0. And we had another apparent goal stolen from us because the referee lost sight of the puck.  That goal could've swung the moment our way even further and who knows what might have happened. 

This Ranger's team has played their hearts out so far this season.  Being the pessimist that I am, and considering the teams history since I graduated high school (1994), I have watched this team all year with a gut wrenching angst.  Waiting for the wheels to fall off at any moment.  Insistently nervous that their next mistake is just going to unwind this team and send them spiraling down the standings. 

 And when the wheels fell off last night in the first five minutes, I had such a sense of calm come over me.  I didn't think the sky was falling. Like Coach Torts has said so many times this year, "He trusts this team."  I trust this team. 

They were tired.  They came out flat against a hungry opponent.  The Blackhawks were pumped to play at MSG.  You could see it right from the start.  They were determined to not get embarrassed by losing their tenth straight game.  They had not won at The Garden in almost a decade.  

And the Ranger were coming off a brutal stretch of games played, answering the bell in each game against division rivals. 

And poor Marty Biron.  He received absolutely no help for his team in the first five minutes last night. Three of the four goals were breakaways, including a Penalty Shot in the first minute and 2 seconds of the game.  And the other goal he let in, he had a 6'8" monster on skates standing in front of the crease screening him.  Not one Ranger tried to muscle the monster out of Biron's way.  The King would have been hard pressed to not let in atleast 2 or 3 of the 4 goals.

Now that I have said my peace, I'm wiping this game from memory.  It never happened.  Looking forward to Sunday night.  All year long this team has bounced back from adversity.  I trust that it will be no different this time.  I trust in Coach Torts, that he will use this as motivation going forward.