(Lidstrom's elbow pain was caused from lifting too much hardware)Freep - Just a few days ago, Red Wings forward Kirk Maltby pointed out the irony of the NHL All-Star Game is that the players going are the ones their respective teams would most want to see get some rest. As it turns out, the Wings' Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk will spend the rest of the week getting refreshed, because both have pulled out of the Montreal festivities. "Both are due to ongoing and steadily worsening injuries," team spokesman John Hahn said via e-mail Wednesday. "Lidstrom has been suffering from elbow problems this season while Datsyuk recently experienced problems with a hip flexor."
The old elbow and hip flexor All-Star Game excuse. Look, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that neither Lidstrom or Datsyuk wanted any part of this game. They'd rather be laying around on some beach or sleeping in till noon on their time off than playing in a skills competition and a glorified exhibition. I aint mad at 'em. What I am mad at is the hockey media painting this as "bad for the game" because Versus is going to lose all the viewers in a huge market because no Red Wings are in the game! I wouldn't watch the All-Star Game if there were 10 Red Wings playing, and neither would you. And let's face it, Versus isn't losing any Detroit viewers because we all would have been watching the Canadian channel anyway. Give me the Skills Competion and nothing else NHL.
And haven't we been carrying this league for the last ten years anyway? So now Detroit must not only singlehandedly carry the regular season, playoffs, and everything else; but we're responsible for the success of an All-Star game. Here's an idea: Give us a damn All-Star game in Detroit and then we'll watch it.
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