If the writers at Sports Illustrated are right, hockey fans may wonder if they've entered a time machine and gone back to June of 2007. That's because in their just released issue, SI predicts that the Detroit Red Wings will defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2008-09 Stanley Cup Final, just like they did last year.
Marian Hossa, who defected from the Pens to the Wings in the off season appears on the cover of that issue. Now hold on before you go and say holy crap, SI actually put a hockey p
layer on their cover! Hossa will only appear on issues in Michigan and Canada. The rest of the issues have Manny Ramirez of the LA Dodgers sliding into home plate. That's more like it SI! Completely shun hockey yet again! I'm surprised SI was even able to do a hockey season prediction. Does anybody at SI actually watch hockey? Because when I read their magazines, most of it's filled with college sports, football, baseball, soccer, hell anything but hockey.
I mean they completely ignore hockey so much that I believe and respect their opinions about hockey as much as I do the crazy homeless guy I walk by every day who yells at me about the end of the world. At least he's consistent.
Update: Except for SI.com writer Sarah Kwak, who linked back to one of my posts in a recent article of hers. She's good people. And yes, I am swayed that easily.
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