WARNING: We are Risking Never Seeing 87 on NHL Ice!

 I am not mad as much as the Red, White and Blue winning Olympic Gold as much as losing Sidney Crosby to where he will not be on NHL Ice. I feel, like it or not, Sidney Crosby is the NHL's Breadwinner, and it hurts everything when he is not playing.

You'd have Kids, and Some Adults now, base their Career and Lives on 87 and I feel that as a Hockey Man, I do not see the Right Neighborhoods be Lit Up like Goal Lamps. 

The problem Gary Bettman has is this could be Permanent and Disruptive in so many different ways. I would like to see Atlanta rededicate their Winter Olympic Commitment big time instead of just leveraging an Install.

My answer to Mr. Bettman would be having an Independent Pro-Rel League to Upset the System Later. I do not believe in the "Because He's Coach" ethos, and I would want to make a Different Drink before they took that away from me.

If we have a Penguins- Capitals Stanley Cup Playoffs Series Again, the Series Winner would be Worse for Wear

If we do have our annual Capitals-Penguins Series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the winner would be marketly worse for wear. Even though we've had what feels like an annual one sided glories between Crosby and Ovi, but, I feel that I would state both programs strength and weakness.

In Washington, DC , I'd felt the real rub is you don't trade for a star to supplement a Star. If Ovi where to get the better of his rival, and one time, with the 2004 NHL Draft, and it would be cultural in Washington DC. What would be the bad part is Columbus could race to the Stanley Cup and Win.

And, in Pittsburgh, even though they look like a Stanley Cup Champion back to back again, but, the Penguins are hardly consensus in their history. For their stat greatness, everything is around Crosby. We've seen the league lose money before over Sidney Crosby down time and that is not an image we'd see again. But, the Penguins are not perennial great drafters.

And, if Washington Capitals did wash out early, they'd trade Ovi and fire Trotz. I feel like if Leonsis where to supplement another star, he should have done it with the Wizards and not the Capitals. Even though it'd be a bit late to say sorry, like a rare Kentucky 4 Year Record Book Unicorn galloping through the NBA until 47, I think what it'd do is have the Wizards working magic and the Capitals 2nd Season Hurdles run deeper than a Chevy Big Block Motor.

Would trading "The Kid" to the Canadiens be that bad or good?

Last Summer, with the Montreal Canadiens trading PK Subban south the Nashville in their worst offseason trade since Chris Chelios in 1990, it decayed the Canadiens ability to contend. For Nashville, it was getting a Gretzky for a Gretzky.

But, I wonder if the Homestanding Canadiens really pulled off a Gretzky Equilizer? First of all, other than Guy Lafleur, they haven't pulled off a trade that they really won from. And, you'd be getting a player who'd be 29, not 19, 39,49 or 59.

We'd have to nudge a Cold War Breaking Icebreaker into actual sports trades, not decisions. If transferring was the only way out of Dwight Howard or going pro enough where the Los Angeles Rams got you sight unseen for a half a year on College Campus, that adds nothing and shortens the bonds.

To make matters worse, I think it would break and break badly on Pittsburgh and its Sports Culture. With No NBA or other Pro Basketball, it would make Western Pennsylvania's Winters Siberianly Angry. And, it would hurt the Pittsburgers Across America's Purchasing Power as Pittsburgh in the present sense is no bigger than St. Louis and worse and such a trade or inevitable "I Told You So" Move would have crashed negatively, or as negative as had the Penguins melted their lead against the Sharks last Summer.

Even though these moves would be inevitable one way or another, their being welcomed is a different and bad story all around.