The Hockey Hall of Fame is Bullshit...

Yesterday the Hockey Hall of Fame announced their latest class...And at first glance, it looks like a legit class...But like all sports Hall of Fames, it's tainted with politics and bullshit...

Issue #1...It took too long to put Phil Housley in...Housley has been eligible since 2006, and just made it...He is second all-time in scoring among U.S. born players...He is fourth in scoring among Defensemen with 1,232 points...(338 G...894A)...He did this over 23 seasons...The only reason any Hall of Fame voters have given to justify why it has taken so long, is that Housley was often gruff, and not the best at talking to reporters....Boy, we hear this all the time with the different Hall of Fame voters...'He wasn't our buddy...he didn't buy us drinks and get us laid...He didn't like talking to us after a loss.'  Fuck you whining cocksuckers!  Housley was a Hall of Fame Player and backed it up with the numbers...What you twats did was Bullshit!

This year's class was dominated with defensemen...Also getting in are Nicklas Lidstrom, 6th among defensemen in scoring, and was a rock for the Detroit Red Wings winning the Norris Trophy 7 times, one less then Bobby Orr, and played of 4 Stanley Cup winning teams...

Then there is Sergei Fedorov a Center during that Red Wings dynasty...He finished his career with 1,179 points...He also racked up a bunch of awards in his career...These two first ballot guys were no-brainers...

That brings us to Issue #2...Chris Pronger....Compared to his blue-line counterparts who got in, Pronger is 26th all-time among defensemen scoring...698 points in 1167 games...I have always felt Pronger was overrated, and I feel even more validated by the numbers...Yes, he was D-man, and he played physical and good defensive hockey...Well so did the guy sitting at 30th on the all-time defensemen scoring sheet...James Patrick was a rock solid D-man who played 1280 games and racked up 639 points...So why exactly is Pronger going in and Patrick isn't?

But even worse the this...As I referenced in my Monday Moaning blog, Pronger was traded this past weekend...He still has an active contract...So please tell me how the fuck is a guy with an active contract, that got traded 3 days ago, eligible to get into the Hall of Fame?

BULLSHIT!

I don't care about the "Builders' Category, or the Females they have started putting in, so I won't get into those names...I will link some players who aren't in, and should be...

Theoren Fleury

Dave Andeychuk

Steve Larmer

Jeremy Roenick

Mike Vernon

And yeah, I'm putting the Beezer in there too...

John Vanbiesbrouck

CanucksFans Need Thicker Skin/Class

Yeah, I said it...Before the NHL Playoffs got rolling, Theo Fleury was on the radio, and asked for his playoff predictions...Fleury Predicted the Vancouver Canucks would get bounced in the 1st round, and pointed to Roberto Luongo's history of failure in the playoffs...

So what's the big deal...He was asked, and answered...And you know what else...Luongo has been overrated for years...I squeeze into my blog a couple times a year...

Well Canucks fans weren't real happy with Theo's opinion...Of course some backlash is expected, but Johnny Canucks took to Twitter, Facebook, and Team Forum pages to go after Fleury hard...Normally I wouldn't care, as I said, to some extent it's expected...But then they went after Fleury's dark, ugly, and terrifying past...They went hard at Fleury's past alcoholism, and drug-abuse...Both that were clearly brought on, or enhanced by what they got on him about next...Him being sexual abused by his Junior Hockey coach, Graham James...

Anyone who read his book, which I'm sure plenty of these people did, would know that Fleury started drinking heavily in his teens to try an cope with the abuse...He was so terrified at night, he needed to blackout to sleep...As he got older, he was still haunted by it, and afraid to sleep...So then the drugs got in the mix...

Rivalries are fine...Talking shit with some one you don't agree with is okay...Ripping a guy about getting sexually abused as a kid, because he didn't think your team would get through the first round of the playoffs...That's just a cunt move Vancouver fans...I hope Luongo blows both his knees out!

I'll stick with Theo!

Later, The Beeze.