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From: [email protected] (Daniel Lyddy)
Subject: Re: Too Many Europeans in NHL
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In article [email protected] (Richard John Rauser) writes:
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> Ten years ago, the number of Europeans in the NHL was roughly a quarter
>of what it is now. Going into the 1992/93 season, the numbers of Euros on
>NHL teams have escalated to the following stats:
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>Canadians: 400
>Americans: 100
>Europeans: 100
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> Here's the point: there are far too many Europeans in the NHL. I am sick
You know, you're absolutely right. I think we should round up all those
players of European descent and ship 'em back to where they came from. Let's
see, with whom should we start? I dunno, Lemieux? Hmmm...sounds like he
has *French* blood in him!!! Hey! France is part of Europe! Send that
Euro-blooded boy back!!!
Sheesh.
> I'm all for the creation of a European Hockey League, and let the Bures
>and Selannes of the world play on their own continent.
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> I just don't want them on mine.
I don't think it would be hard to find some Native Americans (or Native
Canadians, for that matter) who would dispute your claim to this great
continent of *ours.* Ya see, if you believe the anthropologists, we're *all*
immigrants of some sort. If you really don't think that Mogilny, Bure,
Selanne, et al have improved the NHL, then I'm not sure you understand the
game.
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Dan Lyddy [email protected] University of California at Berkeley
"No, I don't play hockey. Not too many brothers do." -- Deion Sanders