Look NBC I like you guys and gals. Really, I do. You show the Premier League soccer on NBCSN, and sometimes even on NBC, every Saturday morning. Then there’s Wednesday Night Hockey and that new show Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist which keep me entertained. I’m a fan. But please, PLEASE, stop whoever runs your NHLonNBC twitter account from making a fool of themselves. It’s not a good look.
A few weeks back the account asked
There are no wrong answers.⭐️ pic.twitter.com/Cxmu2QvJD4
— NBC Sports Hockey (@NBCSportsHockey) February 3, 2020
and I will cut them a break, it’s probably closer than I gave them credit for when I wrote about it. However, I still stand by my original post and take Makar all day every day over Hughes, even though the Vancouver Canucks Defenseman will give Makar a run for his money in this year’s Calder Memorial Trophy race.
HOWEVER, today you (the NHLonNBC account) just got ridiculous with this tweet.
There is no wrong answer. ⭐️ pic.twitter.com/V6b1KU0pCq
— NBC Sports Hockey (@NBCSportsHockey) February 26, 2020
As Irish Comedian Ed Byrne said in his stand up show ‘A Different Class’, “Are you fucking high?”
How is this even a question? To quote a young L.A. Kings fan from the game on Saturday night “he’s too fast. It’s not fair”. You take MacKinnon and if you don’t you need to re-evaluate your life because there’s obviously something missing.
Nathan MacKinnon ended last regular season on 99 points and added another 13 points in 12 playoff games with a team that was one game and a bad ref decision away from the Western Conference Finals. Eichal had an extended summer vacation thanks to the Buffalo Sabres again failing to make the playoffs.
The Nova Scotia native also has 84 points through 61 games this season and is on course to be in or around the 100 point mark again. This in a season he’s lost crucial players like Mikko Rantanen, Gabriel Landeskog and Nazem Kadri to injuries and at times carried the Colorado Avalanche to third in the Central Division.
Eichel’s Buffalo Sabres are currently eight points behind the Toronto Maple Leafs for the third playoff place in the Atlantic and ten points off the last wildcard spot in the East currently held by the Metropolitan Division’s Columbus Blue Jackets.
Don’t get me wrong, Eichel is a good player and he’s unlucky to be on a really bad team, but comparing him to a player only behind McDavid and Crosby as best players in the game today is unfair to Eichel and more importantly to this Colorado Avalanche fan it’s unfair to MacKinnon.
Avalanche sink Ducks
So please NBC, get this mad person running your NHLonNBC twitter account under control. There IS a wrong answer and not picking Nathan MacKinnon is as wrong as you can get.
