Mojo In The Morning Joins the Fight against the Octopus Finings

[dw185 0]

There's this one too, seems to be doing fairly well.

http://www.petitiononline.com/octopus8/petition.html

i just signed that one too. that one has like 4,000+ sigs on it. nice.

[Majsheppard 203]

Here is the letter I wrote, tell me any way to improve it. The Subject is

Congrats on a great job with the NHL.

You are ruining the game.

First you campaign against fighting with dumb rules and soil the tradition of the game now you attack a tradition near and dear to the hearts of an important fan base.

You have threatened Al Sobotka with a 1$0,000 dollar fine, this does not fly with me. I can honestly say I hated you before for your actions and lack of spirit toward the game, now I can say I wish you all the worst. I hold nothing back in my contempt for you and shall remain civil by withholding the awful things I would like to see happen to you. Why not just quit? No one likes you. This goes especially in Detroit where we see this new mandate from Bettman as petty and without reason.

Slime coming off of the Octopus is just silly. Mainly because they are boiled and have no slime to come off of it! This is just people like Brian Burke who has envy of our tradition and spite towards Holland and the organization demanded it of you and you have no backbone to say no.

We have been in the league longer then nearly every other team, and the Octopus tradition has existed for more then half a century. Al swinging the Octopus is merely a part of that and harms no one. Never has the ice fallen apart because of it, just ask Al himself. He has been credited time and time again with maintaining on of the best surfaces of Ice in the NHL. To think of this as an important issue is moronic even for someone like you. What next? Are you going to forbid players from spitting on the ice? Or maybe sweating? This is obviously on par with the "reason" you give for forbidding the Octopus twirling.

If you really wanted to improve the ice, you would remove all the hot air you bellow from the arenas and never show up again. I hope you show up to present the cup the Detroit this year. I'd love to twirl an octopus into your face. Don't worry I'll boil, can you keep your slime to yourself?

Any thoughts before I send it along?

[wingfanatic4alltime 32]

Whats next fans cant throw hats on the ice for a hat trick give me a break

[evilmrt 636]

I actually like this crap! This just makes more people hate Bettman....which is a great thing, folks

Can't wait to have him walk out and present the Cup to Detroit and have some people throw octopi at his dumb ass while the rest of the arena boos him.

[Lollipop 8]

This kind of stuff is such a blow to fans. Octopus tossing and Al's swining are traditions! When Jordin Tootoo picked one off the ice a couple games ago, I was thinking "Where is Al???" and then I thought "Jordin better watch that...he's going to jinx his team." Looks like he did.

I'd pay 10$ to the Al fund to see him swing it over his head and give Gary a big, well-deserved proverbial middle finger.