Wings Will Face a Huge Test Over Next 2 Weeks

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Do you finish work at around 10pm, hang around for an hour answering the same questions every night, catch a flight around midnight, arrive at your destination 3am, get to bed 4am, have a few hours sleep, and start the day again? Do you have to give 100% maximum effort every single time you go to work? Do you have a boss like Mike Babcock who can end your life with just a single Babcockian Death Stare?

One of the things that really annoys me about fans is how little they take account of travel upon top athletes. It's a lot like working shifts, and anyone who works them knows that sometimes, and it can't be helped, is that sometimes you just feel like ****. I don't care how much you're paid, if there's no gas in the tank, there's no gas in the tank.

I didn't know you worked in investment banking!

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I'm just pointing out that the whole "hockey players shouldn't get tired because they get millions of dollars" line of thinking is a fallacy. Everyone seems to forget that both sets of players in a hockey game are paid millions of dollars. If one team has had 2 days off and slept in their own beds, and the other played last night and didn't get to bed till 4am its a no brainer which team will have more energy.

For all that that is done to keep the players fresh its still a widely accepted fact that a team playing the 2nd game in a back to back is at a serious disadvantage. Just like the first game back after a long road trip- remember the appaling 3-1 loss to Montreal last season after a long road trip out west? Babcock wasn't even bothered about it and said he'd had it circled as a loss from the day the schedule was announced.

Its not exactly a fallacy my friend....

What can millions of dollars and a hockey contract buy you?

* Maids to do your house cleaning

* Nannies to watch your kids

* Personal Chefs to cook for you

* Companies to do every single piece of yard word imagineable ( I am up to 63 bags of mulched leaves in the last 3 weeks on top of 40+ hours of work... how many did mr. Zetterberg handle you think?

* Excellent health care from top notch providers.... any little bit of pain or discomfort, they have the $$'s to get it looked at and fixed

* Plush travel on Red Bird One

these are just a few... the more money you make the more you don't have to worry about the little things that can be a ***** to the regular blue collar worker

I am not against them making the millions (they made great choices and are gifted at what they do) but I am against the arguement that playing 8 games in 13 nights is so much harder then blue collar workers. They don't have it tough, they have it quite easy and people to do things for them that the rest of us all have to do.