NHLPA '93 Twenty Minute Challenge
You have made a good decision by coming here because now you can see some really out of control NHLPA action. Yes I'm talking triple hat trick games for a single player and over a hundred checks! What I'm basically going to do is play a game and then post the stats and results of the game here. For now I'm just going to have one challenge posted, but I'll probably put up a few more over time. Below is the first challenge and this game is really personal. It's New York (played by me) vs. Long Island (haha) and they are looking for some respect, but all they are going to find is one serious ass kicking! The only thing undetermined is just how bad of a ass kicking it will be. Well I am going to be turning part of this page over to Ron Barr so you can be assured you are in good hands. We are going to recap this game, but wait umm first Ron Barr has the pre-game report for us...I guess
Sorry to cut you off there Ron but we have to get to the game highlights the pre-game report isn't too important after the game is already over. I'll check back in with you later to see what's on your mind.
This is one of the prettiest goals you'll see scored in this game and it completed the first hat trick for Mark Messier. New York is up 9-0 already! Ron now will give us his thoughts on this particular play...
Oh can I actually talk now or are you going to cut me off again?
No Ron, I am not going to cut you off this time. Feel free to speak what's on your mind.
I'm sorry I don't have a bigger role in the game! EA had originally planned to use me throughout the whole game, but they cut that deal short.
That sucks Ron I never knew they did that to you. Well can you tell me why they had real players in this game and not real teams? I mean in their last game they had real NHL teams, but not real players. What's up with that?
Well everyone at EA was trying to think up of ways to improve the game NHL Hockey. A idea that came up was maybe they could score a license with the NHLPA. I thought it was a good idea where else could you have Rick Tocchet body check Adam Oates or have Jeremy Roenick rip a shot past Patrick Roy?
You stole that line from my site you bastard!
Uhh I didn't intend to it's just so well said. Hey don't you want to know why EA had real players in this game, but not real teams?
Well I'll let you off this time, tell me why.
Well after EA secured the NHLPA license they soon realized that they didn't have enough money to get the NHL License. I then commented that it would be silly to gain one license and lose the other, but they paid all that money they were left without a choice. That's where the city idea came in. Hey it worked for Blades of Steel.
True Blades of Steel was a fine hockey game. I sorta figured it was a money issue, but I was just wondering if there was a funnier story behind it. So what about this whole involvement you claimed you were supposed to have?
Oh yeah, EA originally came up with the idea that I'd be doing coverage for the entire game. Well they did my pre-game report and then had me doing jobs like bringing the execs their coffee or scrubbing their toilets. When I asked them when they were going to shoot more footage of me they told me they had no use for me. I was then escorted out of the building by some very large men.
Wow that's harsh, but hey you appeared again in NHL '94. Why did you agree to that? This game also had real teams and real players!
Yeah with 93's great sales they had enough to get both licenses. I agreed to do the '94 edition because they promised me this was the game I was going to shine in. I got screwed again though.
EA is pretty heartless, so I guess you turned them down for the 95 edition eh? As they had some John Shrader guy.
That's right I told them to go screw themselves. Apparently John liked doing just the pre-game report, but EA then just got rid of of the thing entirely.
Well hey you had the last laugh! Poor John though, he finally got a job he actually liked and it's gone now. Well we kind of went off topic here. I was supposed to be getting your comments on that particular play oh well there is another highlight from the first perioid. Let's look at it now!
We go from one of the nicest goals I've seen in this game to one of the stupidest goals I've seen. What do you think of this one Ron and the lack of effort?
Yeah I don't know how anyone in their right mind could do such a blantantly stupid thing! Any friends he had on the team won't associate with him anymore. The effort seen by that one player is certainly unexcusable.
That guy on the ice was clearly just watching the play unfold and there is no good reason for his actions there. Hey and who in their right mind would associate with a guy named Wayne McBean anyway. I can't believe I'm even associating with you! You got suckered into doing that dumb pre-game report again!
Hey that's enough! I didn't agree to do this with you just so you could make fun of me!
Alright I'll stop, well that about does it for the first period let's check out the game stats as of this point.
Yea Long Island scored a goal it was a pretty weak shot that just went in and really should have been stopped, but it hardly matters as New York scored twenty three goals! Well it's time to see what the second period holds in store for Long Island, but it's going to likely be the same merciless beating. Infact it starts immediately after the puck is dropped.
You can't make this stuff up. I've never seen such ridiculousness before! Glenn Healey basically just lets this one go in as he spreads his legs creating a huge lane for the puck to slide through. Ron do you think Long Island should maybe consider a goalie switch? Do you think Fitzpatrick could do any better?
Well normally a team would pull their goalie if he allows twenty four goals, but it looks like they are going to stick with Healey.
It really wouldn't matter if they pulled him or not I guess because Fitzpatrick would be just as easy to score on anyways. I guess they might as well let Healy go down with the ship even though it sunk like five minutes into the game. Here's a interesting goal that happened later in the period.
What do you think of this goal Ron? I heard you have no morals.
What do you mean by that?
Oh well never mind, this about ends it for the second period. So let's take this time to view the second period game stats. New York didn't score quite as many goals as they did in the first period, and Long Island got two okay goals. Richter flopped after the shots and their team was able to put two into the back of the net. I guess I really can't bash Long Island's goals because even the pass trick goals aren't that great, but it's just funny that they work a lot.
New York is six for six on the powerplay! That's quite remarkable and the checks have already passed a hundred. It's time for the third period highlights. We start off with what all of you came to see yes you probably were let down that there wasn't any fighting shown during my review, but prepare for a treat as we have two heavyweights going at it. Long Island just couldn't take it anymore and this fight ensued shortly after the third period started. I'm surprised it took them so long!
Words weren't even needed to describe this fight as the pictures definitely spoke for themselves. This wasn't the whole fight it was so long that the replay cut off some of it, but I think these six pictures get off the intensity seen in them. In the end Kris King knocks Richard Pilon's sorry ass to ice. What do you think of the fights Ron? Are they just as exciting to you as there are to me?
Yes that fight was definitely exciting! I heard fights were removed from 94's edition because too many kids were imitating what they saw and hitting each other. The fights weren't put back in the game until 96's edition.
Maybe the blood was a little out of place, but removing the fighting from a hockey game is just blasphemy. I guess we all know these videogames alone are the cause of all of the world's problems though. Well Ron and I have one of the best sports bloopers ever seen! I know people just can't get enough of those crazy sports bloopers! So check this one out!
I honestly cannot decide if it would of been funnier seeing the puck go in or hearing the sound of the puck bouncing off the post. I think this was even worse than the play Long Island made in the first period! The goalie is going off for the extra man because there was a delayed penalty on New York. So instead of taking advantage of this, the guy fires the puck at his own team mate! I would ask Ron what he thought of this, but he was hungry so he went to make himself a sandwich. He should be back shortly though. New York hit the fifty goal mark around the ten minute mark so that's a accomplisment for them. Long Island actually managed to score another two goals, but eh no big deal really. Hey Ron's back! Did you enjoy your sandwich?
My sandwich was very good, thanks for asking. So what's next?
That's about it really, I think this is the end of the first twenty minute challenge.
Don't we have the three stars and the game stats to go over?
Yeah we do have that, but that's it for the highlights. Let's look at the Three Stars of the game. I don't think any of us are surprised by the fact that all three are from New York. The final score was 59-5 and I wonder if I could ever hit a 100 in a game. Do you think the game could even display three digits Ron?
I've never seen a hundred goals scored in a game. Maybe that's a new challenge huh? Do you think you are up for it?
Are you dissing me? Do you know what I heard?! After EA canned you in '93 they used the money they were going to pay you instead on getting the rights to use the Pro Set logo in the game. How does it feel to lose out to a stupid logo?
Okay that is it, I'm out of here! You can finish this on your own!
Well I guess Ron has left me, oh well. Here are the Three Stars and the end game stats.
New York got called for a lot of penalities this final period and went 8/9 on the power play. New York had thrown 201 checks compared to Long Island's pitiful 49. Well lastly will be the top ten goal scorers for New York.
I was kind of upset when I realized I didn't get a triple hat trick, but I did get three double hat tricks! At least that makes me happier. That ends the Twenty Minute Challenge and wow this turned out differently than I had expected it to be. I was originally planning on just listing stats mostly, but then I thought maybe I could get Ron in on this and he agreed to do this with me. I'm sure when I do another one of these I can get Ron to do it with me again if you'd like. Well that's it, I hope you enjoyed the NHLPA '93 Twenty Minute Challenge.
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