Death of a Hockey Blog

It appears that the New York Islanders have yanked their sponsorship of Chris Botta's long-time hockey blog, IslandersPointBlank.com. After a lengthy diatribe about how it wasn't feasible to start an independant hockey blog at this point in his career, Botta bid farewell...for the most part.

Maybe I am not the best person to give an opinion on this situation, as a lackluster blogger who can barely nip at the heels of any real news, but for all the people who have been begging to pay a subscription for Islanders Point Blank or corporate sponsorship just to keep it up and running, I have one thing to say to you: IT'S A BLOG!

Granted, it would be awesome for any blogger to be able to sit at their computer and spout their ideas and opinions for hours a day and get paid for it as a full-time job. Who wouldn't love that? But the people who follow these blogs like cults scare me a little bit. Honestly, I think the New York Islanders team moving to Kansas City might have been easier to swallow for some of these people than the news that they couldn't read the musings of Chris Botta every day.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the blog. I think it's insightful, honest and true to the team. However, I don't sit in front my computer hitting the "refresh" button waiting for the next post like some Islanders fans (you know who you are, don't deny it). If this one blog dies, there will still be dozens of others.

I'll probably catch a lot of flack for this post, because I know there are a lot of people out there who feel differently, but I'm okay with that. My advice to all of you who are freaking out over this: go out, have a beer, and get a life that doesn't involve sitting in front of a computer screen.

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Oh, and yeah, rally for the Lighthouse too!