THE STARS WERE ALIGNED FOR NBC

Damn the Dallas Stars for screwing up a perfectly good self-righteous rant.

A Detroit Red Wings sweep in the Western Conference final, followed by the Pittsburgh Penguins icing the Philadelphia Flyers in the East final tonight, would have been kismet. It would have meant that NBC and the NHL might have ended up in a messy little row over the sudden absence of any hockey game to show on Saturday more...