Telegram editor calls NHL terrorists

Bud Barth, assistant sports editor at the Telegram and Gazette, compared the NHL leadership to al Qaida in an ill-fated column looking ahead at the Bruins' off-season. After trotting out the standard rants about the ineptitude of the Bruins front office, he turned his sights on the NHL and inexplicably finished his column with this:

If this were the Professional Female Mud-Wrestling Association, maybe [the NHL] could hold my interest for 10 months of the year. But this is ice hockey, which ranks fifth among the four major sports, and is even less compelling when the temperature outside is 90 degrees.

Which is why, as long as the NHL has a hand in the Bruins' immediate future, it sure feels like the spoked-B limousine is being chauffeured by al-Qaida.

Are you kidding me? Comparing NHL brass to an organization that has killed thousands of innocent people in America and around the world just is not funny. Bud Barth should retract his lame attempt at humor and apologize.

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