NASCAR IS Hockey!

Plain and simply……The NHL is STILL king to me. How can you beat the balls that NHL players continually display night in AND out! Bad-Ass Detroit Red Wing Defenseman Tomas Holmstrom scored 2 goals…HIS way Tuesday night in the playoffs against the NOT so Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Tuesday night…HIS way! For you NBA and Open Wheel fans….let me enlighten you on Holmstrom’s WAY! He camps out in the crease…(That’s the small piece of real estate) DIRECTLY in front of the oppositions Goal. And he gets assaulted, mauled, abused and hammered on by that SAME opposing team. But he NEVER relents. Hangs in there JUST long enough to fire in any rebound, or mis-direct any shot in his vicinity. Usually into the BACK of the net! In short….Tomas Holmstrom is a stud! A NASCAR Truck if you will!

And the other night a few dumb ass ducks did what THEY thought was necessary after Tomas had scored his 2 goals…..they Kevin Harvicked or Juan Pablo’d him! But even worse…they took him out from behind! Gutless! But predictable for a franchise that couldn’t SPELL Stanley Cup….let alone capture one! But that’s WHY I love Hockey…and why Hockey and NASCAR live side by side! No offense to Indy or Champ Car, or supercross…ALL damn tremendous in their own right. But NASCAR, stock car, and Truck racing is the closest thing to God’s sport…(Hockey) on wheels!

NASCAR trucks going 3 or even 4 wide into a corner at Daytona is like Holmstrom, Pronger, and Bertuzzi all converging on a puck! And it’s bad ass!! And so is Jeff Gordon punching out Denny Hamlin in the final pit stop of the day to get his 3^{rd Victory in 4 weeks! And then laughing in your face! Most importantly…it breeds confidence, in their sport….and in the hearts! We’ve already seen lids of NASCAR toboggans sporting bands/musicians and even lame TV shows on Fox! But whether it’s IN th3 paint scheme…or in a Press Release…..the NHL lives. In NASCAR! And THAT"S why I love Sunday’s whether they’re carrying sticks…or Stick shifts!}

^{Oh yeah....after Holmstrom took 13 stitches in his HEAD ....he was BACK on the ice 14 minutes later. JUST long enough to set up the final goal in a 5 to ZERO ass beating of the ducks! Sounds like Todd Bodine to me? You? Let me know at luggn@ speedfreaks.tv}

This is Nuttz on NASCAR