A better NHL

I've been brainstorming some ways to make the NHL a little more popular. The problem with the NHL is the up and coming young guys you don't know who they are like the Sidney Corsbys and Alexander Ovechkins tell me where they played before NHL??? Cause I don't know. Here are a few things that could help the NHL take notes NHL marketing team.

1. Makes sure Mark Cuban and Dan Marino become owners of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Mark Cuban would be a huge draw look what he did to the Dallas Mavericks he could do it with the Penguins who have Sidney Crosby who they could build around and is suppose to be the next big thing. Get Cuban in and you'll get some people interested.

2. NCAA you need to work with them to get more recognition to the up and coming players. Nobody gets to see the top talent unless they have local or regional coverage. Football and Basketball get nation wide coverage Hockey needs to find a way to get national coverage not just the national championship game. The NHL needs to work with the NCAA to try to get games on NBC, ABC, CBS, OLN. If you get people to follow kids through college they will follow to NHL. So try to get more television time for the game.

3. The DRAFT its something I really think the way it was changed could help the game. I don't like how you draft kids at 18 or 19 years old and they may not go play for 2 or 3 years if ever. I think they need to draft like the NBA and NFL once you get drafted you go and play for the team right away. A guy like Jonathan Towes from UND 18 years old gets drafted 3rd he can either sign or decide to play with UND a few more years. That puts a lot of stress on UND and any NCAA school not knowing wether he will be back or not. Allow him to decide when he wants to go into the draft when he gets drafted he goes plays. Also a guy like TJ Oshie was drafted like 27th by the Blues, but after the kind of year he had with UND this year his stock had to of rose even more and could be making more money. And when they draft kids at 18 or 19 and they don't come out right away fans of NHL teams kinda forget about them and the buzz is kinda lost for the kids who 2 or 3 years down the road might never play a single game. A lot of blabbing their but hopefully I got my point through. Basically the way they draft doesn't help the game.

Well those are just a few Ideas that I thought i'd share maybe me and tony will podcast a little about this the next podcast since its kinda slow sports news.