"Jim, even though I'm just meeting you for the first time, I don't know why, I feel like an old friend to you. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Me too."

Jim and Li Guo are both self-made people who climb up step by step, so they both feel a little ruffian.

"Jim, I want to ask you a question."

"You're welcome, you have something to say."

"Why are the Pittsburgh penguins suddenly dead, I checked, the Pittsburgh penguins turned out to be the overlord of the NHL."

Jim smiled, "If you want to say it's complicated, it's also complicated, even I can't say it clearly, but it's simple, in fact, it's just a sentence, it's a lack of money." ”

As for why there is a lack of money, then Li Guo is embarrassed to ask further, judging from the experience of the football club, it is nothing more than two reasons, the first is like Dortmund in the past, spending money lavishly, and finally repaying the debt.

There is also a kind of Parma where the boss's operation is not as good as the next.

Of course, it may also be because of the financial crisis of '08, in short, no one wants to talk about why they don't have money.

"Is there anything I need to do tonight?" Li asked.

"No, I've already got a good reporter, and you can just watch the game with a smile when the time comes."

Li Guo smiled, it seems that any club will have its own mouthpiece.

*****

This NHL game is a game in the Eastern Division, and the two sides are pitting the Pittsburgh Penguins vs. New York Rangers.

If it was when the penguins were once smiling proudly, there should be no suspense in such a game, but it is difficult to say now.

Li Guo suddenly said: "The Pittsburgh penguins are a bit like the Brazilian team, which used to be brilliant and not very good lately. ”

Jim was also happy, he didn't know if the Brazilian team was a strong team, but Li Guo had a holiday with the Brazilian team, and he knew it.

"Li Guo, I will definitely bring the whole family to watch your match with Brazil, and I will also call on all my friends in the media to support the Chinese team, I believe that when you play, you will feel the atmosphere of the home stadium."

"Then thank you," Li Guo felt very happy, this was also one of his purposes, compared to Deng Jia, who only thought about the year, Li Guo's activity ability was much stronger.

In fact, when the game was going on, Li Guo didn't watch the game seriously, because he knew that someone was filming him, so he had to communicate with Jim from time to time, posing very intimately.

But the rest of the Chinese team felt the heat of an NHL game at the scene, and at the beginning of the game, the Pittsburgh Penguins Finnish foreign player drove the ball straight to the opponent's half, then circled behind the goal, and finally scored the ball from a tight angle on the other side.

1 to 0.

The Pittsburgh Penguins took the lead, Jim stood up and applauded, Li Guo also applauded, and the fans at the scene saw the team's manager on the big screen and shouted, "Jim, Jim, Jim." ”

"I now kind of understand why you Americans don't like football, which is really more intense than football," Mr. Li said.

"Wait and see, what is this? Huh,"

There was no time to catch your breath in the hockey game, and soon Pittsburgh's offense came again, this time it was the American player who controlled the ball, but the Russian player of the Rangers pounced directly on the American player, and the two men lost their balance at the same time, and threw heavily on the plexiglass baffle.

The referee slid over and awarded the Rangers a foul, but the Russian and American players completely ignored the referee and took off their hoods.

Then a very funny scene appeared, the teammates did not persuade the fight, the referee did not care, the two people were beating each other, and the fans stood up and cheered.

"Hehe, Jim, I've heard about fights in NHL games for a long time, but I'm still surprised when I see it, okay?"

"Very well," Jim's eyes sparkled as he spoke, and he was clearly excited, "Actually, the fans paid for tickets to come in just to see two things, scoring goals and fighting. ”

Ice hockey and rugby are probably the only two sports in the world where they can legally fight, Li Guo shook his head, and he was not used to it for a while.

After a while, the two sides stopped, and the game continued, and the Pittsburgh Penguins quickly made a comeback, scoring another goal from a long-range shot by a homegrown striker, and the score became 2-0.

The DJ on the scene is also great, while broadcasting the goal, while playing heavy metal music, Li Guo thinks the music is good, but it's a pity that there are no dancing hot girls.

"By the way, Jim, is it profitable to play ice hockey?"

"It's a little less than playing baseball, but it's more than playing in the NBA."

Li Guo is a bit staggering, because NBA players earn far more than football players, and even a rookie in the NBA can take millions of dollars casually.

Jim pointed to the Russian just now, "He only came to the NHL this year, and his first year's salary was $7 million. ”

Li Guo gave a thumbs up, "I earn a lot more than a football player." ”

"Is the salary the biggest burden on the team?"

Jim shook his head, "No, the biggest burden on the team is the promotion fee, you know, the income from tickets is very small, and most clubs in the United States earn from commercial partnerships, such as the Yankees, you know?" ”

"Well," Li Guo remembers that several players on the Chinese team had Yankee baseball caps, and Jim continued, "you know that baseball caps. ”

"Yes."

"My son also has one, 75 dollars a piece, how much can the Yankees make a year by selling hats?"

Jim continued: "In the past, the club's annual marketing was advertising, and half of the billboards on the highways around Pittsburgh used to be ours, but now it's useless, smart people are doing online marketing, and we're missing out. ”

With that, the game had come to the final quarter, the third quarter, and the Pittsburgh Penguins led 4-2. And the desperate away team has adopted the tactic of abandoning the goal, which is actually very similar to football, when it comes to the critical moment, the goalkeeper does not want the goal, go up to attack, that will be one more person.

It's just that in football, there are not many such tactics, and in ice hockey, such tactics are conventional tactics.

The New York Rangers poured out, the home team fans were nervous, and Mu Fei held Wang Dalei's hand tightly.

"It hurts,"

"I'm sorry," Mu Fei scratched his head.

"Why are you so nervous?"

This is the charm of ice hockey, unconsciously, in the more than an hour of the game, Mu Fei began to like this kind of sport, it was too intense, basically there was no garbage time for three quarters, it was either an attack or a fight, in short, it was worth the ticket money.

In the end, when Pittsburgh won the game, the Chinese players also jumped up, Li Guo stood up and applauded, the United States is indeed a football desert, but it may be a paradise for sports, after learning about the sports that Americans love, Li Guo wants to return his attention to football, and the Copa America game against Brazil is about to start.