In this obligatory episode the NHL only exists as a grim mockery of itself. confined to the Northeast.įaced with a world without the Kings, Sharks, or Ducks, our heroes huddle in a pile of garbage and cry until it's time for the next slide.Įpisode 4: The world where the Nazis won World War II. Today the league is a tiny afterthought in the U.S. Hockey never caught on in California and thus the NHL never again attempted to expand into non-traditional markets. Without Wayne, the Kings spiraled downward into irrelevance and were eventually contracted. The four Sliders debate staying in this world forever, but Meg confesses feeling "totally creeped out" by a world where everyone loves hockey, so they leave.Įpisode 3: The world where Wayne Gretzky never came to the Los Angeles Kings Everyone gets two weeks of vacation during the Stanley Cup Finals, free roller and ice rinks are more common than Starbucks, and stupid boring baseball is relegated to some BS TV network you have to special order from your cable company. In this joyous alternate-Earth, the NHL finally gets the respect and attention it deserves. Meg nearly breaks the Sliding timer trying to get to the next world as fast as possible.Įpisode 2: The world where hockey is the most popular sport in the United States. No one in the world has heard of Jonathan Cheechoo - not even his mom. Patrick Marleau signed with the Los Angeles Kings for a chance to win the Stanley Cup. In this bleak universe the Sharks are a bottom-of-the-barrel team, with 20-goal scorer Marco Sturm as their best player. Then he was sent to Philadelphia for more of the same shitty treatment, before finally retiring at age 30 to do ventriloquism and commercials full time. Instead of coming to the Sharks, Joe Thornton was traded to the Maple Leafs, where he was hated and blamed for everything even more than in Boston. The part of the girl is up for grabs - I vote for Spade.Ī full list of exciting episodes can be found after the jump!Įpisode 1: The world where Joe Thornton never came to the Sharks. I'll be Professor Maximillian Arturo, blustering physics genius, Rudy can be Rembrant Lee "Crying Man" Brown, racist caricature extraordinaire, and Earl can be Quinn Mallory, the effeminate nerd who spends all his time playing video games. And what if you can't find your way home?" All aboard!) "What if you found a portal to a parallel National Hockey League? What if you could Slide into a thousand different hockey worlds? Where it's the same year, and you're the same person, and the Maple Leafs are still terrible, but everything else is different. (The nerd train is now departing the station.
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