Top 10 Reasons why "Vs" Sucks

10. It seems like every time there is a game in HD or, at least what they're pawning off as HD, the feed goes out. As a hockey fan who has come to look fondly upon the "glow puck", I demand better from my hockey channels!

9. Does anyone else remember that this channel used to be called the "Outdoor Life Network"? Now they're pawning it off as cool by calling it "Vs". I don't really get who the channel is playing against. As the only channel on tv with the rights to showing hockey, they should really change their name to something more appropriate. From now on, we shall think of "Vs" as standing for "Very S****y.

8. The announcers for "Vs" are complete idiots. If I have to sit an listen to Mike "Doc" Emrick (Proof of his PhD to come later), Brian "I need a haircut" Engblom and Joe "Benign" Beninanti one more time I might freak out. Thank God that when my team is playing it is blacked out on "Vs". Later in this list, I will explain who SHOULD be doing the play by play...

7. Who really cares about watching teams from the Western Conference? Really, do you care about watching the Vancouver Canucks play the Dallas Stars? An aging Mike Modano vs....wait, who the hell is on the Canucks anyways?

6. A serious lack of Hockey on the actual channel. For a sport that plays 82 games a season per 30 teams, "Vs" might only show a hockey game twice a week?! How can you acclaim to be the channel for the NHL and NOT SHOW ANY F***ING GAMES?!!!!

5. "Vs" is available in significantly fewer television households than ESPN. As of April 2007 the channel was only availbe in 59 percent of the households in the LA media market. In contrast to ESPN and ESPN2 that were available in, well....ALL OF THEM!

4. Okay, I will admit this next one is an isolated incident that the channel has thus rectified, but it must be brought up because of how awful and classless it was on the part of the "Vs" programmers. In Game 1 of the 2007 Western Conference quarterfinals between the Dallas Stars and the Vancouver Canucks, Versus cut away during the third overtime intermission to show a paid infomercial in many markets. Some Versus viewers were left unable to see the fourth overtime in which Henrik Sedin scored the winning goal at 18:06 into the period. Awful...

3. Barry "Brown Pin-Striped Suit" Melrose. Where fore art thou Barry?

2. Okay, in reference to the beginning of the list when I spoke about the current announcers of "Vs", I must say my utter dissapointment that such acclaimed hockey analysts as Darren "Juicy Rebound" Pang, Ray "Chicken Parm" Ferraro, and the greatest hockey play-by-play man of all time Sam "Comb-over" Rosen are NOT DOING the games for "Vs"...if you had a channel trying to highlight the best and brightest of the sport, shouldn't you have the best and brightest from around the league working with you?!

1. "Vs" you are just not ESPN. Shame on you "Vs", Shame on you...