After watching it again at 11 PM last night, I still think it's the worst episode of South Park that I've ever seen (and I'm failry certain that I've seen every episode). They could have made their point without making the episode so depressing.
I think that was their entire point...the whole episode was rather somber and a bit depressing...who didnt want to see the South Park peewee hockey team win at the Pepsi center, and save the kid dying of cancer.
That the show ends with the Red Wings beating the crap out of a pee wee hockey team is so utterly ridiculous, it makes for a brilliant South Park moment.
And I kind of liked the announcer with the record player thing...sure it got old after a while.
The show was basically making fun of sappy Hollywood movie cliches...and did a very good job of it.
However, the episode did have a strange pace to it compared to the rest of this season...then again, they haven't done a "Stan" episode in a while.