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Ales Hemsky, Ryan Whitney And Preferential Media Treatment
One of the finest yearly traditions in Northern Alberta is the turning of the fanbase. Each year management sours on a player, notifies the media of their sour disposition, and allows nature to take it's course. The Edmonton media takes up it's role as Oilers valet and begins to question the...
Setting Up The Play
Setting up the play. Iginla handles this with an amazing amount of patience and decency. I'm not sure what she was getting at, she obviously had something in her head about making a play and just went into complete brain lock when the words came out of her mouth. I've been tipped off that the...
Ryan Whitney's Injury And The Edmonton Media
Silence is golden But my eyes still see. Silence is golden (golden) But my eyes still see. --"Silence Is Golden", The Four Seasons Ryan Whitney returned to the lineup on November 25th after four weeks of rest and rehab for a knee injury suffered against Vancouver on October 25th. From his first...
When The Mainstream Media Ignores Your Team
To understand the plight of the hockey fan in Oklahoma City, look no further than the order of links over at NewsOK.com/sports. The online portal for the largest newspaper in Oklahoma has placed Barons hockey just in front of "Golf" and right after "Redhawks". Lost in the sea of college sports,...
Ryan Whitney - Three Different Takes, Two Are Worthwhile
Edmonton's latest in a long line of extremely talented but troubled defensemen, (Sheldon Souray's injury and personal issues, Joni Pitkanen's perceived effort and locker room issues) Ryan Whitney, has been getting a bit of a mixed reaction in the Edmonton press since his arrival. I'll start with...
Mainstream media fumbles hockey: Incident #6,817
I get in my car to head to pick-up hockey Wednesday night, the night the Red Wings clinched a rematch in the Stanley Cup finals. The radio is tuned to a sports station that has a decent morning show, but in the evening they run one of those syndicated shows by a loudmouth generalist who rants about...
Curious and irrelevant: The NHL chase for ESPN and the casual fan
The problem is the league itself. How do you bottle what they're serving now at the United Center, and at The Joe in Detroit, and in Pittsburgh, Boston, etc., and make me -- the know-nothing borderline hockey follower -- into a full-fledged NHL fan, TV viewer and occasional paying customer?...
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