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Post by MikeC on Mar 8, 2018 19:27:53 GMT -4
Check out this thread on the KHL:
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Post by Reesor on Mar 9, 2018 7:24:25 GMT -4
Yah I was *this* close to posting that once I read it. Sad for the fans that follow the KHL, and sad for democracy in general. Our biggest gripe in the NHL is the length of suspensions. I suppose it could be worse.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Mar 9, 2018 13:35:06 GMT -4
Yah I was *this* close to posting that once I read it. Sad for the fans that follow the KHL, and sad for democracy in general. Our biggest gripe in the NHL is the length of suspensions. I suppose it could be worse. But this stuff is where the media needs to exert its own influence and simply stop covering the league. At this point it's almost like a circus act where people are paying more attention to see how it turns out...which in a way just benefits Putin. Call out the players who are taking part in the charade. The coaches and management allowing it to happen. But over the last 15 years the North American media, due to who has bought everything over those 15 years, have stopped being journalists and started being extensions of corporations giving us information but only when it was ok to release it and forget about legitimate opinion. Here in Canada Bell and Rogers control everything. They own the media, the sports stations, the teams, the naming rights on rinks, stadiums...and Rogers helped get their 12 year NHL package by essentially promising almost zero controversial coverage(A legitimate hot stove in 2nd intermission of HNIC vs Kipper and Friedman telling us things they've usually already reported) and more fluff pieces(hello Hometown Hockey) as they didn't like that TSN had more opinion based coverage that didn't always reflect well for their product. |
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Post by Reesor on Mar 9, 2018 13:58:08 GMT -4
Yah I was *this* close to posting that once I read it. Sad for the fans that follow the KHL, and sad for democracy in general. Our biggest gripe in the NHL is the length of suspensions. I suppose it could be worse. But this stuff is where the media needs to exert its own influence and simply stop covering the league. At this point it's almost like a circus act where people are paying more attention to see how it turns out...which in a way just benefits Putin. Call out the players who are taking part in the charade. The coaches and management allowing it to happen. But over the last 15 years the North American media, due to who has bought everything over those 15 years, have stopped being journalists and started being extensions of corporations giving us information but only when it was ok to release it and forget about legitimate opinion. Here in Canada Bell and Rogers control everything. They own the media, the sports stations, the teams, the naming rights on rinks, stadiums...and Rogers helped get their 12 year NHL package by essentially promising almost zero controversial coverage(A legitimate hot stove in 2nd intermission of HNIC vs Kipper and Friedman telling us things they've usually already reported) and more fluff pieces(hello Hometown Hockey) as they didn't like that TSN had more opinion based coverage that didn't always reflect well for their product. I guess there are two problems: One is that the media is not necessarily in the middle, as we can plainly see by CNN vs Fox News in the states. The other is that media outlets thrive on controversy and drama. They wouldn't stop covering the KHL even if morally, it's the right thing to do. Controversy and drama = viewership. For the amount of bashing CNN does of the current American President, I'm sure they are raking in the advertising revenue because of it. I'm inclined to think the KHL will dig their own grave by running their business in this fashion. But players who gets paid more there than they would playing hockey in North America may not care about a fixed league if they make their money. Fans might not be particularly fond of a fixed league though. |
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Post by MikeC on Mar 9, 2018 18:37:35 GMT -4
Yah I was *this* close to posting that once I read it. Sad for the fans that follow the KHL, and sad for democracy in general. Our biggest gripe in the NHL is the length of suspensions. I suppose it could be worse. But this stuff is where the media needs to exert its own influence and simply stop covering the league. At this point it's almost like a circus act where people are paying more attention to see how it turns out...which in a way just benefits Putin. Call out the players who are taking part in the charade. The coaches and management allowing it to happen. But over the last 15 years the North American media, due to who has bought everything over those 15 years, have stopped being journalists and started being extensions of corporations giving us information but only when it was ok to release it and forget about legitimate opinion. Here in Canada Bell and Rogers control everything. They own the media, the sports stations, the teams, the naming rights on rinks, stadiums...and Rogers helped get their 12 year NHL package by essentially promising almost zero controversial coverage(A legitimate hot stove in 2nd intermission of HNIC vs Kipper and Friedman telling us things they've usually already reported) and more fluff pieces(hello Hometown Hockey) as they didn't like that TSN had more opinion based coverage that didn't always reflect well for their product. Your suggestion is that the North American media give ~less~ coverage to the KHL? Unless I've consistently missed the nightly KHL hilites on Sportscentre, I'm not sure that is possible. And brave would be the Russian editor-in-chief who publishes a giant negative story about Putin. That's a quick way to end up dead from a mysterious heart attack. |
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Post by Mika on Mar 17, 2018 22:29:27 GMT -4
1-1 series so far, maybe Lokomotiv can pull off the upset
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Post by aquilae on Mar 22, 2018 18:30:36 GMT -4
5th overtime period just started. CSKA Moscow, Jokerit tied 1-1.
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