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Hopefully, NBC will get the other half of the US deal. They do a decent job.
But ESPN will give hockey more visibility.Comment
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eight. wins. in.a.row.Comment
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Article on NHL Ref Tim Peel losing his job after being caught on a hot mic.
Be sure to read the very last line...the Editor comment.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...dators-penaltyComment
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That link was literally, no help.Comment
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I look forward to his discussion of it on the Puck Soup podcast.Originally posted by WOM View PostComment
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Just finished watching the Islanders @ Flyers game of Monday. That Sorokin really found his groove lately.Comment
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They aren't yet an Al Arbour level juggernaut, but the Isles are a very good hockey teamComment
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I'm beginning to think that this Islander team is somewhat the equivalent of the late 70's one that needed one final piece, and got it in drafting Mike Bossy. This team also need one monster goalscorer.Comment
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I thought you were going to say Butch GoringComment
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Canucks called for too many men on he ice twice in rapid succession
Jets score on each power playComment
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To be honest I'm somewhat surprised that they have editors reading these articles. ESPN's online ice hockey coverage these days is... odd.Originally posted by WOM View Post
They got rid of their entire stable of NHL writers (most notably Pierre LeBrun and Scott Burnside) during one of their recent purges and replaced them with just two people - Greg Wyshynski and Emily Kaplan.
Kaplan writes well enough but seems to have been landed with the human-interest-behind-the-hockey stuff rather than being allowed to report on the actual, y'know, ice hockey, and Wyshynski seems to think he's still writing a fanblog for Yahoo instead covering one of the Big Four sports for of one of the US' major broadcasters.
Maybe since they're showing more NHL games on ESPN nowadays they might employ more than two folk to write about it.Last edited by blameless; 25-03-2021, 17:10.Comment
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They just ooze that confidence of a team that is used to winning. Fall 2-0 behind at the Bruins? No worries! There is still plenty of time to make things right. Just swat away that double minor penalty at the start of the second period and see where the game goes. We're not in a hurry. Good things will come our way inevitably! It's quite a sight to behold.Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostComment
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That's the hope. And that it might be included on the ESPN.com homepage as one of the default top options along the top, rather than buried in alphabetical order on the pull down list somewhere below cricket, F1, golf, the G League, and the CFL. (The CFL link just goes to TSN).Originally posted by blameless View Post
ESPN's "news" priorities definitely align with their rights deals. They tried to make Arena Football happen for a while, for example.
Perhaps this will lead to greater collaboration with TSN. TSN has ESPN content, but ESPN could just use a lot of TSN's hockey coverage and personalities.Comment
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All good ideas
We have discussed before how Barry Trotz is an extremely good NHL coach, and he is doing it again on the island
Habs get Eric Staal for some magic beans in the first round of the Buffalo (dumpster) fire saleComment
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The NCAA men’s tournament has begun.
Because of COVID, St. Lawrence had to surrender the spot they earned by winning the ECAC. So Quinipiac got their ECAC spot. But they were in anyway, so Notre Dame got in. But then, after it was too late to add more teams, Notre Dame has to drop out. As did Michigan. So BC and Duluth advance by default.
Bemidji upset Wisconsin, 6-3.Comment
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North Dakota currently cruising over American International, a school that I have never gotten a handle on
if BU beat St. Cloud State tomorrow, they will play BC for a place in the Frozen Four
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Minnesota Duluth and North Dakota going to a fourth overtime in FargoComment
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UMD wins it in the fifth overtime
There will be at least two Minnesota schools in the final four (there were five in the last eight)Comment
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There are three Minnesota teams in the Frozen Four, but the flagship university will not be one of them because they got blown out by Minnesota State, AKA Mankato State.Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
For the last ten years, U of M has consistently been the third or fourth best team in the state. Not what they want, obviously.
Impressive that UMass is back despite losing Cale Makar. UMass were a non-entity in college hockey - though not as bad as their football team - for most their history until just a few years ago and now it looks like they'll be consistently in the top half of Hockey East.
Poor showing for the Big Ten overall. Got four teams of the seven teams in the tournament, but one of them didn't really belong. Two never played a game and the other two underperformed.
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I don't fully understand the dynamics behind that phenomenon in Minnesota. I don't think that it is grounded in admission standards or academics workload. Perhaps the administration sees hockey as a way to build the profile of the other campuses. That said, I'm also unclear on just how integrated all of the public universities in the state are.
UMass lost 29 games in Carvel's first year of 2016. What he has done there is remarkable, though it is also perplexing that they we ever that much worse than the satellite campus in Lowell.Comment
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Hockey has built the profile of the other schools. Duluth has been strong for a long time and St Cloud has had success before - they were essentially founded by Herb Brooks. MSU’s emergence is recent.
Penn State used to have a sort of the same problem in wrestling. Pennsylvania is the top state for high school wrestling, but PSU had to compete with about 10 other in state programs for recruits, including a lot that aren’t D1 in any other sport. A lot of them are from small towns and would rather go to a school like Lock Haven U than Penn State.
But with Cael Sanderson, they’ve been able to recruit very well nationally and in state.
UMass didn’t start playing D1 until the 90s, as I recall, and they still share a facility with basketball, which can’t be ideal. The program played outside in the 60s and 70s, apparently, before that became untenable. UMass sports in general underachieve for a the flagship school in a rich state, I guess.
Lowell had a very strong D2 team for a while before going D1 and may be the most exciting thing going on in Lowell as their AHL teams seem to come and go every few years. They have a long-running bitter rivalry with Merrimack.Comment
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UMass (Amherst) has always had a very conflicted relationship with "big time" sports, largely due to the fact that much of the faculty and administration identifies much more with the other private, small liberal arts schools in the consortium (Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Hampshire) rather than with UConn, Maine, UNH or Vermont.Comment
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