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Originally Posted by Matty81
Visited sportsnet.ca this morning to see this as the headline story:
"The Incredibly Overrated Kris Russell"
written, as you might have guessed, by one of their two resident Oilers writers (it's the basement blogger one, not Spector)
An assassination piece on our broadcaster's website, at a time when he has been mentioned as a potential piece in trade rumors for a player the Oilers want seems a little suspect to me at best and hack journalism at worst - not saying I think Russell will be traded for Hamonic or has anywhere near that value, to be clear.
I don't think this piece is going to impact how GMs see Russell, but after the dumpster fire that the Oilers have been the last couple of years seeing Sportsnet calling out Kris Russell with a headline article by an Oilers writer just really irritates me.
It made me wonder - should the flames have a writer doing Calgary stories once in a while on sportsnet (maybe they do and I've missed them?)?
They have an amazing play by play team but the website coverage and analysis of the team is terrible in my opinion. Outside of the PBP team, there is nobody with a flames perspective doing analysis between periods the way the Oilers have Debrusk and Canucks have Valk.
Anybody else care? Indifferent? Happy with the coverage our broadcaster provides outside of play by play? |
Put me in the indifferent category. A lot of sportsnet writers aren't great to begin with. I also feel like every article these days analyzing players always uses Corsi or Fenwick. Yawn. I just wonder if Corsi or Fenwick is the easy way out for a writer that doesn't watch the games. If you read the article you have to wonder if this Willis guy even watches Flames games.
What I'd like to see is some video analysis done on a players or teams strength/weaknesses. The smaller details that impact a game that a GM would notice, but go unnoticed by normal hockey fans.