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Old 01-25-2024, 05:37 PM   #1429
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Originally Posted by Blaster86 View Post
Canucks media across the board ran with sensationalist and incredibly negative articles and headlines.
... Really?

I just googled the articles and they all have headlines like "Tocchet offers rare critique of Pettersson", or "Tocchet calls for better play from Pettersson", or "Tocchet wants more from Pettersson". Which doesn't seem like in any way a sensationalist overstatement of what he said in the actual quote:
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“I haven’t liked his game the last three or four games,” Tocchet said. “We gotta get him going.”

“I think he’s got to skate,” Tocchet went on, when asked about what in particular he thinks Pettersson needs to do more of to get back to himself. “He’s got to start skating a little bit. I think he’s good with the moves sometimes, but I think when you have speed and make those moves, that’s when he’s at his best.”
Only Sportsnet has the headline "Tocchet calls out Pettersson". Overall it does not seem like a case of toxic media to me at all.
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