[News] NHL announces sale of Coyotes

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Bouw N Arrow

In case anybody cares, here's the press conference.

http://video.coyotes.nhl.com/videoce...ed-share-video

There was zero canadian media there, a big change from when media came down for council meetings and a WELCOME one at that!

Maybe ZERO Canadian tourists can come down there too, and watch your attendance figures get cut in half. Would you WELCOME that?

[valo403]

Originally Posted by pylon

Maybe ZERO Canadian tourists can come down there too, and watch your attendance figures get cut in half. Would you WELCOME that?

Give me a break, the Canadian media has been scummy throughout this entire process, and shockingly when they can't slam Phoenix and play some jingoistic 'it's our game give it back' card they don't show up.

[Brannigans Law]

Originally Posted by valo403

Give me a break, the Canadian media has been scummy throughout this entire process, and shockingly when they can't slam Phoenix and play some jingoistic 'it's our game give it back' card they don't show up.

Ya imagine that, now that the team has no chance to leave for Quebec, Canadian media stopped showing up. What a WEIRD turn of events.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

Ya imagine that, now that the team has no chance to leave for Quebec, Canadian media stopped showing up. What a WEIRD turn of events.

If certain members of the media had been reporting on the story, rather than simply cheerleading for the demise of the Coyotes, then that might make sense. It was sleazy journalism from day 1 with a lot of writers and publications.

[sun]

Originally Posted by Bouw N Arrow

In case anybody cares, here's the press conference.

http://video.coyotes.nhl.com/videoce...ed-share-video

There was zero canadian media there, a big change from when media came down for council meetings and a WELCOME one at that!

Probably because it's 40+ degrees there right now. I mean, c'mon!

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by valo403

It was sleazy journalism from day 1 with a lot of writers and publications.

In other words, par for the course. Over the last couple of decades, journalism has been turning into a refuge for people who can't succeed at anything else. And among journalists, sports reporters have always been at the bottom of the heap.

There was a time — most of the 20th century — when journalism rose above its roots and actually managed to be a useful and respectable occupation. Now we're right back where we were when Mark Twain wrote this:

I tell you I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man's having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper. You turnip! Who write the dramatic critiques for the second-rate papers? Why, a parcel of promoted shoemakers and apprentice apothecaries, who know just as much about good acting as I do about good farming and no more. Who review the books? People who never wrote one. Who do up the heavy leaders on finance? Parties who have had the largest opportunities for knowing nothing about it.... You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

[flamesfan1297]

as long as the fans and everyone in that area supports the team then the saga is over for a while anyway

[troutman]

Originally Posted by flamesfan1297

as long as the fans and everyone in that area supports the team then the saga is over for a while anyway

Unless they can raise ticket prices, I think they will still lose $, even if every game is sold out.