#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

It's such a huge bummer, for many reasons, that Matthews is a Leaf, but the biggest reason is that he could've been Crosby's heir in terms of US hockey growth. I mean, McDavid too, but Matthews would be a much better fit, being US-born. I would much rather see his face in McDonald's and Gatorade ads than the US-born fucktruck we're stuck with now.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm not sure the kind of promotion that Crosby does in Pittsburgh really has much impact on hockey's popularity on a national level, though (except maybe influencing lots of Pittsburgh kids to play hockey, and some of them eventually reach the NHL), even though in Pittsburgh itself it obviously contributes massively to the market there. Crosby putting sticks in Pittsburgh kids' hands doesn't make people elsewhere more interested in watching hockey.

I'd guess that where Crosby playing in the US makes a difference is in the cultivation of geographical rivalries. It's clear that the broadcast schedule is determined not just by marketable teams, but marketable match ups, and those match ups are a draw specifically because Crosby being good and the Penguins being good have created new rivalries and made existing ones a bigger spectacle. Even if the Oilers and Flames both become great teams, that match up isn't going to get the US ratings of Pens-Caps.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Mayonnaise in general should be off limits. Especially in salad.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

It's the reality you live in, but I'm not surprised if you can't wrap your head around it. It also applies to pretty much every other ~cool slang phrase~ white fandom picks up and inevitably misuses.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, too bad there wasn't another great, top American hockey player that went to a US team in the last two drafts.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

da

No, it's true. If you haven't seen it, you either haven't been around those platforms or you've surrounded yourself with white people on them. If what you're saying is that calling white people mayo is nonsensical... lol @ white fragility.

(Also, brown and black people were calling Crosby mayo before @NHLFlyera decided it was his thing that made him ~cool and ~funny. But they were specifically making fun of his whitenesl, not just making fun of a guy they don't like on a rival team.)

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Right, and it's not just the appropriation of the ~cool slang that bugs me, it's also ~cool white people making fun of the ~~boring mayo white people, which... lmao, ok.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

There might have even been a few, a couple of them to good TV markets, including one fantastic player to a market NBC loves.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

But tuna salad is delicious and mayonnaise is a necessary part of that deliciousness. I will fight you on this.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

People in New England care too, or are at least aware. Boston is a decent market, especially for hockey.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, Buffalo is a good TV market itself, but that doesn't matter nationally if no one else in the country cares, which they don't. Matthews has far more potential to draw fans who wouldn't care about hockey otherwise than Eichel does.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

I will make this one exception. But only this one.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly think being #1 and from Arizona has greater interest/marketing appeal for casual fans than #2 and from Boston. If you're not from the Northeast he might as well be from Canada. His story isn't exactly unique.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I think that makes a big difference. Also, as fun as it can be watching a generational talent develop, the Oilers aren't exactly the most fun to watch at the moment and a lot of people in US TV markets don't have that much investment in them. I think they'd probably do better drawing in casual viewers if they played more Buffalo or Toronto games for Eichel and Matthews.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

I can live with that.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Mayonnaise is one of the most disgusting foods on the planet and I have no idea how anyone can willingly put it in their mouths. It makes any other food it touches completely inedible.

Ugh, mayo.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Whereas Crosby came in post-lockout onto a team with Mario Lemieux, and with the league having determined that he was going to be the face of the "new NHL." They marketed him because they felt they needed to. That isn't true of McDavid. And Eichel, while great, isn't the Ovechkin to McDavid's Crosby.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

There's also the issue that hockey media spent most of the time comparing him to McDavid and saying he isn't as good. Matthews shouldn't get that.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

AKA Why TJ Oshie has a national commercial in the US.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

These are the white-est replies ever.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

For sure, in the Southwest especially. Market both of them.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Tuna salad cares nothing for your wank.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

🙄

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

That makes no sense. White people know white.

Re: Hockey Media - nationally televised NHL games next year (in the US)

[(Anonymous)]

Hating =/= not caring. It's the opposite of not caring, actually. Everyone hating Pittsburgh makes Pittsburgh much more appealing to national broadcast than most people being indifferent to Buffalo.