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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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

(Anonymous) 2016-07-22 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm actually surprised Dallas only got 4, I thought they were more popular?

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

(Anonymous) 2016-07-22 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
As a Dallas fan, the team is super popular in RPF fandom and pretty unpopular in wider hockey fandom. I find people like the idea of the style of hockey and there were a lot of 'this is what hockey needs' articles last year, but for example Dallas flairs are pretty rare outside of r/dallasstars

Also, we have a love/hate relationship with national broadcasting because we want to get it to grow the popularity of the team, but we always hate dudes who aren't Razor and Ralph/Strader calling Stars games.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-07-22 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
na

Yeah, outside of RPF, I get the impression that the Stars are relatively well-liked among non-casual fans (because of their style of play, star players, etc.), but that's not the same as having a wide draw in terms of national television-viewing audience.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-07-22 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
da

I was probably misled by the already mentioned "oh look how fun their hockey is" articles. Now thinking about it I don't know why I made the mistake to equate "fun hockey" with "popular on tv", lol. Oh well, one day...

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

(Anonymous) 2016-07-22 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
NA

Is this a thing people still sort of blame on Tom Hicks? I remember Dallas had really good revenue in their heyday late 90s/early 00s (not sure about ratings though). Sort of suggests the kind of popularity that would be worth putting on primetime games since the team is good again.

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

(Anonymous) 2016-07-23 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
A little? But Dallas has always been a winners town so, uh, the general pop moves onto other sports if THE TEAM IS SEVERELY MEDIOCRE.