#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Articles, videos, tweets, the like.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

I'm listening to the Kris Letang interview that someone linked last post ( http://dekedangle-rpfanon.dreamwidth.org/6849.html?thread=32598977#cmt32598977 ), and wow, I know that my French is not perfect and Canadian French accents vary pretty widely, but I can understand maybe 1 of every 5 words that's coming out of his mouth (whereas I'm getting most of what the interviewers are saying). Does anyone versed in the various accents of Canada know if his is an especially flavorful regional variation?

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.beerleagueheroes.com/hockey-desperately-needs-better-competition-metric-part-2-2/

Fascinating article on why analytics should change how it measures Quality of Competition faced. (Link is to part 2, as part 1 is basically just an introductory primer to fancystats and written kind of annoyingly.)

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Okay meme. What do we think?

J*sh Yohe: hardcore Republican, yay or nay?

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

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe venting would be a more appropriate thread for this.

http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2016/07/21/nbc-sports-group-will-be-airing-a-record-number-of-nhl-games-during-the-2016-17-season-with-key-dates/

Re: Hockey Media - KHL expansion

[(Anonymous)]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/russia-conquering-great-britain-as-khl-expands-to-london-144902424.html

The KHL is expanding to London! (This is already over a week old, sorry for the late news.)

I have to say I'm never sure if I welcome or dislike the KHL expansion politics. On one hand I think it's exciting if there's a strong Eurasian league, but otoh it's so clearly Russia based (with good reason), that I don't think it can ever actually be competitive in all markets they're aiming for? Like maybe Russia and Scandinavia have a similar attitude to hockey in terms of, you know, liking it, but other countries? Like, it's a lot less popular in A LOT of Europe, England/UK included.

My country doesn't have a KHL team yet, but there's rumours from time to time and I just cannot see that working out? Otoh maybe a big league like that would drum up the needed enthusiasm, but I'm not too sure where that would be coming from. I guess it'll be interesting to see how the new Beijing team will fare...

(Didn't feel like making a new thread because I have no idea whether anyone even cares about the KHL/International hockey, lol.)

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2016/07/21/inside-pro-hockey-player-gorgeous-and-baby-friendly-charlestown-town-house/Qptqj722dVIm9lfovL2zVL/story.html#

Cory Schneider's off season house is in the Globe magazine this morning. His baby is adorbs, and I actually like how the house is decorated. You go, Cory Schneider.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/joel-ward-sharks-dad/

Joel Ward Players Tribune article

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/low-key-stanley-cup-party-kessels-way-of-saying-thanks/article31183543/

PK Subban came to Phil Kessel's Stanley Cup party in Toronto, in a cowboy hat. I didn't even know they were friends, but I love it. I guess they probably met during summer training, or promotion events?

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Brandon Bollig (in sunglasses) with his cat (in sunglasses): https://www.instagram.com/p/BIc7kIehAZ7/?taken-by=bollig87&hl=en

This made my day brighter. Hope it does the same for some of you.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/bobby-ryan-dear-mom/

Bobby Ryan's Player Tribune article.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Empty Netters has been discontinued.

http://blogs.post-gazette.com/sports/2013-06-20-18-51-15/empty-netters/47128-fare-thee-well-08-01-16

:(

Such a huge loss. His daily roundup was so useful, his pregame/postgame thoughts were great, and I love that he posted the transcripts of his interviews.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/we-need-to-talk-about-concussions-right-now/

Landeskog on concussions.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Given how wanky meme has been lately I'm posting this and ducking. But social media Jonathan Toews absolutely makes me chuckle.

"Real men take their lap dogs fishing." Honestly. You're killing me here. If only you'd called it a purse dog.

https://instagram.com/p/BInfZThgekF/

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

This is hockey media... adjacent? Anyway, Elliot Friedman, CBC hockey guy, got tapped two weeks ago to be an announcer for the Olympics. He got Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps mixed up and called the wrong winner, and then was so upset he made a mistake the next race, too.

And man, he feels really, really bad about it, you guys.
http://www.si.com/olympics/2016/08/12/elliotte-friedman-cbc-michael-phelps-ryan-lochte-rio-olympics?xid=si_social

I grant you some of the drama is thanks to the author who wrote the article - all those one-line paragraphs! - but even so, omg so dramatic.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

John Scott apparently had a bit of an issue getting through security/tsa at the airport.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI5nJ8eBmuj/?taken-by=jhs_32

'The man in blue just got well past third base with me. Apparently I always have a problem with my "sensitive area" that needs to be professionally checked. #justaskmeoutman #terriblepickupline'

I love those hashtags. lol

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Finnish documentary with english subtitles about off season training. Mostly about Mikko Rantanen and Patrik Laine. Might be useful for anyone who wants to learn about off season training I also learnt that Rantanen favours quality over quality and that Laine and Rantanen are way better at hockey than badminton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_tmqsma_Qs&feature=youtu.be

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Oh geez nonnies. None of you told me that Mike Harrington was so Mad Online™ about Jimmy Vesey that he wrote possibly the most glorious piece of trash ever to be "published" in a newspaper.

http://sabres.buffalonews.com/2016/08/20/few-came-off-well-during-vesey-watch/

Please enjoy the part where he continually refers to Vesey as "property," accuses basically the entire NHL of tampering and appears to be somewhat confused on the difference between tampering and this newfangled thing called "scouting" and uses the phrase "not cool" like he's hip with the kids these days.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/scott-gomez-retirement-poem-goodbye-mrs-hockey/

I'm not really into poetry but I enjoyed the anecdotal part in the first half.

I suppose it makes those secret writer fics more plausible.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

The NHL is getting the Funko Pop treatment: https://www.nhl.com/news/funko-to-release-nhl-line-of-pop-figurines/c-281745016?tid=281396148

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone understand WTF this thing upgruv is that Rossi left the toxic Trib mess for??

Is it a an actual news entity?? Or an aggregator? Or a Twitter account with offices.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Well this is upsetting: http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/former-hockey-coach-graham-james-granted-full-parole-1.3073370

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea where this goes, but the Prospect Tournament has started! Any teams you're following/would like to win?

http://redwings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=891958

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

behind the scenes of the McDonald's commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsm86AzRZ20) with Galchenyuk and Gallagher.

http://www.tvasports.ca/2016/09/17/dave-arbitre-de-la-guerre-des-burgers
https://streamable.com/j5s2

Galchenyuk is such a sore loser, I love it.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/world-cup-of-hockey/anze-kopitar-stands-alone-international-stage/

Anze Kopitar article.