#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I was going to make a similar point, also re: Crosby, but Crosby plays in the US, and that really makes a difference.

(also, not directed at you, since I don't know you, but I wish certain white people in this fandom would stop making Crosby mayonnaise jokes. The lack of self-awareness is strong.)

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

[(Anonymous)]

sa

But I still agree that omitting McDavid seems like a big oversight. Watching a generational player is a big draw for casual fans.

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

[(Anonymous)]

I think, for casual US fans, though, they'd want to market American star players. When people tune in for the Olympics, casual fans will watch the US.

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

[(Anonymous)]

The Olympics is only once every four years, though (and the NHL isn't even guaranteed to be there), and besides, marketing American star players doesn't mean they can't market McDavid, too. It would have been smart to include at least a couple of Edmonton games against teams with more established markets. Pens vs Oilers this year is going to have the first ever Crosby-McDavid match up, for example, and while that might make a lot of fandom roll their eyes, it's the kind of thing that has the potential to get casual fans interested in hockey, more than seeing declining or rebuilding teams with large-ish loyal fanbases slog it out.

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)]

Crosby does a ton for promoting hockey in Pittsburgh, down to putting sticks in kids' hands, so on a base level he's been instrumental in pushing hockey in the US. It doesn't really matter what his personality is like in terms of advertising/promo, he's creating an army of next-gen hockey fans in his program.

McDavid can never have that same effect because he's not on an American team.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. He's a Canadian star player on a Canadian team. If he ends up on an American team someday I expect it's much different.

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

[(Anonymous)]

This. They're also showing Toronto only once, and to a casual viewer who could help NBC ratings, Matthews' story could probably be made a lot more interesting than McDavid's.

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

[(Anonymous)]

I fucking wish the NHL/USA hockey/NBC would market Matthews to fans of southern/small market teams the way I wish they would but I somehow can't see it happening :/

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 as a pejorative should be off-limits to white people imo

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

[(Anonymous)]

Crosby and mayo is a fucking meme ffs

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

[(Anonymous)]

Right, and the point is that it's one that we wish white people wouldn't partake in. Like memes just materialize out of thin air and not because people choose to participate in that brand of humor, lol.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, it's a meme!! which automatically means you are not allowed to dislike it!!!

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

[(Anonymous)]

... so very, very unaware. It's not a meme. Black and brown people have been calling boring whites mayo since way before hockey whites decided to reclaim the phrase as their own.

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

[(Anonymous)]

That's nonsensical.

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)]

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)]

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

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)]

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)]

It's oil and eggs whipped together.

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)]

Knowing white doesn't make them any less white, and mayo as an insult originated to make fun of whiteness, not to make fun of boring people that ~cool white people don't like.

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

[(Anonymous)]

You'll be happy to know PoC have been fully integrated into society and also know white! Unfortunately, the white we know consistently fucks up our shit, so maybe the terminology we originated does have meaning you're not privy to!