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Red Wings win. All is right with the world.

Yes. Then I'd have to kill you. Still want to know?

I guarantee you we've won many, many games where it was a matter of the refs making a bad call against the other teams that gave us that little extra *something*, and I can also guarantee that you didn't give a damn, you were just happy that we won, like every other fan.

Then lobby for calls to be made by computers.

Like right there.

Who cares if that's a s***ty call? It benefits us. Be pissed off if it was a s***ty call against us.

Can we score on this PP, please?

This is their 3rd game. Relax. Draper has Yzerman's old job.

Okay, I don't know what Tiger that was in the press conference, but couldn't he have taken the headphones off first? That's as bad as wearing sunglasses during them.

For those that have been to Tim Hortons, what is it comparable to? Also, how cute are Drapes and Ozzie?

I'd like to see a Euro Twins special tonight. Either Pavs or Hank can score, I don't care.

Saved by the clock.

Can someone tell those idiots to quit standing up and waving their arms at the camera when it pans by them? You look ridiculous.

"Holmstrom is a bad smell drawn to flies"? Mickey, could you be more corny?

FLIP!!!!

APPLEFRITTERS!!! :siren:

Damn Pavs. Just damn.

They have about as energy as the GDT here has.

Oh well, the GDT can die. I'm off to watch the game. Thanks to the kind soul who provided a link.

Why is Nick's English better than most people I know? What the hell? Where is everyone? Good God.

Why the long breaks? I don't think they're physically incapable of playing games closer together.

Same here, I live in NC. I only see the Wings play on TV if they're playing the Canes.

I don't see how; the post you quoted speaks nothing toward marketing in the NHL. Rather, I was talking about why some people don't find baseball exciting. My basic premise has always been thus: the league and the fans see marketing in wildly different ways. We as fans want the league to advertise the greatness of the sport and its players, but the league needs assurance the marketing is going to work. Meaning, they're not going to spend X number of dollars on a marketing campaign if they don't think it's going to work. That has nothing to do with what the fans want, which is inherently part of the problem.

Baseball is an inherently American sport, though there are very, very talented players from all over the world. I wouldn't necessarily expect someone in Canada, that doesn't live in Toronto at least, to be that interested in baseball, splashy commercials or no. Hockey is more fast-paced, baseball is more a game of strategy, and you'd have to know enough about said strategy to find any interest in the game. For example, knowing when a manager should call for a squeeze play, or when to call for a hit-and-run, or even when to put on a shift for a specific kind of hitter.......those nuances are lost to people that aren't in love with the sport, and just sitting down and watching it.....you'd get lost and change the channel. So I understand how marketing didn't make the sport more interesting - an ad campaign can't imbue you with either that knowledge, or that interest.

No, marketing isn't just about spending money, but in order to get your product out there, you have to spend it. Now, you say that the NHL should offer channels like ESPN the opportunity to air hockey games in the NBA's absence due to the lock-out. Channels need contracts with that specific sport to air that sport's content. ESPN can't just up and decide to air hockey games without a contract with the NHL for those games. ESPN won't enter into a contract unless they're going to get the money they spent on it back. If they thought there was money to be made in airing hockey games, they'd be airing them already. Same goes with TBS. NBC has a contract with the NHL, but it doesn't start until after January, IIRC. The point is, marketing is useless if there's no demand for the product. You could say that marketing will create the demand, but this is sort of like the chicken and the egg scenario. For fans, we see it as "marketing will create the demand", a "if you build it, they will come" kind of thing. For the league, it's a "demand will necessitate the marketing", a "we'll build it if they come" kind of thing. The league has more to lose than we do, so they're the ones assuming the risk. If they spend the money, even a small pithy amount, and get no ROI on it, they'll be less likely to do so in the future. /marketing major //is it obvious ///sorry to bore people