Entries with the tag: new+york+rangers

Bye, Naslund

by Alanah McGinley on 07/03/08 at 05:06 PM
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Markus Naslund signed a two-year deal with the New York Rangers today—New York being pretty much as far as one can get from Vancouver without actually swimming in the sea or hanging out in Miami.  And I don’t blame him one bit.

To quote the Yankee Canuck—“Well it’s official: I want Mike Gillis’s head on a spit.”

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Standards for Online Journalism - Sean Avery and The NY Daily News

by Alanah McGinley on 04/30/08 at 01:57 PM
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The reports on Sean Avery’s medical condition this morning started off at a furious pace with words the NY Daily News (reporters John Dellapina and Larry McShane) had to have known would incite a frenzy:

Rangers bad boy Sean Avery, unconscious and not breathing, was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Wednesday morning in cardiac arrest just hours after his team’s playoff loss, sources said.

By 12:30pm Eastern Time, the NY Rangers issued a statement denying these facts, and confirming rumors that were already circulating: that Avery was in fact suffering from a lacerated spleen.  A serious condition, but one that did not involve anything as extreme as Avery not breathing for any period of time. 

By early afternoon, David Shoalts at the Globe & Mail was quoting a NYR spokesman who stated that “[Avery] walked into the hospital and was not on a stretcher.” And Steve Simmons at the Toronto Sun spoke with Avery’s agent, Pat Morris, who says the condition was never life-threatening.

Almost certainly, this was an entirely innocent mistake by the Daily News, but a profitable one for their website, and they’ve not handled the situation very well in general.

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Wanted Dead or Alive

by Alanah McGinley on 03/18/08 at 02:11 PM
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According to the Post-Gazette’s Empty Netters, “Jason Strudwick has a sweet moustache.” (Which almost certainly has to be the universal code for “View this tape at your own risk.")

Some random weirdness for the day…

The NHL Bites Back?

by Alanah McGinley on 10/26/07 at 02:50 PM
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[Updated below, with a response from the NHL.]

I happened upon something interesting last night: Madison Square Garden’s Youtube account, MSG Online, has been suspended. And from what I can tell, no videos have been posted to that account for about a week or so prior to this suspension.

It’s hard to say what’s going on—and my requests for an explanation from both MSG and the NHL have yet to provide an explanation—but it’s a curious situation.

First of all, an account suspension is how Youtube has previously responded when a copyright holder has erected a challenge to the content carried by one of its members.  And secondly, the NHL itself has enforced their copyright claims with Youtube in the past.

So it makes me wonder: did the NHL claim a copyright violation by MSG and the New York Rangers, and request Youtube suspend their account? 

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Unique Interview with Sean Avery

by Alanah McGinley on 10/15/07 at 03:35 PM
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The NY Times Magazine caught up with Sean Avery and got into some rather un-hockey topics about his home and lifestyle.  A sample:

Fantasy career: I’d like to be an editor of a fashion magazine. Creatively and artistically, it is something I’d like to do, and I think I have a lot of ideas that would be good on paper.

Next big purchase: The spring/summer Dior men’s collection.

Perfect weekend: “The Big Chill.” That would be my ideal weekend, minus the fact that we were gathering because of a death.

Fashion editor? “The Big Chill”? The guy is full of surprises.

There’s lots more here.