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Are The Right People Watching

from Stephen Brunt of the Globe and Mail,

A conspiracy theorist, presented with the NHL’s struggles to find an audience, with the pro-fighting sentiments that came out of the last general managers meetings, with a February in which fighting was way up and a March in which it will be the same, would put it all together and deduce there must be some master plan at work — that the league’s brain trust has actively or tacitly amped up the violence in a desperate attempt to get face time.
Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt: probably not.
But still, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and company have a decision to make right now. They’ve reached a watershed point.

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And in terms of the mass media in the United States, a brawl, a stick-swinging incident, somebody knocked senseless or worse, is going to trump Sidney Crosby’s brilliance every time.

Enough with this jingoistic nonsense from the Canadian media. I’m sure every hockey fan in Toronto and Calgary is sitting in front of his or her television thinking, “Enough with this Ottawa/Buffalo brawl…show me that Sidney shootout attempt already!” I’m guessing not…

And I’m sure all the high-brow Canadian fans who frown upon this goon uprising were demanding the Leafs write a strongly-worded letter to Cam Janssen after the Kaberle hit, and leave it at that.

Again, I’m guessing not…

Posted by Greg Wyshynski from DC on 03/22/07 at 11:42 PM ET

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