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Reporter Witnesses First NHL Game
by Paul on 01/23/09 at 07:53 AM ET
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from James D. Horne of The Leaf Chronicle,
All in all, my first official NHL game at the Sommet Center featuring your Nashville Predators against the New Jersey Devils Monday night was a very pleasant experience….
As a sports fan in general, I liked seeing all the action at the net and how teams set up their offenses and power plays, and of course, being that close to see the crashing on the boards was way cool. TV definitely doesn’t do that any justice.
And I always thought it got cold at hockey games, but it really doesn’t get that way. Really, I was nice and comfortable….
This year, the Preds’ offense seems non-existent. After going down 2-0 early in the second it looked like they were just content to skate around and stopped being aggressive.
What’s worse is the power-play goal Nashville scored that cut it to 2-1 in the third was more luck than skill, and the crowd felt that way, too. The constant boos in that period helped make that evident.
And that’s the worst thing, the crowd knows the product on the ice isn’t as good as it has been and that they deserve better.
But those boos also tell me and almost affirm that the Preds’ days in Nashville are truly numbered.
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Call me a racists I guess but a black guy attends his first hockey game in forever and says the team is doomed. Like I couldn’t have guessed that would be his analysis…I don’t think there are alot of black people at Predators games. It’s not what they do…..
Posted by kevin from boston on 01/23/09 at 09:51 AM ET
Now… what the reporter may have meant was that the booing meant the time for *this* predators team is limited…and that may be true. Fans as starting to call for the heads of everyone from Trotz down to DeVries and Arnott in between.
That makes a lot more sense than saying “I went to a game and had a great time, but the home team was listless and losing and the fans booed the lack of effort, so surely they are warming up the engines of the moving vans outside the arena even as I speak.” Even Toronto and Montreal get booed on home ice from time to time if the team is playing poorly at the time.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 01/23/09 at 09:54 AM ET
The point isn’t that the writer was black (is he? I didn’t check), but that this is the same lazy, pathetic journalism that shows up all the time.
Hockey is dead and the team is moving!
The NHL should contract six teams!
Southerners don’t “get” hockey!
Hockey doesn’t work in Nascar country!
If it doesn’t snow, hockey shouldn’t be played there!
Move the teams north where people care about hockey!
etc. ad infinitum
There may be several legitimate, thoughtful arguments about why hockey can’t succeed in non-traditional markets, or what steps need to be taken in order to have a successful team in such a market, but citing one single example as a proof sure ain’t it. It’s intellectually lazy and journalistically sloppy.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 01/23/09 at 10:01 AM ET
Call me a racists I guess
Okay, you’re a racist.
Race has nothing to do with the opinions expressed in the article. Would Garrioch, Strachan, Montgomery, or your hated writer of choice be even less insightful if they weren’t white? Would Duhatschek seem deeper or more profound if he was Asian?
Fluto Shinzawa is the Bruins beat writer for the Globe. Tell me, are there “alot” of Japanese at B’s games? Shinzawa apparently also covers Nascar, even though it’s “not what they do”. Please tell me how this matters.
Posted by shep on 01/23/09 at 11:22 AM ET
Personally, I’d love to see Nashville go under….but give me a break. This guy whoever he is “(sports reporter?) goes to his first game in what 10 years….he could care less about hockey….and black people do not play hockey in Tennessee and not many whites for that matter. I’ve heard plenty of black people say they don’t watch hockey (ie Tiger Woods)....hey..but I believe them. Sorry if that offends someone…
Posted by kevin from boston on 01/23/09 at 12:22 PM ET
I’ve heard plenty of black people say they don’t watch hockey (ie Tiger Woods)
Plenty of black people don’t become the best golfer in the world, marry a Swedish model, earn bazillions in endorsement money, etc. I can’t believe you’re using Tiger Woods to try to prove your stereotype.
Ignorance—of hockey, or anything else—is colorblind. You’re living proof.
Posted by shep on 01/23/09 at 01:23 PM ET
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I’d be much more worried about the team’s future prospects in Nashville if they crowd wasn’t booing. After two games where the team showed poor effort on the ice, if the crowd didn’t care and was just kinda ‘there’, then i’d be worried. But the booing shows that the *fans* (not just crowd) care about this team and are passionate about their hockey.
Now… what the reporter may have meant was that the booing meant the time for *this* predators team is limited…and that may be true. Fans as starting to call for the heads of everyone from Trotz down to DeVries and Arnott in between.
Posted by Paul Nicholson from Nashville, TN on 01/23/09 at 09:13 AM ET