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Sometimes They Just Don’t Get It
by Paul on 08/15/08 at 09:04 AM ET
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from Ted’s Take,
From time to time, you have heard me rail against media pundits for their lack of criticality; original thinking; creativity; and basic non-understanding of what they are writing about.
Well here is another rant. This time against Ross McKeon and his blog post mentioning contraction of six NHL teams including the Washington Capitals. Read it here.
First, the throw away notion of shuttering six major league teams is just mean-spirited. Those six teams employ thousands and thousands of people and support tens of thousands of families. I guess Ross wants us to lay off all those people in the toughest economy ever. And those teams generate dollars for their cities in taxes and they generate dollars to hundreds and hundreds of small businesses as vendor/ suppliers.
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I realize McKeon had to write within the feature that Puck Daddy was presenting, but if he really wanted to tackle something as serious of a debate as contraction, he could’ve had a legitimate article that examines the pros and cons.
One of the biggest problems facing the league, in my opinion, is that there is more talent than ever in hockey—enough to reasonably support the 30 clubs—but the clubs aren’t necessarily in 30 viable hockey markets, and it’s hard to say if 30 viable markets even exist in North America (all for different reasons, of course).
That’s an article I’d like to read. Something with analysis on that problem, with suggestions on different solutions, contraction included, as well as relocation and other possibilities.
But again, McKeon had to fit into the parameters of the Puck Daddy feature… so on one hand, I will cut him a little slack. On the other hand, if you’re going to bring up a topic like contraction or relocation, you have to be smarter than to bring it up in a one paragraph blurb. Save it for a feature article with some real research and discussion behind it.
Posted by Nathan on 08/15/08 at 10:31 AM ET
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