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Trying To Serve The LA Area Hockey Fans
by Paul on 10/31/08 at 06:53 PM ET
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from Randy Harvey (LAT Sports Editor) of the Fabulous Forum Blog at the LA Times,
The Times has excellent hockey writers, including Helene Elliott, the 2005 Elmer Ferguson Award winner for her oustanding hockey coverage and this year’s winner of the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation sportswriter of the year award. She was among honorees along with Sugar Ray Leonard and Ashley Force at a dinner last night in Beverly Hills.
But it’s true that we’ve had to cut back on national coverage. It’s also true we will be more selective this season, as we were last season and the season before, about which Kings and Ducks road games to cover with our own reporters….
“I know the reaction often is that there aren’t a lot of hockey fans and therefore they don’t get enough respect,’’ he said. “So maybe there was some of that, that we have a sport a few of us love but that not everybody likes.’‘
We at the Times will continue to try to serve that few as best we can. But it’s not easy with the ravenous hockey crowd. As a colleague once said, “There’s not enough hockey in the Hockey News for hockey fans.’‘
more including a nice award for Kings play-by-play man Bob Miller.
The LA Times just doesn’t get it, nothing else to be said.
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The worst part of that article is Randy Harvey’s complete mis-read of Bob Miller’s comments. He was being harsh, saying that there isn’t enough space in the LA Times for hockey coverage anymore. He was commenting on the dwindling size of the paper while at the same time the increase of ads.
Posted by Chris Kontos on 11/01/08 at 10:26 AM ET
I believe Helene Elliott mentioned Rose Bowl Hockey in Pasadena in one article. Great pickup roller hockey games in the Pasadea area. There’s hockey in LA. Just gotta find it.
Posted by Jonathan from Pasadena, CA on 03/19/10 at 03:24 AM ET
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Isn’t that the truth! My appetite for hockey is insatiable.
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 10/31/08 at 09:14 PM ET