Sasha Cares
28 mph!!!!!!!
at least we get the hottest G in hockey on Friday to look bad for... Holy ****, how bad does that 5-1 loss to FLA look now? they are 0-4 with -15 goal diff since!!!!!
at least we get the hottest G in hockey on Friday to look bad for... Holy ****, how bad does that 5-1 loss to FLA look now? they are 0-4 with -15 goal diff since?
Forslund is so full of ****, he's approaching the Tripp Tracy level of completely bizarre player analysis. Why is it that 95% of the coverage of this team is by people who are employed by the team?
The problem is that the people that get the press passes do nothing with them but ask fawning, basic questions that you'd expect from 12 year old girls who write Jeff Skinner fanfiction. Doesn't Canes Country have a press pass? At least they did in prior seasons. Yet they wrote a whole paragraph about Joe Corvo's 7 minutes of ice time, complete with a list of all the times he's played under 10 minutes in his career....but no quote from Muller or Corvo or anyone relevant as to why Joe Corvo played 7 minutes. Isn't it kind of a big deal that a guy signed about five minutes in to free agency who JR said was going to play with Tim Gleason is now relegated to #7 defensemen minutes even when we dress 6 defensemen? Did anyone ask why this happened?The team doesn't exactly hand out locker room passes to anyone who asks. In order to cover the team in any substantial way, you have to have access to the players (otherwise you're just a guy with an opinion) and that access is limited to team employees and a small number of official media outlets who are basically guests in the arena.
It's like this in almost every NHL city. The exceptions being places where the game is popular enough to spawn professional independent coverage.
It's tough to get the right kind of media coverage. Those guys in other cities that ask the "tough" questions are also the guys who ask the absolutely asinine questions that they know they aren't getting an answer to.
I've heard Forslund and Kaiton call a spade a spade, but not during a game usually. Catch one of them on some other show, and they will usually tell you when a player stinks, shouldn't be playing, etc. But don't expect much during an official game broadcast.
As to media personnel actualy asking the tough question, Luke is the only one who has ever dared.