But, the Nationwide Arena in Columbus?? Nothing is more booming in late June than Columbus, Ohio! I don't care if its moved around. Do it somewhere notable in New York City; do it at the Garden; do it outside at a rink in Toronto or Montreal! Do it somewhere memorable, not fucking Columbus. Enough with this small market shit. Look, even if its just a baseball city-like ny-you take the #1 pick to the Yankees game, get him on air there, get him on the national baseball game of the week that weekend-thats what resonates. Locale and presentation is everything. If its in a NY locale, NY press and entertainment press could be there. Do you remember back in the mid 90's, all the rappers used to wear huge hockey jerseys? That was the in-look and one of the reason's why the league was so popular. I remember some video where Biggie was rocking a Dallas Stars jersey!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
But why Columbus?
But, the Nationwide Arena in Columbus?? Nothing is more booming in late June than Columbus, Ohio! I don't care if its moved around. Do it somewhere notable in New York City; do it at the Garden; do it outside at a rink in Toronto or Montreal! Do it somewhere memorable, not fucking Columbus. Enough with this small market shit. Look, even if its just a baseball city-like ny-you take the #1 pick to the Yankees game, get him on air there, get him on the national baseball game of the week that weekend-thats what resonates. Locale and presentation is everything. If its in a NY locale, NY press and entertainment press could be there. Do you remember back in the mid 90's, all the rappers used to wear huge hockey jerseys? That was the in-look and one of the reason's why the league was so popular. I remember some video where Biggie was rocking a Dallas Stars jersey!
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Personally i think that college hockey needs more coverage for the NHL draft to be interesting. Take the NBA for instance. We watch March Madness, get to know the star players, and then get excited to see which NBA teams they will go to. Even big hockey fans do not know college players, nor do they know international youngsters.
The problem is that College Hockey doesn't feed the NHL. College players are mostly drafted out of high school and then go to play in College. Either that or their drafted after their freshman year. Once they're done in College they make it to the NHL.
The NHL draft is fed by Canadian Juniors and young Euros mostly. You can't really cover those guys. Maybe that's the part of the reason it doesn't have the same appeal (in the same way the MLB draft doesn't). But if you watch how some fanatics salivate over College Football recruiting (which was today), it's possible that fans could go the extra mile to follow some Juniors too.
What they should do is have it in Örnsköldviks or Moscow. Show how global the sport is to the international media
I remember the video of Flavor Flav being led in cuffs with a Big ol' Islander Jersey on.......
...i remember the days when it was hard to distinguish between wayne gretzky and ice cube, the dude was sporting so much kings apparel...
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