Son of Steinbrenner said:
Gretzkys last game was on fox not msg. it was not joined in progress. please stop embarasing yourself for once.
http://www.broadband-pbimedia.com/cgi/cw/show_mag.cgi?pub=cw&mon=042699&file=icing_cake_msg.inc
Icing On The Cake: MSG Subs Say Farewell to Gretzky
CABLE WORLD STAFF
Wayne Gretzky's final NHL game on April 18 delivered Madison Square Garden Network its highest rating for a New York Rangers regular-season game January 1995. But MSG scored a real coup when the pre-game retirement ceremonies for Gretzky, one of New York's most popular sports figures and the NHL all-time leading scorer,
could only be seen on MSG.
MSG generated a 4.18 rating, or about 285,000 households from 3-3:25 p.m. for its exclusive New York coverage of Gretzky's retirement.
Fox's Gotham affiliate WNYW-TV didn't even pick up the game until the end of the first period.
Son of Steinbrenner said:
i think most rangers fans expected the teams to fail the past 7 years.
Yes, Ranger fans expected more than half a billion dollars to put the most expensive teams in NHL history on the ice were going to fail. In fact Ranger fans expected it was not good enough to even finish eighth out of sixteen teams once.
Son of Steinbrenner said:
you have yet to win an argument with anybody. your views about crosby make most people laugh. you talk about how new york hockey writers don't write about hockey during the lockout but a poster proved you wrong there.
Well, considering Gretzky's last game was joined in progress I just won my first discussion with you. (I do not considering talking hockey an argument.)
Actually a few knowledgable folks see the same problems with the New York hockey market as I do (if you read the postings) and in terms of the NHL Crosby would be better off elsewhere than this oversaturated sports market. (which also includes the Isles)
Also just because each paper wrote one article (par for any hockey market) about the recent negotiation does not change anything about the lack of hockey features or coverage about the players, prospects or the teams in what you claim is the largest hockey market in the world. The other person disagrees, so be it, however my points were about hockey when it was still being played.
Kevin Dupoint in the Boston Globe today did a four part feature on the lockout, packed with information that goes well beyond Brooks anti-NHLPA rants, which is the only coverage on Sunday at all in a paper packed with countless articles and feature on everything but hockey.
If you think the Isles, Rangers or Devils posted attendance represents the seats actually sold for games, I disagree. I cannot disprove what an owner reports other than what Msg people at the ticket windows told me, television ratings, ads for available seats every game and my own eyes clearly suggest.
Finally, if you have a problem with me being a moderator, feel free to discuss it with the administrator of this site and keep it off the board.