CelticDruid
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Jack Todd: Hockey Night in Canada? More like Hockey Night in Toronto
The Maple Leafs are stuffed down our throats 24/7 by the national media, including TSN. Even the print media are not entirely blameless: see last fall’s mind-bending headline: “Is Morgan Rielly greater than Orr?”
“When I thought about that,” Hughson went on, “I looked back to 2012 and thought about how Patrick Kane, a 24-year-old for the Chicago Blackhawks, got into a little trouble with too many cameras around in Wisconsin that summer, and what did he do? He came back and was the Conn Smythe Trophy winner and won the Stanley Cup (in 2013.)
“And that’s how you put a little problem behind you.”
Before that stunning bit of foolery escaped his mouth, the worst I thought of Hughson was he’s colourless and a little dull. With that one comment, Hughson veered dangerously into Don Cherry territory, waxing offensive on our national, taxpayer-funded network.
In their lust for that all-important southern Ontario demographic, Sportsnet, TSN and the CBC risk offending hockey fans in six other pretty significant markets. If the only road to that coveted 7 p.m. Saturday night CBC slot with Hockey Night in Canada is through Toronto, an inevitable side effect is the Leafs will become the most hated team in the country.
Check that. Thanks to our national media, they already are.
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Oh! Well.
The Maple Leafs are stuffed down our throats 24/7 by the national media, including TSN. Even the print media are not entirely blameless: see last fall’s mind-bending headline: “Is Morgan Rielly greater than Orr?”
“When I thought about that,” Hughson went on, “I looked back to 2012 and thought about how Patrick Kane, a 24-year-old for the Chicago Blackhawks, got into a little trouble with too many cameras around in Wisconsin that summer, and what did he do? He came back and was the Conn Smythe Trophy winner and won the Stanley Cup (in 2013.)
“And that’s how you put a little problem behind you.”
Before that stunning bit of foolery escaped his mouth, the worst I thought of Hughson was he’s colourless and a little dull. With that one comment, Hughson veered dangerously into Don Cherry territory, waxing offensive on our national, taxpayer-funded network.
In their lust for that all-important southern Ontario demographic, Sportsnet, TSN and the CBC risk offending hockey fans in six other pretty significant markets. If the only road to that coveted 7 p.m. Saturday night CBC slot with Hockey Night in Canada is through Toronto, an inevitable side effect is the Leafs will become the most hated team in the country.
Check that. Thanks to our national media, they already are.
Didn't realize that there was a thread on the main board.
Oh! Well.
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