I mean...lets be real, this board (and really, the Minor Pro board since there's a fair amount of overlap) shouldn't be surprised a hockey league with big promises died before it got off the ground. Hell, hockey as a sport is probably the largest contributor of those failed leagues overall.
What Dangle should be criticized for is either taking the potentially dirty money on something that obviously wasn't going to pan out, or taking the gambit of directing eyeballs to SDPN considering it is a new sports media company in a country that effectively is boxed out entirely by the big two telcos.