News Article: News and Notes XXXIV - is it time for us to make panic trades yet?

[Anton Dubinchuk]

In the post whistle scrum, unless the refs come in (the Certified Scrum Masters), things can get out of hand.


If things get bad, penalties get handed out. But if things get REALLY bad, the league is able to issue suspensions.

I guess you could say the league... Kanban.

 

[Svechhammer]

In the post whistle scrum, unless the refs come in (the Certified Scrum Masters), things can get out of hand.


If things get bad, penalties get handed out. But if things get REALLY bad, the league is able to issue suspensions.

I guess you could say the league... Kanban.

 

[hblueridgegal]

 

[tarheelhockey]

There's so much to unpack here, but I would like to start with the Sens.

 

[Moosetache]

There's so much to unpack here, but I would like to start with the Sens.

I attribute this to Ottawa just got internet and cell service.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

I attribute this to Ottawa just got internet and cell service.

That explains a lot about the state of our government.

 

[A Star is Burns]

 

[Novacane]

There's so much to unpack here, but I would like to start with the Sens.

Probably due to their rebrand

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Probably due to their rebrand

And the 3/5 picks in draft. And people voicing disgust with Melnyk.
It didn’t say POSITIVE engagement did it?

 

[A Star is Burns]

Might have been nice to see Jumbo Joe lift the Cup. No worry of that now I guess.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Salt in the wound timing...

 

[spockBokk]

Salt in the wound timing...

The timing of this is a little strange. I mean, the addition of Fast and another pretty good draft doesn’t really necessitate an “offseason” report show. Unless...they perhaps have a certain young Russian’s bridge contract or a Hamilton extension to announce. That’d be pretty cool, but other than something like that, I struggle to see what they’d fill up the time with.

 

[Lempo]

The timing of this is a little strange. I mean, the addition of Fast and another pretty good draft doesn’t really necessitate an “offseason” report show. Unless...they perhaps have a certain young Russian’s bridge contract or a Hamilton extension to announce. That’d be pretty cool, but other than something like that, I struggle to see what they’d fill up the time with.

I don' think the timing is mystery if they just announced that from now on you can only see Fox Sport on cable, and now the cable company wants to scoop the cut-off people as their customers while they're off-balance.

In this situation, if they got nothing to broadcast they will make stuff up.

 

[spockBokk]

I don' think the timing is mystery if they just announced that from now on you can only see Fox Sport on cable, and now the cable company wants to scoop the cut-off people as their customers while they're off-balance.

In this situation, if they got nothing to broadcast they will make stuff up.

I don’t know. I mean, it makes sense for a bunch of streaming services to drop sports channels if there’s not going to be any new sports content available for the next 2-3 months, right? They can always add the channels back right before sports come back again.

I still find it odd timing since they’ve never done anything like it before, but there’s also never been an offseason like this so they may just want to remind their TV audience that they still exist. I’ll hold out irrational hope that they’ll announce some sort of contract extension or something exciting...

 

[hblueridgegal]

I wonder if they will officially announce the broadcasting changes then, too?

 

[HisIceness]

I wonder if they will officially announce the broadcasting changes then, too?

That's probably going to be one of the things they "promote". They'll also likely (much to my displeasure) discuss "excitedly" the affiliation change.

 

[Lempo]

I don’t know. I mean, it makes sense for a bunch of streaming services to drop sports channels if there’s not going to be any new sports content available for the next 2-3 months, right? They can always add the channels back right before sports come back again.

I still find it odd timing since they’ve never done anything like it before, but there’s also never been an offseason like this so they may just want to remind their TV audience that they still exist. I’ll hold out irrational hope that they’ll announce some sort of contract extension or something exciting...

Good point, but it also makes sense for the cable companies to use the situation to try to gouge the perplexed audiences and sign them for long-term bargain offer contracts during this time of (audiencial) uncertainty.

They are in the business of making money to their owners. It would be close to criminal if they didn't try it. If I was the cable company, I would stall the negotiations on the nigh-certain streaming contract extension with some technicality until close to the season start and use the time meanwhile to lure the cord-cutters back to long fixed-term contracts with promises of exclusive content while the Hulu/Youtube cooperation is terminated, at least officially.

 

[MinJaBen]

Good point, but it also makes sense for the cable companies to use the situation to try to gouge the perplexed audiences and sign them for long-term bargain offer contracts during this time of (audiencial) uncertainty.

They are in the business of making money to their owners. It would be close to criminal if they didn't try it. If I was the cable company, I would stall the negotiations on the nigh-certain streaming contract extension with some technicality until close to the season start and use the time meanwhile to lure the cord-cutters back to long fixed-term contracts with promises of exclusive content while the Hulu/Youtube cooperation is terminated, at least officially.

Do cable companies in Finland still have contracts with their subscribers? At least in this area of the US, they got rid of those. If I hate it, I can always leave at any time and pay the prorated monthly bill as I toss them their equipment.

 

[Lempo]

Do cable companies in Finland still have contracts with their subscribers? At least in this area of the US, they got rid of those. If I hate it, I can always leave at any time and pay the prorated monthly bill as I toss them their equipment.

The way I understand it, we got three big broadband internet operators Telia, Elisa and DNA, who also are the three big mobile operators, and who pretty much bought all the local cable TV providers, so in towns you got one available to you as a private end user. All of them also got their own entertainment service. So cable is one option (albeit limited) available to you, but in practice it doesn't much differ from the broadband based ones.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The timing of this is a little strange. I mean, the addition of Fast and another pretty good draft doesn’t really necessitate an “offseason” report show. Unless...they perhaps have a certain young Russian’s bridge contract or a Hamilton extension to announce. That’d be pretty cool, but other than something like that, I struggle to see what they’d fill up the time with.

Shane Willis will interview Mike Maniscalco about his new role. Then Mike Maniscalco will interview Shane Willis about fun Canes memories. Then Stormy will drop by for some “surprise” hijinks.

Then they’ll look at the clock at it’s 7:10 and they’ll both start visibly sweating.

 

[AD Skinner]

Tripp will need to comment on their lather

 

[GoldiFox]

If there is a signing I would guess it would be Dougie. Dundon sounded like he wanted to keep him in his podcast interview. Then they waited for Pietrangelo to sign. From that point hopefully it was as simple as "OK Petro gets $8.8 million x 7 so let's do $7.8 million x 8 and make these uncertain times certain."

Dougie gets the biggest contract of the offseason. Canes get their top-pair RHD locked up.

 

[vorbis]

hard for me to imagine the Canes giving an 8-year contract to anyone tbh

 

[GoldiFox]

hard for me to imagine the Canes giving an 8-year contract to anyone tbh

IIRC that is exactly what they wanted to do with Aho.

 

[Joe McGrath]

hard for me to imagine the Canes giving an 8-year contract to anyone tbh

If he’ll take one, they will give one to Svech.