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BatherSeason

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I need to second this.

@ianmendes , you thoroughly killed it tonight on the roundtable. A+ job, my dude.
Thanks Ian that was much better than the Dorion interview the other day. Let's get the gloves off. These clowns themselves are going to not only destroy a hockey franchise but no Sens probably means no TSN1200. Lets take these guys to task.

Also, Lisa Wallace sounded pissed we need more of what she brought in her one question
 
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They have the McKenzie audio and our dufus COO too, but the round table is missing.


Do they usually post the whole thing?
 

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Unfortunately, all Ruszkowski had to offer were long-winded non-answers. How this guy made a career in PR is a mystery to me.

I think his talent is finding arrogant people who suck at PR and getting them to pay him to be the arrogant prick instead.

The guy's track record is nuclear waste level bad. Which means Melnyk likes something about him: the FAUX news FAUX bravado approach probably. Very popular with seniles.
 
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Despite all the **** that has gone down with this team and the things that have been said, that was hands down THE WORST interview out of this team yet.

The scary thing is that this organization is so tone-deaf these days that someone might actually let Ruszkowski talk to the media in an official capacity ever again.

I mean... that interview is an unmitigated disaster, and yet somehow I bet that there are people in charge over there that felt that it "went ok".
 
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Thank you @ianmendes for everything yesterday. On the drive you talked about accountability, and you lived up to your word. You guys are going a great job advocating for the fan base, its not your fault that the organization is giving you responses like in the pre game.

It was refreshing to hear that us as a fan base were being listened to
 

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Anyone who thinks that Ian Mendes and the local media is soft on the team is missing out right now on the pre-game show.

Mendes & the round table have their fangs out and are feasting on this team.

Chris Stevenson in particular is dropping truth bombs all over the studio right now.
I missed it. Ah here it is.
https://www.tsn.ca/radio/ottawa-1200/ruszkowski-we-have-to-replace-any-ufa-s-that-we-lose-1.1254012

Boy they are so defensive and obnoxious. Some organization of people. They realize they make it harder for fans to support them when they come off this way and end up so unlikable?
 
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Icelevel

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Thank you SIMMER

Awesome job dissecting those ridiculous answers by the coo. (Seriously. Comparing the winning percentage under melnyk to 1992??? Wtf was that? 50% of the games? Oh yes, congrats to everyone and thank you lord melnyk)

No wonder they don’t allow simmer to interview them. He would destroy them.
 

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Unfortunately, all Ruszkowski had to offer were long-winded non-answers. How this guy made a career in PR is a mystery to me.

I think his talent is finding arrogant people who suck at PR and getting them to pay him to be the arrogant prick instead.



He is the COO, not the Director of PR for the Senators ....... but I don't think they even have someone designated as one, which is a problem.

Last year, it was reported that EM hire a "Toronto Based PR firm" to help him deal with the outdoor game press conference fall out ......... I don't know if they've been kept on, but I also don't see any evidence of any positive PR, in Ottawa.

Eugene Melnyk Working With A PR Firm


Yes, there is some PR in Ruszkowskis' background, but that is not his primary function for the Senators, as far as I can see.

Nicolas Ruszkowski Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
 
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Tnuoc Alucard

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They have the McKenzie audio and our dufus COO too, but the round table is missing.


Do they usually post the whole thing?


I've been using Doffass,
when characterizing the Owner, and now stand corrected.
Thanks
 

GrantLemons

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Ruszkowski comparing the success of the team under Menyk's watch vs. under the previous ownership during it's expansion years is a complete and utter joke and embarrassment.

"Trust us because we have a better win % than an expansion team." Even though most of the wins they have through the first several years of his tenure were the result of a team built by previous ownership.

Cannot even believe the things he said. The guy is a complete moron, just like everyone else in that front office. It's insulting to have to listen to shit like this as a fan and be patronized by these idiots.
 

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The scary thing is that this organization is so tone-deaf these days that someone might actually let Ruszkowski talk to the media in an official capacity ever again.

I mean... that interview is an unmitigated disaster, and yet somehow I bet that there are people in charge over there that felt that it "went ok".
This. All day long. The absolute totality of the 'tone deafness' was staggering. I understood his his points about spending starting at 2021 as being consistent with the timeframe of 3-4 years from Fall 2018. That's sort of obvious.
But answering a question about investing in the club (i.e. front office staff, scouting, etc) as if it was a question about community involvement and maintenance for an aging building? That made no sense.
Then explaining that it's okay everyone, the Sens can't be horrible because the NHL will force them to reach the cap floor. Wowzers. What an idiot. There are so many ways for teams to shed salary by dumping contracts. Think of long term deals with low end year values but high AAV. A player's cap hit and the actual salary being paid by the club are two completely separate things. It's just so insulting to the collective intelligence of the fan base.

But even worse is the lack of hope that this instills. When they are THAT tone deaf and deceptive, what hope is there that anyone is competent enough to run that club?
 
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Joeyjoejoe

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Wow I haven't seen that much bullshit spewed from Dorion and the COO in a back to back since Boucher's latest excuses for playing back to back games.
 

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He is the COO, not the Director of PR for the Senators ....... but I don't think they even have someone designated as one, which is a problem.
Maybe sending him on a media tour to does the flames of Melnyk's bizarre statement was probably a bad idea. Maybe only let Aimee Deziel speak in public.
 

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Anyone who thinks that Ian Mendes and the local media is soft on the team is missing out right now on the pre-game show.

Mendes & the round table have their fangs out and are feasting on this team.

Chris Stevenson in particular is dropping truth bombs all over the studio right now.

Is there a written summary/highlights somewhere that I can read behind corporate firewall? Highly appreciated.
 

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There was like a whole 10 minutes before Ruszkowski showed up that was the good part.

It's a shame they didn't upload the whole segment.
But normally they do, right? Not just the round table, but the entire pre-game show is normally uploaded and available on the audio page.
 

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It should be pointed out that, unless I'm wrong, he wasn't scheduled to join them. It's as though he was listening to them ripping apart the statements from Melnyk and then barged his way on air to "defend" him. So bizarre.
 

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It should be pointed out that, unless I'm wrong, he wasn't scheduled to join them. It's as though he was listening to them ripping apart the statements from Melnyk and then barged his way on air to "defend" him. So bizarre.
Does he post here by any chance?
 
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