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BOOOOOOOOOOOO

tampa got lit up with 2 big hits in a span of like 10 seconds. oof

its not even looking at boxscores, its not even those watching games and parroting what the commentators are saying about him being a big game player. the sharks fell off a cliff that year the made they finals, and even then they benefited from a really weak pacific division, and i guess, call it "luck" against vegas in game 7 last year, but then the blues just ate them alive. they're a team that's been barely hanging on for the past few years and the cracks in the make up are really starting to show with their competition getting better, and they have couture carrying the pressure of being their big goal scorer, and unless things change drastically there, couture might want out, he's in the prime of his career and the sharks have been swirling down the drain

the sharks were already on a sharp decline. even with pavelski. that's a team that needs to blow it up now, cause with the west getting better around them, and with the canucks being a legit threat in the pacific, they're kinda doomed to be 1990's bad again

just when you thought corey perry was doing nothing, put him out there with the game on the line, and he still has a natural goal scorers touch to get that in

who the **** uses torrents anymore???

i feel so bad for the guy... going from the penthouse to the outhouse to... not even being wanted in the outhouse... he's KHL bound

and really, it all comes down to character. the NHL pushes the stars they want, but they have personalities like watching paint dry, and that's just hockey culture beating personality out of these guys when they're kids, that to make it in the big leagues, you have to have a "humbleness" factor. that's all well and good but if you look at a guy like Labron James, he's the most polarizing man is ALL of sports, but the man is money, ratings, but above all, goes above and beyond for his community like help putting kids through college and all of these things, and thats because the NBA knows how to market their stars and their stars know how to market themselves, and that's because they understand what's going on in the real world and you mention tom brady, another one of sports most polarizing figures. the NHL doesn't have that ONE guy who people love to hate, or just HAVE to tune in just to see them lose or see them win. they don't have that one guy who's trending worldwide, and this is the reality of sports. you can be old school and say, hey if they ain't trending, they aint doing nothing wrong, but on the otherhand, if they aren't trending, no one cares. it's not gonna attract advertisers and thus, the NHL will never be a top league in the states. there's just no one anyone can talk about for better or for worse

If King of the hill taught me anything is high school football is everything in Texas XD

my OP was about the NHL failing to market itself and its players, outside of the powers that be, that strapped the rocket to the crosbys and ovechkins to the american market. rogers has done its part in selling new talent like elias pettersson and quinn hughes, nathan mackinnon, etc to the national market, but the NHL itself has done nothing to promote them or even protect them, and it was up to more outside media to promote these guys FOR the NHL, while the NBA perfected this practice as a league to protect the star players; they understand what and who's trending. they know what the audience wants, while the NHL constantly takes one step forward and two steps back by over complicating the game i dont really pay attention to football, but the NBA will always be that #1 market that the NHL will always trying to be playing catch up on, and never will

their numbers still triple, almost quadruple what the NHL is doing. it's just the status quo

compared to the US market, the canadian market is so small, most canadian stations, like sportsnet won't even make the numbers public if it reflects badly on them. if NBC, one of the US top cable stations can't pull 2M viewers for two amercian teams no one cares about, what makes a sane person think those same amount of canadians are going to watch two southern teams go at it? It's a very, very small audience i will agree it's been pretty good hockey, i love that in game two it got pretty ugly, but with basketball, baseball and football happening all at once, it's such a saturated market that hockey is just on the bottom, like, no one really cares. if i'm the NHL, i'm still looking at this as a win, because it's still 2M+ watching hockey during a pandemic, and in the summertime, but that steep decline compared to previous years when the NHL was breaking records for total viewership for their product, definitely hurts with "southern teams" fighting for the championship, in an over-saturated american sports market, and at the end of the day, that's all that matters

we in a much different time now. since the bubble is in canada and it's legal here, I'd assume the league is lenient about it, especially with the studies done with cannabis in regards to mental health-- the league was probably lenient about it because they probably KNEW the players were gonna have a hard time in this thing, especially since they couldn't have their families there, when the NBA, i think allowed family in the bubble. i dont blame teams who you thought would go far for tapping out early

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/09/stanley-cup-final-ratings-game-1-lowest-13-years/ there's a common theme here: 2007 was rock bottom for the NHL, and this year we're back to that. I understand that we're in a really weird time and all with corona, but this information is pretty telling, with the NHL's lack of promotion of ALL of its teams, but only focusing on the "bigger" markets. with how good tampa bay has been the past few years, why haven't they been given the same love as the original 6, or philadelphia, or washington? Dallas I kinda understand, they're just kinda there. it doesn't help that the NBA is countering with some of its "big market teams" in their playoffs and we have... Tampa Bay and... Dallas for the championship... Two teams the NHL just chooses to put on the side, but who saw Dallas making the finals? Anybody? NHL has done a fantastic job with the bubble concept, but now we're kinda learning that they screwed a lot of these guys over and just overall shadiness of this whole thing, but to us fans, we see it as they did the best they could and the players put their mental health more on the line, than their physical bodies. It feels like something Stephen King would write about with these players being trapped in some kind of twisted social experiment. to me, yea, corona played a large part in the hurting viewership. looking at the glass half full, pulling around 2M viewers for a hockey game, in September, is about as good as you can do during a global pandemic, but even if you call yourself the biggest hockey fan in the world, you can't sit there with a straight face and say that you're super stoked on Tampa Bay and Dallas and that'd because the NHL just hasn't done enough to make people care about these teams. Dallas probably has opened up a lot of eyes in that, holy **** they've got a lot of young promising stars blossoming before our eyes and the league just hasn't highlighted that at all. Why should people care? No marketing that "anything can happen in the NHL, expect the unexpected, we're not a 4 team league" idk SOMETHING to get people to say, huh this is different\ TL;DR: No one cares about the Tampa Bay Lightning and Dallas Stars.

seems like all he does is try to start drama istg

clutch challenge

YEAAA RADULOV WITH PATIENCE

love perry getting in their heads lmao

a tap on the helmet and kooch goes down like he was tomahawked xD sooner or later these refs gotta start calling these little dives

id gladly take a 35 y/o corey perry, way past his prime, than sutter. pavelski is just a no brainer, guy can still produce

at this point in Perry's careers he's more of a role player than the goal scorer and pest he once was. He plays pretty consistent minutes, and it looks like it increases the longer their series go. Bowness knows how to use a guy like that; learned from one of the best

ITS OVERRRRR

if the stars kill this off that'll be deflating!

YEEEAAAA KIVIRANTA