À propos de l’appel renouvelé de McDavid en faveur d’un meilleur hockey contre le meilleur… pouvons-nous, les fans, faire pression (de manière réaliste) sur la LNH pour qu’elle facilite de tels événements ?
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Pure_Palpitation_683
@Ligue nationale de hockey
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#”No! YOUR GRAND POOBAH HAS SPOKEN!”
^-Gary, ^NYC
Nope.
I’ve seen for myself posts after posts here complaining about the moving ads during broadcasts, I’ve personally participated in these posts.
I’ve also gone further and wrote the NHL as a fan telling them how it’s ruining their product.
NHL/Bettman Response “We’ve listened to the fans and they actually don’t mind the moving adds on the boards”
FML
What if I told you this doesn’t require the NHL at all? If the players want to pay for it, organize it, pay for insurance etc as they used to exclusively with the Canada Cup, they can do that all on their own.
And before one of you calls me a bootlicker, the Canada Cup format also ensured all money officially stayed with the players (yes, ultimately Eagleson) with nothing shared with the NHL as they had nothing to do with it as the players assumed all the risk and reward.
Similarly, during the 1994 lockout, the NHLPA held a barnstorming 4on4 tournament that raised money for charities and minor hockey without NHL involvement, and Wayne Gretzky himself led a barnstorming Allstar team across Europe to give the boys in the PA some pocket money.
This can be done without management as long as the PA is ready to assume both the risk and reward.
I mean, we have been pushing for it since 2016 which was last time there was something that resembled best on best, even then it was kinda chicken shit.
What more than asking for it constantly can we do?
I think NHL players should be allowed to participate in any tournament or event of their choosing. However, I do not think the NHL should alter the schedule to accommodate them. Let the players decide (and negotiated into their NHL team contracts) how many games they are willing to miss to participate in such events.
The NHL season is too dang long as it is.
When does this happen in the year?
Even if they could facilitate such events, they’d be blacked out for half the country.
The owners don’t want it, they don’t get a big enough share of the money, and they’re not even remotely pushing for it
It will never happen again.
This damned League can’t even address blackouts of their games to…you know…get more viewers.
As if they would do anything right by the fans regarding best-on-best.
The NHL sucks! Too bad it’s the only way to watch the best hockey players play.
Lol, bless your heart, OP.
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