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SoundwaveIsCharisma said:
Apparently I am a toy for your thread management desires
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It really sucks now that you stickied an 8th thread. I pretty well need to scroll every time I refresh to see if there are threads with new posts. Seven threads was really the max to have this site user friendly. Six maximum would be much better.
 
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You wanna be MY toy?? *shifty eyes*
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RockLobster said:


Alright, who's subscribed to this idiot's substack and can tell us what this says? I'm only interested because of the supposed response of the NHL that "something good is coming".
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I get this question at least once every few days: “Dater, when is the Avalanche championship video/DVD coming?” And my answer has been: “Uh, I’m not sure. I would have thought it would have been out by now.”

I got more clarity on that today from my sources at the NHL.

To quote one of them anonymously: “Something good is coming. We hope to have an update for Avs fans very soon.”

A championship DVD/VHS has been de rigueur for fans of Stanley Cup-winning teams, all the way back to the 1980s. There is a DVD you can buy, right now, on the 2021 Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning.

They are cherished keepsakes to many, many fans. I know I probably watched the 1996 Avalanche VHS tape of “The Colorado Avalanche Landslide: 1995-96 Championship Season” about, I would say, 150 times from the fall of 1996 to the present. (You can still order a VHS copy here). Keep in mind: that was my rookie year covering an NHL team, and they go and win the Stanley Cup. For me, it was kind of a continuous “did this really happen?” affirmation that it did, and most of those TV highlights I never really ever saw until the video came out (because I was always at the games themselves and didn’t tape them). That rookie season happened so fast and was such a sensory overload to me, that I just didn’t have any time to process any of it soon after it was over. That video really helped do that for me. I still watch it sometimes.

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My recollection of the 1996 championship video/DVD, along with the 2001 one entitled “Mission Accomplished”, is that they came out just before or early in the next season. I’m typing this on Jan. 9, almost halfway through the 2022-23 season, and there still is no video/DVD yet. I would have thought the NHL would have wanted to have a video out before Christmas, but it didn’t happen.

As I wrote above, from sources, the “something good is coming” answer was to a direct question I posed about whether a video/DVD would still happen or not.

So, to answer everybody’s question: Yeah, I think there will be a video/DVD. Why it’s taken so long? Not quite clear on that yet.

But better late than never.

It’s possible that this “video” might be in the form of an ESPN+ thing, where you need to be a subscriber to that platform to see it. Things have evolved somewhat for the NHL and video stuff, whereby ESPN could be a conduit to everything.

I probably shouldn’t speculate much more beyond that, because I don’t know exactly what’s coming down the pike. But, as the theme of this post strongly suggests:

Something is coming.
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Something good is coming? Yeah, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. It's going to be another ghastly Imagines Dragons Part II Cup video and I will then have to quit being an Avs fan and become a Loliers fan.
 
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Looks like ESPN+ will have the Stanely Cup Film (perhaps exclusively?) on their platform. Premiering ahead of the Avs/Lightning game on Thursday



From the Video's Description:
Before the defending champion Colorado Avalanche visit the Tampa Bay Lightning at AMALIE Arena on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7pm ET on ESPN, Avs fans can relive the team’s memorable 2021-22 season and 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs run with the ESPN+ premiere of 2022 Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup Film. Produced by NHL Original Productions, the action-packed film will have in-depth regular-season and postseason highlights, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with key players and coaches.
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At least it's on youtube, note please don't try watching it without ad block. It's littered with so much ad breaks it's basically unwatchable
 
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People are being too kind. It was absolute dogshit. All they did was recycle condensed game and Quest for the Stanley Cup footage and slapped a new voice over on top of it. Not to mention they just flat out glossed over some of the biggest storylines, like Kadri vs the Blues. The fact that we had to wait months for it is a joke. I'd expect it from the league, but I honestly expected more from an ESPN production.
 
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The Merchant said:
People are being too kind. It was absolute dogshit. All they did was recycle condensed game and Quest for the Stanley Cup footage and slapped a new voice over on top of it. Not to mention they just flat out glossed over some of the biggest storylines, like Kadri vs the Blues. The fact that we had to wait months for it is a joke. I'd expect it from the league, but I honestly expected more from an ESPN production.
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It's as lazy as it gets. It probably didn't take more than a few days to pick the clips, edit it all together and that's your cup video.
 
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I'm surprised you're all surprised about the Binnington stuff. What were you expecting? "Here in this video celebrating our latest champion, here is an extended focus on a player with a history of Islamophobic views accusing a Muslim of injuring him, and the player and his family receiving abuse on social media." The league's definitely going to focus on that. Maybe play Something Inside So Strong over it with the clip of him throwing the water bottle.
 
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I'm surprised you're all surprised about the Binnington stuff. What were you expecting? "Here in this video celebrating our latest champion, here is an extended focus on a player with a history of Islamophobic views accusing a Muslim of injuring him, and the player and his family receiving abuse on social media." The league's definitely going to focus on that. Maybe play Something Inside So Strong over it with the clip of him throwing the water bottle.
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This is the same exact network that pivoted their entire coverage/entertainment approach because they saw Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith spouting controversial nonsense on The Deuce and got jealous. They became a hot take factory instead and either marginalized or flat out fired a lot of their actual journalists (IMO the transformation began long before that when they devoted hours and hours of coverage to Brett Favre and what he was having for lunch that day).

So, yeah, I am surprised they left the juicy drama on the cutting room floor. Their brass has proven they don't give two f***s about racism so I don't see why they'd tiptoe around that.
 
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