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News Article: Colorado Avalanche Media Coverage Part VI

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Pokecheque said:
Yeah I seriously don’t get that one at all. Zero people covering the Florida teams, two guys covering the Wylde.
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They dropped George Richards. It was crazy, he left the Miami Herald to take Portzline's job at the Columbus Dispatch when Porty went to the Athletic. He went back to Florida and they hired for a while but shut down their Panthers coverage and canned him during the first round of cutbacks, I think.

Always liked him as a journalist. He garners insight and has an easy-going relationship with the players and they usually give him thoughtful quotes as a result.
 
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expatriatedtexan said:
They dropped George Richards. It was crazy, he left the Miami Herald to take Portzline's job at the Columbus Dispatch when Porty went to the Athletic. He went back to Florida and they hired for a while but shut down their Panthers coverage and canned him during the first round of cutbacks, I think.

Always liked him as a journalist. He garners insight and has an easy-going relationship with the players and they usually give him thoughtful quotes as a result.
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Yep. Richards was a big reason I subscribed in the first place. And I’ve never been a fan of the Panthros, I just really liked his writing. Now he’s got a “Hockey Now” account and I can’t read his stuff.
 
It’s an interesting phenomenon for sure. I don’t know about you guys but the whole Colorado grocery bag thing - once you make me start paying for grocery bags, now I don’t want to pay for them. Even if it is $0.10 a bag. I feel the same way about sports on TV. If I have to pay $12 a month to basically just watch the Avs and Nugs, and I only really actually sit down to watch a few games a month/year; well……….all of a sudden I really don’t want to pay that twelve bucks.

I think Manfred is wrong that this drop in revenue isn’t going to last long. The only thing that’s been sustaining this revenue elevator for the past 50 something years has been population growth. The actual % of people that care about watching anything TV continues to drop but the #’s go up because of population. With birth rates in the toilet I can’t see how this sustains long term (without going massively international or growing markets exponentially)
 
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S E P H said:
Wischusen is so dang good he's worth the watch alone even if the other two have an immense negative value.
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I don’t really dislike any of them (yes, Hextall doesn’t bother me), I just prefer the Altitude people.

I will agree that Wischusen calls a great game though.
 
Pokecheque said:
I don’t really dislike any of them (yes, Hextall doesn’t bother me), I just prefer the Altitude people.

I will agree that Wischusen calls a great game though.
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Hextall is the creepiest sideline reporter I have ever watched. I actually feel sympathy for the lads she talks to because she’s so overly into hanging on every word they say.
 
Foppa2118 said:
Who is this clown? That's pathetic. Especially since it wasn't even a dirty hit. Borderline late at worst.
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It was super late and unnecessary - so yes it was dirty. It's understandable that Dallas people are upset with this. But also keep in mind that Russo was trying to spin a narrative that it wasn't dirty afterwards. He's Minnesota based so it's not like he's innocent non-participant in this either - just something to keep in mind.
 
John Mandalorian said:
It was super late and unnecessary - so yes it was dirty. It's understandable that Dallas people are upset with this. But also keep in mind that Russo was trying to spin a narrative that it wasn't dirty afterwards. He's Minnesota based so it's not like he's innocent non-participant in this either - just something to keep in mind.
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Russo is one of the best hockey writers in the business, there's nothing to keep in mind. He's a blatant homer on social media (but not in his writing) but he would never dare cross that line.
 
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Pokecheque said:
Russo is one of the best hockey writers in the business, there's nothing to keep in mind. He's a blatant homer on social media (but not in his writing) but he would never dare cross that line.
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There's no need to worship this guy. You might like him and he might be better than some. But recently, he's been attempting to spin this issue. It's kind of strange that you would put any skepticism aside and not look at what he's doing on it's own instead of bowing to reputation.
 
John Mandalorian said:
There's no need to worship this guy. You might like him and he might be better than some. But recently, he's been attempting to spin this issue. It's kind of strange that you would put any skepticism aside and not look at what he's doing on it's own instead of bowing to reputation.
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No one's worshipping him, he's widely regarded (alone with Aaron Portzline) as the best in the business. It ain't just me. It was a huge get for The Athletic when they landed both.

I read the exact same posts you did, I'm not bowing to anything, nor do I think he is perfect--if anything his behavior on social media can border on stupid, as evidenced by the ridiculous squabble between him and Anson Carter that bled onto the TNT soundstage. I'm simply saying that you don't need to bothsides a guy like Russo rightfully calling out an idiotic meathead for attempting to incite violence in a public forum.
 
John Mandalorian said:
It was super late and unnecessary - so yes it was dirty. It's understandable that Dallas people are upset with this. But also keep in mind that Russo was trying to spin a narrative that it wasn't dirty afterwards. He's Minnesota based so it's not like he's innocent non-participant in this either - just something to keep in mind.
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I just don't see late hits as that dirty. You should always be prepared to protect yourself. I don't think it was agregiously late either.

I just watched it again, it was like half a second after he released the puck. And it was clear Dumba was going to hit him about two seconds prior while he still had the puck. He should have seen this in his peripheral and braced for it. He wasn't blocked from seeing Dumba.

All the comments from Dallas fans I see are just factually wrong, saying he hit him in the head, when he hit him in the shoulder. And I don't even like Dumba.

Either way, a reporter calling for premeditated violence for revenge just because his team's player got hurt is disgraceful.

He should go out and throw haymakers at the ice if he wants payback. Sounds dumb enough to do it too.
 
I really can't say one way or the other definitively, it's not egregiously dirty, but I didn't like that hit. And I don't like Pavelski at all (I'm actually okay with Dumba).

When it comes to reviews of late hits and suspensions there needs to be a set amount of time following the player parting ways with the puck where he is no longer eligible to be hit. I get that's a tad arbitrary in real time so I'm not expecting perfection there but you can easily set a time by which the player is no longer eligible, even it's only a second, when they're doing a review over at DoP(e)S. It would at least add some clarity to the proceedings.
 
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Looks like everything is all good now btw. It's ok for a reporter to call for violence and phsycial harm if it's just your overly emotional opinion.

 
I don’t know how I feel about that hit - on one hand it was pretty clean but when he had that upward motion - that made it pretty intentional. I think Dumba actually didn’t hit him as well as he wanted to, and it could have been worse.
 
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