Love how the last one was 4/5 Wings players (minus Reimer). But it crossed my mind, 24/7 is pretty much trying to get American hockey fans to watch hockey and whatnot right other than die hard fans trying to get a glimpse inside the locker room. Do you think it will focus more on the Red Wings as an American team or would it be equal coverage.
I know that Burke wasn't a fan of showing what happens inside a locker room and maybe the Leafs are limiting the filming (who knows), but Nonis is basically Burke 2.0 so would that just add to more Detroit coverage (not that I'm complaining)... Just a thought, maybe I'm waaaay off the ball
I doubt it, but I think they will spend a lot more time showing just what kind of market Toronto is to play in. Maybe not as much behind the scenes, the talk radio, the papers, the pressures of what it means to be the Maple Leafs is going to be touched on a lot, especially with them on a big losing streak when they started filming.
By the way the Wings have a notoriously brutal locker room on the press. They give out cliche comments and basically have a you're approved by the team kind of relationship with much of the press. This basically extends back to Yzerman, who really froze out certain elements of the media after what he felt was unfair treatment during the failures and success that was being glossed over in his first decade and change in Detroit.
They are not an easy team to deal with either, very closed off. When Lidstrom did his 36 (or was it 48) hours segment with NBCSports the guys avoided him like the plague. HBO has their work cut out for them, Datsyuk coming back would be huge and Howard is probably going to be a big focal point because he is quite comfortable with the media. But we have kind of a tough team for them. I think knowing how both the Leafs and Wings operate even with the mandate from the league to be extremely cooperative that HBO probably came into this with more story driven agendas. Something about the cities, highlighting the history of the clubs, discussions on the Olympic year, things that eat a little more time would be my guess.