TSN: TSN's free agent signing tracker is awful

[dumbdick]

The online signing tracker on TSN is just awful this year.

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1) Toronto Bias:
Max Domi (signed for $3.75M) and Chris Tanev ($4.5M) both get big red banners that say "Major Signing" on it.

Toffoli, Wennberg, Sarangovich, Zucker, bertuzzi, durzi, and teravainen all signed for more than $5M AAV but were apparently not as "major" as a Max Domi signing.

2) It's full of errors:
- Eberle signed in march and he's still listed as having a salary of $95M
- Michael Rasmussen signed in February and is still listed as making over $12M per year.

Are TSN's web guys just a bunch of drunken leafs homers?

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[admiralcadillac]

TSN stands for Toronto Sports Network

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

Why don’t you use the actual NHL website?

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

@dumbdick is about to go missing, Boeing style

 

[Peasy]

Bell owns TSN, Bell is a part owner of the Leafs. Yet people still so perplexed why they focus on the Leafs so much.

 

[AcerComputer]

Because Leafs related news gets more clicks and makes them more money. What is difficult to understand?

 

[McJedi]

TSN stands for Toronto Sports Network

Except that’s not true. It stands for The Sports Network.

 

[TheNumber4]

TSN is a sham organization that pretends to be a “National” Sports Broadcaster but 80% of their staff are Leaf’s homers and don’t even watch games out west they pretend to have expert analysis on.

Except that’s not true. It stands for The Sports Network.

nah it’s true

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

But Tanev and Domi were major signings.

 

[admiralcadillac]

Bell owns TSN, Bell is a part owner of the Leafs. Yet people still so perplexed why they focus on the Leafs so much.

Rogers Sportsnet is worse, but when your top 2 english broadcasters are Leafs centric people get tired

 

[dumbdick]

But Tanev and Domi were major signings.

There are currently 167 forwards in the league that make more than Max Domi. There are 85 that make more than Toffoli.

 

[Lunatik]

Bell owns TSN, Bell is a part owner of the Leafs. Yet people still so perplexed why they focus on the Leafs so much.

That has nothing to do with it.

Southern Ontario has like half the countries population, then add in the popularity of the Leafs nationwide due to being an O6 team (if you'd been to or seen a Leafs game in Western Canada, you'd see they are very popular). Factor in that Toronto is the home to more major advertisers than anywhere else in the country, then consider they don't have TV rights to any Western Canadian teams and it makes perfect sense.

It f***ing sucks, but it makes sense.

 

[pi314]

Except that’s not true. It stands for The Sports Network.

 

[Juicy Pop]

Why spend time on a page that maybe 100 people ever look at?

 

[JianYang]

I'm not going to argue that the "national" sports stations (at least in english) are run like glorified local Toronto networks, however, they also listed the Dakota Joshua signing as "major", so their threshold for "major" signing is already pretty low.

 

[Golden_Jet]

That has nothing to do with it.

Southern Ontario has like half the countries population, then add in the popularity of the Leafs nationwide due to being an O6 team (if you'd been to or seen a Leafs game in Western Canada, you'd see they are very popular). Factor in that Toronto is the home to more major advertisers than anywhere else in the country, then consider they don't have TV rights to any Western Canadian teams and it makes perfect sense.

It f***ing sucks, but it makes sense.

All of Ontario is ~39%

 

[Lunatik]

All of Ontario is ~39%

cleary by saying "like half". I was guessing, but my points all still stand

 

[freester]

It just shows the interest that the NHL is missing out on by not having a 2nd team in Toronto.

 

[admiralcadillac]

Because Leafs related news gets more clicks and makes them more money. What is difficult to understand?

That doesn’t make any sense at all.

The Habs alone have more fans, and if you alienate every other Canadian team you’re not generating more revenue. They’re so biased they don’t realize it.

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

There are currently 163 forwards in the league that make more than Max Domi. There are 81 that make more than Toffoli.

Yeah, but how many of them play for the Toronto Maple Leafs?

 

[Leafidelity]

Maybe another Province should start a sports channel? Nobody complains about RDS catering to the Habs.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Maybe another Province should start a sports channel? Nobody complains about RDS catering to the Habs.

Well if they provide more balanced coverage, all the power to them.

 

[miscs75]

It just shows the interest that the NHL is missing out on by not having a 2nd team in Toronto.

What if they moved another unsuccessful original six franchise to the GTA? NY doesn’t need the Rangers anyways.

 

[JianYang]

That doesn’t make any sense at all.

The Habs alone have more fans, and if you alienate every other Canadian team you’re not generating more revenue. They’re so biased they don’t realize it.

The difference is that the Habs fans get split into two different languages. Only the English fraction of the their audience is what sportsnet or tsn would care about

 

[dubey]

Maybe another Province should start a sports channel? Nobody complains about RDS catering to the Habs.

Doing stuff is hard