Okay, here we go again. One of the big reasons in starting this blog is the genereal annoyance that breeds from the media coverage of the sport of ice hockey (and quite likely of any other sport you're into). While there are loads of very competent hockey people in the planet, for every one of them there is at least ten "journalists" trying to reap rewards by ripping the essentials of these analysts' content. With terrible results, naturally.
The problem lies in the coverage of a sport by any "sports generalist" in the media. TV, newspapers etc. just pull one tool from the pool and ask them to do a coverage or a story of some topic in relatively short time frame. Then the poor person rips of some sources, glues the pieces together and irresponsibly posts it in a forum that is widely read and consumed with way too little criticism.
This differs dramatically from a person with practically no media background and hugely subjective understanding of the game posting his ramblings for anyone in the whole wide internet..
Anyway, after following mostly the Finnish national team and NHL for the last 20 years I've created a reasonably large database of player history and find myself again and again in disbelief after reading some quick stories or listening to live commentary. Players are nowadays categorized based on some unique event for way too long, sometimes even through their whole careers. And the average spectator, who hasn't had the time to validate the information from standard sources is lead to believe these categorizations. No wonder, some of the players dislike the interviews so much that you can't help but feel sorry for them for that thirty second torture in the hands of an ignorant reporter with his own "highlight" in the making.
Well, to end the mumblings about obvious issues, I'll just hope the reporters would grow up a bit, do their homework and give us fans the coverage that has some value. Instead of just taking the easy way in the reality-tv oriented way.
Reporter (reality): "What happened there? Weren't you ready to start the game?"
Player X (imaginary): "WTF? We all had skates on, laces tight, proper curved blades, all the gear on, high-carb lunch, nice little afternoon nap and all. It's not like we were starting our first game ever. So yes, we were ready, we just sucked quite a bit today."
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