NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator

[IceCap]

No doubt Quebec City's a shoe-in for team 31 if Seattle gets the Coyotes, but there shouldn't even be a team 31 in the first place.

I should probably add that ideally a 30 team NHL would have franchises in Quebec City, Seattle, and Milwaukee, but we had to go chasing the housing bubble instead.

You know what really chaps my ass about those states? The whole economy is a house of lies. They undermine the entire industrial midwest/northeast where unions fought like hell to make sure workers could be treated like human beings, then the South, which never manufactured anything that wasn't distilled, comes in all "hey free tax breaks for everyone and we have air conditioning now," and so now you have all these non-union shops in Tennessee that they can afford to have because of all the tax money DC has given them for lagging so much behind the traditionally developed part of the country. I mean, they don't have a hockey team, thank God, but how much of Alabama's economy is based on the Pentagon giving them money to build warships to nowhere and generally play with expensive guns and stuff? Mr. Destructo said it better than I can in a rant about college football fans:

The southerner who mocks Detroit for being bombed-out post-industrial crap never notices that he lives in a place of never-industry, where productivity was never built because low-income workers fled north and west in WWII and in the first two post-war decades. The southerners who mock northern union wage-slaves by citing their larger salaries never note that they work service jobs where those salaries disappear paying for the benefits that union wage-slaves already get.

So yeah, it just breaks my heart to watch Detroit and Buffalo fall apart while these johnny-come-lately sprawlsvilles like Nashville and Raleigh pop up to gobble up everyone's blue-collar and white-collar work because they're able to pretend they're better off than they really are. But I mean, it can't go all the way downhill. We're all descended from Scandinavians and Germans and European Jews who spent the winters staying indoors and thinking, so we'll think our way out of this, too, right? The North will rise again.

There's a lot here to dissect and discuss that is sadly beyond the scope of the Coyotes killing Glendale and the league simply by existing, but by and large well said.

[DG_ThenNowForever]

I think the admiral is wasting his talents here. Your country needs you. I want a cynical but poignant tumble blog asap.

[Sodboy13]

I think we can add Phil Anschutz to the list of "NHL Owners No Longer Interested In Owning The Phoenix Coyotes". I know the Kings are internet-cheeky, and I understand the disclaimer at the top of the post, but holy crap, this is on the official website of an NHL team.

http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=660988

[zpqmaowl]

The Royal Half is fine as an independent blogger. I guess they like the controversial publicity, but there is no reason he should be on the main site.

[dbadefense1990]

I think we can add Phil Anschutz to the list of "NHL Owners No Longer Interested In Owning The Phoenix Coyotes". I know the Kings are internet-cheeky, and I understand the disclaimer at the top of the post, but holy crap, this is on the official website of an NHL team.

http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=660988

Holy crap, those were just awful. All the new Coyote templates are the same to begin with. The Seattle one is so much of a Starbucks ripoff, there's no way a pro team would be allowed to play in Vegas, the Quebec one looks eerie similar to the New Orleans Fleur-de-lis, and all the work for the Toronto one is just putting a blue maple leaf in the picture (possible trademark violation).

Luckily, the Royal Half is just a blog, with attempted humor attempts (not so much here).

[The_Admiral]

I don't know how much of it can be traced to Anschutz, because Anschutz is some sort of reclusive weirdo who lives on a ranch in the goddamn nowhere West and communicates by messenger pigeon, but it is interesting that the Kings' website has made fun of the Coyotes situation and the realignment, both of which are pretty touchy subjects for the league. More likely than anything is just that the AEG empire is too vast to govern and so the Kings' website can safely be left to the sort of waggish nerdlingers who would become internet-savvy hockey fans in southern California.

[zpqmaowl]

I realize their social media shtick got people talking about them for the last year, but it's already growing stale to the fans who like the team for reasons other than "ooh they insulted da canuks on twitter #sedinsrgay."

[IceCap]

That Quebec Coyotes logo isn't half bad.

[rams80]

That Quebec Coyotes logo isn't half bad.

Nah, just resurrect the 1995 logo.

[Sport]

I think we can add Phil Anschutz to the list of "NHL Owners No Longer Interested In Owning The Phoenix Coyotes". I know the Kings are internet-cheeky, and I understand the disclaimer at the top of the post, but holy crap, this is on the official website of an NHL team.

http://kings.nhl.com...s.htm?id=660988

Holy crap, those were just awful. All the new Coyote templates are the same to begin with. The Seattle one is so much of a Starbucks ripoff, there's no way a pro team would be allowed to play in Vegas, the Quebec one looks eerie similar to the New Orleans Fleur-de-lis, and all the work for the Toronto one is just putting a blue maple leaf in the picture (possible trademark violation).

Woooooosh. The point wasn't that the concepts were bad. The point was that the Los Angeles Kings official website used them to mock the NHL's league owned franchise. You expect to see that on fan blogs and hockey writers, but not on one of the league's franchise's websites.

The Kings also mocked a Columbus Blue Jackets charity event for pediatric cancer a couple weeks back so I don't think whoever runs their social media division is afraid of touching on anything. And it looks like the organization is okay with letting it happen. In a way it's funny and refreshing to see that kind of open thinking from a professional sports organization when most of these operations are buttoned down and follow the PR handbook, but I think targeting kids with cancer is beyond the pale. The Coyotes being the subject of their derision, I have no problem with.

[bosrs1]

The faux-Vegas one isn't half bad actually.

[RyanB06]

The faux-Vegas one isn't half bad actually.

No, it's all bad.

*rimshot*

[NJTank]

That Quebec Coyotes logo isn't half bad.

Nah, just resurrect the 1995 logo.

Agreed the wolf was cool

[FiddySicks]

That Quebec Coyotes logo isn't half bad.

Nah, just resurrect the 1995 logo.

Agreed the wolf was cool

If that's the case, just use the current coyote logo. They're both dogs, right?

[Gothamite]

I think we can add Phil Anschutz to the list of "NHL Owners No Longer Interested In Owning The Phoenix Coyotes". I know the Kings are internet-cheeky, and I understand the disclaimer at the top of the post, but holy crap, this is on the official website of an NHL team.

http://kings.nhl.com...s.htm?id=660988

Holy crap, those were just awful. All the new Coyote templates are the same to begin with. The Seattle one is so much of a Starbucks ripoff, there's no way a pro team would be allowed to play in Vegas, the Quebec one looks eerie similar to the New Orleans Fleur-de-lis, and all the work for the Toronto one is just putting a blue maple leaf in the picture (possible trademark violation).

Woooooosh. The point wasn't that the concepts were bad. The point was that the Los Angeles Kings official website used them to mock the NHL's league owned franchise. You expect to see that on fan blogs and hockey writers, but not on one of the league's franchise's websites.

Notice this:

Disclaimer - The contents of this page have not been reviewed or endorsed by the Los Angeles Kings Hockey Club. All opinions expressed by The Royal Half are solely (and most likely) his own and do not reflect the opinions of the Los Angeles Kings or their Hockey Operations staff, parent company, partners, or sponsors. His current whereabouts are not known to the Kings and he has no access to information beyond the access and privileges that go along with being a half-season ticket holder

MLB sites also host bloggers whose posts aren't regulated or approved by the clubs. In baseball's case, they're not paid by the teams either, but I don't know about hockey. We can't read anything about Anschutz into this post.

Those bloggers are only governed by libel laws, not the feelings of any owners, and this jibe is so mild that I can't see it causing many ripples - the Coyotes might move? Welcome to 2008.

[Sodboy13]

[troy_3223]

It's as if a bunch of people were roofied and stuffed into jerseys before being plopped into seats at the arena.

[The_Admiral]

Coyote Fever: Catch It! (Then die!)

[IceCap]

I like the old guy wearing the Picasso Coyote hat.

"I hear that young Jerome Roanoke has a bright future ahead of him."

[aci]

Ann Coulter is a Coyotes fan?