Comments on: NHL Future Looking Bright http://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-future-looking-bright/ All things NHL. All the time. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:06:35 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Biannka http://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-future-looking-bright/comment-page-1/#comment-4509 Biannka Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:28:14 +0000 http://thehockeywriters.com/?p=10783#comment-4509 It's an optimistic article that looks into positive aspect of everything including the slowdown. My best wishes for NHL and it's bright future It’s an optimistic article that looks into positive aspect of everything including the slowdown. My best wishes for NHL and it’s bright future

]]> By: Lee Ferris http://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-future-looking-bright/comment-page-1/#comment-4345 Lee Ferris Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:26:40 +0000 http://thehockeywriters.com/?p=10783#comment-4345 Excellent article. In many ways, particularly it's choosing of expansion markets, the league has been its own worst enemy. But they've shown great foresight in embracing the web to deliver content to their target demographic. The advent of HD TV has been a huge boon for the league as well and I would suspect their ratings will show improvement if they can finally land another national broadcast deal in the US. Having strong teams in their biggest markets (New York, LA, Toronto) would certainly help that cause. If you've not read it, I highly recommend Bruce Dowbiggin's "Money Players." A very insightful book that sheds a lot of light on the league's ongoing management and labor relations issues. In many ways, you get the sense that the NHL is a league that survives in spite of management ineptitude because the product is so inherently good. Excellent article.

In many ways, particularly it’s choosing of expansion markets, the league has been its own worst enemy. But they’ve shown great foresight in embracing the web to deliver content to their target demographic. The advent of HD TV has been a huge boon for the league as well and I would suspect their ratings will show improvement if they can finally land another national broadcast deal in the US. Having strong teams in their biggest markets (New York, LA, Toronto) would certainly help that cause.

If you’ve not read it, I highly recommend Bruce Dowbiggin’s “Money Players.” A very insightful book that sheds a lot of light on the league’s ongoing management and labor relations issues. In many ways, you get the sense that the NHL is a league that survives in spite of management ineptitude because the product is so inherently good.

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