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Best Online Resources for OHL Fans
October 18th, 2017 Whatever it is that draws you in—goals galore, the opportunity to watch the NHL’s future stars develop, the luxury of having a team right in your backyard—junior hockey fandom is thrilling. Yet, following a smaller league like the OHL also has its drawbacks. It doesn’t get the same media coverage as the professional leagues in...
Devils Fan Scores Free Season Ticket
September 13th, 2017 Season tickets to an NHL team can cost anywhere from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands. For New Jersey Devils fan Nick Donnelly, it only cost a few minutes of his time on social media. The Lucky Devils Fan On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Donnelly asked his favorite team what would it take to score season tickets using the currency of...
Boston Bruins Social Media Guide
September 9th, 2016 There are plenty of ways that you can define the age in which we currently live. For many of us, our lives circulate so much around social media, such that we feel the need to tweet, snap, or post everything that we see and do. Luckily for us, sports teams are no exception to the rule. In the age of social media, sports fans can...
The Best and Worst Fake NHL Trade Deadline Deals
February 26th, 2016 Every year around the NHL Trade Deadline, internet trolls/heroes take to social media, create fake accounts for NHL media personalities, and report trades that have not occurred. And people fall for it. Every year around the NHL Trade Deadline, TSN’s Bob McKenzie and Darren Dreger warn the social media public to watch out for...
Ben Scrivens Riveting Twitter Takeover
February 1st, 2016 Most NHL players spend All-Star break either at the All-Star Game or on an exotic island. Ben Scrivens had different plans up his sleeve. He decided to spend his All-Star break with his wife, Jen, and the New York Riveters. Scrivens had a chance to hang out with Dani Rylan's twitter famous dog, Tucker, and the whole NWHL Public Relations...
The Effects of Social Media on the Kane Investigation
August 8th, 2015 He’s a three-time Stanley Cup winner, a Conn Smythe winner, an Olympic silver medalist and a Calder Trophy winner along with many other accomplishments. When his game his on, he’s one of the purist goal scorers in the NHL. Now, his day with the Cup right around the corner and due for a big raise in 2015-16, the news surrounding...
Top 15 Eddie Lack Tweets
July 24th, 2015 It's a sad time of year for hockey fans all around. All of the big name free agents have found new homes (sorry, Cody Franson), and with the exception of Lou Lamoreillo being a ninja, hockey news has gone into cruise control. While hockey fans everywhere are suffering, arguably its a little bit worse in Vancouver this offseason. After...
Hockey Twitter Fights Back Against Trolls
June 14th, 2015 We’ve all witnessed the lovely social media responses from users that simply criticize and mock things we’ve said, done or written. These responses, are what many of us refer to as trolling. Now trolls exist everywhere. Anyone who’s spent any length of time on social media has - at some point - encountered one of these types...
Mike Babcock to Leafs, Twitter Reacts
May 20th, 2015 If you haven’t heard yet, the Toronto Maple Leafs have hired their next coach. And for those of you who didn’t think that it would happen, that new head coach is Mike Babcock. Now, personal feelings aside - as I’m still gathering my thoughts - the move is an interesting one from the Maple Leafs standpoint. Surely, Brendan...
new york rangers drop caps... on twitter
April 28th, 2015 in case you missed it, the first shots have been fired in the round 2 series between the washington capitals and the new york rangers (on social media, anyway). beginning immediately after the caps eliminated the islanders in game 7 monday night, the rangers' official twitter feed stopped using capital...
The Best of the Playoff Hashtags
April 15th, 2015 All 16 teams are finding innovative ways to get their fans involved in the 2014-15 playoffs, from retweets and instagrams posts to the classic beard-growing competitions. Here's a roundup of the best of the playoff hashtags, sorted by Series: Series A: Ottawa Senators vs. Montreal...
Twitter in Sports: A Hater's Haven?
March 4th, 2015 It’s talked about all the time - how social media has changed the interaction between athletes and their fans. And it has. But too many times, we’ve witnessed what is wrong with this ability to communicate with each other. Bullying. Harassment. Sexually threatening messages. All of these have been used to offset the good that social...
The Top 14 Hockey Tweets of 2014
December 15th, 2014 Twitter has become the best social media platform for hockey fans to interact with their favorite players directly. Hockey players are also able to use it as a tool to sell themselves as a brand. While some choose to be bland and vanilla, others like to show off their sense of humor. Paul Bissonnette and Roberto Luongo are two of the...
