Ted Leonsis vs. Capitals contraction: Leaps in logic and what it all means for D.C. hockey

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Why Washington is a hockey community
Published 8/20/2008 by Richard at IllegalCurve.com
... favorite team is on the ice with them. These are hockey fans that support the Capitals. This is where the Washington Post has failed its readership for, oh, about 30 years: It counts empty seats at the Capitals games and uses that as a barometer for its hockey coverage; dismissing the fact that there are hockey fans who only attend a game here or there, and are still watching the NHL well after Washington’s season comes to an end. Read the entire entry here. Well written, well thought out and I can’t say I ...

D.C., Hockey Town
Published 8/21/2008 by JP (noreply@blogger.com) at Japers' Rink
... By now you've no doubt read GDub's defense of Washington as a hockey town (even though many of those local hockey fans don't necessarily root, root, root for the home team), buried in his take on the McKeon/Leonsis contraction "debate." I wanted to discuss one point Greg makes, as well as a comment to the post. Greg posits that "There are more hockey fans in D.C. than there are Capitals fans." What he means here (I think) is that there are more non-Caps hockey fans than Caps fans here in D.C. (a more literal reading of his sentence makes a far too obvious point - of course ...

A Hockey Town Turns the Other Cheek
Published 8/21/2008 by pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog
... (c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - The most influencial and important hockey writer today wrote this about HockeyWashington yesterday: “This is where the Washington Post has failed its readership for, oh, about 30 years: It counts empty seats at the Capitals games and uses that as a barometer for its hockey coverage; dismissing the fact that there are hockey fans who only attend a game here or there, and are still watching the NHL well after Washington’s season comes to an end. The blockbuster box office ...

Gaborik: 'I Think All the Games Should Be Free'
Published 8/21/2008 at PuckUpdate
... Also, Greg Wyshnynski has a great post responding to Ted Leonsis's protests against contraction in the NHL. Wyshnynski makes quite a few interesting points, from the small role of most Sun Belt teams on the national TV schedules, to the nature of DC hockey fans. ...

Hockey Town or Not a Hockey Town
Published 8/21/2008 by The Peerless (noreply@blogger.com) at The Peerless Prognosticator
OK, we've all seen the Ted vs. Ross posts on whether the Caps should be contracted (along with a few other teams, mostly from the Southeast). That led to this post from the source of the "5 ways I'd change the NHL" idea... ...

You Don’t Mess With the Leonsis
Published 8/21/2008 at Stet Sports Blog
... . Now, Yahoo! has responded a few more times in an effort to show they are not easily pushed around by a big bad owner. Yahoo!, Jamie Mottram can tell you that Ted Leonsis is no big bad owner. He’d sooner buy you a laptop to blog Caps games than sue you for copyright infringement. The most recent piece makes the case for Washington being a hockey town instead of a Washington Capitals town. This is nothing to be ashamed of, because this is the nature of the community: Full of transient government workers and college students and young urban professionals transplanted here from ...

Contraction Talk - Stupid is as Stupid Does
Published 8/22/2008 by Bubba at Canes Country
... Puck Daddy editor, Greg Wyshynski made an attempt at damage control a bit later, posting an article stating that he did not believe in contraction, but he disagreed with some of Leonsis’ arguments. Then he went on and on about how wonderful a hockey market Washington is, which in my opinion was probably an attempt to kiss up to Leonsis and the multitude of Capitals fans who wrote in to complain. ...