Air Canada threatens to pull NHL sponsorship

[Comeds]

First of all the NHL should not let sponsors dictate how they react to problems in the league.

However if Air Canada is unhappy with the leagues response to injuries, head shots, and cheap shots than they are free to pull their sponsorship. Head shots and their consequences have been as big of a story this season as any good events so I can see how that would trouble some sponsors. And todays ruling pretty much said that driving a players head into the glass, whether intentional or not, is pretty much OK.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Doesn't that happen all the fucking time in other industries?

Not at all.

Happens a lot in advertising.

How often do you hear a various group complaining that so-and-so should pull their ads from such-and-such show/network because they don't like the content?

Happened just a couple weeks ago with Skins.

Tons of companies pulled ads from Glenn Beck's show because he went off the deep end a year and half ago or so.

 

[sportfan09]

dam canada

 

[sportfan09]

 

[dare2be]

Gosh. I am swearing too much and being argumentative. This is why I shouldn't have given up smoking for Lent. Only 24 hours in and I'm ready to strangle people (no offense).

I quit yesterday at 5:00.

Just bought another pack today at 9:00AM.

 

[puckhead]

Happens a lot in advertising.

How often do you hear a various group complaining that so-and-so should pull their ads from such-and-such show/network because they don't like the content?

Happened just a couple weeks ago with Skins.

Tons of companies pulled ads from Glenn Beck's show because he went off the deep end a year and half ago or so.

Tiger Tiger Woods y'all.
most of the sponsors seem to have returned, but he was a sinking ship for a while there.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

(sarcasm) big whoop ... this is just a niche canadian airline (/sarcasm)

 

[mattola]

with the police potentially getting involved isnt March 8th a bitch of a day for the NHL.

 

[puckhead]

btw... saw a quote today that has NHL teams providing Air Canada with about $20 million per year in charter flights.
hellllooooooo Westjet.

 

[puckhead]

with the police potentially getting involved isnt March 8th a bitch of a day for the NHL.

Bertuzzi should put the icing on the cake by hunting down Tim Danson and beating him on the court steps.

#WINNING

 

[jstewismybastardson]

btw... saw a quote today that has NHL teams providing Air Canada with about $20 million per year in charter flights.
hellllooooooo Westjet.

and the ACC naming rights deal is only 30 mill over 20 years

maybe this is another corporate exit strategy on display

 

[KillerVee]

I quit yesterday at 5:00.

Just bought another pack today at 9:00AM.

Damn! I used to always say "Quitting smoking is easy! I've done it hundreds of times!" I think that was a Mark Twain rip-off though.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

and the ACC naming rights deal is only 30 mill over 20 years

maybe this is another corporate exit strategy on display

Can't really blame them for trying to distance themselves from anything related to the Leafs though.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Bettman tells them to fly away if they want to

"Air Canada is a great brand, as is the National Hockey League, and if they decide they need to do other things with their sponsorship dollars that's their prerogative, just like it's the prerogative of our clubs that fly on Air Canada to make other arrangements if they don't think Air Canada is giving them the appropriate level of service."

 

[puckhead]

Bettman tells them to fly away if they want to

"Air Canada is a great brand, as is the National Hockey League, and if they decide they need to do other things with their sponsorship dollars that's their prerogative, just like it's the prerogative of our clubs that fly on Air Canada to make other arrangements if they don't think Air Canada is giving them the appropriate level of service."

that's the first smart thing I have EVER heard bettman say

 

[Slimpikins]

Happens a lot in advertising.

How often do you hear a various group complaining that so-and-so should pull their ads from such-and-such show/network because they don't like the content?

Happened just a couple weeks ago with Skins.

Tons of companies pulled ads from Glenn Beck's show because he went off the deep end a year and half ago or so.

That is different. They can pull their support if they don't like the content but they do not try and dictate how the show regulates punishment when an employee violates company policy. Huge difference.

 

[dash]

that's the first smart thing I have EVER heard bettman say

There's a German word that best describes my feelings of the week that Gary has experienced - Schadenfreude.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

That is different. They can pull their support if they don't like the content but they do not try and dictate how the show regulates punishment when an employee violates company policy. Huge difference.

Not trying to be difficult, but that's a very loaded statement.

AC has issues with the NHL's ruling that Chara didn't really violate "company policy" except for a basic 2 minute interference penalty. They're taking issue with "company policy" essentially.

 

[IPostedWhat]

There's a German word that best describes my feelings of the week that Gary has experienced - Schadenfreude.

The only German expression I know is the one I learned from the movie Top Secret - Ist der tochter achtzehn, bite.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

There's a German word that best describes my feelings of the week that Gary has experienced - Schadenfreude.

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