OT: 2018 Winter Olympics

[jstewismybastardson]

Nobody has enjoyed these Olympics more than Gary Bettman. He's going to leverage this with the players, with the IOC and with NBC when TV rights renewals come up. And like you say, he wants to go to China anyway so this is all just cherries on top of the dim sum.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

lots of fans were pissed off way back when it came out the league was thinking of skipping these olympics ... that didnt change the NHLs opinion about anything ... since when have they cared about the fan ?

They care very much about the fans in Arizona it appears.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

They care very much about the fan in Arizona it appears.

fify

 

[forty_three]

and I think Bettman now has more leverage. The gold medal game here will now feature the Germans and a team from a country that isnt even allowed to fly its flag. TV Ratings in North America were in the tank already and theres a palpable feeling that its made these entire Olympics less of an event than they have been in the past.

I think the NHL wants to go to Beijing moreso than they wanted to go to Korea. They will be ok with playing in the middle of the night since they will be primetime playing in a country of 1.5 billion AS LONG AS they get paid for it

I am not convinced the two are related. I don't know if there is any way to check ratings of all possible views. I know I personally have watched more online than on TV. So it would stand to reason that the TV ratings would be down. Why would I watch a 4 hour broadcast that is 3.5 hours of commercials and soft focus fuzzy stories about the guy who is about to go out there and fall on his face when I can fire up an app and watch the actual event?

And yes, any games held half a world away is going to suffer on TV here in North America. The events are happening live at a time when everyone is asleep here, and with the Internet you know the results the next morning. It's not like them holding off televising the 1980 Russia/USA game until prime time and no one knew what happened when it aired. There's no incentive to wait until prime time to watch. And very few people care enough to stay up and watch live.

 

[dash]

Nobody has enjoyed these Olympics more than Gary Bettman. He's going to leverage this with the players, with the IOC and with NBC when TV rights renewals come up. And like you say, he wants to go to China anyway so this is all just cherries on top of the dim sum.

Bettman and China go together like lamb and tuna fish.

 

[dash]

I was hoping that Rene Bourque was going to be the flag bearer for Canada after a hat trick performance in the gold medal game

/Give it to Ted-Jan Bloemen
//Or Mark McMorris

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I was hoping that Rene Bourque was going to be the flag bearer for Canada after a hat trick performance in the gold medal game

/Give it to Ted-Jan Bloemen
//Or Mark McMorris

Moir double fisting beer walking next to Virtue holding the flag

 

[dash]

Well, Deutschland might as well go all the way to the gold now.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I am not convinced the two are related. I don't know if there is any way to check ratings of all possible views. I know I personally have watched more online than on TV. So it would stand to reason that the TV ratings would be down. Why would I watch a 4 hour broadcast that is 3.5 hours of commercials and soft focus fuzzy stories about the guy who is about to go out there and fall on his face when I can fire up an app and watch the actual event?

And yes, any games held half a world away is going to suffer on TV here in North America. The events are happening live at a time when everyone is asleep here, and with the Internet you know the results the next morning. It's not like them holding off televising the 1980 Russia/USA game until prime time and no one knew what happened when it aired. There's no incentive to wait until prime time to watch. And very few people care enough to stay up and watch live.

good point about the ratings (tv versus online) but i still think the nhl'ers not being there, at least in canada (which probably doesnt mean anything in the grand scheme of things - lol) and at least before the games started, made for zero buzz for the olympics

seemed like 2 fridays ago everyone was like ... oh yah ... the olympics are on

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Well, Deutschland might as well go all the way to the gold now.

make the oars cry meldonium laced tears

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Moir double fisting beer walking next to Virtue holding the flag

Can they still fuck while doing that?

 

[BGDave]

just cherries on top of the dim sum

 

[BGDave]

OMG

I watched that every day as a kid.

Wok the heck is his name??? Martin Chan?

 

[dash]

Can they still fuck while doing that?

Make it a menage a trois as they'll get screwed by the Russian judge.

 

[dash]

OMG

I watched that every day as a kid.

Wok the heck is his name??? Martin Chan?

Had to look it up - I knew the last name was Yan, forgot his first name Stephen.

 

[dash]

Also, I got a kick out of the sayings on his apron which included the following:

• Wok & Roll
• Wokking My Baby Back Home
• Danger, Yan at Wok
• Wok Around the Clock
• Wok the Heck
• You Are Wok You Eat
• Wok Goes up Must Come Down
• Wok's New, Pussycat?
• Wokkey Night in Canada
• Stuck Between a Wok and a Hard Place
• Raiders of The Lost Wok
• Eat Your Wok Out
• Moon Wok
• Jailhouse Wok
• Superior Wokmanship
• Wok-A-Doodle-Doo
• Wok Before You Run
• Wok Me Amadeus
• Wok up Little Suzie
• Wok Don't Run

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Can they still fuck while doing that?

sounds like you will have a new entry in your Virtue Moir fan fiction blog very soon

 

[BGDave]

Had to look it up - I knew the last name was Yan, forgot his first name Stephen.

Thanks.

And the show was "Yan can cook" IIRC

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Thanks.

And the show was "Yan can cook" IIRC

nope ... wok with yan

 

[BGDave]

nope ... wok with yan

Huh.

I was thinking of this one

Yan Can Cook - Wikipedia