I had to sign up just to say I agree with you 100% on this one. Every post over there is such incessant whining and conspiracy theorizing. They were blessed enough to have one of the greatest runs in NHL history from the mid 90’s through last year, and at the first sign of trouble, it’s woe is me. A lot of teams’ fans would have loved a single Cup run, but these guys saw four of them and have taken it for granted.

Bloggers like the Chief (IwoCPO), who is indeed a male, over at A2Y is a convenient excuse for a difficulty that bloggers have getting credentials, but it’s simply not the case. The Chief has never had the illusion of objectivity and that’s what his readers (me included) like. You seem to run a completely different type of blog here and that’s completely fine, but your saying that blogs like A2Y somehow hurt your credibility is like the Washington Post complaining that the Onion hurts their credibility. It’s completely different. If you have a problem getting credentials based on that, then it’s your stupid team’s fault for being unable to tell the difference between different forms of hockey writing, not writers like the Chief’s fault for coming out with a product that differs from yours. As far as I know, the Chief has never requested credentials, nor would he change his writing if somebody were to offer that to him.

"Writers" like IwoCPO (see what I did there, with the quotes?) are the example NHL teams point to when they refuse to credential bloggers

Go get a journalism degree?

If you want to consider yourself a extra special V.I.P. writer you should probably go to college and get a degree in journalism, then spend years writing about things no one cares about for a paper no one reads. Maybe, if you are lucky, you can get promoted to the sports department and write spoon fed quotes and articles from your favorite teams P.R. cronies.

OR

You could sit in your “office”, at your house, hiding from your miserable family tapping away on the Internet about how swell it would be if the Minnesota Wild actually played for the Stanley Cup. But alas, you’re only a Blogger, not an actual Writer. Bloggers are fans who bother to take the time to write on the internet about something they are passionate about, they are not “news sources” hence the press access. Allow me to quote the welcome page of SB NATION:
 “SB Nation is of, by and for the fans. As with the teams they cover, our blogs are nothing without fan participation and encouragement. We hope that you’ll dive in with the tools we’ve provided and make these communities your own.”

Please reconsider attempts to call out a someone who does the exact same thing you do. Maybe the Red Wings are successful in part, due to the fans FANaticism and dedication unlike the Wilds’ ownership commitment to not spending money on talented players and trapping and slowing the game down to an uneventful crawl.

My Wednesday just got so much better.

New to this blog, but thought the author might enjoy watching the first few minutes of this video from Hockey Night in Canada. Hope all my grammer is correct?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrkx-IQsihk

Would you like a little wine with that crow?

I understand why you might be just a wee bit bored, since your team is mired in 37th place.

But your (weak) point…(see what I did with the parentheses?} more or less concludes that all hockey blogs must be deadly serious, or else they reflect poorly on those of you that attempt to be.

So, do all restaurants need to be “serious”? Or is there a place for both Chucky Cheese, and the french bistro down the street?

 Is there a place in the world for both a symphonic orchestra, and a gangsta rap outfit?

I could go on, but you get the picture. This was a flimsy premise for a (serious) blog post.

What is the purpose of attacking another blogger for their writing style?

You go after him for grammar while admitting grammatical faults, then go after him for grammar again. Meanwhile you keep referring to his blog as “From Abel to Yzerman” when there is no “From”. It’s “Abel to Yzerman”. Incidentally, regarding the style of using all capital letters for every word in a blog title, Paul K. does the exact same thing. There’s nothing wrong with that as long as it’s consistent.

You say there’s nothing wrong with being a homer, yet blast him for being a homer.

Finally, you get to the crux of the matter: credentialing and blaming what you perceive to be the situation on blogs that you don’t like.

There are two issues with blogs, that I can see, which lead to the lack of credentialing: firstly, as Dougie points out, there are a whole range of blogs out there, from the greasy spoon to the five star dining experience, with everything in between. Most if not all sports teams lump them all together in a blanket “no bloggers” policy, which is, quite frankly, stupid and lazy on their part. It is not that hard to figure out which blogs seek objectivity, but I don’t think it really matters because of the second issue: blogs are not news organizations. They’re just not. If you want all the bloggers from SB Nation to be credentialed, you’re going to have to drop the “B”, set yourselves up as a media outlet, declare yourself journalists, post primarily news as opposed to opinion, and hold yourself to the same standards journalists are expected to hold themselves to.

Unfortunately for you and your aspirations of being “professional”, you’re a hell of a long way from that. This post was maybe as far from professional as it gets. You attacked a fan and an amateur blogger for being a fan, and an amateur blogger, and for having a style that you don’t like, and likely have started another stupid and pointless blogging flame war. Way to go. You want to know what’s wrong with blogs? This.

The difference between the two (KK and SBN) is that SBN seems to have cherry picked some of the best blogs from across the web and put them all in one place. What this leads to is a powerhouse network of blogs, all with mostly professional posts with the occasional light hearted homer-esque post from time to time.

My answer to this: http://www.stlouisgametime.com/

I’d like your take on what percentage of the posts at that SBN blog fit into the “professional post” category and which fit into the “occasional light hearted homer-esque post” category.

For the record, I like St. Louis Game Time more than I like this blog. They’re bitter, they’re spiteful, they’re vitriolic, they’re mean, but at least they’re honest about all of that. I can respect that about them.

If you want to clean up the blogosphere so the professionals like you can get your press credentials, start in your own house. Go ahead and ask the guys at St. Louis Game Time to dial back their act a little bit so you can get taken seriously. I’d love to see that.

so you ridicule a blogger who you don’t know and readers you don’t like because they… ridicule other bloggers and readers they don’t like.

perfect.

Arrogance is not stumbled upon. It doesn’t take you by surprise and it’s not misguided. It’s earned and it’s healthy and it’s ours.

when your team has had the long term success the wings have had, you’ll understand. don’t get your hopes up, though.

I don’t understand the point here. You seem almost jealous of the attention that his blog gets. What I don’t get is that you make an assumption that everyone reading his blog is so dumb that they cannot figure out it’s mostly for entertainment, humor, and Red Wings “homerism”. Clearly you just want to believe that everyone reading it is that dumb, when you know they’re probably exactly like the readers of your blog — just trying to enjoy some musings on a topic they know and love by someone who’s not constrained by a news organization to be as vanilla as possible.

I also find it annoying that people like to blame blogs like that for being the reason others hate Red Wings fans. To take a single blog and make the assumption that all Wings fans are loud, obnoxious, and whiny is ridiculous, and makes me seriously question your judgment. I’m sure you can find the perfect “bad fan” for any team and pretend that person is how all fans of the respective team act.

From the first post, titled Instead Of Whining? Let’s Make Some Sort Of Sick Contest Out Of It. First off, the title? Just, wow. What is the question mark for? I am not a grammatical master, hell there are probably enough spelling and grammar errors in this post to give any responder plenty of ammo against me. However, not every word in a title is capitalized. Only the important ones.

Your title: “Anyone Else a Little Bored?”

Exactly the same. See, “Instead of Whining?” is an abbreviated interrogatory sentence. The “What are we doing…” or the “what will we do” part is implied. Just like the verb in your title, “is,” is implied. Granted, it’s not technically grammatically correct, but it is acceptable. See, that’s a rhetorical device available to writers of prose. Some chose to stray from the strict confines of grammar in order to write with a more colloquial style. Though, I’m sure they taught you all of that at awesome blogger school.

And thanks from the tip, straight from the AP stylebook: Only capitalize the “important” words. Again, did they teach you this at your fancy school?

Good reporting, by the way. Like the true, credentialed, objective stalwart of democracy that you are you uncover such wonders such as… nothing. You don’t even bother to get the name of the blog right, nor do you manage to spend the three minutes it would take to determine the Chief’s gender. Good on you, Lord Byron. You’re really a shining beacon for the struggling blogger everywhere, just rubbing their pinky rings and wishing upon a star that the Chief at Abel to Yzerman would stop standing in the way of their Rudy moments.

I have grown tired of debating with you folks.

translated:

my ass has been handed to me enough and i regret writing this post.

Red wings fans have a lot of free time for inane comments, what with their Not having jobs in the plant anymore.

Thank you Detroit! Now pay the bailout money
back you unemployed fucks.

…yeah… it’s the Red Wings fans who have “attitudes that aren’t exactly conducive to planting the seeds of Good Will.”

Die in hell, nathaneide, die in hell.

Red wings fans have a lot of free time for inane comments, what with their Not having jobs in the plant anymore.

I’d like to point out that the writer of this post dedicated about 1,000 unpaid words to fling shit at a blog that didn’t provoke him. With that time he could’ve gone out and formed a grass roots circle jerk fund-raising campaign to help donate to Nathan’s pocket (that empty place where all of us Detroiters stole from. By the way we’re all from Detroit and worked in the plant. I hate us.)

What is your opinion of your co-writer, who clearly operates under a similar theme that the Chief does?

Okay, two questions: You can make fun of slow people in North Dakota, but homo jokes are off limits? Just making sure you’re keeping that moral compass pointing upward.

1. You Buddha are a douche bag. Your post reeks of hypocricy
2. Go find a dictionary and find out what the word “blogger” means
3. As you guys have ragged on Detroit natives and North Dakotans, what do you think of us Norwegians?