Comments on: SHAMELESS: NHL GENERAL MANAGERS’ NEW POLICY ON INJURY UPDATES

By: SIR WILLIAM

SIR WILLIAM — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:02:18 +0000

Isles beat the Leafs Friday 5-2. You heard it here first……..SW

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:56:27 +0000

Thanks for the response, Chris. I agree with your take, and when someone like Malkin or Drury get dinged, we’ll see if it becomes a bigger deal. However, I still feel the Isles will get an unfair amount of blowback on this. Along the lines of “The Pens are just protecting their stars from being targeted, but god-forbid we don’t have revealed to us every last detail of Mike Comrie’s groin injury. How dare you!”

Again, thanks for the response.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:20:29 +0000

This is NOT helpful to the PR pros out there, who, in my experience usually are the ones lobbying the coach / GM / Doctors to give the ok to servicing the media. I get the whole injury thing, but there are ways to help the media tell the story without painting a target on a guy. This is just going to strain media relationships for a league that NEEDS some media coverage.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:55:54 +0000

hi Neil. I think the only reason you’re reading about the policy in Islanders articles is because, frankly, I was the first one to call the new NHL media policy to anyone’s attention. As I mentioned in the Home Ice interview, I think this will be a bigger story once the season starts and guys get hurt…CB

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:47:44 +0000

Why is the only place I’m reading about this policy is in articles about the Islanders? Why is it only the Isles media seems to have a problem with it? Not a word about it from any other team’s media? The Isles are singled out for ‘gotcha’ stories yet again. Rangers and Flyers hide injuries…no problem. Great job. Isles do it…federal case.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:23:09 +0000

From what Logan said this is being done so opposing cannot exploit a player’s injury when they return. Does anyone really believe that teams cannot figure out what kind of injury a players has suffer when they do their video scouting? I don’t.

While players will play dirty and attempt to go after another players injury at times, things should be done to curb this sort of thing. But with the NHL’s seemingly hands-off approach to high hits, we know that won’t happen.

These are games, not duels in the Coliseum of Ancient Rome.

By: BD

BD — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:06:58 +0000

Nobody should fear truth. The NHL policy is misguided.

By: Chris TMC

Chris TMC — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:56:08 +0000

I do not understand how this policy (or lack thereof) helps ANYTHING. If teams give out straightforward and factual information, that is what people will have. With this policy, what everyone will instead have is wild unbridled speculation… and, consequentially, hysteria. WTH is good about THAT???

By: 7th Woman

7th Woman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:18:40 +0000

You, more than anyone, should know that Garth was probably the one who pushed for this change.