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Lahey
Edmonton Oilers
Location: del's basement chilling with S, AB
Joined: 03.07.2011

Aug 20 @ 4:11 PM ET

- glove_was_stuck

This is pretty accurate.
kicksave856
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: i love how not saying dumb things on the internet was never an option.
Joined: 09.29.2005

Aug 20 @ 4:13 PM ET
While we're on the topic, I'll re-post something I said before and re-tool it so hopefully it doesn't result in a ban. From a digital saavy hockey fan, this entire site is stale. Right down from the watered down posts about essentially nothing, to the 2002-ish design. You need to rebrand the site and re-invent yourself as a hockey content provider. Come up with new ways to share the interesting stuff you get from your sources. You owe it to the people that pay to access your content and to your loyal following. Leverage your talented bloggers to help you do this.
- champ1315

you're assuming he cares about those things. why?
Flyfreaky
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.20.2011

Aug 20 @ 4:20 PM ET
I haven't read one of his blogs from start to finish in a long long time.
- Lahey

dyslexia or comprehension issues?
Inmate4
Montreal Canadiens
Location: HFX, NS
Joined: 07.26.2007

Aug 20 @ 4:29 PM ET
wait...that wasn't a clever cyber pun?
- keaner17


Ahh perhaps. I wasnt' around to read any of these treads last week. As I said, to be a db...
Symba007
Montreal Canadiens
Location: You are all perennial cynical sissies , ON
Joined: 02.26.2007

Aug 20 @ 4:34 PM ET
Not to be a douchebag...Ok to be a douchebag. I hate to see Heisenberg misquoted. It's 'tread' lightly. Not thread.
- Inmate4

fixed and Thx
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 20 @ 4:34 PM ET
While we're on the topic, I'll re-post something I said before and re-tool it so hopefully it doesn't result in a ban. From a digital saavy hockey fan, this entire site is stale. Right down from the watered down posts about essentially nothing, to the 2002-ish design. You need to rebrand the site and re-invent yourself as a hockey content provider. Come up with new ways to share the interesting stuff you get from your sources. You owe it to the people that pay to access your content and to your loyal following. Leverage your talented bloggers to help you do this.
- champ1315

I got 30 days in the box for a similar post a few months ago
keaner17
New York Islanders
Location: REJECTED REFEREE
Joined: 07.12.2007

Aug 20 @ 4:41 PM ET
I got 30 days in the box for a similar post a few months ago
- homiedclown

are you rehabilitated now? Red says it's just a word...
Joey1724
New York Islanders
Location: Bethpage, NY
Joined: 09.01.2006

Aug 20 @ 4:43 PM ET
Yes, please make sure to keep those 12 islander fans happy. We're so happy you're focused on hiring writers and not rumors etc.
- Flyersgod




Flyers Suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryan Wilson
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: Rochester, NY
Joined: 06.13.2013

Aug 20 @ 4:46 PM ET
While we're on the topic, I'll re-post something I said before and re-tool it so hopefully it doesn't result in a ban. From a digital saavy hockey fan, this entire site is stale. Right down from the watered down posts about essentially nothing, to the 2002-ish design. You need to rebrand the site and re-invent yourself as a hockey content provider. Come up with new ways to share the interesting stuff you get from your sources. You owe it to the people that pay to access your content and to your loyal following. Leverage your talented bloggers to help you do this.
- champ1315


To be honest I think that the user interface and comment sections are an absolute strength of this website. You can seamlessly maneuver your way around and participate in discussions about all 30 NHL teams. The current setup allows discussion to facilitate easily and allows interaction with different fan bases that perhaps otherwise would not happen. Just my two cents.
Lahey
Edmonton Oilers
Location: del's basement chilling with S, AB
Joined: 03.07.2011

Aug 20 @ 4:46 PM ET
dyslexia or comprehension issues?
- Flyfreaky

Not giving a (frank) issues.
kicksave856
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: i love how not saying dumb things on the internet was never an option.
Joined: 09.29.2005

Aug 20 @ 4:52 PM ET
Not giving a (frank) issues.
- Lahey

they're also impossible to get through. grammar, punctuation, and being interesting are hurdles that turned out to be taller than he thought they were going to be.

you know after journalism school.
Michael Stuart
Ottawa Senators
Location: "Caresi > Corsi"
Joined: 10.24.2011

Aug 20 @ 4:54 PM ET
To be honest I think that the user interface and comment sections are an absolute strength of this website. You can seamlessly maneuver your way around and participate in discussions about all 30 NHL teams. The current setup allows discussion to facilitate easily and allows interaction with different fan bases that perhaps otherwise would not happen. Just my two cents.
- Ryan_Wilson


I'd have to agree with you here, Ryan. Sometimes simplicity is better than the opposite. Hockey Buzz isn't a fancy setup, but it doesn't have to be. Like you said, it's easy to participate in discussion about all 30 teams. That's the goal here. I can name a number of hockey related sites that have too much going on. This isn't one of them.
kicksave856
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: i love how not saying dumb things on the internet was never an option.
Joined: 09.29.2005

Aug 20 @ 4:58 PM ET
I'd have to agree with you here, Ryan. Sometimes simplicity is better than the opposite. Hockey Buzz isn't a fancy setup, but it doesn't have to be. Like you said, it's easy to participate in discussion about all 30 teams. That's the goal here. I can name a number of hockey related sites that have too much going on. This isn't one of them.
- Michael_Stuart

it was real easy to participate in discussion about all 30 teams this past weekend.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 20 @ 5:00 PM ET
are you rehabilitated now? Red says it's just a word...

- keaner17

homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Aug 20 @ 5:01 PM ET
To be honest I think that the user interface and comment sections are an absolute strength of this website. You can seamlessly maneuver your way around and participate in discussions about all 30 NHL teams. The current setup allows discussion to facilitate easily and allows interaction with different fan bases that perhaps otherwise would not happen. Just my two cents.
- Ryan_Wilson

I find you, Stuart, JJ and Yost to be the 4 biggest +++'s on this site over the last few years

Lahey
Edmonton Oilers
Location: del's basement chilling with S, AB
Joined: 03.07.2011

Aug 20 @ 5:12 PM ET
I find you, Stuart, JJ and Yost to be the 4 biggest +++'s on this site over the last few years
- homiedclown

FRENCH
champ1315
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 06.21.2007

Aug 20 @ 5:13 PM ET
To be honest I think that the user interface and comment sections are an absolute strength of this website. You can seamlessly maneuver your way around and participate in discussions about all 30 NHL teams. The current setup allows discussion to facilitate easily and allows interaction with different fan bases that perhaps otherwise would not happen. Just my two cents.
- Ryan_Wilson



I think there is a way to keep the things that work, as well as move the site forward. For example....

- The mobile offering for this site is non-existent. Ask anyone that knows anything about the web and that's just bad business these days. Terrible mobile experience is going to equal people simply not coming here anymore.

- If the site bloggers are the strength of the site, why aren't they being featured more in a better designed layout?

- Why has the season ticket offering not changed in literally 5 years? In fact I think it's been subtracted from. If you are asking people to pay for content on a yearly basis at least refresh what you are offering.

Michael Stuart
Ottawa Senators
Location: "Caresi > Corsi"
Joined: 10.24.2011

Aug 20 @ 5:13 PM ET
I find you, Stuart, JJ and Yost to be the 4 biggest +++'s on this site over the last few years
- homiedclown


Thanks for that. Much appreciated.
kicksave856
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: i love how not saying dumb things on the internet was never an option.
Joined: 09.29.2005

Aug 20 @ 5:20 PM ET
I think there is a way to keep the things that work, as well as move the site forward. For example....

- The mobile offering for this site is non-existent. Ask anyone that knows anything about the web and that's just bad business these days. Terrible mobile experience is going to equal people simply not coming here anymore.

- If the site bloggers are the strength of the site, why aren't they being featured more in a better designed layout?

- Why has the season ticket offering not changed in literally 5 years? In fact I think it's been subtracted from. If you are asking people to pay for content on a yearly basis at least refresh what you are offering.

- champ1315

you got any servers lying around?
Lahey
Edmonton Oilers
Location: del's basement chilling with S, AB
Joined: 03.07.2011

Aug 20 @ 5:25 PM ET
I think there is a way to keep the things that work, as well as move the site forward. For example....

- The mobile offering for this site is non-existent. Ask anyone that knows anything about the web and that's just bad business these days. Terrible mobile experience is going to equal people simply not coming here anymore.

- If the site bloggers are the strength of the site, why aren't they being featured more in a better designed layout?

- Why has the season ticket offering not changed in literally 5 years? In fact I think it's been subtracted from. If you are asking people to pay for content on a yearly basis at least refresh what you are offering.

- champ1315

The biggest flaw is that the site has allowed trolls to be trolls and bloggers to troll other fan bases.

How can anyone take the site serious when crap like that happens? How do you attract the best possible bloggers that way?
watsonnostaw
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Dude has all the personality of a lump of concrete. Just a complete lizard.
Joined: 06.26.2006

Aug 20 @ 5:32 PM ET
post of the day
- Cptmjl

thanks, I really appreciate it
brodydog29
New York Islanders
Location: NY
Joined: 09.24.2011

Aug 20 @ 5:46 PM ET
The biggest flaw is that the site has allowed trolls to be trolls and bloggers to troll other fan bases.

How can anyone take the site serious when crap like that happens? How do you attract the best possible bloggers that way?

- Lahey

You mean like when Dee verbally bashed Nash after receiving a concussion that left Ranger fans completely irate... Or a few weeks ago when she decided to call an Islander fan an asshat on another account because she was butt hurt that he's been doing a better, more respectable job.
Cptmjl
New York Islanders
Joined: 11.05.2011

Aug 20 @ 6:26 PM ET
thanks, I really appreciate it
- watsonnostaw

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edmac812
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Dry Island, PA
Joined: 12.31.2006

Aug 20 @ 7:16 PM ET
are you saying there is a paycheck involved? lol
Flyfreaky
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 07.20.2011

Aug 20 @ 7:17 PM ET
Not giving a (frank) issues.
- Lahey

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