I don’t have much useful information to report sorry.

They’re very interested in any information that we can provide relating to the issue. I’ve been feeding bits of information here and there to them, but I don’t know what’s happening with that information.

As I said about the commerce commision, thanks Paul
How about you guys stop whingeing ( because thats how I see it ) dont bother going along to the games but see it as an opportunity for people to see an ice hockey game of pretty good quality regardless of the smoke and mirrors by the promoters. Theres something like 2500 tickets sold to the Dunedin game and shit loads people who have never seen ice hockey are going along and are going to go away thinking that they have watched a great spectacle and maybe will go along to support the thunder in future. This is good for the game for Petes sake. If your values about marketing are so offended how about directing your energies toward something meaningfull like drug companies who make enourmous profits from drugs that either dont work or damage  people , or maybe all the chemicals that get pumped into  animals  that we eat or perhaps the the by product of aluminum smeltering called flouride being mass medicated to us,  not  flipping ice hockey marketing “puffery” . Try getting some perpective people

People are entitled to be pissed off.  People are also entitled to vent that displeasure in whatever manner they see fit.  You can fight the drug companies if you want.  You are free to pick your battles.  A number of people don’t want other to be misled and there is nothing wrong with that.  For me personally, any team Canada or veiled reference to it is as sacrosanct as the All Black image.  If someone tried to do the same thing with rugby, I doubt you would call the massive uproar as whingeing.  It’s a cultural entity that you don’t mess with for profit…especially when you don’t give a damn about the game or any benefits that might or might not come of it.

well what is happening then, at the moment is seems all thunder and no lightening excuse the pun

Albert Einstien (a rapper I think) had a quote something like “measure yourself not by accolades you receive but by the value you add to other peoples lives”
I  questioned the value of your actions and how much it adds to other peoples lives and I dont see much benefit.

…or let it be run by someone who knows nothing about ice hockey and who states “I don’t care about ice hockey, I’m in it to make money”.  Sounds like a great plan to me.  I have a bit more confidence in the nzihf growing the game then some renegade promoters who have left others in the lurch before.

I’ve played pick up games that will rival the quality of this watered down game but we didn’t charge $200 a seat.  

What big judgement calls?  The opponents of the game will stay opponents despite your calls to stop complaining and I don’t expect you to share our views either.  Not really a big call afterall.  There clearly isn’t much of a point in trying to convince the other of anything is there?  If you don’t like what you read, stop reading.  We don’t like the product so we won’t go and will make sure others are aware of what is really on offer before they fork over their money and end up disappointed and feeling hard done by by hockey in NZ.  If they are happy with the product like you appear to be, good stuff.  Not that hard really

Actually, criminals isn’t a value judgement, it’s a definable word – a person who has committed a crime.

Unlikely that they’ve done that however. Most likely a civil issue – misleading advertising, breaches of the Commerce Act possibly?