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Yeah Ryan I would have to side with Kyle on this one, you might want to apply for a job with Douglas Webber with your promotion scheme.
Thunder has been around for 3 seasons in full now, the first year we spent truckloads on Advertising and giving free tickets away, the second year we spent a lot, the third year we spent virtually none.
The 3rd year was the only year when the spectators covered the Home game fee…..
I think you missed the point Ryan, and Kyle kind of alluded to it.
The only reason they got so much publicity was using the words Canada and USA.
Not one person has come up to me and said have you heard of the great Ice hockey match. They are all saying America and Canada are coming!!!!"Kyle":1479fare wrote:I would have guessed, though it’s not clear from the material that Shannon and Wilson are the captains of the Canadian moose oldtimers teams that are travelling with the main senior teams, and than Quincey and Schremp are the captains of the senior teams that will play the headlines.
[/quote:1479fare]If you read this article
http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/ice-hockey/150412/ice-hockey-millions-expected-watch-nz-series%5B/url:1479fare%5D
It implies Shannon is on the USA team,
“Douglas expects everyone in the two squads for the series to be an NHL player or draft player, recently retired NHL player, or an American Hockey League player.
One of the former stars is Daryl Shannon (United States), who retired from the NHL two years ago after playing 544 games.”If you couple that with the moose literature that suggests Shannon is captaining a squad, it leads one to believe they are the same team.
Also note they say
“The tour is led by NHL player Kyle Quincey, who will captain the Canadian team. “
Perhaps Schremp and Quincey are figurehead captains?
http://www.canadianmoose.org/tours_current.htm
Its the Moose, they’re baaaaaaackkk!!
Well if that is there own press release then they are slipping back into their own lying ways They know that it is not the same team at the 2010 Olympics, it is not even closely related, and they should not be creating the illusion that it is.
"plod16":3d2wq1n8 wrote:The players have been carefully selected to bring you the biggest action sport event of the year, in an unbelievable display of speed, skills and action.[/quote:3d2wq1n8]
More like the players have been carefully selected to see who wants to on holiday to NZ, at that time of the year. If they had been carefully selected to bring you biggest action sports event of the year, we would know a roster now.
Also since when is Ice Hockey an action sport?? An action sport is what you see at the X-games Skateboarding, BMX, FMX, snowboarding etc.
Ice Hockey is a SPORT, not an action sport just another reason why I am not sure about the benefit to ice hockey in NZ by these games, if they are being ran as an action sport
What seems to be going on, is that Dougal and Webster have made a deal whereby players on their off-season can holiday in NZ and then play games on the side.
So they can’t name teams until July because they won’t know who is tied up with playoffs or injured etc, and don’t want to not deliver which is noble.
I think the reason they are not publicising this is that they want to maintain the illusion that it is Team Canada and Team USA, not just a bunch of NHL and AHL players on holiday.
People would still go though, but it would just be more honest if they said they were getting NHL players to come who are on there holiday, but we will let you know when we know who we have.
Instead of this smoke and mirrors game they seem to like playing.
For all those that haven’t heard.
Rob Schremp (Islanders) and Kyle Quincy (Avalanche) have been named captains of the two teams, so apparently they did get real NHL players.
Just heard the games advertised on Radio Sport. Sounds like we are all go….
Oh well best of luck to them, I hope they succeed, it will be good for the sport getting a lot of exposure as long as they do it properly.
I just wish they didn’t lie about what teams were coming. USA and Canada are NOT coming, the teams that are coming will be two invitational teams, if they just publicly admitted that I would be a lot happier….I finally pushed them over the edge….I have officially been kicked off the list of people who like the event hahahah
Awesome.
I think its because i said there event was going to be theatrical because they said we shouldn’t be worried how they are “prompting” the event , and they found their players “back round” behind the stadiums….. this was me making fun of their spelling…
Um can’t figure this out on this computer, and running out door here is link
My favourite is whenever someone queries them they delete the comment rather than respond?
I mean admittedly the queries have been feeling accusatory, but they could still respond.
Twice I asked if the reason they needed a poster girl was was because no one would recognise the players?Good Response (assuming legit): No, we have great players coming, we just looking to appease the horny sports fan.
Dougal and Webster Response: Delete
Some guy posted a screen grab of Vector Arena showing no events booked in July
Good Response: Hey we have the event just haven’t booked the arena yet, or we are waiting to confirm players before we book arena.
Dougal and Webster Response : Delete
Seems they have a good PR dept…
http://www.youtube.com/user/douglaswebbergroup?feature=mhum#p/a/f/1/_-uHymkWesY%5B/url:2ko9z0dn%5D
They now have youtube channel with this comment
“A taster of what you can see live at International Ice Hockey-NZ. Check out internationalicehockey.co.nz for event details.”
Based on the videos, we will see lots of hockey from the mid-late 90’s as well as fights at a ration of roughly 2-1 compared to fighting?
I would be interested to see how they can contrive bad blood between two invitational teams.
I smell slapshot 2(the movie)…..Anyone else notice on their Christchurch floor plan they have split the stands to Team Canada and Team USA supporters?
Did you notice how I didn’t say USA and Canadian invitational teams, well I didn’t because they have used the logos, of the respective official national teams.
Why don’t they stop lying. They are not helping me have any faith in any claims they make….
Hey Todd welcome to the forum….
Most of us here agree that we will probably do go to one of the games, depending on who they actually bring. If it ends up being two beer leagues I will keep my $80.
The dishonesty is our biggest concern too, we want to see good hockey in this country. But don’t lie to get us there. We will just leave disappointed, and most likely demand our money back due to false advertising.
