1/27, 5:04 PM - Ross McKeon is a Bad Writer
If you’ve ever read the Yahoo! Sports hockey page, chances are you’ve stumbled across this yutz who is, I believe, the single biggest bastion of negativity in the NHL journalistic world. Just in the last week or so he’s put up an article about how boring and pointless the all-star game is, followed by an article about how the NHL needs the media to help it cultivate a good image for events like the all-star game, followed by an article about how the NHL Skills Competition was boring and pointless. Just to recap McKeon’s position here:
- The NHL all-star game is boring and stupid and pointless. I can say this and my opinion counts because I am a media member.
- The NHL has an image problem because the media is always criticizing it and and events it puts on.
- Let me note, from the press box, in my Yahoo! blog that the NHL Skills Competition is stupid.
My problem with these articles isn’t that I wholeheartedly disagree with McKeon, it’s that all he seems to do is complain about the NHL and make really ignorant statements like “Much like the situation in Atlanta, the only intrigue [in Washington] is Alexander Ovechkin and his pursuit of a goal-scoring title” and I can’t understand why Yahoo! would be paying a columnist who neither seems like nor follow the NHL.
Okay so sue me - I like the Skills Competition and YougStars Game and LOVED the All Star Game - as you’ve pointed out it’s not “real” hockey but it was/is exciting and it’s a worthy showcase of the best in the NHL. As for the comment about how the only thing we Caps fans have to follow is Ovie’s pursuit of a goal scoring title (or 60 goals season) - this ignoramous has obviously not watched Laing block successive shots; Semin dance through a crowd and fire a wrister; Green nail a one timer or a host of other great moves by the best young team in the NHL. LETS GO CAPS!!!