Newspaper coverage is way down in Canada, U.S.

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Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com found this 5/23/2008 on www.globesports.com [flag]
For the U.S. market, the appearance of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup final is about as good as it gets.“The hockey gods are smiling so wide we can count their missing teeth,” was the way NBC play-by-play announcer Mike Emrick described his reaction to the series in a telephone conference call this week. But neither the appeal of Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby ... [link]

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Wings-Pens final doesn't equal a media crush
Published 5/23/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
The Globe and Mail's William Houston says that, despite the NHL's rise in popularity over the past year or two, and the star-studded nature of the Detroit Red Wings-Pittsburgh Penguins series, the newspaper interest in the series is slim: May 23, Globe and Mail : Outside Pittsburgh and Detroit, only eight American dailies will staff the series from start to finish. Representation by Canadian newspapers will be just as slim. Outside Toronto, the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province are the only major dailies sending reporters to the final, which will start tomorrow night. That's ...

Most American newspapers will watch Cup finals on TV
Published 5/23/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... Here is an article about the low number of American newspapers that will be covering the Stanley Cup finals this season . . . written in a Canadian newspaper, of course. ...

Let’s Get Those Stanley Cups Picks In …
Published 5/23/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... , previews the NHL Finals. Just so you’re not confused, that is Hayden from Heroes licking the Cup. We don’t know hockey, but we know we’re pulling for Sidney Crosby and the Penguins, and we’re taking them in six. Before you sink your teeth into Lee’s thoughts, here’s how the media will be covering the NHL Finals. ...

Flyers-Stars Game 1 Non-Preview
Published 5/24/2008 by Jason Cohen at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... and some blogging would have gotten me a Stanley Cup credential, but judging by this story in the Globe and Mail, there might have been a few spots open in the press box: ...

Cup doth not runneth over with press
Published 5/28/2008 by Howard Burns at SPORTS COUCH POTATO
... According to William Houston in the Toronto Globe & Mail, only eight American dailies are staffing the series from start to finish. Canadian papers outside of Toronto and Vancouver are also opting for wire copy. Just 20 years ago, Houston notes, papers from every NHL city were represented at the championship series. ...

Penguins Try to Get Mojo Rising
Published 5/28/2008 at PuckUpdate
... Also, not a lot of newspapers (US and Canadian) are covering the finals. I think it says way more about the state of newspapers than the state of hockey. ...

Why your local newspaper chooses not to cover the NHL
Published 9 days ago by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... As I read it, I wondered if he used his story "Newspaper coverage is way down in Canada, U.S." from back in May, took out all the references to Canadian newspapers that chose not to cover an all-U.S. Stanley Cup final, and then added in some extra doom and gloom for hockey in America. ...