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Jordan7hm posted:Grantland with crappier writers, a smaller focus, and a subscription fee. Yeah Grantland was the other example I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name. Man, this just seems doomed to fail. I'd love to know how they convinced those venture capitalists to give them $2M because right now I can only assume it was through hypnotism or blackmail.
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Reminder: the last offer sheet that successfully poached a player from his team was 10 years ago, for Dustin Penner.
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Call Your Grandma posted:Reminder: the last offer sheet that successfully poached a player from his team was 10 years ago, for Dustin Penner. There have been two successful offer sheets since McDavid was born.
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ThinkTank posted:Yeah Grantland was the other example I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name. Uber lost almost $3 billion last year, $2m is nothing.
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I subbed The Athletic during the Caps' series against Toronto. If they did a DC branch I'd stay subbed for sure based on what I've seen and I'd recommend it for the other cities they cover. If you aren't a fan of the teams in one of their cities I'd probably pass, but I'm glad I'll get to see what they do this coming regular season before I decide. I am completely at peace with paying for good stuff these days since that's the way everything is headed; and they do have a lot of good stuff even if there still are plenty of good free outlets for now.
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Thufir posted:Uber lost almost $3 billion last year, $2m is nothing. So did Netflix. Those however are large business with a proven working model and a large consumer base that are spending large amounts of money to corner their existing market. The Athletic is a small regional sports blog, perhaps the most saturated content market on the internet. Just because a venture capital firm can write off a $2M loss, doesn't mean they want to or will. They're beholden to their investors like any other equity firm. I would not be impressed if my quarterly report said my money was being invested in something that was almost certain to fail. That's not a risky investment, that's a no hope investment.
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ThinkTank posted:So did Netflix. Those however are large business with a proven working model Well, not Uber. Uber isn't meant to succeed though.
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The real problem is that I keep reading The Athletic as The Atlantic and wondering why the gently caress they started covering sports. Poor branding 
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Levitate posted:The real problem is that I keep reading The Athletic as The Atlantic and wondering why the gently caress they started covering sports. hahaha i hosed these two up for months too
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DJExile posted:Because he's not worth it. He's a fine player but let's not pretend he's some mega game breaking talent. He isn't worth a 2nd or a 3rd? Or do you mean acquiring a player like AA isn't worth becoming the target of Ken Holland's ire? If it's the latter, is any player worth it ever? Decent player, probably at a reasonable price tag, team can't afford to retain him, and receiving gm probably doesn't have a job this time next year (for the specific reasons that let to them not being able to afford a promising young player). I don't see the risk here other than being I guess forever blackmailed by all other gms. If that's the case, they should just ditch offer sheets altogether, since they'll clearly never be used again. Fake edit: I get the reasons for not approaching stars with sheets. They're stupid reasons, but I get them. This situation seems almost customer made for an offer sheet. Team can't afford him, compensation wouldn't be egregious or hard to swallow, might over pay a bit but isn't a bug money contract, helps a team with cap problems, gives the player some agency, encourages the movement of lesser pieces to shake things up, Ken Holland is an idiot, etc.
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JoelJoel posted:I don't see the risk here other than being I guess forever blackmailed by all other gms. If that's the case, they should just ditch offer sheets altogether, since they'll clearly never be used again. It's this. GMs are already risk-averse as hell (Holmgren was already basically nuts so he was an outlier) and they're not going to risk being blackballed over a guy worth a 2nd or 3rd round pick.
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AA at 3 million per would be a mediocre signing where you also have to give up picks.
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Pick. A second. And I'm more arguing that if this isn't a scenario to sign a sheet I don't really see one. Might as well just get rid of the idea altogether at this point.
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Jordan7hm posted:AA at 3 million per would be a mediocre signing where you also have to give up picks. 18 goals and 29 points in 64 games and didn't he mainly play a 3rd line role? For a center in that role and being one of the fastest guys in the league that's pretty swell at $3 mill if you have the room. Maybe he was used differently than I'm thinking though. Still, spitting distance of 20 goals in less than a full season
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DOOMocrat posted:So the Stars revealed which throwback they'll be debuting against the Wild. And it's the trolliest option possible. lmao
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DOOMocrat posted:So the Stars revealed which throwback they'll be debuting against the Wild. And it's the trolliest option possible. somewhere top hats monthly clenches his fist in anger
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Levitate posted:18 goals and 29 points in 64 games and didn't he mainly play a 3rd line role? For a center in that role and being one of the fastest guys in the league that's pretty swell at $3 mill if you have the room. Also, Blashill benched him for no loving reason multiple times. He should have easily gotten more TOI, but why when you have <overpaid_veteran>?
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3 million dollars and a second round pick is alright for a 3rd line centre with a top 6 ceiling and there are a handful of teams that would do well to tell ken holland "gently caress your feelings" and send the damned sheet.
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ThinkTank posted:The Athletic is trying to position itself as the smart, insightful Playboy-of-the-70s-of-the-Modern-Sports-World by snapping up a bunch of moderately well respected (if somewhat smug) writers, and burning through a crap ton of capital to do so. However, it's not really creating a unique niche for itself that I can see. So far, its just taken a bunch of writers that were previously free and stuck them behind a pay wall and asked consumers to pay for the privilege of getting access to them again. They act like somehow this will enable the writers they've hired to produce more content, but for the most part they were paid newspaper employees or prolific bloggers. None of them were ever particularly short on content, and I doubt the Athletic can provide more contacts to them than they had already had (aside from a few outsider bloggers who might now have media passes). I was able to read Porty and company's stuff because my parents have an included online subscription to the Dispatch they never use for taking the physical paper. As long as Porty's on Twitter, I can get the gist of what's going on, especially if it's "CBJ trades X to Team Y in exchange for Z" in 140 characters or less. Somebody saw that Jeff Gluck and a couple other writers went it alone and succeeded and are trying to do that with one big, sports catch-all site. DJExile posted:hahaha i hosed these two up for months too I'm still doing it.
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DOOMocrat posted:So the Stars revealed which throwback they'll be debuting against the Wild. And it's the trolliest option possible. Not the Mooterus, who cares.
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I can take jersey flak from many fanbases but hoo boy is Vancouver not one of them.
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DOOMocrat posted:I can take jersey flak from many fanbases but hoo boy is Vancouver not one of them. Mooterus and Calgary Flames snorting horse are the worst logos in the history of hockey. The Canucks have had some very poor jerseys in their history, but at least they've never had a wannabe badass cartoon animal for a logo. The current Stars jersey/logo is really bad too. I quite liked their old ones though.
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I hate the NCAA Div 3 jersey. Victory green is a massive improvement, even if the logo could be better.
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DOOMocrat posted:I hate the NCAA Div 3 jersey. Victory green is a massive improvement, even if the logo could be better. Oh yeah, to be clear simple word marks suck in all sports (except for that old Minnesota Wild one, that was sweet). I meant their original Star makes the A in Stars logo, especially before the jersey went all 90s with the star shaped piping as well. 
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I was hoping for the star-cut jersey but every company since independent CCM has said "Oh no we can't do that." Any Dallas sweater Jere wore is fine for this, but hey, why not pick the winningest one you had?
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ThinkTank posted:Mooterus and Calgary Flames snorting horse are the worst logos in the history of hockey. The Canucks have had some very poor jerseys in their history, but at least they've never had a wannabe badass cartoon animal for a logo. They have a whale with gritted teeth right now.
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Aphrodite posted:They have a whale with gritted teeth right now. Good point
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DOOMocrat posted:Victory green is a massive improvement, even if the logo could be better. Done 
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DOOMocrat posted:So the Stars revealed which throwback they'll be debuting against the Wild. And it's the trolliest option possible. Throwback? Is Adidas doing one-offs or something?
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Levitate posted:The real problem is that I keep reading The Athletic as The Atlantic and wondering why the gently caress they started covering sports. I still do this JoelJoel posted:Done Mooterus owned
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Aphrodite posted:Well, not Uber. Uber isn't meant to succeed though. yeah i wouldn't call them "proven" when they haven't even turned a profit. there's a lot of people that question whether or not they can be as is.
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Gio posted:yeah i wouldn't call them "proven" when they haven't even turned a profit. there's a lot of people that question whether or not they can be as is. Uber exists for the sole purpose of redefining what an employee is.
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How many captains go on Twitter in August to comment on a rather frank quote about his team's shortcomings? https://twitter.com/THNMattLarkin/status/900740239936901122 https://twitter.com/THNMattLarkin/status/900812958514769920 https://twitter.com/BiggieFunke/status/900884749513883648 I really hope the Jets find some success this season because otherwise there will need to be an awful reckoning.
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