A lesson in research

May 3, 2008   ·   Derek Felix   ·   Jump to comments

Dear Versus Network,

Apparently, your hockey researchers didn’t get a high school diploma. Once again, you’ve sunk to a Titanic level failing miserably at providing relative statistical research.

The gross error of actually having the audacity to put up that it was the Philadelphia Flyers first Conference Final appearance since 1997 was the final nail in the coffin for how truly pathetic your network is. Have your researchers ever heard of Google? Word of advice. Next time, look it up!

Furthermore, any knowledgable hockey fan knew that the Flyers had been to the Conference Final in 2000 and in 2004. By providing such egregious errors, you did an extreme disservice to your production talent and the NHL as a whole.

It is humiliating to have such an irresponsible network which obviously doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Due to such an inexcusable mistake, you insulted everyone’s intelligence and proved yet again that you are not worthy of airing these games.

Many observers celebrated the day ESPN stopped covering hockey. The question is are those people satisfied with such awful coverage and inaccurate facts.

As an individual who was a former NHL researcher in Bristol, we would never get such facts wrong because we always had each other’s backs.

There’s something very wrong with Versus that they’d allow Dave Strader to announce that as fact because the goofs in the production truck weren’t doing their job. The Flyers weren’t in the Stanley Cup Final! Apparently, winning eight games now gets you there.

It is a complete disgrace how our game is covered by you. NHL Radio does a much better job.

Signed,

One appalled hockey fan