Summary
Don't you know Winnipeg hockey fans don't care about the AHL's Moose? it asked. It's embarrassing to have to root for a farm team of the Vancouver Canucks, once the Winnipeg Jets' nemesis, it continued. I'll never go to a Moose game as long as I live, it concluded.
You see, over the years it's almost inevitable that whenever this space focuses on the Moose, there will usually be a few responses berating the team and Free Press coverage thereof. Conversely, when I write about the NHL, the response comes back, "Hey, why are you ignoring the Moose? Don't you know they're in first place?"Last year, [Kevin Bieksa] did exactly the same thing for the Moose. But so-called "real" hockey fans in Winnipeg would never have seen him play in person, what with Moose hockey not being up to their standards and all. Moose call-up Jannik Hansen is drawing rave reviews in the playoffs only a few days after being plucked from the Manitoba roster.See the full content of this document
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Hockey Snobs, Wake Up
Time for fans to deal with reality in the post-Winnipeg Jets era
RANDY TURNERIT all began earlier this week with an e-mail from "Jason," a smug, know-it-all type of missive that, long story short, branded your humble agent as...See the full content of this document
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