This article was written by April Gaede's (Mother of the band Prussian Blue) husband.
The NHL is on Thin Ice
Will the Great White Game of Ice Hockey Survive Jewish Meddling?
The National Hockey League (NHL) season reached the quarter pole and
already there are rumblings of an attendance crises. Some teams are
reporting attendance figures as low as 8,000 for games in
state-of-the-art arenas that seat capacity crowds of more than 20,000.
Chicago, Long Island, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Colorado, and Phoenix have
all seen precipitous declines in attendance, some as low as 22% below
last season's figures.
Overall the league has seen average attendance dip from 17, 285 a year
ago to 16,743 this season. A decline that Hockey News reporter, Ken
Campbell, warned was a "slippery slope," pointing out that "players
receive 54 per cent of revenues up to $2.2 billion, but if the decline
in attendance continues, there's a very good chance they could be
giving money back to the league this season."
http://www.thehockeynews.com/en/colu...?columnist=186
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/columns/morrison/061018.html
Some observers charge that league attendance is actually much worse
than is being reported. Detroit News hockey correspondent, Ted Kulfan,
found 13,000 fans in attendance at a game where the Detroit Red Wings
announced 20,066. Former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
reporter, Jamie Fitzpatrick, asked "if Hockeytown can pad its numbers
by about 30 percent, what kind of lies are they telling at other NHL
arenas? How many real people showed up for Wednesday's games in Florida
(which reported 14,312 loyal customers), Atlanta (12,579) or Anaheim
(12,394)?"
http://proicehockey.about.com/b/a/255966.htm
League officials had high hopes that a new collective bargaining
agreement between the league and the players, coupled with rule changes
designed to speed-up the game, would bring the fans back after a
year-long lockout in 2005. But, what the evidence seems to indicate is
that the league's attendance problems began much earlier and can be
traced to sweeping changes instituted by a racially-conscious Jewish
executive, his Jewish staff, and Jewish network television executives
who demanded changes to the game that reflected their own interests and
came at the expense of fans of the game.
http://www.nhl.com/nhlhq/cba/cba_ratified072205.html
Knowledgeable fans and hockey journalists point to the reign of NHL
Commissioner Gary Bettman- a prominent Jewish activist, and former
executive in the National Basketball Association- as the beginning of
the current disconnect between the league and ticket buyers. Though he
grew-up on Long Island New York-where hockey is a very popular sport-
and claimed he was a fan of the game, he never actually played the game
as a youth. Bettman was the first commissioner in league history to not
have ties to the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bettman
http://www.garybettmansucks.com/
Upon assuming the commissionership, Bettman immediately surrounded
himself with a coterie of corporate, media-savvy Jews. Steve Solomon
(ABC), Arthur Pincus (Washington Post) , and Bermandette Mansur
(Reebok) were tasked with securing a network television contract for
the league. Bettman's staff was so top-heavy with Jews that a host of
hockey columnists, including the Toronto Sun's Al Strachen began
euphemistically referring to the league brass as the "New York lawyers,
" and complaining that (they) "didn't understand the game." Bettman's
ruling clique was so out-of-touch with the rest of the hockey world
that the phrase stuck and Strachen was forced to defend himself from
charges of "anti-Semitism" leveled by Jewish hockey writer, Stan
Fischler, on Hockey Night in Canada.
In return for the proposed network television contract, media
executives demanded their pound of flesh from the game. Every aspect of
league operations were exposed to a relentless critique. The game was
too White, too rural and too violent for television consumption warned
the suits.
To understand why Gary Bettman and his staff made such drastic changes
to the game of hockey, a brief understanding of Jewish evolutionary
strategy is necessary. Professor Kevin McDonald has identified key
elements of this strategy in studies of Jewish behavior. McDonald's
research revealed that Diaspora Jews felt most threatened by
"anti-Semitism"-both real and imagined-in countries where cultural and
racial homogeneity was the norm. In response to the perceived threat of
"anti-Semitism", influential Jews have responded by forming communities
of criticism which served as the intellectual basis to challenge the
fundamental assumptions of the leading institutions of their host
countries and ultimately to end homogeneity and assume control of those
institutions for themselves.
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/
One well-known group of Jewish social critics, The Frankfurt School,
pathologized the family, church, and state, as a means to ending White
hegemony in the West through the weakening of its most powerful
institutions. This pattern of social criticism (now known as "political
correctness") by influential Jews was repeated in the fields of
psychology by Sigmund Freud, in anthropology by Franz Boas, and is
evident in efforts to undermine U.S. foreign policy (the
neo-conservatives), and U.S. immigration policy, today.
http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=7370
The NHL was perhaps the most racially-homogenous sport in
existence. Of the thousands of athletes to lace up their skates for NHL
play, a mere 35 have been Black since 1917. This racial integrity
coupled with the league's thinly veiled nationalism, and implicit
warrior culture, made it an attractive target for Jewish subversion.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html
The demands of television executives and the response of Gary Bettman
and his staff to them, illustrate this pattern of criticism, which is,
in fact, a weapon used to undermine the founding assumptions of the
game of hockey. Where hockey was once the property of fans of all
levels of economic attainment, appropriately priced and marketed for
their consumption, it has become a game dedicated to corporate
exploitation and consumerism (an off-shoot of globalism), where it was
once a game of equal parts finesse and physical play, it is becoming
one that severely restricts and penalizes most forms of contact, and
finally, where it was once a game for the native sons of Europe, and
the White families of rural Western Canada and the rural mid-Western
and Eastern U.S., it is now a game that aggressively pursues inner-city
youth and minority discretionary spending.
http://proicehockey.about.com/b/a/218867.htm
In Bettman and the "New York lawyers" the media executives found the
perfect vehicle to remake the game in their own image. Where previous
White league officials were reluctant to tamper with the game, Bettman
was an eager participant in its reworking. The irony is that fans were
very happy with the game just as it was when Bettman assumed power and
none of the changes to it were necessary.
The decision to pursue a network-based television contract with Fox and
ABC (the league already had a regional television pact with
Sportschannel) as a foundation for economic growth was always a bit of
a mystery. Game play was fast and the puck was small and difficult to
follow on the screen. Most television people considered hockey even
less telegenic than its commissioner and the league had already failed
its audition for network T.V. twice in the '70's. At best, what Bettman
was attempting was an incredible and inadvisable gamble.
The Commissioner took over a thriving "gate-driven" business in 1993,
where franchises were averaging nearly 90 percent of paid seating
capacity league-wide, and nearly all teams remained profitable. Player
salaries were kept in check in comparison to other professional sports,
and as a result, average ticket prices remained affordable at 32.75
(1995). What the league lacked were the astronomical dollars attached
to a big-league television contract enjoyed by all of the other major
sports. The NFL is by far the largest recipient of television revenue
(reportedly $2.2 billion US for the 2012 season), with the NBA and MLB
second and third ($500 million and $479 million respectively). The NHL
gained that contract-though for much less money ($80 million),
eventually-but lost it again as the result of the lockout in 2005, and
now has a contract worth about 60 million.
http://www.moagandcompany.com/i_a/industry_analysis.pdf
To attract those dollars the league pursued a radical relocation
program. Moving four franchises, Minnesota, Quebec, Winnipeg, and
Hartford from traditional to non-traditional hockey markets in Dallas,
Denver, Phoenix, and Raleigh and expanding by five teams, Miami,
Columbus, Nashville, Tampa, and Anaheim, with little to no connection
to the game. "Both Winnipeg (99.3) and Quebec (94.9)," wrote Fischler,
"played to more than 90 percent capacity, but that wasn't enough in the
Bettman era. The accent was on new arenas, luxury boxes, merchandising,
and bigger TV deals."
http://www.hockeyresearch.com/mfoste.../nhl_attn.html
The NHL is on Thin Ice
Will the Great White Game of Ice Hockey Survive Jewish Meddling?
The National Hockey League (NHL) season reached the quarter pole and
already there are rumblings of an attendance crises. Some teams are
reporting attendance figures as low as 8,000 for games in
state-of-the-art arenas that seat capacity crowds of more than 20,000.
Chicago, Long Island, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Colorado, and Phoenix have
all seen precipitous declines in attendance, some as low as 22% below
last season's figures.
Overall the league has seen average attendance dip from 17, 285 a year
ago to 16,743 this season. A decline that Hockey News reporter, Ken
Campbell, warned was a "slippery slope," pointing out that "players
receive 54 per cent of revenues up to $2.2 billion, but if the decline
in attendance continues, there's a very good chance they could be
giving money back to the league this season."
http://www.thehockeynews.com/en/colu...?columnist=186
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/columns/morrison/061018.html
Some observers charge that league attendance is actually much worse
than is being reported. Detroit News hockey correspondent, Ted Kulfan,
found 13,000 fans in attendance at a game where the Detroit Red Wings
announced 20,066. Former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
reporter, Jamie Fitzpatrick, asked "if Hockeytown can pad its numbers
by about 30 percent, what kind of lies are they telling at other NHL
arenas? How many real people showed up for Wednesday's games in Florida
(which reported 14,312 loyal customers), Atlanta (12,579) or Anaheim
(12,394)?"
http://proicehockey.about.com/b/a/255966.htm
League officials had high hopes that a new collective bargaining
agreement between the league and the players, coupled with rule changes
designed to speed-up the game, would bring the fans back after a
year-long lockout in 2005. But, what the evidence seems to indicate is
that the league's attendance problems began much earlier and can be
traced to sweeping changes instituted by a racially-conscious Jewish
executive, his Jewish staff, and Jewish network television executives
who demanded changes to the game that reflected their own interests and
came at the expense of fans of the game.
http://www.nhl.com/nhlhq/cba/cba_ratified072205.html
Knowledgeable fans and hockey journalists point to the reign of NHL
Commissioner Gary Bettman- a prominent Jewish activist, and former
executive in the National Basketball Association- as the beginning of
the current disconnect between the league and ticket buyers. Though he
grew-up on Long Island New York-where hockey is a very popular sport-
and claimed he was a fan of the game, he never actually played the game
as a youth. Bettman was the first commissioner in league history to not
have ties to the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bettman
http://www.garybettmansucks.com/
Upon assuming the commissionership, Bettman immediately surrounded
himself with a coterie of corporate, media-savvy Jews. Steve Solomon
(ABC), Arthur Pincus (Washington Post) , and Bermandette Mansur
(Reebok) were tasked with securing a network television contract for
the league. Bettman's staff was so top-heavy with Jews that a host of
hockey columnists, including the Toronto Sun's Al Strachen began
euphemistically referring to the league brass as the "New York lawyers,
" and complaining that (they) "didn't understand the game." Bettman's
ruling clique was so out-of-touch with the rest of the hockey world
that the phrase stuck and Strachen was forced to defend himself from
charges of "anti-Semitism" leveled by Jewish hockey writer, Stan
Fischler, on Hockey Night in Canada.
In return for the proposed network television contract, media
executives demanded their pound of flesh from the game. Every aspect of
league operations were exposed to a relentless critique. The game was
too White, too rural and too violent for television consumption warned
the suits.
To understand why Gary Bettman and his staff made such drastic changes
to the game of hockey, a brief understanding of Jewish evolutionary
strategy is necessary. Professor Kevin McDonald has identified key
elements of this strategy in studies of Jewish behavior. McDonald's
research revealed that Diaspora Jews felt most threatened by
"anti-Semitism"-both real and imagined-in countries where cultural and
racial homogeneity was the norm. In response to the perceived threat of
"anti-Semitism", influential Jews have responded by forming communities
of criticism which served as the intellectual basis to challenge the
fundamental assumptions of the leading institutions of their host
countries and ultimately to end homogeneity and assume control of those
institutions for themselves.
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/
One well-known group of Jewish social critics, The Frankfurt School,
pathologized the family, church, and state, as a means to ending White
hegemony in the West through the weakening of its most powerful
institutions. This pattern of social criticism (now known as "political
correctness") by influential Jews was repeated in the fields of
psychology by Sigmund Freud, in anthropology by Franz Boas, and is
evident in efforts to undermine U.S. foreign policy (the
neo-conservatives), and U.S. immigration policy, today.
http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=7370
The NHL was perhaps the most racially-homogenous sport in
existence. Of the thousands of athletes to lace up their skates for NHL
play, a mere 35 have been Black since 1917. This racial integrity
coupled with the league's thinly veiled nationalism, and implicit
warrior culture, made it an attractive target for Jewish subversion.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html
The demands of television executives and the response of Gary Bettman
and his staff to them, illustrate this pattern of criticism, which is,
in fact, a weapon used to undermine the founding assumptions of the
game of hockey. Where hockey was once the property of fans of all
levels of economic attainment, appropriately priced and marketed for
their consumption, it has become a game dedicated to corporate
exploitation and consumerism (an off-shoot of globalism), where it was
once a game of equal parts finesse and physical play, it is becoming
one that severely restricts and penalizes most forms of contact, and
finally, where it was once a game for the native sons of Europe, and
the White families of rural Western Canada and the rural mid-Western
and Eastern U.S., it is now a game that aggressively pursues inner-city
youth and minority discretionary spending.
http://proicehockey.about.com/b/a/218867.htm
In Bettman and the "New York lawyers" the media executives found the
perfect vehicle to remake the game in their own image. Where previous
White league officials were reluctant to tamper with the game, Bettman
was an eager participant in its reworking. The irony is that fans were
very happy with the game just as it was when Bettman assumed power and
none of the changes to it were necessary.
The decision to pursue a network-based television contract with Fox and
ABC (the league already had a regional television pact with
Sportschannel) as a foundation for economic growth was always a bit of
a mystery. Game play was fast and the puck was small and difficult to
follow on the screen. Most television people considered hockey even
less telegenic than its commissioner and the league had already failed
its audition for network T.V. twice in the '70's. At best, what Bettman
was attempting was an incredible and inadvisable gamble.
The Commissioner took over a thriving "gate-driven" business in 1993,
where franchises were averaging nearly 90 percent of paid seating
capacity league-wide, and nearly all teams remained profitable. Player
salaries were kept in check in comparison to other professional sports,
and as a result, average ticket prices remained affordable at 32.75
(1995). What the league lacked were the astronomical dollars attached
to a big-league television contract enjoyed by all of the other major
sports. The NFL is by far the largest recipient of television revenue
(reportedly $2.2 billion US for the 2012 season), with the NBA and MLB
second and third ($500 million and $479 million respectively). The NHL
gained that contract-though for much less money ($80 million),
eventually-but lost it again as the result of the lockout in 2005, and
now has a contract worth about 60 million.
http://www.moagandcompany.com/i_a/industry_analysis.pdf
To attract those dollars the league pursued a radical relocation
program. Moving four franchises, Minnesota, Quebec, Winnipeg, and
Hartford from traditional to non-traditional hockey markets in Dallas,
Denver, Phoenix, and Raleigh and expanding by five teams, Miami,
Columbus, Nashville, Tampa, and Anaheim, with little to no connection
to the game. "Both Winnipeg (99.3) and Quebec (94.9)," wrote Fischler,
"played to more than 90 percent capacity, but that wasn't enough in the
Bettman era. The accent was on new arenas, luxury boxes, merchandising,
and bigger TV deals."
http://www.hockeyresearch.com/mfoste.../nhl_attn.html
