The 2018 NHL Trade Deadline is today at 2pm CT, and our sister site Pro Hockey Rumors will be busy bringing you breaking news and analysis. Make sure to jump into the conversation during their special live chat, or just follow along with all the trade talk throughout the day. Will Erik Karlsson actually be traded today? Do the New York Rangers continue their fire sale and send Ryan McDonagh to a contender? Is Evander Kane going to land a big package for the Buffalo Sabres?
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hockey…no one here cares.
I do.
Then scroll past the post and ignore it.
Trade Rumors is a business, and it’s a big day at one of our sister sites — the newest one, no less.
We’re fully cognizant of the fact that many of our readers aren’t NHL fans, but there are also many who are. Also, cross-promotion which benefits the bottom line over at PHR (or Hoops or PFR) helps all of our sites, including MLBTR.
Ewww hockey
Why do these guys choose to make these posts? Are they trying to be witty? Most people who post on here don’t watch the other sports and so many are in their 50’s. Example you guys put up an article about rules changes and they come unglued. That’s why MLB is trying to attract a younger audience because leagues such as the NBA have a younger audience. People who post on here will bury their heads in the sand and say MLB is the most popular sport ignoring the rest of the world.
Where did you get those stats from? Primarily the one that most are in their 50’s. Please share, thanks.
CNBC,ESPN,and Sports Illustrated just to name a few. Marketwatch.com has an excellent article listing the average ages of every sport.
Cross-promotion is also a turnoff to a LOT of your readers. I think you should re-evalutate that idea.
Idiot
I need to see who my Sabres will trade Evander Kane to.
I have to agree. You think cross-posting sports helps but a lot of us come to this site for BASEBALL, not for general sports. And honestly the fact that a couple times a week you cross post for your other sites is annoying and a turn off… it could be hurting your site more with people going elsewhere than you think. Stick to what you are good at. And those that want Hockey Rumors will love that site… but don’t mix them, its not a damn fruit salad.
We’ve done three posts for Pro Hockey Rumors in the past month. There’s no “couple times per week.” We’re conscious of the fact that some don’t like it. We’ve conducted surveys on it.
In the end, it’s a 97-word, three-sentence post. I’m sorry if that’s enough of a deterrent for you to use our site less frequently, but the occasional cross-promotion post during the busiest times for our other sites is almost certainly going to continue to be a reality.
I think it’s fine every once in a while, which three times a month is. To promote your site, which is pretty much identical to this one but for hockey, could give baseball/hockey fans an avenue for hockey news and makes sense for you on the business side of things. I am not a hockey fan myself, and I would have scrolled past it as Steve suggested above if I did not notice all of these argumentative comments.
I was counting basketball and football too. Maybe I should have said that I would rather pay money to your site. Can we have the option to pay for an ad free version (including cross postings which are ads). And you are over reading into comments and fighting back which looks bad. Those using the site less because of things like this won’t be commenting to tell you so. I was trying to provide you with constructive criticism.
This issue really doesn’t bother me. Let them use their sister sites, for the free advertising. No complaints.
BTW, what’s going on in MLB anyway? JD post got updated for the umpteenth, time. Over 100 FA’s remain unsigned. It’s the same old, and you know it. Still waiting for the Lynn’s, Arrieta’s, Cobb’s, Moose.
If you’re going to offer an option to pay for an “ad-free” version…. I wouldn’t pay for that particular…The advertising on this site doesn’t really bother me. I’d probably pay to support MLBTR, but not for the hypothetical ad-free ‘benefits’
Paying for the option to bypass stupid “moderating post” when chat filter (inaccurately) flags you, for whatever reason. Sign me up! I’d pay for that. Really bothersome, when you spend a lot of time on a post only to have it approved, when no one’s in thread and you just spent all that time typing it for nothing.
I would definitely pay for an option to bypass (stupid) chat filter, Sign me up as someone who hates waiting days/weeks for my post to get approved. I’d be the first person on line, hopefully it’s something along the lines of Fangraphs $20 annual membership. Heck, I’d think people would pay that to support you guys, with no benefits, at that price, for a tag in their name.
It’s one little post about the NHL trade deadline for a site owned and operated by their same operators. Don’t like it don’t click on it. I don’t click on the NBA one for a reason, it’s not important to me. You spent more time typing a complaint than you did reading it. Get over it.
Agreed. You can skip the post, there’s no reward for reading the post nor is there a consequence for not reading it. The people complaining are wasting more time writing a complaint than just skipping past it. Its not like its a different third party website that they are advertising for. Its their own sister site so of course they are going to advertise about big events happening in that sport. Just as they are posting something about the hockey trade deadline here, they would do the same for the baseball trade deadline on their hockey site.