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Originally Posted by Mouth For War
Man i just got owned by Gygax lol, ya your points are very very valid, i probably am just hating too hard on hockey. I used to love the game and play it, but after the lockout i lost all interest and started to really dislike the sport as a whole, thats why i mentioned my biased opinion
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You're biased? Like I'm not, with what I helped create at HF.com? LOL, you are a lot less biased regarding fighting in hockey than I ever would be! Your opinion is likely much more objective.
I was always a big fan of MMA since the earliest shows. But it was the lockout that made me really turn my focus away from hockey and onto MMA. Thus, the NHL lockout is really responsible for me finding FightForum! I'm still not nearly back to watching the NHL the way I used to!
Here's a story. Last year, we used to put up every NHL fight the night it happened over on YouTube. We were the 3rd most popular channel in terms of hits on YouTube. Our clips were viewed about 10x as often as the NHL's specific YouTube channel. The NHL marketing department loved us and let us know that in a bunch of emails. After all, we were basically giving them free advertising. Suddenly, Bettman gets wind of it. His league lawyers contact us on his behalf and basically asks for a piece of the pie! WTH, we were not profiting off it. It was simply an extension of our website. But when we weren't willing to pay up, he drops the copyright threat. That's fine with us. We stopped posting the vids, and they lose all that free advertising. And the vids are still available every night in our forums. But that really further pissed off a lot of hardcore fans.