Oh hey I missed this the first time around, which I admittedly skimmed:
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As Patrick Kane taught kids how not to wear a mouthguard and a city learned to pronounce “Byfuglien,” a stream of press-releases fluttered from the team’s offices describing record attention, viewership, listenership, and overall awareness of what long had been winter’s secondary interest. Even the nest of race-baiting hockey supremacists found voice, creeping in from the fringes.
Just as I suspected. More bitterness about McDonough trumpeting huge ratings/attendance gains from the same guy who will devote an hour to JUST HOW AMAZING the ratings are for a quotidian Bulls-Hornets game, and yet again recklessly connecting diehard hockey fandom to white supremacism. Yeah, the whole crux of this column seems to be that the Blackhawks have a lot to lose because Dan
wants them to have a lot to lose; that way, he doesn't have to be bothered with them and their imaginary multitudes of Jew-hating fans.
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