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2018-19 Miscellaneous News Thread

first firing of the season (I assume) was in the WHL, Kelowna fired their coach Jason Smith after going 4-10. he played in the NHL mostly for Devils and Oilers. He was hired in 2016 and they had very good records the last 2 years.
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
first firing of the season (I assume) was in the WHL, Kelowna fired their coach Jason Smith after going 4-10. he played in the NHL mostly for Devils and Oilers. He was hired in 2016 and they had very good records the last 2 years.
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They won 45 and 43 games in his 2 years, went to the WHL semifinals his first year but was swept in the 1st round last year.
 
Vegas signs Nate Schmidt to a 6 year extension through 24-25. It has a AAV of $5.95 million. Pierre LeBrun says it’s front loaded and has a 10 team NTC.
 
HeyKurtz said:
John Zielgler, Gary Bettman's predecessor (back when the title was president instead of commissioner), passed away yesterday...

https://www.nhl.com/news/former-nhl-president-john-ziegler-dies-at-84/c-301310152
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Didn't Gil Stein have a short stint as President between those two? Checks ... yup, he did. Which I honestly only remember thanks to Stien's wonderful book on the NHL's turbulent 90s. That was called ... I think ... Power Plays and is a great read for those interested in the business side of the NHL.
 
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Paulie Walnuts said:
Fox may buy back the regional sports networks it just sold to Disney

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/rupert-murdoch-may-buy-back-fox-sports-networks-from-disney.html
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Yeah ... that section of financial dominos was just waiting to fall until after the Sky acquisition was settled. Fox's "loss" on that front combined with their Disney cash frees up liquidity to go cobble together a continuing presence in the American regional sports market. It may not be as glamorous as the glittery national stuff, but there's good money to made in those regional networks if they are managed correctly. And Fox already plays that game pretty well. ABC/Disney/ESPN and Comcast/NBC/Universal are now debt leveraged pretty heavily, while what's left of Fox is cash rich. They can call their shots in what's left of the various markets without having to commit huge resources to insanely expensive stuff like building streaming services and operating major motion picture studios.

One more thing to keep an eye on, speaking of streaming services ... I've read a couple of articles speculating that Fox might just end up controlling Hulu after the dust settles on Disney's new service next year. Everybody seems to assume that Disney will buy out Comcast and consolidate control of that asset, but they seem to forget that Disney is already hip deep in creating their own competing service. Hulu will probably either die or be reborn as something completely different.
 
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