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07 Dec 2008 Come On Now!
Author: kaatiya |  Category: Business of Hockey  | Tags: ,  | Leave a Comment

Would it kill shop.nhl.com to have some Atlanta Thrashers T-shirts for players who, I don’t know, actually PLAY for the Thrashers? OK. They have a few current players, but of the shirts being offered for sale, more than half are for players that are not on the team anymore! There are seven “Player Apparel” options at the NHL Shop and here’s what we have:

  1. 1 long-sleeve Ilya Kovalchuk shirt. GOOD
  2. 1 short-sleeve Kari Lehtonen T-shirt. GOOD
  3. 1 short-sleeve Colby Armstrong shirt. GOOD
  4. 3 (count ‘em 3!) different short-sleeve Marian Hossa T-shirts (and hey! 15 percent off! Yes, I mock!). BAD. Very bad.
  5. 1 short-sleeve Bobby Holik shirt. BAD.

So three T-shirts out of the seven being offered for purchase are current Thrasher players. I realize the necessity of getting your inventory sold, but damn it! Three Marian Hossa T-shirt options and only one Kovalchuk? And no Slava Kozlov? As we like to say in the South, that ain’t right!

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