Showing posts with label Twittter wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twittter wars. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2015

AHL Twitter Wars: Celebrities, Smackdown and NHL 16 ratings

Figured I would check in with AHL Twitter to see how things were going. Any new chirps, or beefs? Anything of interest? Ok, so the Hamilton Bulldogs keep talking up something. They've been scorned by the AHL and re-aligned with the OHL, lets see how they're handling the transistion...




Yup, that is a burn and  half. That's the equivalent of breaking up with someone and then the next day they have new arm candy that happens to be a model / astrophysicist. "Fine, you don't want us in the AHL? Whatever, we still got Tom Hanks and Martin short doing promotional bits for us."

Wait... You mean the Bulldogs are really St. Johns now, and the Ontario Team is just some old OHL team renamed? Why is this all so complicated!?!

Anyway, obligatory Hartford Wolf Pack / Springfield Falcons.




Admittedly, I had a hand in this one, but they took the ball and ran with it. But Springfield, what are you doing? You have a video saying vs Hartford games don't sell as well as vs Providence! That's when you chirp back with  something like "It's cute how Hartford thinks its a rival when they don't sell as well. #irrelevant" or something like that. Instead your response is...




But that's fine, it works. It basically says "We'll do our talking on the ice. We're coming for you."  Which is good. Certainly better than how the Checkers and Ice Caps "Smack talk"




What I left out was all the talk about who had better fried chicken. No. Seriously.

Clean it up guys.

I know I talk about how much the Crunch fight, but it seems like most of the Phantoms countdown images involve fights...







Oh, and #isitoctoberyet memes and gifs keep flying in.




And with the release of NHL 16, there were a lot of tweets going out about that. The best is the following exchange:




I'm sure there were more highlights I'm missing but they got drowned out in a lot of rookie tournament action going
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Friday, September 4, 2015

Classifieds

Your team here:
Image courtesy of Wade Dubielewicz creative commons
Wanted: Married White Male, fit but short, seeks an AHL team to root for. Specifically 4 to ranked. One from each division, a primary for each conference and one team to take overall top spot. Canidates will be chosen and ranked upon the following criteria:


  • Entertainment value
  • Skill
  • Ability to trash talk opponent in public forums
  • Clear defined rival
  • Ability to win and go all the way
  • Fan rapport
  • History or willingness to build history
  • Attitude (Complete with sunglasses and backwards hat)
  • Willingness to not be the Hartford Wolfpack
Bonus points to those who have no problem sucking up for fan support. 

These teams will be rewarded with:

  • More favorable coverage
  • Ridicule of clear defined rival  on blog
  • Greater defined interest in this blog
  • More games covered throughout the season for game recap blogs
  • My love and affection which is priceless
  • Knowing that they probably aren't the Hartford Wolfpack
Teams or fans of teams may curry favor through Twitter tweets @dmeczywor, or in the comment section below. Hartford Wolfpack need not apply.
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Monday, August 31, 2015

AHL Twitter wars

AHL twitter is something that immediately caught my eye. While NHL twitter is usually specific to team and team events, AHL seems more relaxed. Memes, gifs, jokes, its a more fun.

For example, when waiting for the schedule's release:




 While you might occasionally get a team to call out another on twitter in the large but the opening game, teams were throwing out little tweets like this:




Its silly stupid but its fun. I guess if the schedule isn't going to encourage a rivalry, the social media can. 

PS: The twitter beef between the Falcons and Wolfpack was gold...




But the tweet below sucks. Clean it up Hartford.


 As a side note, you can follow me on twitter @dmeczywor. I assure you I will offer you nothing of value there.
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