Ken Campbell Wants to Make You Angry

by Daggs28907 on Feb 6, 2012 7:49 PM MST

"Ken Campbell is the senior writer for The Hockey News and a regular contributor to THN.com with his column."

If I were to read this line at the beginning of an article, I would offer some respect for Mr. Campbell and likely start reading his material. Unfortunately, this line appeared at the end of his most recent article: an ignorant rant through which he attempts to declare Sam Gagner's eight-point game as a mistake. He has taken some heat for his writings before, but this one struck me as extra bitter. I will include a link to his article here.

Did that piss you off? If you'd like to blow off some steam, I wrote up a critique of his analysis on my website, tyutininstaals.blogspot.com. Here's the direct link for my article, as well. I feel that beneath my swearing, heavy sarcasm, and irrelevant inside jokes is a strong rebuttal against Campbell's terrible argument. I appreciate honesty so let me know what you all think; even though we've been writing on this blog for three years, this is the first time I've sought public opinion. Hope you enjoy/hate/read it! Go Oilers!

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Huh?

Why are you so pissed about it? He kind of makes a good point. When I saw that goal I wondered if he’d get an assist for it. I think it could have gone either way. The hawks didn’t have possession of the puck, but 1 touched it and the other actually shot the puck to try to clear.

Looking at the comments in his article, I guess people hate this guy for some reason. I’ve never read anything of his, so maybe there is reason to be upset. I would say that the best thing to do is to ignore him and focus on reading quality hockey writing. But that’s just me.

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by Brett Gee on Feb 6, 2012 8:15 PM MST reply actions

I'm not pissed in the slightest.

He has developed quite a bad reputation over the last little while. I was more so looking to see if Oiler fans were at all bothered by his claim. I agree that sticking to quality writing would be best, but The Hockey News is supposed to be of good quality. For the senior writer to front-page such a silly article is baffling to me. Then again, if it weren’t for writers such as Ken, we’d have little to critique/joke about for our website (we critique bad sports journalism, FireJoeMorgan-style).

by Daggs28907 on Feb 6, 2012 8:48 PM MST up reply actions

For the record, I thought he was bang on. I didn’t think Gagner should have gotten a point on that goal either.

And why shouldn’t it be talked about? It’s relevant hockey news. It was fun to witness, but even if he only scored 7 points it was damn impressive.

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by dawgbone98 on Feb 7, 2012 8:07 AM MST up reply actions

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