NBC Sports chairman wants players to stop growing playoff beards

[DrGonzo]

What a tool.

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on...-wants-players-to-stop-growing-playoff-beards

NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus has a suggestion for marketing the NHL and growing the popularity of individual players around the league: Tell them to stop covering their faces with playoff beards.

Seriously.

One of the most easily identifiable aspects of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, right up there with the Stanley Cup itself and the post-series handshake, is apparently a problem when it comes to marketing the players. At least that is what Lazarus basically told the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday when he said that he would like to see players stop growing playoff beards in an effort to help improve their marketability. ...

 

[Bigfoot]

I read that yesterday and started laughing.

 

[italianbeef]

Has Teuvo started his yet?

 

[Scoot26]

Most hockey fans seem to grow beards too.. Well the ones that can.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Most hockey fans seem to grow beards too.. Well the ones that can.

Hasn't stopped me!

 

[MassHavoc]

I want to market the NHL players by removing tradition that raise money for charity and get fans involved! Rabble rabble rabble...

 

[CRM 114]

I meant to post this yesterday. What a joke.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

I completely agree with the article in the OP. Just like the anthem, beards have no place in hockey.

It's an idiotic tradition.

I can't wait to finally shave on Saturday.

 

[LordKOTL]

Would someone please put a **** in his mouth?

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Would someone please put a **** in his mouth?

Where's CLWolf when you need him?

 

[CRM 114]

I completely agree with the article in the OP. Just like the anthem, beards have no place in hockey.

It's an idiotic tradition.

I can't wait to finally shave on Saturday.

You do know that you're not required to grow a playoff beard right?

 

[TCD]

Thanks for wrecking hockey America!

Glowing pucks with comet tail
Saying "locker room"
Stringing out a one minute anthem into ten minute war propaganda
Allowing female fans to attend games
Columbine
Eddie O

USA USA USA!

 

[DMelt36]

Thanks for wrecking hockey America!

Glowing pucks with comet tail
Saying "locker room"
Stringing out a one minute anthem into ten minute war propaganda
Allowing female fans to attend games
Columbine
Eddie O

USA USA USA!

Just wait til they win Olympic gold in 2018

 

[TCD]

Just wait til they win Olympic gold in 2018

Good thing they play the anthems after the games in the olympics. Easier to turn the channel.

 

[Rex]

You do know that you're not required to grow a playoff beard right?

shhh, four years ago I told him it was the law.

 

[Shantz My Pants]

Puckdaddy had an article today where the NBC guy told Dan Patrick on his show that this was only a half truth and that he wasn't forcing anybody to make the players shave or even hinted at that. It was just a comment he made:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...urt-nhl-players--marketability-180055817.html


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[ClydeLee]

I wonder if Mark Lazarus has written an article about these comments by Mark Lazarus

 

[DMelt36]

I wonder if Mark Lazarus has written an article about these comments by Mark Lazarus

He's been tweeting about it. I laughed a couple of times.

 

[LordKOTL]

The fact is that beards help make some of these guys more marketable. Do we talk about Brent Burns as much if he wasn’t Chewbacca? Was it bad for hockey when Zdeno Chara’s beard sprung forth an army of King Leonidas memes? Heck, even Sidney Crosby’s feeble attempt at one gets people talking.

You can't forget "Wolverine" Toews.

 

[Jsnowball81]

TWO!... for slashing!