As an avid hockey fan, my Twitter feed began to blow up with tweets about an article that was posted on the New York Rangers' official blog entitled, "A Girl's Guide to Watching the Rangers." It had already been yanked from both the Rangers website and Twitter feed by the time I caught wind of it, but thankfully Sports Illustrated writer Sarah Kwak had tweeted screenshots of the entire article.
The article went on to tell women not to ask questions during a play, to get to know good-looking goalie Henrik Lundqvist, and when all else fails, know the schedule so they could organize a girls' night out.
Even after receiving almost 40 negative comments, the article remained on the site. An editor's note appeared on the article stating that this was the first article to be posted on Blueshirts United where the contributor was not a member of the Rangers organization.
It didn't last much longer than that.
Maybe they need to rethink the idea of letting outsiders contribute to their blog, especially if the Rangers are going to promote the articles through their social media outlets.
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New York Rangers Blog Entry Causes Uproar Amongst Fans
January 25th, 2013 by Laura Ludlum Leave a reply »
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