Ah it’s been quite a week. First we got to announce
Jeanshorts is joining the Nation Network full time to head up our new video
department. Then last Thursday we told you that The Royal Half has joined the
Nation Network as our first American team site.
And now today the grand daddy of them all: we have purchased
the immensely popular HockeyFights.com, making it the 9th site in the
Nation Network.
WHAT IS HOCKEYFIGHTS.COM?
Seriously? What is hockeyfights?
*clears throat*
Oh I don’t know maybe one of the best websites ever?! In
addition to being roughly equal in size to the Nation Network, it is also:
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A Platinum YouTube channel – over 150,000,000
views of its videos
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Social media kings: almost 39,000 followers on
twitter.
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Gigantic reach across the entire planet of Earth
(and parts of Saturn)
Plus it’s the site where you can watch Oilers past and present put Flames past and present to bed, pugilism wise. What could be better than that?
THE SMART STRATEGY
With our team sites and our trio of hockey resource websites – NHLNumbers.com,
DailyFaceOff.com and now HockeyFights.com we calculate that we have at minimum
100,000 visitors monthly in 2/3 of the NHL markets. In fact we now project we will have 60 million visitors in the next 12 months to the network, generating 150 million pageviews annually in the process.
By properly circulating content – making sure you see
OilersNation articles if you are looking at Oilers fights at hockeyfights.com, Oilers lineup
changes at dailyfaceoff.com or Oilers Statistics at NHLnumbers.com for example – we can provide all of our team sites with a massive leg up in terms of attracting a larger audience.
Following this purchase, Nation Network traffic has enough momentum to continue adding existing sites, creating new ones and recruiting top writers and videographers across the league. We are looking forward to working with everyone and anyone near and far who are committed to covering the good old hockey game. Plus we still handle all our business here in Edmonton, Alberta – writing non-bouncing cheques made of solid ice like a good Canadian company should.
And as our team sites scream at each other in the shrill
shrieks that only us bloggers can make – we can encourage more growth of a
community of hockey fans across the league. Plus we can all entertain ourselves
with photoshops, contests, games, podcasting and video and wait for the sun to
eventually burn itself out.
Nothing to do now but kick back and watch some hockey.
THE WANYE STRATEGY
I don’t understand a word about Fenwick15, Corsi, Time on Ice
During Shifts With Stick In One Hand, etc etc etc. However I do understand hockeyfights.com. Player fights
player, player wins. We upload the content onto the internetz and talk about it
all the live long day. What could be better than that!?
Nothing. And all it took was money? Please. I’m from Edmonton – they are handing out bags of cash titled “Northern Living Allowance” on Jasper Ave 5 days a week. What else is money good for if you aren’t buying hockey fighting websites I ask you? Nothing.
(Note: Shout out to our new partner – I swear I won’t waste all your money.)
WHAT DOES HOCKEYFIGHTS MAN THINK?
David Singer is the genius behind hockeyfights.com and he has been diligently operating its switches and levers for a great many years. Let’s ask him shall we?
WG: What made you want to join the Nation Network?
Facebook, Twitter, you’re next…….can’t wait to get in on this IPO
careful what you wish for! :))
Oh SNAP! Sutherby goes down!
I regret making fun of Strudwick now.
Wanye I have an amazing background and talent in looking at pics and GIFs of hot women. You should hire me to be the “What does it all mean” coordinator!! I’ll work for expired oodle noodle and Sutherby autographs!
sorry to Brian, but Struds won that tilt ! does the purchase include all the trolls too? other than YouTube and the old TSN website, i haven’t seen so many trolls in my life as there are on Hockey Fights !!
*checks Grit Chart*
Yep, good move!
Nicely done Wayne.
Keep this up and TSN or Sportsnet will buy you up so we can have one less independent media outlet in the world.
A more truculent Nation Network?
Congrats and continued success. I love it all.
Hockeyfights.com is always the first person/thing/website to wish me a happy birthday every year. I hope the Nation keeps this tradition alive!
If you guys buy “Behind the Net”, then you would basically replace the Internet for me.
Be careful what you say, Big Brother is watching. Hear he’s well hung too.
Nation Network domination to follow:
Nation Network follow up with purchases of capgeek and NHL.com than blow everyone’s mind with the purchases of google and facebook
I’m not gonna lie Wanye, as much as I’m a fan of your collection of sites I’m still a Capgeek guy all the way. Never really got on board with NHLnumbers.
Great move, Nation! Congrats on your growth!
So The Nation is condoning “face punchers” and also shows pics of good looking women while they do it . . .
Has Lambert handed in his letter of resignation yet?
He hates face punchers and men who like good looking women, after all.
Did you pay for the site with boxes of Oodle Noodles? That is the de facto currency of teh nation isn’t it?
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Finally we have access to all the stats we need to calculate GritensityRel%/60 . Thank god Struds is on the advanced stats train now.
This may happen: In a couple of years when the NHL bans fighting, the only place you will be able to see NHL fights is on hockeyfights.com Classics or you could take a page out of Cheery’s book, and include “rock em sockem” footage.
i’m genuinely confused. doesn’t the nation hate staged fights? why is hockey fights a part of the site now i don’t get it…
Staged fights are a part of the new pussified game. The material on HF largely shows two guys who have… during the course of play.. developed a strong dislike for each other.
The resolution of those transgressions (perceived or otherwise) is
AWESOME!
IT’S ALL ABOUT THA BENJAMINS
so now that you have made these quality additions can we start cutting the dead weight around here and release canucksarmy back down to the minor leagues?
I’m really enjoying watching the nations grow. I’ve been a dedicated reader since this was a small site. Talk about self made trillionaires.
Nice move on buying HockeyFights. I don’t go there too often but have went a few times to find fights I couldn’t see on Youtube.
A suggestion would be for the Network to buy up HFboards. That would be a major coup and would capture a huge audience.