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2009 NHL Trade Deadline Hashtag!
Today we are launching the NHL approved Twitter hashtag. If you are not sure what a hashtag is on Twitter – Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol (E.G. #hashtag). Over the past week we have been voting on 9 different hashtags … this morning I took the top 3 vote getters and emailed them to Michael DiLorenzo – Director of Corporate Communications for the NHL and told him about our vote. I asked which one would he like to use as the “official NHL Twitter Hashtag” and his response was … *drum roll please*
#NHLTrade
So there you have it … sanctioned by the NHL and supported by US the Twitterverse, we now have an NHL Trade hashtag that we can use forever. I agree with Michael regarding his choice of #NHLTrade because it is only 9 characters, it is descriptive and also can be used for any and all trades that go down in the NHL. I would like to thank Michael for entertaining the voting results I sent him and for allowing myself, and everyone who voted the ability to help.
Here is the email I received from Michael this morning -
Dear Bill,
Thank you for your work regarding the use of hashtags related to the 2009 NHL Trade Deadline. I reviewed the results of your poll and found them interesting.
It is my feeling that we should use the #NHLTrade hashtag as a generic rollup of posts that are trade-related (but may fall before the deadline itself).
If you are in agreement, we should begin to propagate this message to the NHL fans in the audience.
Many thanks again.
Mike
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Michael DiLorenzo | Director of Corporate Communications | The National Hockey League | o: 212.789.2657 | m: 347.534.6117 | MDiLorenzo@NHL.com | AIM: umassdilo | Twitter: @umassdilo
So, without further a due … I now officially launch NHL Trading, well, on Twitter at least.
2009 NHL Trade Deadline Twitter Hashtag Vote!
OK … so we have 27 days before the GREATEST “non-game” NHL day arrives! The 2009 NHL Trade Deadline is quickly aproaching and in order to get our ducks (or Sharks, or Penguins, or Red Wings or {enter your favorite team mascot here}) in a row … we need to hammer out some details. I will be spending the day glued to my couch, laptop within arms reach ready to Twitter each and every trade that comes down the pipe, as will 236,894 of my closest Twitter friends! I want to know from you all what you want to use as our “Official NHL Hashtag” for any and all trades happening up until March 4th, 2009 @ 3pm ET – So, if you would so kindly … VOTE!!! (Poll closes Wed. Feb 11th @ noon ET)
NHL Trade Deadline Change – Now One Day Later!
Is anyone counting down for the Trade Deadline yet? Well it seems that we will have one extra day to mentally prepare ourselves for either a windfall move or a devastating blow to our team. It is to early to start imagining who will be going where, and how much the moves are going to cost … but honestly, is there anything else more exciting, more emotional, more insane than the NHL Trade Deadline? Buckle up, and hold on, because we now have one extra day of trade rumours and speculation. In case you have not heard, the NHL trade deadline has officially been moved to Wednesday March 4th. Reason is, the original day, March 3rd, has 12 games scheduled and Wednesday March 4th only has 2 games – Makes sense huh?
The NHL’s trade deadline is a date set by the NHL league office after which no trades will be allowed for the remainder of the season. Where do they get the date in the first place you might ask? Well, in the current CBA, the trade deadline is on the 40th day counting from the end of the regular season. This year, due to the number of games scheduled the trade deadline is 39 days before the end of the season AND, in case you were wondering, the NHL season ends April 12th! (No need to check … I already counted … Your Welcome!)
The NHL trade deadline, and the weeks before, usually bring a flurry of activities for many teams. Teams who are either making a final push to secure the last playoff spot, or hoping to go deep into the playoffs, will trade to acquire a key veteran or a proven scorer in order to solidify their rosters. Conversely, teams who are re-building with younger players will want to trade away their more expensive players in order to “dump” salary and get draft picks in return. Also, players who are about to become unrestricted free agents (UFA) and have indicated that they do not want to return to their respective teams may be traded away so that those teams will get something in return. If you remember, last year there were 25 deals on deadline day that saw 45 players change clubs.
The NHL trade deadline also generates a huge buzz for hockey fans and analysts, with much speculation and discussion about which players will get traded and where they will go. In Canada, the NHL trade deadline is treated with such significance that sports stations such as TSN, Rogers Sportsnet, and The Score will devote the entire trade deadline day to analyze the trades that have occurred throughout the day, and the trades that have already happened prior to that day. We here at The Daily Deke will also be involved, I will be taking March 4th off and will diligentlybe sending out Twitter updates with instant trade news!
I know its early, I know we have 5 months to prepare for the “Soon To Be” National Holiday of NHL Trade Deadline Day! However, you no longer have the excuse of “well nobody told ME!!!”
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