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jonah@yyzportsmedia posts on 'X' that Marek is gone from Sportsnet & 32 Thoughts podcast with Elliotte Friedman.
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This article confirms the story from a Sportsnet spokesperson, but no one seems willing to say what happened. He'd been with SN for 15 years.
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By the way, the article says the parting came for "unconfirmed draft reasons.”
Maybe I'm just not familiar with the lingo, but what does that mean?
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i saw the same rumour on reddit. cannot find any other reference as of this time
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RadioActive wrote:
By the way, the article says the parting came for "unconfirmed draft reasons.”
Maybe I'm just not familiar with the lingo, but what does that mean?
I've been in the industry more than 20 years... I have no idea what this means!
Could it be a goofy sports reference since he worked at SportsNet?
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A blogger I just found indicates "something happened at the NHL draft."
Maybe it relates to that.
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RadioActive wrote:
A blogger I just found indicates "something happened at the NHL draft."
Maybe it relates to that.
Marek caught the red-eye out of Vegas after the 1st round of the NHL draft.
Friedman then did a 32 Thoughts podcast solo a day or two later to wrap up the draft.
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15 years? That's about how long it's been since I bothered with TSN 1050, maybe 20, not that it was because of Marek.
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Postmedia's The Province newspaper confirms Marek's departure, but offers no reason for his apparently sudden dismissal.
Jeff Marek no longer works for Rogers Sportsnet
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Well, that didn't take long...
TSN employees are now actively calling for the company to hire Jeff Marek
Although maybe they should wait until after they find out what happened before making any moves. It could easily backfire on them, depending on the reasons for his sudden dismissal.
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RadioActive wrote:
Well, that didn't take long...
TSN employees are now actively calling for the company to hire Jeff Marek
Although maybe they should wait until after they find out what happened before making any moves. It could easily backfire on them, depending on the reasons for his sudden dismissal.
re: TSN employees are now actively calling for the company to hire Jeff Marek
hmmm .. isn't Michael Landsberg long retired? are any of the other people noted in the article actual current TSN employees? appears to be a BS title ..
looking at another article on that website ..
More on what happened with Corey Perry in Chicago comes back to surface
is there one piece of new info in this Corey Perry article? so another BS title.
this looks like a gossip site, nothing more .. certainly not "HockeyFeed is the number one source where to find all the latest news and rumours about what’s going on in the hockey world. NHL, KHL, NCAA, junior and even pee-wee, we cover it all." as claimed on their About page.
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This message from Jeff Marek was reposted by Simon Dingley.
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Still not many answers, but I'm sure this will come out eventually.
From The Hockey News:
The Curious Case of Broadcaster Jeff Marek and His Split With Sportsnet