Wings visit Children’s Hospital
Is anyone else disappointed with the lack of coverage the local Detroit papers provided on yesterday’s visit to the Detroit Children’s Hospital? Last year, I made a post on the event with plenty of quotes, photos, and sources to refer to.
This year, both the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press mentioned the visit but it was within another article.
The Free Press said this about the event:
The team made its annual holiday trip to Children’s Hospital of Michigan on Wednesday afternoon. The team helped unveil a new area of the main lobby, called the Red Wings Play Zone, and visited with patients and their families.
Wow. I learned soo much about this trip. (note the sarcasm) Last year, they had quotes from some of the kids and reactions from the players. I’m a sucker for these types of feature articles and we got nothing.
The Detroit News had a little more to say, but not much:
The Wings made their annual visit to Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
Before visiting with patients, the Wings joined hospital representatives in the unveiling of the newly designed Red Wings Play Zone, a hockey rink-themed play area in the main lobby.
“Just to see the faces of these kids when they see the players, how happy they are, it’s really something,” Lidstrom said.
At least the Detroit News had a quote from a player about the event and a gallery of photos. But how hard would it be to write a little more in depth coverage about this great trip the players do every year? Or that Jiri Fischer was there (which you wouldn’t have known unless you looked at the gallery photos)? Or that Yzerman came along as well?
Photo courtesy of the Detroit Free Press
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