Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Research Results

Research is needed in all fields of public relations.  Without it, we would not know what we know today.  One would think research is not needed for the national hockey league but it turns out they use it quite often.  When reading in our text book, it says in order to get great research results; one must conduct a research report first.  By making a research report, it will not only help us understand what is going on in the hockey world but it will also help the entire league and everyone that is a part of it. 
When looking online, I was able to find an article about the NHL coming up with a Research, Development and Orientation Camp for some potential NHL draft picks.  The point of this camp is to test out different rule changes, rink modifications and strategic innovations that could potentially take place in the hockey league.  When looking at another article about the same exact camp, Shanahan is curious to see what will happen during this camp.  Shanahan is the NHL’s Vice President of hockey and business affairs.  Throughout this article it states some of the tests the young boys will go through.  A few examples are, instead of dropping the puck and then blowing the whistle at faceoff, the whistle will be blown first or not letting the second referee on the ice when the players are out there or not letting the teams change lines after they were just offside’s.  These two articles show an interesting aspect of research because after so many years of having the same rules, one would not think that the NHL would want to change their rules. 
Neither of the articles really talk about the outcome of the camp.  The last article does say how they will have a group of statisticians at the camp in order to quantify the many ways the game can be changed but it does not talk about the ending result.  Like our text book says, one should not include all our research statistics in a report because we might have to use them at a later time or to even prove that the research was actually done.   

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