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ESPN hires former Puck Daddy editor Greg Wyshynski to be ‘a leading voice’ of NHL content

After gutting most of its NHL reporters in April, ESPN appears to be restaffing.

Nearly two weeks after Greg Wyshynski revealed that he was leaving Yahoo’s Puck Daddy – one of the most followed national hockey blogs on the internet, Wysh announced his new gig.

Wyshynski, who graduated from the University of Maryland’s journalism school and spent over a decade in Northern Virginia, will join ESPN where he will be “a leading voice for NHL content.”

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NHL Reporter replies to ESPN’s request with fire response 🔥🔥

As avid hockey fans, we love reading about hockey coverage from every perspective. This coverage took a step back two weeks ago when ESPN, the largest sports outlet in the world, laid off a huge number of its staff, including several high-profile members of its NHL crew.

ESPN has been dealing with declining viewership and readership in the past years, and decided the middle of the NHL playoffs was the right time to get rid of its hockey reporters. ESPN had very limited hockey coverage to begin with, listing NHL sixth on its navigation after every major professional sport and college football. Laying off respected reporters such as Pierre LeBrun, Joe McDonald and Scott Burnside diminished the coverage even further.

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By Cara Bahniuk On May 9, 2017 0 Comment

RMNB on Around The Horn: Was Ovechkin’s 1,000 points worthy of salute from Penguins?

Last week, Alex Ovechkin tallied 1,000 points. Our most-read post of that day was not the one detailing Ovi’s milestone. Instead it was our article entitled Why the Penguins didn’t salute Alex Ovechkin for his 1,000th point.

The post pointed out that the Penguins ignored the milestone, choosing not to stick-tap or acknowledge the hockey legend in any way. The next day, ESPN’s Around The Horn picked up our post and discussed it on national TV.

Many of you have reached out to us see the full segment. ESPN was kind enough to send us the full video.

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By Ian Oland On January 16, 2017 0 Comment

ESPN wants you to know that Alex Ovechkin lost to Sidney Crosby again and it’s all his fault

Team Russia was ousted by Team Canada in the semi-finals of the World Cup of Hockey this past weekend. Hockey players Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin both played in that game. Several sporting news outlets noticed this fact and, deciding that the world hasn’t had enough of this particular story, rained down the takes.

One such story comes from Pierre LeBrun, ESPN’s NHL columnist and TSN Hockey insider. LeBrun beats this dead horse into glue while also getting some nifty anonymous quotes from some GMs and coaches who do not like Ovechkin one bit.

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By Chris Cerullo On September 27, 2016 0 Comment

John Buccigross’s Article About Auston Matthews Is a Train Wreck

First overall draft pick Auston Matthews (Photo via John Buccigross)

I don’t actually know who John Buccigross is. I know he does hockey coverage for ESPN, which sounds like a silly thing, but your boy Rob Vollman does it and he’s great. Maybe Bucci is great too, that’s what I thought when I clicked on today’s article about Maple Leafs prize prospect Auston Matthews.

Nope.

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By Peter Hassett On May 4, 2016 0 Comment

NHL Media Day: Alex Ovechkin Tells ESPN He Thinks Nicklas Backstrom Should Win the Hart Trophy

Photo: @ESPN_NHL

The reason why is pretty great.

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By Ian Oland On September 8, 2014 0 Comment

Here’s San Jose Using Sharknado For Good, Not Evil

Photo via @kinseyjanke

There are a billion jokes around this topic (e.g. what will happen when San Jose and Carolina play next season?), but this is the best. Anytime you can stick it to ESPN (the network, not the Internet dweebs), the world becomes a brighter place.

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By Ian Oland On July 12, 2013 0 Comment

Michal Neuvirth’s Glove Save is Today’s SportsCenter Top Play

10/30 Update: The video’s no longer available. At least we have a screenshot.

We give ESPN a hard time for its chronically bad hockey coverage, so we’ve gotta give them a pat on the butt when they do it right. That’s how you curb bad behavior, right? Michal Neuvirth’s stone-cold robbery of Eric Staal from last night’s Caps/ Canes game is SportsCenter’s top play of the day. And no names were flubbed. Laudable.

By Ian Oland On October 28, 2010 0 Comment

Uno Seis Still In Our Face

Eric Fehr is re-signed by the Caps to a two year deal.

Who needs ESPN? The signing of right wing Eric Fehr to a two-year contract, reported to be worth $2.2 million per year, was brought to us the old-fashioned way: via Twitter, from Uno Seis himself while he summers at his cabin in Winkler, Manitoba. Take that Greenwich!

We know what you’re thinking: Do a joint “Two More Years” celebratory party at Front Page on July 31st! We would, but sadly Fehr intends to spend the rest of the summer in Manitoba before returning to D.C.

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On July 8, 2010 0 Comment

If you ever needed another reason to hate ESPN (beyond Barry Melrose’s Hair, Holding Gary Thorne hostage, or introducing us to Steven A. Smith), earlier today they came out with their new NHL Power Rankings. Where did Washington rank? ~~First.~~ Second.

Yes, ESPN ignored a ten game winning streak, where the Capitals plowed through the Flyers, Red Wings and Penguins like they were soft snow. Hell, ESPN even ignored their video-game-on-easy goal totals where the Capitals finished the month with 70 goals in 15 January games – 13 of those games were victories, 4 of the Free Wings Variety. Washington Post Columnist Tracee Hamilton even wrote about the team in this morning’s paper!

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By Ian Oland On February 2, 2010 0 Comment