Who are your preferred NHL media outlets?

[NotAVacuumSalesman]

I use Calgarypuck for news and entertainment!

 

[LeProspector]

I read MMC’s threads. no better outlet out there.

 

[elmaco]

HF

 

[Fantomas]

I like Game Day Tweets

 

[Fantomas]

The Hockey News when it was printed like a newspaper.

And when it had good writers

 

[RickyLafleur]

HFBoards of course.

 

[shello]

SportsNet is a very clean website. User friendly, quick, not bogged down by ads. I use their box scores on my computer while I'm watching the game on tv. But being a Blues fan, my only issue is the coverage/stories/columns are mostly on just the Canadian teams. I don't mind that much, because I do like it when Canadian teams do well. I'm a nostalgic old fart.

I also do visit NHL.com, but the layout & functions aren't as smooth as SportsNet. And the NHL phone app is horrible. I do wish SportsNet would make a phone app.

May have been said already but Sporsnets makes a decent app actually. But it’s only available in Canada

 

[Machinehead]

I find shit out on here

 

[Summer Rose]

Speaking of mobile sites and apps, while I use the NHL's website on my computer, their mobile website is awful. Scrolling sideways to view the scores of additional games is wonky, and it's probably just because I'm clumsy, I almost always accidentally tap on one of the scores which opens up the box score of that game only. I don't want to download their app either, because my principle is that they usually suck anyway, and are often just an excuse to serve you even more ads that you don't care about. Stop releasing mobile apps that I don't want and make the mobile version of your website better, you jerks.

 

[HBK27]

I used to pay for a subscription to the Athletic. They lost me as a customer by letting Craig Morgan go. Not that I’m saying he’s a great writer or anything, but he was the only person on staff who covered the Coyotes.

Past that, I don’t read any mainstream media sources for the NHL. If anything noteworthy happens, a thread gets posted about it on here usually within 15 minutes. Then I can discuss the topic with fellow fans in the thread. That’s how I keep up with the NHL these days.

I still have a subscription to The Athletic at $1/month, but that site is a complete shell of its former self. They also dropped the Devils beat writer a few years ago.

Will probably drop it at some point in the near future. Beyond that, I get news on these boards or through X.

 

[Mr Nogatco]

I would never pay for NYT owned Athletic

Reddit is a pure unadulterated trash. No hockey related board can avoid spouting their politics over and over.

lol at complaining about people inserting politics into hockey talk, in the same post that you inform us you would never patronize the Athletic since they’re “NYT-owned”

 

[Shark Finn]

None. I solely follow hfboards.

 

[Mr Nogatco]

TSN Overdrive - skews more towards entertainment than depth or breadth of hockey analysis. Typically pretty entertaining though

prohockeyrumors.com - Despite the name, it’s a legit source for pretty much all relevant news league-wide

 

[qcal1427]

The Athletic has its flaws and while I really dislike some of their writers and hate how they've cut beat reporters for a ton of teams (while still leaving Minnesota and Pittsburgh with like 7 each) they're the highest concentration of high quality writing.

Caps fans are very lucky to have Sammi Silber as a local beat writer -- she's now affiliated with The Hockey News but had built up her access and audience completely by herself before then. The WaPo writers are always good too but unfortunately it's a stepping-stone position to better gigs and they never stay long. It's unfortunate that we also have a well-known four-letter blog that only does news aggregation and clickbait titles at best and straight up plagiarism at worst.

For insiders Friedman is the only guy in the entire business worth anything and I actually like him as a podcast host too. For game scores and updates I love The Score app, such a nice layout and it has basically every pro sports league right at your fingertips.

 

[Summer Rose]

The Athletic has its flaws and while I really dislike some of their writers and hate how they've cut beat reporters for a ton of teams (while still leaving Minnesota and Pittsburgh with like 7 each) they're the highest concentration of high quality writing.

Caps fans are very lucky to have Sammi Silber as a local beat writer -- she's now affiliated with The Hockey News but had built up her access and audience completely by herself before then. The WaPo writers are always good too but unfortunately it's a stepping-stone position to better gigs and they never stay long. It's unfortunate that we also have a well-known four-letter blog that only does news aggregation and clickbait titles at best and straight up plagiarism at worst.

For insiders Friedman is the only guy in the entire business worth anything and I actually like him as a podcast host too. For game scores and updates I love The Score app, such a nice layout and it has basically every pro sports league right at your fingertips.

The Athletic does have plenty of very good writers, I agree. I don't agree with some of their opinion pieces that they had when I was a subscriber, and a few of their writers had a penchant for putting out hit pieces on the Coyotes, but I can't knock the actual quality of writing they provided, if that makes any sense to say. Kind of how you can read a book or listen to music and decide it doesn't suit your tastes, but you can appreciate the quality and though behind it, even if you don't personally like it. As I said earlier in the thread about cancelling my subscription when they dropped Craig Morgan (who was the only writer covering the Coyotes), after they cut him loose there ended up not being anything on it (that I personally cared to read about) that I wouldn't have already known from another source.

 

[thebestnic]

lol at complaining about people inserting politics into hockey talk, in the same post that you inform us you would never patronize the Athletic since they’re “NYT-owned”

It's not aligned with his politics is always what someone like that is really saying

 

[HockeyVirus]

lol at complaining about people inserting politics into hockey talk, in the same post that you inform us you would never patronize the Athletic since they’re “NYT-owned”

It is a politics forum that sometimes discusses hockey. Thats factual

 

[PhysicalGraffiti]

lol at complaining about people inserting politics into hockey talk, in the same post that you inform us you would never patronize the Athletic since they’re “NYT-owned”

Never mentioned politics about that paper, you assumed.

Isn't there a reddit sub you should be posting in?

 

[JoVel]

Used to be a handful of accounts on Twitter when it was still a usable website. Nowadays I don't mind if I'm late to any news. I'll come across them here in a day or two.