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Shake Up In The Ranks? Dig It
by IwoCPO on 07/29/08 at 04:57 AM ET
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Update: It’s been 131 minutes since we posted this alert, and the response has been insane. Emails, phone calls, telegraphs. Hockeytown is an an uproar and I’m feeling the pressure to break this one wide open. I’m resisting. Until 0900 EST.
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The A2Y Investigative Squad, our interns from Ferris State, have broken another one.
Word has leaked that one of our Diggers is a Digger no more.
Which one?
More to follow. While you wait, take a guess.
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I vote Helenne. She’s the least annoying and therefore the most likely to go.
Posted by markw from Scotland on 07/29/08 at 06:00 AM ET
i vote helene as well. She broke the story on lidstrom being captain. Thats a major no-no. You had to know shed be getting cut in the offseason.
Second choice would be kulfan, who in most articles, sounds like he doesnt even follow hockey.
Posted by aTTicA on 07/29/08 at 07:26 AM ET
Helene - She seems to actually take this “journalism” thing seriously and that means she is a risk, because she might start asking questions.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/29/08 at 07:35 AM ET
Khan(!) hasn’t posted anything since July 23. I’m betting it’s him.
Posted by Cwix from Roanoke, VA on 07/29/08 at 07:51 AM ET
Remember this?
(Credit to pal Craig Custance of The Sporting News, formerly of the AJC, for getting the story before anybody in Detroit. Custance will be moving back to Michigan soon. I believe it was a package deal with McCrimmon and Marian Hossa.)
The plot thickens!
Maybe Ted Kulfan is part of a package with Mark Hardigan to go to Latvia.
Posted by w2j2 on 07/29/08 at 08:03 AM ET
Whoever it is, I hear Drew Sharp wants the job!
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 07/29/08 at 08:06 AM ET
Did you see Drew’s quote over in the right hand column?
Posted by w2j2 on 07/29/08 at 08:08 AM ET
Drew Sharp could never be a Wings beat reporter. Can you imagine the amount of crap that would go on when Hahn told him what to write.
Posted by Pharazon from England on 07/29/08 at 08:12 AM ET
“I can write my own speculative, reactionary, inane non-fact-based B.S. - I don’t need you to tell me how to do my job!”
--Drew Sharp
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/29/08 at 08:15 AM ET
I’m going to guess Khan. Malik has been a force with Snapshots and his reports from the prospect camp were the type of thing you’d never read from anyone else. I could see him making the move from Grand Rapids to the big club.
Posted by Dave on 07/29/08 at 08:18 AM ET
its Khan for sure, nothing on mlive for a while!
Posted by yzer19man from Chicago on 07/29/08 at 08:18 AM ET
Maybe George has staged a coup at mlive.
That means we could expect the announcement of Khan’s “voluntary” “retirement” to “pursue other opportunities” shortly. 
And I for one welcome George Malik as the new media overlord.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/29/08 at 08:22 AM ET
And I for one welcome George Malik as the new media overlord.
ofc, i seem to remeber Khan wrote some decent stuff untill he was Hahned.
it seems that eventually all beat writers apart from the anti-digger fall under the spell.
Posted by Pharazon from England on 07/29/08 at 08:30 AM ET
As much as I’d like it to be Kulfan so that he can go cover The Macon Whoopee or some such thing, I have to go with hard evidence (something the Dirty Diggers never do) and say it’s probably Khan. Hoping for him to be replaced by George, but that won’t happen. Custance is on his way up to Michigan now to toe the Party line.
Long live the bloggers, bastions of freedom, liberty, doubt and stress!
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor from among the rank and file of the A2Y Patriot Militia on 07/29/08 at 08:42 AM ET
Reads like there’s about 19 votes for George, mine included.
In all honesty, I can live without all 3 and Drew Dull too.
Posted by MoWingsfan19 on 07/29/08 at 08:56 AM ET
Maybe all three are leaving? Malik and MacLeod as primary Wings beat writers? That would certainly enriched the quality of coverage and improve my quality of life by a significant amount. I have to think it’s Teddy. He’s been mailing it in for like six years now, his editors have to have noticed!
Posted by TDeters on 07/29/08 at 08:57 AM ET
S***, man, I wish. My plan for Wings coverage domination is in progress, but it’s not yet complete, dear readers.
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 07/29/08 at 01:19 PM ET
All of that being said, I’m really flattered by the support, guys. Thank you.
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 07/29/08 at 01:22 PM ET
George, I errr the 19 of us wish too.
Posted by MoWingsfan19 on 07/29/08 at 01:59 PM ET
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So what does a DD do when he moves on from the Diggers?
I got it...video games!
“Wizards of Warcraft”!
Posted by w2j2 on 07/29/08 at 05:50 AM ET