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by Alanah McGinley on 08/01/08 at 02:25 PM ET
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USA Hockey Magazine recently came out on news stands with their August edition, which includes a feature on the hockey blogging world. The article should be available online soon.
Meanwhile, we were too excited to wait since they named Kuklas Korner.com to the top of the list—#1—for best hockey blog. (How cool is that?!) Our sincere thanks to USA Hockey Magazine for such a flattering mention for us, plus an excellent list that includes other familiar hockey faces, both mainstream media as well as some independent fan bloggers. Represented are James Mirtle, Ted Leonsis, TSN’s Bob McKenzie, Tom Benjamin, A View From the Cheap Seats, and many others.
Thanks to our friend Patrick Hoffman at The Hockey News for sending us a scan so you can check out the complete list.
Update August 5th: Story now available online.
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Congratulations! I’m glad they made the absolute correct choice for #1, but #3 on the list kind of hurts the list’s legitimacy.
Posted by NHLJeff from Boston, MA on 08/01/08 at 02:31 PM ET
Congratulations to Paul!
We know you work your butt off at this.
Also Kudos to Alanah, Bill, and Steve.
And thanks to all 19 A2Y readers, who provide some cogent commentary!
Posted by w2j2 on 08/01/08 at 02:41 PM ET
Congrats!
And James should be offended that he ranks lower than HockeyBuzz. His site is fantastic.
(Able to Yzerman?) 
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 08/01/08 at 03:04 PM ET
Thanks everyone!
While I realize a lot of hockey bloggers and readers will question the choices (#3 made me shake my head, too) I don’t think rankings like this mean much anyway. It’s pretty subjective and just a cool thing to show off. So it should be equally-flattering for blogs all the way down the list.
Plus it’s also worth mentioning there are a lot of great blogs not included on that list at all, right? But they’re still great blogs!
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 08/01/08 at 03:16 PM ET
1277 members, huh? Since my name is not underlined do I make 1278?
Agreed Mirtle should be higher (love his stats!).
A sincere congrats to all you guys and gal!
Posted by yawt from norcal on 08/01/08 at 03:25 PM ET
Woo, congrats!
And, also, well, duh, I occasionally post stuff here, and I’m in awe of the work that the people involved in this website do. Quality people + work ethics from heck = the best blog site, period.
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 08/01/08 at 03:42 PM ET
Mirtle lower than Hockeybuzz? I feel ill! This is an injustice.
Posted by Chris Wassel from Yucca Valley, CA on 08/01/08 at 04:39 PM ET
Congrats to Paul, Alanah, the Chief and everyone here at the Korner. Well deserved.
Posted by Lyle Richardson from Charlottetown, PEI on 08/01/08 at 05:35 PM ET
I’ll echo the congratulations: Nicely done!
Posted by Earl Sleek from Los Angeles, CA on 08/01/08 at 05:37 PM ET
...they named Kuklas Korner.com to the top of the list—#1—for best hockey blog. (How cool is that?!)
Very cool, indeed. It’s why KK is the first site I check every day...hockey season or not. If George’s Snapshots wasn’t almost exclusively a Wings blog, it would have to rate in the top 10 as well. And how they missed Lyle’s blog at spectorshockey.net is beyond me.
I’m still laughing at the last part of the Hockeybutts.com description...the site “to keep up to date with hockey rumors.” At least they didn’t say they were reliable rumors. That might have put me right out of commission.
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids on 08/01/08 at 06:33 PM ET
[stands up and applauds]
Absolutely the best hockey blog on the ‘Net. As everyone else, I’m shocked hokeybuzz is #3.
Well done, Paul, Alanah, Bill, and Steve!
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 08/01/08 at 11:13 PM ET
Congrats to Paul and the staff - but this list is garbage since that loser Eklund is listed third.
If making up crap and pulling nonsense out of a hat makes you a great blogger, well then I’ve been doing things wrong all along.
Posted by HockeyJoe from NY on 08/02/08 at 02:27 PM ET
Nicely done guys and gal. I agree with OlderThanChelios too, Spector should definitely be on that list.
Posted by Mike from NYC on 08/02/08 at 03:06 PM ET
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Honestly? HockeyBuzz is on the list? And above Mirtle?!?
Posted by Nathan on 08/01/08 at 02:28 PM ET